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Use of SkyDrive Eliminates Attachments, Increases Productivity

One of the benefits of using SkyDrive is the possibility to eliminate attachments from your work and to improve collaboration with colleagues or between two or more teams. With SkyDrive and its collaboration features, working together on the same document is easier than before, given the fact that all parties have...

11 February 2012
12:41 GMT

Google Now Offers Better Google Music for Android

Google has just announced the release of a series of improvements for the Google Music application for devices that run under its Android operating system. The service was made available a few months ago to offer users the possibility to take their music along when on the go. With Google Music, users could have ...

27 January 2012
06:41 GMT

Vuze 4.7.0.2 Review

Vuze is a BitTorrent client that can be used to download torrent files. It uses the Azureus engine and it's one of the most used applications of its type on the Linux platform.We reviewed other BitTorrent clients, like Transmission, and when you get to the basic level, all the applications are basically identica...

21 January 2012
08:55 GMT

New Sharing App from BitTorrent

The latest product from BitTorrent is called Share and its purpose is easy to infer from the name itself. There are tens of sharing apps to choose from, so what’s so special about this one and how can it be among the top preferences of the users? Unlike the myriad of services out there, Share doesn’t imp...

6 January 2012
08:04 GMT

Evernote for Android 3.4 Now Available for Download

Today, owners of devices running under Google’s Android operating system got a taste of a new flavor of the Evernote application, namely version 3.4. The new app release brings along a variety of features that users have been asking for, such as enhanced sharing capabilities, along with a series of interface c...

16 December 2011
17:31 GMT

SkyDrive Gets Redesigned, Adds a Lot of Enhancements

SkyDrive, the cloud storage service that already delivers to billions of people, has been redesigned with a ton of improvements for users to benefit from. Most of the enhancements the service features now are based on the feedback received from users, which means that many will certainly rejoice learning that these ...

29 November 2011
12:42 GMT

Google Music Video Preview: Sharing

Google Music allows users to sync their music into the cloud to access it whenever they go via their Android-based devices, while also offering them the possibility to share songs with their friends over Google+. The feature can prove great especially when it comes to songs that users have bought through the Google...

24 November 2011
08:51 GMT

Groups and Sharing on Nokia Lumia 800

Whether it comes to sharing an image, text, email or tweet with people close to you, Nokia Lumia 800 can do it fast and easy. The new Mango-powered device, the very first Windows Phone from Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia, comes to the market with great sharing capabilities, and the video above should get you thro...

22 November 2011
03:28 GMT

Bing Maps New Features and Updates Roll Out

Bing Maps is constantly evolving, and the latest collection of updates introduced by Microsoft is designed to enhance the user experience and provide developers with more functionality. As far as users are concerned, Bing Maps’ sharing capabilities have been improved considerably. Dan Polivy, senior program...

10 November 2011
10:33 GMT

Android Beam in Ice Cream Sandwich Demoed on Video

One of the features that the new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich will arrive on devices with is Android Beam, which takes advantage of the NFC capabilities that Android devices sport. Through this new feature, users will able to easily share content between their devices, regardless whether that includes apps, contact...

19 October 2011
14:41 GMT

RIM Unveils BlackBerry Tag for Easy Sharing

Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion has just announced the availability of a new easy way for the owners of BlackBerry smartphones to share content between their devices, namely BlackBerry Tag. Set to be included in the new BlackBerry 7 OS, BlackBerry Tag will offer users the possibility to share cont...

10 October 2011
13:21 GMT

Facebook Introduces a Brave and Scary New World Where Everything Gets Shared

Facebook's F8 conference brought with it quite a lot of new features and announcements. The thing that got the most attention, from Facebook and the press, is the revamped profile, dubbed the Timeline. It's a great redesign of a cornerstone feature of the site and deserves all the attention it's gettin...

23 September 2011
08:22 GMT

IOGEAR USB Sharing Station Goes Wireless

Wireless technologies have been made for almost every consumer device out there, but there are always extra costs associated with them, something that IOGEAR tried to solve by making it so that only one wireless device need be purchased.Some changes come as a shock or surprise, while other just creep up on the IT ma...

5 August 2011
03:55 GMT

Facebook Accounts for 44 Percent of Online Sharing

Facebook is slowly taking over 'sharing' on the web. In fact, it's getting close to dominating this activity thanks, in no small part, to its ever-increasing size. According to AddThis, a popular sharing widget, 44 percent of the people that shared something on the web did it on Facebook rather than vi...

30 December 2010
07:32 GMT

Google Docs Revamps, Simplifies Sharing Options

One of Google Docs’ major touted features is sharing. It’s a unique advantage of having everything in the cloud and is great for organizations or groups that need to collaborate on documents. With the new document and spreadsheet editors, collaboration is done in real time in Google Docs. It works great, ...

18 June 2010
06:21 GMT

OExchange, an Open Sharing Protocol Supported by Google, Microsoft, Digg and Others

Sharing, be it links, news, files, music, and so on, is central to the web today. And some of the biggest names on the web, Facebook and Twitter, are all about sharing. But the market, though still in its early days, is pretty much cornered by these two services and, while there are plenty of competitors, none of the...

3 June 2010
06:21 GMT

Google Maps 4.2 Brings Biking Directions to Android

Mountain View-based Internet giant Google has just performed an update for one of the most popular solutions it offers to mobile phone users, Google Maps. A new version of Google Maps is now available for the owners of a device running under the company's mobile operating system, Android, offering them the poss...

12 May 2010
02:45 GMT

Official Twitter for Android App Now Available

Mobile phone users owning a device powered by Google's Android operating system can now enjoy a new application on their devices, namely Twitter for Android. The software solution, designed to work on handsets powered by Android 2.1 or above, is now available for download from the Android Market and comes as th...

3 May 2010
03:26 GMT

Bonobos Show Tendency to Share Their Food

In a new scientific investigation, researchers demonstrated that one of our closest primate relatives, the bonobo, oftentimes prefers to share its food with other members of the species, rather than eat alone. This type of behavior is very interesting to scientists, as not many animals engage in it. Of course, many c...

8 March 2010
05:56 GMT

For Bonobos, Sharing Is Caring

Bonobos are very peculiar animals. In addition to their bizarre mating rituals, they also tend to share things. But that would in itself be nothing of significant importance, had researchers not discovered that there is basically nothing you can do to stop the primates from doing so. While human kindergarten teachers...

2 February 2010
09:00 GMT

Belkin Intros Wireless Home Base

As technology advances, home users are increasingly incorporating various digital devices that are meant to make their lives easier in the long run. On that note, Belkin has recently announced the introduction of its new wireless Home Base, a device that is meant to simplify a user's wireless home network. The n...

16 September 2009
05:40 GMT

Download New TeamViewer 4 for Mac OS X (Free)

TeamViewer, a solution for easy and friendly desktop sharing developed by the company with the same name, has recently received an update on the Mac side. Adding Custom QuickSupport and enhanced partner list options like notifications for incoming chat messages and grouping of offline partners, the new software is im...

15 September 2009
11:00 GMT

Modern Society Affects Our Sharing Habits

In almost all aspects of our existence, sharing plays a central part. From parents taking care of their newborns, and providing them with everything they need, to helping a stranger on the street, the habit has shaped over millennia who we are and how we interact with each other. A recently published investigation h...

25 August 2009
02:43 GMT

Flickr Users Create Maps of the World

Users on popular photo-sharing website Flickr have been found to actually be creating maps of their surrounding areas, experts have recently announced. Making use of the site's “geo-tagging” service, which allows uploaders to specify the location where their picture has been taken, a research team ha...

27 April 2009
05:08 GMT

Syncplicity Updated – Less Impact on CPU, Uploads Prioritized

Syncplicity is a new synchronization, backup and sharing solution for Mac. The application & service is very similar to DropBox, an older sync-and-share solution for cross-platform use. Carrying the same name as the developing company, Syncplicity is available for free download for a 2GB account and two computers. Us...

26 February 2009
05:15 GMT

Dropbox Improves Symlink Handling, Upload Status

Users of Evenflow's sharing and back-up solution, Dropbox, have a new update to install. The free application (paid subscription also available) should now handle Symlinks much better on Mac OS X, while the upload status should be slightly more accurate, the team of developers says. Dropbox, a cross-platform sol...

19 December 2008
04:19 GMT

Migration and DVD/CD Sharing Update 1.1 Available

Apple has released an update for Migration and DVD/CD Sharing for new MacBook and MacBook Pro units. Desktop Mac owners will see the update popping up on their screens as well, with Software Update stating that the update is recommended for “all users”. This software is used to get stuff from an optical d...

17 October 2008
02:51 GMT

ShareTool 1.2.3 Adds New Log Window, Dozens of Tweaks

ShareTool is a useful app developed by Yaszoft. It lets you access all of the Bonjour services on your home network (iTunes Music Sharing, Screen Sharing, File Sharing, printing, and more) from anywhere in the world. The application has recently received an update, making it more reliable, secure and simple to use.Ba...

24 September 2008
15:01 GMT

LimeWire for Mac Updated

LimeWire is a free peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing client which uses the Java platform to locate files as well as share files. Recently updated to version 4.18.8, the Mac version of the application fixes a bug in which changing any value in Options caused a Library refresh. LimeWire is one of the only P2P file shari...

22 September 2008
14:31 GMT

TeamViewer Full Version Is Free - Download Here

TeamViewer, a remote control and desktop sharing solution from the developer of the same name, has been finally approved by the team of beta testers. It now includes full file transfer capabilities and it is fully cross-platform compatible for connections to and from Windows machines. The software is free for persona...

17 July 2008
03:38 GMT

Flickr Debuts Photo Sharing Option

Yahoo's photo sharing service Flickr has just rolled out a brand new feature, which makes sharing photos, videos, groups and sets a piece of cake. In fact, the improvement is actually a button, namely the "Share this" button, which lets registered users share the content mentioned above with a single click. Obvi...

23 April 2008
02:46 GMT

A Better Docs Experience Altogether

With the growing popularity of Google Docs, the dev team needs to make haste with their efforts to attract and, more important, maybe, keep the visitors and turn them into users. The "all on the Internet" is enough only for the first part mentioned above, so they've got a lot of work laid ahead of them.Partnerin...

28 January 2008
07:11 GMT

Sharing Time from Google

It still is the season to be jolly and the Googlers everywhere decided to act on it and give something back to the communities they are a part of. Christmas was the first of the official holidays and as such it was the first to be greeted by the engineers with the will and desire to help others, be it that they helpe...

27 December 2007
02:41 GMT

Google Reader and Its Friends

Logging in my Google Reader this morning, the first thing that popped up in front of my sleepy eyes was a window like I hadn't seen another before, that made me question what had happened, for my sleepy eyes weren't all that thrilled to find new things and my sleepy mind was all but open to grasping new con...

17 December 2007
03:16 GMT

YouTube: Howdy, Partner! Let's Go Grab Ourselves Some Cash

"It's a bargain" I would say if I didn't know better. Earlier this year, YouTube started recognizing the importance its users have had in making it the biggest thing to hit the Internet since Google kicked off its Partner Program. The way it worked was that it enabled some of the most prolific and original...

11 December 2007
03:42 GMT

Google: 1 GB Just for Your Own Pleasure!

This was quite a busy week at Googleplex when it comes to the storage size offered for the search giant's solution because everybody was talking about the recent program launched by Google. As you might know, the Mountain View company rolled out a new campaign that allows the interested consumers to buy addition...

16 August 2007
03:01 GMT

YouTube's Death Comes from India

Many companies talk about YouTube's end as if it were something that can be achieved with ease without many efforts. But we should only think about the considerable number of products that were described as YouTube killers and didn't manage to attract the mass media's attention except at launch. Today,...

11 July 2007
14:51 GMT

Audio Tapes Vs. HD Audio?

No, it's not a versus: it's a time-travel! If you're more than 25, then you're in! I mean you're old enough to have been infected with the tape mania back in your teens and thus know what I am speaking about. 30-minute and 60-minute, 90 and even 120-minute tapes resided on our bookshelves and...

2 April 2007
10:19 GMT

Napster, Students, RIAA. What's Next, The Pope?

Yes, it's one of those days when RIAA and its partners (our side or their side, no matter) simply offer so much info than it's really a shame not to write about such a thing (unless we -editors- would all go for a radio silence targeting RIAA).This editorial brings closer and mixes in three of the day...

27 March 2007
05:50 GMT

Atlantic Records Sues 7-year Old Girl

Well, RIAA haven't quite paid attention to all recommendations people all over the web kept on giving them, especially that of suing dead people or Jesus. Instead, they found again another hobby of theirs: suing children! Now, filing a case against some rebel millionaire child is one thing, but they can't r...

27 March 2007
03:02 GMT

Simplest Video Sharing Solution for Mobile Phones

Zannel, Inc., one of the first large-scale viral mobile entertainment network that provides an easy way to create, experience and share content on any mobile device, recently announced the official debut of the company and availability of its mobile video sharing network. What sets Zannel apart from competitors is th...

8 March 2007
10:06 GMT


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