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Share holiday cheers with the WD® TV Live Hub™

As many families are planning for ways to welcome the coming year, Western Digital®, the world’s leader in external storage solutions, gives you new ways to store and share the keepsakes that you create, and gives you the freedom to make more memories with the WD® TV Live Hub™. This media center lets you collect [...]

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Piclyf: pictographic social networking

Facebook, Twitter, Plurk, Foursquare, not to mention Flickr, Picasa… You’d think there were too many social networking services on the Web already. And yet, you’ll find yourself curiously drawn to the straightforward and refreshingly attractive interface of the newest one on the block: Piclyf. Today, in fact, I was surfing that single site for more [...]

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5 Benefits of VPS Hosting over Shared Hosting

When it comes time to choosing the right type of web hosting plan for your website(s), it’s not as simple as you may think. There are many types to choose from, such as shared hosting, virtual private servers (VPS) and dedicated servers. While it might seem like finding the best deal is the main factor, [...]

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WD TV Live HD & Windows 7

WD TV™ LIVE HD MEDIA PLAYER IS THE FIRST NETWORK MEDIA PLAYER COMPATIBLE WITH WINDOWS 7 WD® (NYSE: WDC), the world’s leader in external storage solutions, today announced that the WD TV Live HD media player, featuring network capability and Full-HD 1080p resolution, is the first network media player compatible with Windows 7. The WD [...]

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Western Digital’s new mascots

WD® Assigns Mascots to Help Consumers Choose the Right Hard Drive Manila, 25 May 2010 — More than a year ago, WD® devised the WD Caviar® Blue™, WD Caviar® Green™ and WD Caviar® Black™ hard drive series, designed to help consumers make better informed choices in selecting their digital storage solutions. Now, in the Philippines, [...]

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Dropbox: files on the go!

I use two computers (and one iPod touch) for work, for blogging and for other activities that involve connecting to the Internet. One is a rather heavy notebook which I keep at home, and the other is a lightweight netbook for when I’m out. I also have a 320-gigabyte Western Digital™ backup drive, and two [...]

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Censorship circumvention

One reason why censorship won’t work 100% — not even in China — is that people will always look for a way around it. People have an intrinsic drive to be free, and to freely avail of information. To satisfy this, technology is readily available to anyone who needs it. I was fortunate to have [...]

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Censoring the Internet: wolf in sheep’s clothing

When repressive governments in some parts of the world deemed it necessary to impose Internet censorship, they made use of such righteous rationale as ‘protecting against evil’ or ‘shielding the people from harmful content.’ But we all know those reasons were just a ruse, to put it lightly. Case in point: the Great Firewall of [...]

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HTC Tattoo: Android for everyone

[Media Release] The Tattoo embodies three core principles of HTC Sense: Make it Mine, Stay Close, and Discover the Unexpected Mobile communications frontrunner HTC Corp. today introduces the HTC Tattoo™, an Android-based phone that brings high personalization to a broader market. With its distinct design and the ability to personalize programs on the phone — [...]

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HTC Hero: mobile phone of the year

[Media Release] HTC Hero Awarded Mobile Phone of the Year at Mobile World Congress 2010 HTC also ranked World’s Most Innovative Company and second in Consumer Electronic category by FAST COMPANY magazine HTC Corporation, a global leader in mobile phone innovation and design, launched HTC Hero in June 2009 in London, and has since won [...]

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