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Right now, access to the web version of GMail is down for some.  Users are greeted with a server error and offered little comfort.  A quick look at Twitter will help you access your mail even if the first option is down.  The first is iGoogle’s mail widget.  If you… Continue Reading »

It was only a matter of time before we saw the Internet infiltrate our television, and it looks like Verizon is ready to launch their new type of Widget/App store for FiOS subscribers.  Verizon has been working with Facebook, Twitter, Veoh, Blip.tv, ESPN, and Dailymotion in order to bring the… Continue Reading »

Vizio seems determined to stand out in the HDTV market and by standing out it seems that they are making an attempt to do so in other ways aside from being one of the more affordable models on the store shelf. The latest announcement coming from Vizio includes HDTVs that… Continue Reading »

Widgets are slowly making their way to television, but some people think that widgets have no place on TV.  “Television is supposed to be a veg out time.  Don’t complicate my TV with widgets.”  That’s crazy.  After years of seeing identification bugs on the bottom right of our screens, animated… Continue Reading »

Gadgetell recently got to play with an IPEVO digital picture frame, the Kaleido R7.  Now, I am the guy who wrote a post denouncing digital picture frames as a pointless technology.  IPEVO changed my mind. Digital picture frames have gone through a couple of styles.  It started off with toyish… Continue Reading »

Check out the gallery: Up close with the IPEVO

Got FiOS television?  Verizon has added some really cool new features.  ESPN Fantasy Football:  you can see your stats right on your TV.  Verizon’s site says you can check stats “while you watch the game.”  It’s not clear if you can have the stats up on the screen at the… Continue Reading »

Sprint is all over the place.  They just lost 1.3 million customers, they’ve got their CEO on television yammering about technology, and now they’ve unveiled this thing.  What is it?  It is Sprint’s promotion of its mobile broadband service featuring over 30 widgets.  At random intervals, a woman’s voice will… Continue Reading »

Google launched the redesign of its popular iGoogle portal last week and the complaints began almost immediately.  Users are upset with the new look and furious that the redesigned interface was sprung on them with no prior announcement.  The interface allows users to collect web “gadgets” such as map and… Continue Reading »

Hulu has just introduced a series of widgets, and while personally I have never really been a big widget fan, these seem of a little more interest to me. First off they are not just desktop widgets, although they will work in Vista Gadgets, they are also able to be… Continue Reading »

Net giant Google just revealed their plans to release their version of living in a virtual world with the online 3D social arena “Lively.”  Unlike the program “Second Life”, Lively allows users to enter “their world” via IE or Firefox after the initial download and installation of the program. You… Continue Reading »