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by Clyde Klajdi 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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by Clyde Klajdi 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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by Clyde Klajdi 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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by S.M. Schrama 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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by S.M. Schrama 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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by S.M. Schrama 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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by S.M. Schrama 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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by S.M. Schrama 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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by S.M. Schrama 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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by S.M. Schrama 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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by S.M. Schrama 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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by S.M. Schrama 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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by S.M. Schrama 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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by S.M. Schrama 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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by S.M. Schrama 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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by S.M. Schrama 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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by S.M. Schrama 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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by S.M. Schrama 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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by S.M. Schrama 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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by S.M. Schrama 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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by S.M. Schrama 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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by S.M. Schrama 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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by S.M. Schrama 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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by S.M. Schrama 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...
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by S.M. Schrama on June 20, 2007
I just got mine. I have never owned a blackberry before. Being in Europe, I always though they would be way to expensive for me, but after I found out recently the price is not that bad at all, I got ...
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by S.M. Schrama on June 19, 2007
Terry Semel, CEO @ Yahoo has resigned. Although his work in getting Yahoo from a search engine to what it is today, his unability to match google's ad revenue levels made him step down. He is to m...
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by S.M. Schrama on June 18, 2007
I have been reluctant to buy a new car for quite some time now - the fact that microsoft powers in-car computers scares the hell out of me. But fortunately, there's good news : I can now go out an...
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by S.M. Schrama on June 14, 2007
Although Linspire and Microsoft met eachother in court only a few years ago over Linspire's former name, "Lindows", today the two companies are friends after a deal over patents. Novell ...
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by S.M. Schrama on June 12, 2007
I have always been a heavy user of open source software - before I bought my macs I worked on linux only, running open source software or commercial (yes, I have always bought licenses too). I have al...
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by S.M. Schrama on June 12, 2007
As the WWDC is going on, lots of apple news is hitting the presses. Most remarkable is (imho) the opssibility to run safari on windows, as most mac users will agree that safari is not the best browser...
