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Looking to harness all the power of your smartphone PC-style? Motorola is looking to help with its Lapdock 100 for a number of devices, including the Atrix 2, Photon 4G and Droid Bionic. The laptop shell sports a 10.1-inch screen (smaller and hopefully cheaper than the Atrix 4G’s axed lapdock), keyboard with dedicated Android keys, touchpad, multi-tasking and tabbed web-browsing via WiFi or your phone’s data plan. You’ll also be able to utilize a full Firefox browser, Adobe Flash, Quick Office, Google Docs and a PC-esque File Manager. Just in case your smartphone’s SD card doesn’t offer enough storage space, the dock packs two USB ports for all those extra documents you might collect. Looking to stay ultra-portable, the peripheral weighs a hair over two pounds (less than 1Kg) and touts five hours of battery life — which can also be used to recharge that tired handset if needed. If you’re looking to snatch up one of these bad boys, you’ll have to wait until October 17… and even then, it’ll only hit shelves at AT&T. Verizon and Sprint customers will get their chance “later this quarter” and there’s no word yet on pricing. Need more info? Hit that coverage link for product page and get yourself better acquainted.

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This article was written on June 20, 2007 by CyberNet.

If you’re keeping track, get out your list of Google Acquisitions for the year and add Zenter to it.  Google just announced that they have acquired Zenter which is software for online slide presentations. I know, some of you are probably recalling their acquisition in April for Tonic whose technology focuses on Java solutions for “presentation creation and document conversion.” It looks like just one presentation company isn’t going to do it for Google, they need a whole line of them.

While both Zenter and Tonic focus on presentations, there’s a reason Google went after Zenter. According to the Google blog, Zenter’s technology will be used to provide presentation-sharing capabilities to Google Docs & Spreadsheets.

Haochi over at Googlified gives his insight saying that Google acquired Zenter because after they purchased Tonic, they realized it would be too difficult for them to make it part of the entire Google suite of apps. Something like “Mission Impossible,” and if they want a presentation app pushed out the door by the end of the Summer, they realized it was going to take another presentation acquisition.

Garrett Rogers over at ZDNet thinks Tonic will be used solely as the exporting engine in the future because they’ve spent a lot of time figuring out how they can be “100% binary compatible with Microsoft Powerpoint.” This would mean that their focus will be saving presentations in a format that would work perfectly with Powerpoint.

While online seems to be the way to go lately, there are still people who prefer desktop applications.  This is where Google Gears could potentially come in handy because Google could take their Online Suite of applications and give them offline capability. I for one, would be more likely to use docs and spreadsheets if there was the capability to take them offline.

Now I just wonder what Google will do with the name.  If they stick with Google Docs, Spreadsheets, and tack on Presentations, it’s getting too long! It’s about time that they come up with a clever new name.

Thanks to everybody who sent this tip in!

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At CTIA last March, AT&T stole the show by announcing its intent to purchase T-Mobile US. This time around the news is a bit more modest, but the company is still hoping to give us a bit of a shock by introducing a litany of new handsets right on time for the holiday season. The carrier promised the release of 12 Android devices throughout the course of the year, and this week’s announcement pushes the 2011 running count to 19. Not too shabby. Naturally, we’re looking for quality more than quantity, so we couldn’t wait to dig into the devices that are coming out. Check out all five after the break, along with a quick video teaser.

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This article was written on May 24, 2007 by CyberNet.

Google has a list of topics that are banned from appearing in their AdWords program.  It’s written in their policy that words relating to alcohol, fireworks, cigarettes, prostitution, and a handful of others are off-limits.

BBC is reporting that another topic has been added to the blacklist. Anything to do with essay writing services or term papers will be banned starting in June.  While you’ll still find plenty of sponsored links and ads including words like “term paper” when you search Google, they won’t be there for much longer.

The reason for the addition to the blacklist is that Google has received complaints from universities who are concerned that the integrity of degrees is compromised after students use custom essays that they obtain from the Internet, which often times are plagiarized. They say that plagiarism “devalues” higher education.

Universities and professors are clearly happy with this announcement because it means that these sites will have a harder time getting customers. A perfect example of this is an essay company based in the UK that receives a whopping 80% of their customers through Google. They’ll certainly be hurting once Google bans them.

So, starting June 1st, no advertisements will be accepted from companies looking to attract people to their sites with the use of AdWords to purchase term papers, essays, and dissertations.

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