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If you have been wanting to buy either an iPhone 5s or iPhone 5c for use with your Straight Talk or Net 10 plan, you’ll soon have that option.
Tracfone (the parent company of both Straight Talk and Net 10) has just announced that both phones will be available for purchase and use with those plans beginning on December 13. [Read more…]
Yesterday, Google completed their first Toolbar PageRank Update since February 2013.
Many bloggers who had created their blogs early in the year had been wondering why the PR of their blogs’ home pages were still stuck at zero, but now they can finally see where their sites stand in the eyes of Google.
For several years a website’s PageRank was a major determining factor that Google’s ranking algorithm used to determine where a given web page should rank against other pages on the web for a given search term. In general, the higher a page’s PR, the higher it would be displayed in the search results for a given search. [Read more…]
As you might already know, Microsoft stops selling new retail licenses for a particular version of Windows one year after it’s successor has been released.
Well, it’s been a little over a year since the release of Windows 8, and the company has just updated its website to let everyone know that they will no longer be selling Windows 7 retail licenses.
But that doesn’t mean you can’t still buy a genuine Windows 7 DVD. In fact, most major retailers have plenty of them on hand, and they will probably still be selling them for quite some time. [Read more…]
The Universal Serial Bus (commonly referred to simply as USB) is one of the great innovations of modern technology. The proliferation of USB ports has made interconnecting most common devices with one another far easier than deciding what to have for lunch.
But even with all the wonderful advantages of connecting devices via USB, there has always been one headache associated with it: the plethora of different cables used by different devices. While the small USB Micro-B connector has helped standardize the cables used to connect most smart phones in recent years, there are still a number of other non-compatible cables in use today.
Now for the good news: [Read more…]
DDR3 memory has been the standard for years, but that will soon change. Our friends over at Crucial Technology have just announced that they’ll begin selling DDR4 RAM some time before the end of December 2013.
DDR4 promises to be a major upgrade over DDR3. The new memory standard doubles the speed of its predecessor while also doubling the maximum storage capacity per module from 8GB to 16GB. And just as important, the new DDR4 RAM will operate on a meager 1.2 volts of electricity which means it should run cooler and save energy. [Read more…]