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Romney’s ‘Women in Binders’ Gaffe Launches Hysterically Funny, and Pointed, Reviews for Avery Binders on Amazon

Mitt Romney’s “Binders full of women” comment is continuing to make waves as the Avery Durable View Binder on Amazon.com is gaining reviews, not so much for their organizing ability, but for their ability to keep women.

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Study Reveals that as Many as 16% of All Visits to Websites are from Bots, and 26% of All Traffic is “Aberrant”

Bots generate at least 10% of all online traffic, according to data released today by Solve Media, a company that provides security authentication solutions through CAPTCHA-based advertising technology. Solve Media indicates that they have seen a 400% increase in what they term ‘aberrant’ traffic across web-based services such as commenting, voting, registration, contact and commenting.

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Judge in Disorderly Conduct Trial of Malcolm Harris of Occupy Wall Street Orders Twitter to Turn Over Deleted Tweets

Twitter has been ordered to turn over the deleted tweets of Occupy Wall Street protestor, Malcolm Harris, after he was charged with disorderly conduct during an Occupy protest. In a controversial move, presiding Judge Matthew Sciarrino Jr. demanded that Twitter turn over Harris’ records for the period of time during the incident because, Sciarrino believes, there are tweets that could be relevant to the case.

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Google Admits it Did Not Erase All of the Personal Data it Promised

Google has found themselves in hot water over privacy issues yet again. As we previously reported, it was discovered that the Google Street View vehicles were collecting data illegally, while taking street pictures in the US, Australia and Europe. In fact, they were doing it for three years, between 2007 and 2010, by harvesting personal data through open wifi routers as the Street View car drove by. This data included entire emails, site visit history, passwords, and other private information that the average citizen probably does not want floating around.

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Review: The Best Phone in the Dictation and Transcription Arena

As our readers know, we have always been a fully Android shop when it came to our phones. Now, recently, we had the opportunity to put the iPhone 4S to the test and, in fact, have been using the iPhone 4S ever since. Because I (Anne) do a lot of work while on the road, on my phone, this means that I do a lot of voice dictation, which in turn means that I have had the opportunity to put both versions of the software for dictation (the Android phone dictation software, and the iPhone speech dictation program) to the test. To be clear, we are talking about the free dictation apps that come native as software dictation services on each phone, not a separate dictation app.

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ATT iPhone 4S versus Verizon iPhone 4S Smack Down, and the Surprising Winner

Ok, first, yes, I admit it. In the form of the newish iPhone 4S, the iPhone finally had enough chops to lure me to try one out, to even consider abandoning my beloved Android. The voice control and dictation features blow Android’s away, for both accuracy and usability. And Siri’s ability to create location-based reminders, and generally how powerful it is, were pretty compelling. But, now there was a new dilemma: which is better? The ATT iPhone or the Verizon iPhone? Which has the better iPhone service – ATT or Verizon? Fewer dropped calls? Faster network?

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Our First Impressions of the MyTouch 4G Slide – a Review

Today was the first day that the MyTouch 4G Slide was available to the public from T-Mobile, and so we picked one up so that we could give you our first impressions. The My Touch 4G Slide phone is known primarily for two major features (well, three if you count that it comes with Android Gingerbread 2.3 installed), and those are the incredible 8 megapixel camera, and the blazing fast 1.2 GHz dual-core processors. But it’s the little things that make or break a phone experience, so read on…

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Apple Stores STILL Running Out of iPad 2 – Our Experience Getting an Apple iPad 2 (Includes Pics, iPad 2 Review and iPad 2 Case Reviews)

Believe it or not, nearly two weeks after the iPad 2 launch (release date was March 11), many Apple stores are still out of the iPad 2! Or, more correctly, they are getting them in in dribs and drabs, with long lines queueing starting at 6:00 a.m. (!), and any new supply of iPad 2s selling out within minutes of the Apple store opening 3 hours later. Here is our experience being in the Apple line, and getting our iPad 2, and our first thoughts and observations on the iPad 2, the “Smart Cover” (hate it!), and the iPad 2 case that we love.

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A Review of RatePoint – If “Reputation is Everything”, We Think They Have Nothing

Being in the Internet reputation space ourselves, we recently signed up for a test of RatePoint, where, they tell us, “Reputation is Everything”. RatePoint bills itself as being all about helping you build your Internet reputation. We actually had thought that if their service was as good as we’d imagined it could be, we might like to partner with them. How ironic that the company that is aware that your Internet reputation is everything is building themselves a bad Internet reputation by giving you no way to opt out of their mailings and by making you jump through ridiculous hoops to cancel even a free account.

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New Site Documents Invisalign Braces Process from Start to Finish for those Seeking Invisalign Reviews

I’m very excited to tell you all about the newest site to join our family of websites. And I’m not just excited because it’s a new site for us – but because of what it’s about. It’s about my getting Invisalign braces. And I’m very excited about getting Invisaligns! In this new site, I document, from the very first consultations to the very finish, the process of getting Invisalign braces. I’m doing this because when I was looking for information about Invisaligns online, I couldn’t find any Invisalign reviews online! So I hope to be able to provide that Invisalign review for others who may be considering Invisalign plastic braces, but want to read about the patient experience from someone who has been there.

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Website Devoted to Trying and Reviewing All Ramen Noodles Everywhere

Toshio Yamamoto is a man who knows his ramen, and we’re not just talking that cheap American Oodles of Noodles stuff.  And everyone else’s ramen too.  The 49 year old engineer eats ramen 5 days a week, and records his reviews of each one for ramen posterity’s sake on his website

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Feds Dictate that Reviews on Blogs Should Disclose if Review is for Sponsor or Advertiser

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is getting ready to issue new guidelines which state that bloggers who review a product or service are under an obligation to disclose to their readers if the product or service being reviewed is a sponsor of the blog, or if the blogger otherwise is getting compensation (sometimes known as “Blogola”, as a play on the word “payola) for the review.