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By cjcastillo in Digital Babble
A Californian student from Japan was able to find out her family was alive, thanks to YouTube. Akiko Kosaka "received word Sunday night from a friend in Japan of the existence of a 45-second YouTube video showing her family home ...
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Online community comes to action after earthquake in Japan
By cjcastillo in Digital Babble
Not long after the 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck Japan, reaction was seen online from around the world in a series of tweets, status updates and video posts. Then came word of the tsunami in Japan, and the warnings for the areas ...
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Tech bytes: Wimbledon in 3-D, plus robots and science!
By cjcastillo in Digital Babble
I was never good at playing rock-paper-scissors. Frankly, I thought the game to be a bit boring. The New York Times has me playing the game again, but now with a modern twist. Over on The Times' website, the Science ...
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By cjcastillo in Digital Babble
I lost track of how many times I sat down and tried to write this blog entry. Never finding the right words to express my feelings. Backspacing, deleting, rearranging words. And now here we are. Well folks, my journey here ...
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Tech bytes: Download free e-books, Apple confirms March 2 event
By cjcastillo in Digital Babble
So after all the rumors Apple finally confirmed that on March 2 they will host a special event. By looking at the invites sent out, I'm guessing it has something to do with the iPad. To catch up with all ...
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National Broadband Map - How connected are we?
By cjcastillo in Digital Babble
Sometimes when visiting (or moving) to a city, you need to find out your broadband options. For whatever the reason, maybe it's for work, school or your Netflix queue, you need broadband and you need it now. Now you have ...
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Tech bytes: Netflix comes to Boxee, rumors of smaller iPhone and Radiohead prepares for new album
By cjcastillo in Digital Babble
Boxee users can rejoice - Netflix is now available. Boxee is a device that allows you to stream movies, TV shows and clips from the Internet on your TV. Users had expected to have the ability to stream Netflix last ...
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Tech bytes: Phone it in at Starbucks, $10 for $20 Amazon card and the Nintendo 3DS, iPhone 5 rumors
By cjcastillo in Digital Babble
Starbucks launches mobile payment feature: Tired of rummaging around for extra cash in your pockets or purse to pay for your latte? Now you can use your smart phone to pay for your caffeinated treats! [Source: Wired.com] Pay $10 for ...
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In the year 2015: Air-breathing batteries, computers energizing cities
By cjcastillo in Digital Babble
While everyone is making their lists of top things that happened in the last year, or decade, I was intrigued to read IBM's "Next Five in Five" list. The list is comprised of five innovations IBM researchers say will emerge ...
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Tech bytes: Google autocompletes your state, Polaroids are back, Chrome OS
By cjcastillo in Digital Babble
This is pretty neat. You know how when you type in a search in Google and it autocompletes the result for you? (No? Pretend you do.) Someone looked up all of the state names on Google and made a map ...