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  • Nexus Face Unlock FAIL

    Nexus Face Unlock FAIL

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    I recently got my hand on a Samsung Galaxy Nexus for review, it’s the Google Android 4.0 Prime phone. It’s very fast, very big and very Googly. One of the main features being advertised is its facial recognition feature that unlock your phone jut by looking it. I’m sure you seen the ad of the…

  • Building a Better Tablet

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    “In 2012, XYZ Co have to build a better tablet [..] A REAL iPad competitor” I hear this far too often, and for all the wrong reasons. Whether it’s from die hard Google-Lovers like Gina Tripani, BlackBerry-centric tech-blogs or Apple haters, the top item on everyone’s agenda is to release an iPad level tablet at…

  • Top 10 From The Last 500 Fat Ones

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    Last Week, Steph published the 500th post from on our 2FatDads site, a site he and I created far too long ago. Over the years we invited Ben, Eric and Steve to join us; not only writing some pretty awesome tech reviews and rants but also in creating the DadCast which will be resuming it’s…

  • Motorola PRO+ the Blackberry Killer! Err, wait a minute?!

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    Today Motorola announced the PRO+: a 4G Blackberry look-a-like with a touch screen and keyboard. I thought we had all pretty much agreed that Blackberry was going to languish in a painful death spiral, with BBX being it’s final, Shakespearian monologue. I didn’t think anyone would jump on the hey, if you want a blackberry but don’t…

  • Silky Privacy Concerns

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    What about handling secure (https) connections? We will establish a secure connection from the cloud to the site owner on your behalf for page requests of sites using SSL (e.g. https://siteaddress.com). Amazon Silk will facilitate a direct connection between your device and that site.  Any security provided by these particular sites to their users would…

  • Smartphone Messenger Apps Compared

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    A very interesting comparison on various new messenger apps for smartphone: Facebook Messenger, Google+ Huddle and Apple iOS iMessage. The only other important one missing from the list is BlackBerry’s BBM. GigaOm.

  • DadCast Episode 38 •

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    How to Maintain a Healthy Eating Lifestyle What you eat each day affects your health and how you feel now and in the future. Good nutrition plays a major role in helping you lead a healthy lifestyle. When combined with physical activity, your diet can help you reach and maintain a healthy weight and reduce…

  • Official Google Blog: Introducing Google Message Continuity, powered by Postini

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    Official Google Blog: Introducing Google Message Continuity, powered by Postini This sounds to me like step one of a three step process: One – get people to integrate their Microsoft Exchange servers, which represent the overwhelming majority of corporate e-mail/calendar/contact servers in use (I arrive at this scientific conclusion because every company I have ever…

  • DadCast Episode 34 • Like, Cataclysmic WoW

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    Nearly Live From the Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… In this first of a two part mini-series: Mononque is Tweeting and up for the cataclysm. Google needs more presence on the web and the TSA fails the American Thanksgiving screening. Maybe their plan of action was put on the web by Wikileaks, the ultimate representation…

  • Google Announces Cr-48 Chrome’s First Lappie

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    Google have finally unveiled their Chrome OS laptop which will be available in the new year and still won’t wrong run any real apps apart from web apps making it almost useless without a high speed internet connection. While I am obviously more than a little attached to my developer needs and my MacBook Pro…