netomat Offers Flickr Updates Via Mobile Phone

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By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
netomat, a beta service that allows you to get, create and send content to your “hub”, has announced that they have optimized their service to work with Flickr. Of course, most people know about Flickr, one of the most popular photo-sharing sites. netomat allows you to create a [...]

New Apple Products Released

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By Chief Gizmateer
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Apple released a few new products to their arsenal today including the iPod Hi-Fi and a couple new Mac Mini’s featuring the Intel chipset. Unfortunately for me, the “iTablet” was not released (nor will this year).
According to the press release, the iPod Hi-Fi is a “high-fidelity” (how 50’s is that!) [...]

Unaddressed Text Message? Stan Bubrouski May Be Reading It

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By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Ever send a text message and forget to address it? If you’re sending it to the Verizon system, Stan Bubrouski may be reading the result. He thought he was being clever when he signed up for null@vtext.com as his vText account address, but he has paid for it [...]

Yahoo! Employees Use Yahoo! Instant Messenger to Defect to Start-Up

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RealTechNews
The technology world is a world of extermes. When there are no jobs, you can’t throw a rock without hitting an out-of-work engineer. When times are fat, comanies do whatever they can to pull away talent from well respected companies. Case in point: Yahoo! Inc. While this is not news, the fact that [...]

Finally: A Better Electrical Wall Outlet

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RealTechNews
Rant of the Week: At this very moment I am unable to install my new Slingbox via powerline Ethernet because I don’t have a bare wall outlet that is a) not too far away from my router and b) not already taken by plugs that lead to surge supressors. The one plug I [...]

Facial Recognition for Handsets Coming

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
A new technology using the Face Sensing Engine (FSE) by Oki Electric will be offered on a Vodafone Group handset in Japan this April, according to a press release by Oki. The technology will be able to complete verification in 1 second, and will use a 3.2-megapixel camera with 2X [...]

Apple Announces Third Intel-Based Mac

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Last week Apple sent emails to journalists telling them that today, Tuesday February 28, they should come to a special event to learn about some “fun new products”. One of those “fun” (?) products is a revamped Mac Mini, with either an Intel Core Solo or Core Duo CPU.
Apple also [...]

AOL Sues Three Groups Over Phishing

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Here’s one of those news articles you’d like to see more often, the more we get these big companies involved in spam, phishing and the like, the better off we will all be.
America Online is taking advantage of a first-of-its-kind anti-”phishing” law in Virginia to sue three international groups that allegedly [...]