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<title><![CDATA[5 fantastic Google Docs tips]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 07:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In word processing, there are three beasts: Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, and Google Docs. Most users are likely tied to Word, but its offline, collaboration-free nature makes it look a little boring next to Google Docs.&amp;nbsp'Whether you use Docs as your primary word processor, as a place to keep your files in the cloud, or just as a notepad for your online finds, these tips will help you get the most out of Google Docs.5 Google Docs secrets<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Vatican: No, you can't confess to your iPhone]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=vatican-no-you-cant-confess-to-your-iphone</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=vatican-no-you-cant-confess-to-your-iphone</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Little iApps)Some may call it the &quot;Jesus Phone,&quot; but the Vatican is seeking to remind the faithful that there are limits to mixing the sacraments with technology--even when it comes to theiPhone. A new application for the iPhone,iPad, andiPod Touch that lists sins to be taken to the confessional earned a cautionary warning from the Vatican today. Actually, it wasn't so much the app getting a rebuke as it was the hype that accompanied it. When it debuted earlier in the month, the $1.99 application, Confession: A Roman Catholic App, was described as preparation for Catholic confession and the ''perfect aid for every penitent.&quot;  Users create password-protected profiles and then go through a series of soul-searching questions related to the Ten Commandments. The app displays sins along with a written act of contrition for the penitent. It also lets users log &quot;custom sins&quot; and create &quot;custom examinations of conscience.&quot;  Prayers stored in the app include such classics as the Lord's Prayer, the Apostles' Creed, and Hail Mary.After Kevin Rhodes of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend in Indiana gave the app an imprimatur, the story turned viral, with some articles referring to the app as a &quot;virtual priest.&quot; But in a statement put out by the Vatican, Father Federico Lombardi was quoted reminding Catholics that absolution requires a personal dialogue between penitents and the confessor.  &quot;It's essential to understand that the sacrament of penance requires a personal dialogue between the penitent and the confessor, and absolution by the confessor who is present,&quot; he told reporters. &quot;This is something that cannot be replaced by any application. One cannot speak of a 'confession via iPhone.'&quot; (Credit:Little iApps) Patrick Leinen, who developed the iPhone application, said he welcomed the Vatican statement that the sacrament requires oral confession to a priest. &quot;This app is intended to help a person prepare for the sacrament of confession,&quot; Leinen said. &quot;It is not intended to function as a replacement for confession.&quot;  While the Vatican has expressed some concern over the way this particular app is used, church officials have given their blessing to gadget envangelism, saying the Bible should be available in all relevant forms of communication in today's Digital Age. In an official statement released in 2008, the Vatican stressed that besides printed text, &quot;the voice of the divine word must also resonate over the radio, Internet channels with virtual online distribution, CDs, DVDs, iPods, and on television and cinema screens.&quot;  The Vatican has formally endorsed an iPhone app that allows users to load the Breviary prayer book, prayers for saying a Catholic Mass, and other prayers. The Vatican also has its own YouTube channel. And the Pope even famously signed a text message sent to gatherers at a Catholic youth day rally in Sydney, Australia, with &quot;BXVI.&quot; This story first appeared on CBSNews.com.  <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google&'s Possible &''+1&8243' iPhone App, Facebook Similarities, And Social &''Loop&''&nbsp'Groups]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bioclevana</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Since we broke the news a couple days ago that Google&amp;'s secret social project, formerly known as &amp;''Emerald Sea&amp;'', is now being called &amp;''Google +1&amp;8243', we&amp;'ve gotten more confirmation about the naming. This includes people more confident that this could well be the name Google ends up going with. We&amp;'ve also heard a couple other new interesting tidbits about the project.The first is that Google may be testing an iPhone app for +1, which would presumably launch alongside the web variation of the service. One source reports seeing a Google employee&amp;'s iPhone with an app called &amp;''Loop&amp;'' on it. This was apparently Google&amp;'s social project in native app form. The source says that it looked similar to Facebook and had large portions that were still in development.This is particularly interesting because we have heard that early iterations of Google +1 itself were much more similar to Facebook. But that version was supposedly scrapped in favor of a more all-web-encompassing toolbar approach (at least as it currently stands). So it&amp;'s possible that the app is a bit old, or that Google is thinking a bit differently about the social product on mobile devices.The &amp;''Loop&amp;'' name is also interesting because we&amp;'ve heard that a big part of +1 is groups, and those groups are apparently called &amp;''loops&amp;''. The idea is that as you add or remove people from these loops, they&amp;'re either &amp;''in the loop&amp;'' or &amp;''out of the loop&amp;''. Get itIn fact, loops are considered to be such an integral part of the service, that it&amp;'s possible that Loop is/was another name Google&amp;'s been toying around with for it. That would certainly make the name of the iPhone app make sense. Or perhaps the app is just a certain subset of +1 features that would work better in native app form, rather than on the mobile web. Either way, the location-based app Loopt can&amp;'t be happy about the possible name.It&amp;'s also believed that Facebook found out that groups (loops) were going to be a key part of Google&amp;'s social service, so they went into &amp;''lockdown&amp;'' over the summer to get their new Groups feature out the door a4&quot; which they did a couple months ago.Undoubtedly, if such a Google +1 app does actually exist, the company has an Android version as well. But as we&amp;'ve seen with apps like Google Voice, the search giant isn&amp;'t opposed to developing for a rival platform. It&amp;'s all about reach. And Google would need something for the iPhone if they want +1 to be successful in the mobile space.CrunchBase InformationGoogleiPhoneFacebookInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Andy Rubin Shows Off Android 3.0 On Prototype Motorola&nbsp'Tablet]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bioclevana</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Andy Rubin is, as I type this, in the middle of a demo of Android 3.0 (AKA Honeycomb) at Dive Into Mobile. The rest of his talk I&amp;'ve got written up elsewhere, but this was too cool to pass up. The software is running on a prototype MOTOPAD that looks really slick, though it was only out for a moment and there are but few pictures at the moment. I&amp;'ll be updating this post as more information breaks.First thing he showed off was a new lock screen and then what appeared to be a brand new &amp;''desktop&amp;'' with widgets and buttons in the corners. Different UI aesthetic than earlier versions of Android. He then launched the new, 3D-and-vector-based version of Google Maps that should be coming to your phone in just a couple days.Honeycomb will be out &amp;''next year,&amp;'' which is a pretty vague deadline, but if I remember correctly, we&amp;'ve heard Q2 for the Moto tablet. Another improvement he notes is the ability to split applications into multiple &amp;''fragments,&amp;'' which can be viewed like widgets. Difficult to tell what that might look like, but it sure sounds good. There&amp;'s a new app grid and Gmail appears to have gotten a much nicer version of itself, which I would bet money is a lot like what they&amp;'re going to show off tomorrow at their Chrome thing.The tablet itself looks to me to be larger than the 7&amp;8243' we heard a while back, but it&amp;'s really difficult to tell without actually being there. I&amp;'d guess 9&amp;8243' at 16:10 from these pictures. I don&amp;'t know how big Andy Rubin actually is, so my frame of reference is a bit off.I&amp;'ve always said the Android versions we&amp;'ve had are a bad fit for tablets. This looks like a different story. I&amp;'m looking forward to Honeycomb.[UI images: Engadget''s liveblog' header image: Asa Mathat/All Things D]<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BilltoMobile scores deal with Sprint for direct mobile payments]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[BilltoMobile is  announcing today it has partnered with Sprint to allow mobile phone  users to purchase goods online via their mobile phone accounts.The deal is much like similar deals that the startup has struck with AT&amp;amp'T and Verizon. It shows that we are heading to a world where it will be simpler to pay for goods with our mobile phones rather than credit cards.San Jose, Calif.-based BilltoMobile lets users pay for  something they want online by billing it to the user&amp;'s mobile phone. The capability will be implemented in coming weeks and it means BilltoMobile will be able to reach 240 million mobile subscribers.With BilltoMobile, you simply  indicate that you want to pay with your mobile phone number and enter  the phone number. Then you get a secure text message on your phone. You  then enter the code on the web order. BilltoMobile makes sure that the  purchase appears on your next mobile phone bill. Transactions can be  completed in 15 seconds and users dona4a4t have to enter a long 16-digit  credit card number that they havena4a4t memorized.This kind of purchasing has been popular in Europe and Asia, but now BilltoMobile, which is majority owned by Koreaa4a4s  Danal, is making it more practical for U.S. consumers. Thata4a4s because  BilltoMobile figured out how to directly integrate its billing system  with the carriera4a4s own networks. It also figured out how to do this  integration at a low cost and in real-time, completing purchases in seconds. It competes with rivals Zong and Boku.Because it is directly integrated into a carriera4a4s billing system,  BilltoMobile does not have to send its verification via a premium text  message service, which costs more money to do. BilltoMobile can thus  charge fees to the merchants that are higher than credit card fees but  far lower than prepaid card or SMS text message fees.Between its three major carrier partners, BilltoMobile can now reach the vast majority of mobile subscribers in the U.S., said Denise Archer, vice president of carrier relationships at BilltoMobile. BilltoMobile says the list of merchants using its  solution are growing. Those merchants include game companies that sell  digital goods inside their games as well as others who sell virtual  goods online. Partners include game publishers Nexon, NHN, Perfect World and Gamania.BilltoMobile was founded in 2006 and spun out from Danal in 2007'  this year, Danal bought back its majority ownership.Next Story: The birth of Twitter Previous Story: King.com takes tournament games into FacebookPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: mobile paymentsCompanies: BilltoMobile, sprint          Tags: mobile paymentsCompanies: BilltoMobile, sprintDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[HP&'s new business laptops offer up to 32 hours of battery]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Hewlett-Packard is announcing today a new family of laptops for business users with new industrial designs and one very interesting feature: a battery life of up to 32 hours.The battery life number is getting interesting because most laptops range in battery life from four to eight hours. The higher battery life is a big milestone because it&amp;'s very hard to balance great performance with power consumption. The more powerful a device is, the more power it consumes. But this device crosses the one-day threshold in battery life, and that takes a lot of advanced technology.Most computer makers are striving to get to 24-hour battery life. But by packing in a heavy battery, HP was able to get to 32 hours for its HP EliteBook 8460p laptop (pictured right) for business users. It shows that the newest generation of chips, hard drives, batteries and other technologies is starting to yield considerable benefits for consumers. The p-series laptops from HP start at $999 and will be available on March 15.To get to 32 hours, you have to buy the HP BB09 ultra-extended life notebook battery and download the latest Intel graphics driver and HP BIOS (or startup software). The notebook can get to 32 hours if you use Intel graphics, a 160-gigabyte Intel flash memory SSD drive, an HP LED HD display and Windows 7. So it costs more and it adds one pound to the overall weight, but in case you&amp;'re using your computer on the battlefield and can&amp;'t get back to your base, it could come in handy. (I&amp;'m only partly joking there, since the machine is up to military specifications for durability).HP is launching its new line-up now because it is using the newest Sandy Bridge microprocessors from Intel. It&amp;'s also the first time in a couple of years that HP has revamped its industrial design for business laptops. The new machines use a common &amp;''design language,&amp;'' which goes by the acronym FORGE (see picture at bottom), with a focus on &amp;''form, optimized, richness, green and enduring.&amp;'' That means HP is trying to design cool, nice-looking products that last a long time and are environmentally friendly. It&amp;'s the kind of design philosophy that HP hopes will help it compete with Apple in industrial design.Each of the new p-series, b-series (pictured above), and s-series laptops (pictured below) share the same design language. HP&amp;'s new laptops use precision aluminum-alloy hinges so that it isn&amp;'t easy to snap the laptop in two. It also has cast titanium-alloy latches and a strong magnesium-aluminum chassis. There&amp;'s a &amp;''double-shot&amp;'' rubber frame that acts as a shock-absorbing barrier to protect the display panel from scuffs and scratches. There are quick access buttons on the keyboard that let you access functions such as wireless networking, mute, and a calculator.The back of the EliteBooks are interesting because you can remove the back plate by flipping a switch. You can thus swap out a hard drive, change the memory, or do other things to it without using a screwdriver or any other tool. Compare that approach to Apple&amp;'s which goes so far as to change screws so that people can&amp;'t get inside their machines.The p-series machines (8460p and 8560p) weigh 4.56 pounds and 6.1 pounds respectively. They have 14-inch and 15.6-inch diagonal LED-backlit displays and run the latest Intel second-generation Core microprocessors (code-named Sandy Bridge, with graphics and microprocessor on a single chip).The HP ProBook b-series laptops are more configurable and have a 13.3-inch display. They start at $799 and will be available on March 15. They use the Sandy Bridge processors or Intel Celeron processors. They also have a smudge-resistant and wear-resistant tungsten-colored design.The HP ProBook s-series machines have a wide variety of sizes, from smaller ultralight machines to desktop replacements. They&amp;'re targeted at small businesses. The displays range from 13.3 inches to 17.3 inches. The starting weight is 3.79 pounds and the machines use Intel Sandy Bridge processors or Celerons. The prices start at $579 and machines will be available on March 15.The s-series machines have HP&amp;'s ProtectTools security suite, including HP&amp;'s fingerprint sensor and HP face recognition. Check out our video below of the face recognition technology, which can be used to identify you quickly when the computer boots up.Previous Story: Kutcher bets on SeatGeek as online ticket sites battlePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: battery life, FORGE, industrial design, laptopsCompanies: Hewlett Packard, HP          Tags: battery life, FORGE, industrial design, laptopsCompanies: Hewlett Packard, HPDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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