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Tech news:
Apple.com growing at record rate. Music fans flooding iTunes last month helped Apple outpace Google and Amazon as the fastest-growing Web site among the top 10 best-known online brands, according to a report released Tuesday. Traffic-reporting service Nielsen/NetRatings said that traffic to Apple.com rose from 19.6 million unique visitors in November 2004 to 30.8 million last month–a 57 percent jump. The number of visitors to online search engine Google climbed by 29 percent, while traffic to retailer Amazon grew 16 percent.
TiVo offers RocketBoom downloads. This is part of the TiVo Video Download trial. Check it out!
Google launches Google Zeitgeist for 2005. Search patterns, trends, and surprises according to Google. This flurry of searches often exposes interesting trends, patterns, and surprises. The Google Zeitgeist page is regularly updated to reflect tidbits of information related to the search behavior of Google users.
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Test a geek: A new spin is put on the Test A Geek segment with a great quiz done by Eric of the GeekQuiz podcast. Can you answer his questions? Lets find out.
http://geekquiz.glitchnyc.com/
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How To: Use GMail on your mobile phone.
Google has just launched Gmail mobile, a super-stripped-down version of Gmail for your mobile device. Now you can access your Gmail messages from the web browser on your mobile phone or device. Read and reply to your Gmail messages any time, anywhere.
This is good news for anyone with a web browsing mobile device, or anyone who’s hoping to find a hot new web browsing mobile device under the tree this year. Just point your phone to http://m.gmail.com and get Gmailing!
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Ask A Geek: This segment will return on a future episode of The Geekcast
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Hack: This segment will return on a future episode of The Geekcast
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The geek’s view: This segment will return on a future episode of The Geekcast
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