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Matthew Miller & Joel EvansArchive: December, 2010
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MOTOACTV combines best of training devices into one
For those looking to have a device that tracks workout details and serves multiple key functions, then the Motorola MOTOACTV is a device to consider.
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Matthew Miller
Biography
Matthew Miller
Matthew Miller is an avid mobile device enthusiast who works during the day as a professional naval architect in Seattle. He is one of three hosts on the MobileTechRoundup podcast and runs the Nokia Experts website. Matthew started using mobile devices in 1997 with a US Robotics Pilot 1000 and has owned over 90 different devices running Palm, Linux, Symbian, Newton, BlackBerry, Mac OS X (iPhone), Google Android, and Windows Mobile operating systems. His current collection includes a Nokia N85, Nokia E71, Nokia 5800, Nokia N810, Apple iPhone, HTC Advantage, T-Mobile G1, Palm Treo Pro, HTC Fuze, MSI Wind, MacBook Pro, and many more, along with tons of accessories and classic devices like the Apple Newton MessagePad 2100 and Sony CLIE UX50. Matthew co-authored Master Visually Windows Mobile 2003, was a member of the Nokia Nseries Blogger relations program, and is a member of the invite-only Microsoft Mobius mobile device evangelist group. He can be found on various discussion forums under the user name of "palmsolo".
Joel Evans
Biography
Joel Evans
With more than a decade of mobile, Internet and wireless experience, Joel specializes in taking existing brands, technologies and services into the mobile and wireless space. Joel is currently serving as the Managing Director of Cronk Software, Inc., a company he founded to offer full-service, end-to-end mobile strategy, design and development services.
Joel is the former founder and "Chief Geek" of Geek.com, a website praised by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and others as one of world's best sources of information for technology professionals and enthusiasts.
Joel also serves as a technology expert for a number of well-known publications and regularly advises corporations, analysts, journalists and bloggers on what the future of technology will bring. He brings decades of relationships with leading game publishers, online communities and publishers, along with both hardware and software product management and delivery expertise. Joel can be found online as "JoelGeek" and you can follow him on Twitter @JoelGeek.
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Amazon rolls out Kindle lending support
Amazon isn’t going to sit and let Barnes & Noble have features beyond what they do so today they rolled out support for lending Kindle ebooks.
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Turn your iPad into the ultimate interactive storybook
Thanks to innovative developers, there are a number of apps on the App Store that turn reading into an immersive, interactive experience for kids
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Skype offers $1 voucher to customers for 24 hours of downtime
Skype experienced a critical failure last week. Now the company is providing a full technical explanation of the failure and a voucher to affected customers.
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Will the Samsung Galaxy Player take on the Apple iPod touch?
Rumor is that the Samsung Galaxy Player will debut at CES 2011 and be designed to take on the iPod touch, which is great since no one else offers a very good alternative at this time.
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My top 5 iPad accessories
If you already have an iPad or are hoping for one this holiday season, here’s a quick rundown of the accessories that I use daily.
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Open up your presents with the Zibra Open It!
This holiday season, instead of reaching for a scissor when you have to open up new packages, grab the Open It.
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Quickoffice adds full PowerPoint support for the iPad
Quickoffice just rolled out a free update for their iPad software that includes PowerPoint editing and creation. You can pick up the suite now for just $14.99.
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Ebook readers and the iPad dominated my 2010 posts
Ebook readers, primarily the Nook, dominated Matthew’s 2010 posts, but check out what else was popular.
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Will Motorola have a shot with its unannounced tablet?
Motorola is set to release a honeycomb-powered tablet at CES that will challenge the iPad
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Instant word translations without an internet connection with Word Lens
With Word Lens your phone can translate signs on-the-fly
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