The Streak 7: Bargain Tablet From Dell Is No Real Deal

Dell’s Streak 7 is the least expensive tablet from a major manufacturer and claims to be the first capable of 4G cellular speeds, but the compromises made to get the price down make it impossible to recommend.
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‘With This App, I Thee Wed…’

Several wedding-planning applications for mobile devices let brides- and grooms-to-be reach for an iPhone to manage the process, from finding the dress to registering for gifts to editing the guest list.
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Trying Out a Revamped Myspace

Katie reviews the revamped Myspace, with its focus on topics in popular culture, including television, music, movies, celebrities and comedy.
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Salesforce Buys Small Contact Management Start-Up Etacts

Salesforce has bought Etacts, the contacts management tool, according to a source familiar with the matter. Etacts informed users today that it will shut down as of January 31 in order to “pursue other opportunities.”

Is My Email Address My Identity?

As a larger question in the battle between Facebook and Google over data reciprocity, what captivates me is how much value people are putting on user email addresses. Are our email addresses really the best proxy for who we are?

No Facebook User Emails for Google–But Yahoo and Microsoft Already Have Access

Facebook and Google are hardly friends these days, and they’re having more and more trouble containing their dislike.

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Flickr Gets More Social

Not content to let its users merely find photo-sharing friends and acquaintances, Flickr will now start proactively suggesting People You May Know on the service. Suggestions are based on your contacts plus your contacts’ contacts. Not thrilled with some of the suggestions? Dismiss them and the system will offer up a new batch. Users also are now able to import contacts from Facebook in addition to Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail.

Mac Users Are Getting New Outlook From Rival

Microsoft significantly improved each of the key components for its new Macintosh version of Office coming out Oct. 26, which finally includes a robust Mac version of Outlook, writes Walt.
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Making Hotmail Hot Again

Microsoft hopes a revamped version of the Web-based program will heat up interest among emailers.
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Bump Technologies Founders Talk About Platforms, APIs and Showing the iPhone and Android How to Get Along

Bump Technologies has definitely gotten a lot of attention, mostly due to the gimmicky feel of the service, which allows users to swap a wide range of data–contacts, photos and soon, much more–when they tap two phones together. But it’s more than just a cute way for hipsters to trade phone numbers. When thought of as a technology platform that can be used by a variety of players, it gets much more interesting. Here’s the video of my interview about that with its founders.

Apple iPad Event Liveblog

Microsoft/Danger. Enough Said.