05/25/2012

CES 2011–Motorola ATRIX Hands-on

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Motorola is bringing a revolutionary concept to mobile computing with the Motorola ATRIX. A 4G phone with a unique feature to be able to dock into a laptop docking station for full mobile computing.

Bing Maps Beta is now available

Microsoft has released a beta of the new Bing Maps which includes some great new features. They now have their own version of Street View which has some awesome visuals with it. They have integrated the Photosynthesis platform into it and added a feature to save your favorite places.  They have also cleaned up the [...]

Gmail is out of beta

  Gmail finally sheds the beta along with Google Docs, Talk and calendar. No major update reports but it is nice not to see a beta logo on Gmail and Google apps that have been out for awhile.

Gmail Adds New Skins

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Another major update to Gmail besides the video chat is now you can use skins to change the look at feel of your Gmail.  Although it sounds kind of gimmick it can make viewing your e-mail a much more enjoyable experience. There are some great skins to start off with and Lifehacker.com has a few [...]

Google Add Video Chat to Gmail

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BWOne.com 200th Post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Google released today Voice & Video Chat capabilities for Gmail.   It required obviously a webcam and/or microphone but you will also need to download this plug-in right here Once you have all that installed you should be able to begin Voice & Video chatting within Gmail once your account has been upgraded [...]

Traffic: Microsoft’s Live Maps Integrates Complex Clearflow Traffic Modeling Data To Tell You To Avoid Busy Streets

  Microsoft’s Live Maps is adding Clearflow, a system in 72 cities that takes four years of real-world traffic data and uses it to interpolate what traffic is going to be like "today". The project started with traffic algorithms from GPS units in Microsoft employees’ cars, and now has "over 125,000" miles worth of info. [...]