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Aug

30

2010

Google snags up mobile social game developer SocialDeck

by Dustin Karnes
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Google, famous for it’s acquisition of smaller companies to continue their universal domination, has added yet another company to their portfolio: SocialDeck. SocialDeck is a company that develops social-based mobile games. They boast about 1 million downloads of their games last year, with apps such as Pet Hero, Color Connect and Shake & Spell. While [...]

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Aug

9

2010

Fine Tune Your Wireless Network with WiFi Analyzer

by Chris Moor
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Many people don’t realize that you can actually fine tune your WiFi access points with some very simple tricks like rotating that base unit around or changing the station numbers. The problem is always figuring out what settings are having a positive or negative effect. To a (very) small extent you could do this with [...]

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Jul

28

2010

5 useful Android apps for system & network administrators

by Chris Moor
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Being a student majoring in Network and System Administration I am always looking for more ways to help me do my job. With the huge amount of applications and the abilities that Android phones have I went on a search and was surprised what I found. There were so many applications designed to remotely control [...]

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Jul

20

2010

T-Mobile adds 25 cities to it’s “4G Speed” HSPA network

by Chris Moor
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T-Mobile just keeps on a rollin out their upgraded 3G HSPA+ network to more and more cities every month. On the list for speed increases this month? Take a look and find out: Austin, El Paso, Fort Worth, San Antonio, and Waco, Texas Baltimore, Md. Baton Rouge and Lafayette, La. Birmingham, Ala. Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, [...]

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Jul

19

2010

Skies of Glory game from SGN brings first cross platform game between iPhone and Android

by Chris Moor
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The Social Gaming Network has been developing games for the iPhone for some time and now they are dipping into the world of Android as well. A well popular game, Skies of Glory, has been ported over to the Android platform. Skies of Glory is a World War II Era dog fighting game which, allows [...]

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