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on July 25, 2010
Experts are saying that the Internet is running out of addresses, most likely by 2011. One problem is the slow adoption of a new system aimed at largely increasing the available pool.
Right now, th...
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on July 24, 2010
Microsoft reported in its quarterly earnings that they have made revenues of about $16.04 billion -- exceeding Wall Street estimates and up by 22 percent year over year.
This makes Microsoft about ...
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on July 23, 2010
Microsoft recently announced it has sold over 25 million licenses of the Windows 7 operating system in the 29 days since June 23. That's a selling rate of about 10 copies of Windows 7 each second ...
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on May 12, 2010
It is hard to follow the whirlwind of online products aimed at small businesses, and harder for small businesses to choose where to focus their attention and budgets.
Some days ago, I found out about...
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on April 19, 2010
Top Apple analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray there is a 70 % chance Apple will create a mobile search engine tailored for its iPhone within the next five years. As the search provider for the iPhon...
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on March 7, 2010
Apple began removing another category of apps from its iPhone App Store. This time, it's not porn, it's Wi-Fi. They already removed porn apps, but now it's turned its feather duster on ...
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on February 4, 2010
According to Wikipedia and its Info page, Facebook was launched exactly six years ago, on February 4, 2004. Back then it was called Thefacebook, and it was originally located at thefacebook.com, but i...
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on January 22, 2010
Have you wanted work on your time? There are businesses out there that you can join to do just that. One example is Nhance, a company that restores the beauty of wood. Another example is Avon, a cosme...
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on December 31, 2009
2009 statistics: 28% of websites use Google Analytics
28% of websites have Google Analytics - pretty impressive, while 12% of the sites have AdSense. [...] 5% of websites have a Twitter link and 5%...
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on August 19, 2007
According to this article in E-Commerce Times, users only spend one third of their time online to send email. Most of the remaining 70% is consumed by reading. The only thing really interesting about ...
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on August 16, 2007
The HotLan Trojan is the latest development of an industry that is apparantly worth a lot of money. Recently it was reported that the captcha system had been cracked, and aparently that has been done ...
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on August 15, 2007
Oracle has never been known to be cheap, and they hold on to the image. After a long wait, the price of Oracle 11g has finally been announced at a staggering $40,000 per cpu or $800 per user. The pric...
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on August 12, 2007
The Santa Cruz Operation, probably the most hated company that has even been involved in unix, has claimes to "own unix" for years, trying to squeeze cash out of a lot of companies. Several ...
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on August 8, 2007
Palm's latest product, the Foleo, will be Linux powered. The device is meant to be a companion for other Palm devices such as the treo smartphone, and flawlessly integrates with it.
Palm has jus...
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on August 3, 2007
Google tried to bid on the 700mhz spectrum recently with added conditions to their bid.
google wanted the regulator to specify the winning bidder must give users freedom to connect any devices to the...
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on July 31, 2007
When Novell adopted linux, we all thought this was not going to last. But it seems that it is a (relative) success, as Novell has made SUSE Linux grow up and they've accomplished selling it to lot...
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on July 31, 2007
SUN Microsystems is doing well. It has been troublesome for quite some time, after the rise of Linux which was more flexible from the beginning. Where SUN tried to gain ground by trying to convince cu...
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on July 25, 2007
Skype, probably the biggest non-SIP voip provider in the world, violates GPLv2, the open source license. The software itself is fine, but one of the SMC phones they sell through their site runs linux....
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on July 24, 2007
Nokia is one of these companies of which you don't expect to move into another field but the cellphone business. But Nokia looks beyond it's horizon and expands into the Web world.
Not so lo...
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on July 23, 2007
Tomtom, the famous producer of gps navigation units, currently the biggest in Europe, has announced a bid of €1.8bn on Teleatlas, a creator of maps for use in electronic navigation devices. It's a...
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on July 22, 2007
Nickelodeon is one of the bestknown producers of programs and shows for children - my little girl (3) loves the nickelodeon junior channel here in the Netherlands, and she's right. Some of the sho...
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on July 20, 2007
In the US, a company called Ooma offers a VOIP solution with free domestic calls for the rest of your life. You can obtain this by buying their phone (called the Hub, 399 USD), which connects to your ...
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on July 17, 2007
Sunrocket is a VOIP provider, which means their main product is a telephone connection running over an IP network, which is in most cases, the internet.
Sunrocket has closed it's doors.SunRocket ...
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on July 13, 2007
IBM has never had the reputation of being open before, but in 2007, where SUN's Solaris is now known as OpenSolaris and can be downloaded for free, IBM has shown they did not get stuck in the eigh...
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on July 9, 2007
eSnailer is a webservice that let's you send regular mail (aka snail mail) to anyone in the US using only your webbrowser. Why ? I am not sure, however I know there are cases where you simply need...
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on July 6, 2007
Verbatim is one of the biggest producers of media (cd's, dvd's and such) worldwide, providing solid quality at an ever-growing demand. Verbatim has just aquired SmartDisk, a vendor of portable...
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on July 5, 2007
RIM, the company that invented and markets the blackberry will start selling blackberry devices in China. This gives RIM a big headstart in the mobile messaging market. The only remaining question is ...
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on July 4, 2007
Apple obviously wants to become the biggest in the electronic music delivery world, and Vivendi's Universal wants to be art of it. The two signed a deal for two years, which was extended with on y...
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on June 28, 2007
In every profession, every business there are jobs nobody wants. In IT, I would really hate working at a helpdesk, and I never have.
Apparently, working at Microsoft's Security Center is one of t...
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on June 26, 2007
Internet has been a blessing for music lovers and people wanting to broadcast but who have always been denied by the arrogance of the *professional radio makers*. The latter have probably thought a lo...
