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Like podcasts, radio and music and own an Android phone? You might think that there is little point downloading a music player for Android. After all, the phone comes loaded with a perfectly workable player, and it must all sound the same coming out the headphones, right? Well, it depends.

In springtime, people's fancies may turn to love, but their to-do list turns to cleaning. Make this the year that you finally recycle all the ancient MP3 players, toner cartridges, ethernet cables, and bulky monitors out of the closets, garages, and spare rooms where they've been lurking. Your home will feel more modern, and you'll be doing your part to boost the 27 percent electronics recycling rate. Just in time for another spring constant, Earth Day. Before you get rid of any of your electronics The first step on your recycling journey: Make sure that none of your personal data will be leaving the house along with your soon-to-be-discarded electronics. If you're using Apple's iTunes to manage your digital music and video, be sure you deauthorize any device you're recycling. "But that computer is dead" is no excuse: Apple expects you to simply deauthorize all your devices via the iTunes app, then reauthorize the ones that are still alive If you're recycling a smartphone, do a complete reset of your phone to wipe out its data and restore it to its factory settings. Before you do this, however, make sure that you've got your data backed up someplace else If you're recycling a computer or a hard drive, don't just assume that deleting files will wipe the data off your system, because it won't. All it does is reformat the space on the drive, and the data can be snagged using tools designed for disaster recovery. Now, on to recycling Broadly speaking, you have three recycling options: You can drop off your unwanted stuff in person somewhere; you can ship it away; or you can donate it to a willing organization. Drop it off in person. The advantage to dropping off your gear is that you don't need to really plan ahead and print out prepaid labels (as you would if you were shipping things away); you just toss your stuff in the car and go Another option that's cropping up across the U.S. is the electronics recyc

"It might just be the precursor to the next industrial revolution and slowly but surely, 3D printing is expanding its presence into the realm of manufacturing. Now it seems that one of the first major industries to benefit from 3D printing is the same one that spawned the assembly line revolution - the automotive industry. Israeli company Stratasys, already a major player in the field and its subsidiary, RedEye On Demand, will be part of a project aimed at putting the first 3D printed car on the roads within two years, in partnership with KOR EcoLogic. "A future where 3D printers build cars may not be far off after all. There is a vision for a more fuel-efficient car that would change the world . URBEE 2, the name of the car, shows the manufacturing world that anything really is possible. There are few design challenges [3D printing] capabilities can't solve.""

Yontoo Trojan, detected by noted security company Dr. Web is blamed for tracking the browsing behaviors across a range of popular browsers like Safari, Chrome, and Firefox. It may pretend as a media player, download manager, or other plug-in, thereby directing you to some maliciously crafted Web sites disguised as sources for file sharing and movie trailers.

For Windows 7 and 8 users, this tutorial is suitable to add an external drive for large music collections.

Sometimes you just want to send a playlist to a friend through mail. But, you don't know how to do it? Then you are at the right place. You can break your library data out of iTunes as a tab-separated list, PDF file, or Web database. With this tutorial, you can find the way of doing this.

As Google faces the EU we offer a chronology of mega cases against tech players. Earlier this month the simmering quarrel between Google and the European Union boiled over yet again, as the European Commission reopened an antitrust case that has been running for four years.

Analyst house Gartner's Errol Rasit takes a walk through 5 US server players. In terms of market share, HP had significantly high revenue than any other vendor at $3.2bn in the second quarter of 2014, with 25.1% of the market, up 3.2% from 2013.

Find out the cream of enterprise resource planning. Even small and medium-sized businesses need enterprise resource planning (ERP), and this selection of software proves that you don't have to be a big player to get access to serious tools. This product from the Sage Group, a software firm, is a complete enterprise suite available on the cloud.

Norway-based Aptomar has partnered with several key industry players as part of a new research project to improve oil spill management via communication infrastructure and management systems.

Virtual machine monitoring to suit any taste and budget. Choosing a hypervisor suitable for your business is no easy task, given the array of options available in this market. Since VMware ushered in the market at the turn of the millennium, many of the big players in tech have attempted to compete.

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