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Amazon Brings the Kindle App to Windows Phone 7

in Commerce on January 5, 2011 at 7:06 am PT

Amazon’s Kindle app now works on at least 11 different platforms with the addition of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 today. The apps allow you to start an e-book on one platform, and then continue reading it where you left off on another. Features include the ability to synch bookmarks, notes and highlights. Yesterday, Amazon also confirmed that in addition to supporting the iPad, it will tailor the apps for upcoming Android and Windows-based tablet computers. At this point, it’s clear Amazon sees value in supporting all platforms. Rather than be discriminating, it’s trying to sell as many books as it can on as many platforms as a customer may want to read them.

Following Layoffs, Yahoo Cuts Products: MyBlogLog, Delicious, Yahoo! Buzz

in Social on December 16, 2010 at 11:58 am PT

At an all-hands meeting for the Yahoo product team following a round of layoffs yesterday that significantly impacted that group, Chief Product Officer Blake Irving announced plans to “sunset” eight products.

Google TV: No Need to Tune In Just Yet

in Personal Technology on November 17, 2010 at 6:07 pm PT

Google TV, the latest attempt to integrate Web video and regular TV, is a bold effort, but it is ultimately too complicated for mainstream use.
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Syncing Bookmarks Across Browsers

in Mossberg’s Mailbox on October 6, 2010 at 6:15 pm PT

Walt answers a reader’s question on Xmarks, an Internet browser bookmark tool.

GDrive Actually Google Docs

in News on January 12, 2010 at 1:01 pm PT

Google is adding some storage embellishments to its Docs service, essentially transforming the Web-based productivity suite into something akin to its long-rumored cloud storage service, GDrive, though the company disputes that comparison.
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Windows 7 Minimum Requirements

in Mossberg’s Mailbox on August 5, 2009 at 1:14 pm PT

Windows 7 system requirements; a new laptop for a Mac user and moving email contacts to a new Internet service provider.

Using Foxmarks on Different Computers

in Mossberg’s Mailbox on February 11, 2009 at 6:07 pm PT

Walt answers questions about migrating bookmarks using Foxmarks and hardware requirements for the upcoming Windows 7 operating system.

Weekend Update, 02.07.09

in News on February 7, 2009 at 4:24 pm PT

What spreads faster than economic gloom and doom, and is more infectious than professional anxiety? That phenomenon known as “25 Things.” Just in time for Facebook’s fifth birthday, the record-breaking waste of time may have reached critical mass this week. Elsewhere this week…

Synchronizing Your Bookmarks on All Your PCs

in Personal Technology on February 4, 2009 at 6:02 pm PT

Walt reviews Foxmarks, a tool for synchronizing your bookmarks automatically among all your computers, Windows or Mac, and across all the main brands of Web browsers.
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Helping Your Data Decamp to a Mac

in The Mossberg Solution on December 9, 2008 at 5:52 pm PT

With the holidays fast approaching, plenty of shoppers are heading toward their local Apple stores with plans to buy a new home computer. Amid all this excitement, it’s worth taking time to consider how to transfer content from the old Windows PC to a shiny new Mac.
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Clarifying Techno-Babble

in Mossberg’s Mailbox, July 2, 2008 at 6:40 pm PT

Reporting Digital Map Errors

in Mossberg’s Mailbox, June 26, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Is the Best Browser for Web — For Now

in Personal Technology, June 5, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

Apple’s Updates for the iPhone and iPod Touch

in The Mossberg Solution, January 23, 2008 at 11:59 pm PT

Picking a Laptop With Vista Business

in Mossberg’s Mailbox, November 15, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Installing Windows Media Center

in Mossberg’s Mailbox, March 16, 2006 at 12:01 am PT

Synchronizing Bookmarks in Firefox

in Mossberg’s Mailbox, February 16, 2006 at 12:01 am PT