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Five reasons why Chrome will crash and burn

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Google dipped its mighty toe into the increasingly crowded world of internet browsers today with the announcement of its open source offering, Chrome. After all the polished promises of a streamlined new way to tame the web, the blogosphere was ready to predict Chrome would inspire everything from the…
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Five reasons Chrome will take over the world

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Google dipped its mighty toe into the increasingly crowded world of internet browsers today with the announcement of its open source offering, Chrome. After all the polished promises of a streamlined new way to tame the web, the blogosphere was ready to predict Chrome would inspire everything from the…
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Apple iPhone ad banned

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an ad for the iPhone which promised users access to “all parts of the Internet” on their Apple device. The Advertising Standards Authority ASA has banned an ad for the iPhone which promised users access to “all parts of the Internet” on their…
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Top five issues your IT staff wants to address but is afraid to tell you

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

If you?re an IT manager or CIO, you may want to gather the troops before you begin the Web 2.0 modernization process as even the best laid plans can go awry says Nexaweb Technologies Jeremy Chone. Commentary–The proliferation of enterprise Web 2.0 has created new…
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American Airlines kicks off in-flight Internet service

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

The world’s largest airline said its passengers on Boeing 767-200 aircraft can get Internet access on nonstop flights between New York and San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Miami. CHICAGO–American Airlines began offering Internet access on long-haul domestic flights on Wednesday, making American the first U.S. airline to offer full…
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Mozilla launches Snowl messaging prototype

Friday, August 8th, 2008

The prototype Firefox extension will bring unified messaging to the open-source browser, if early experiments are promising. Mozilla has launched a prototype messaging Firefox extension that it says could eventually enable users to keep track of all of their electronic communications, including email, RSS, social networks and…
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AOL talks with Microsoft, Yahoo heat up: source

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Sources said a deal with Yahoo would likely involve merging AOL–with Time Warner keeping a share, and a deal with Microsoft would have Redmond completely taking over AOL. NEW YORK–Time Warner’s discussions to merge or sell its AOL Internet division with Microsoft or Yahoo have taken on new…
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Murdoch says News Corp, Yahoo tie-up very unlikely

Friday, July 11th, 2008

News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch said it was “very unlikely” his company would be involved in any Yahoo transaction and said Yahoo and Microsoft would not end up with any deal. SUN VALLEY, IDAHO–News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch said it was “very unlikely” his company would be involved in any Yahoo…
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Bill Gates bids farewell

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates joins CEO Steve Ballmer at a town hall event Friday, Gates’ final day as a full-time Microsoft employee. Bill Gates’ farewell speech to Microsoft reminded employees that the company knows how to come from behind as well as to lead. …
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Bill Gates bids farewell to Microsoft

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates joins CEO Steve Ballmer at a town hall event Friday, Gates’ final day as a full-time Microsoft employee. Bill Gates’ farewell speech to Microsoft reminded employees that the company knows how to come from behind as well as to lead. …
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Gates: Yahoo deal unlikely

Friday, June 27th, 2008

During his last day as a full-time Microsoft employee, Microsoft’s Bill Gates told Tom Brokaw he does not think a deal with Yahoo was likely. NEW YORK–Microsoft’s Bill Gates told journalist Tom Brokaw he does not think a deal with Yahoo was likely, CNBC reported on Friday. …
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‘.wow’: ICANN to allow almost any domain suffix

Friday, June 27th, 2008

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has accepted a proposal allowing companies, cities and others to use almost any suffix they want for a web address. At its meeting in Paris, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN, a not-for-profit organization that…
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Yahoo creates three new teams to report to Decker

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Yahoo unveiled its fourth reorganization in the past 18 months. Yahoo hopes its three new divisions will centralize its Internet products–all will report to Yahoo President Susan Decker. San Francisco–Yahoo unveiled on Thursday its fourth reorganization in the past 18 months as the embattled company seeks to focus on…
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Introduction to dynamic documents

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Q&A Jake Sorofman, senior VP of marketing and business development for JustSystems, says ynamic documents can transform how organizations create, share and deliver information. Dynamic documents can transform how organizations create, share and deliver information. Jake Sorofman, senior VP of marketing and business development for…
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Microhoo talks on again–or not

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Reuters followed a TechCrunch report that Microsoft was resuming talks with Yahoo with a CNBC report that there’s no deal on the table. Update: CNBC says no deal “whatsoever” on the table between Yahoo Inc and Microsoft Corp, citing unnamed sources. NEW YORK–Microsoft Corp…
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FCC wants no porn, free broaband wireless auction

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

The FCC said it wants to auction a section of wireless airwaves to buyers willing to provide free broadband Internet service without pornography WASHINGTON–The Federal Communications Commission on Friday said it wants to auction a section of wireless airwaves to buyers willing to provide free broadband Internet service without…
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FCC wants no-porn, free broadband wireless auction

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

The FCC said it wants to auction a section of wireless airwaves to buyers willing to provide free broadband Internet service without pornography WASHINGTON–The Federal Communications Commission on Friday said it wants to auction a section of wireless airwaves to buyers willing to provide free broadband Internet service without…
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IBM AlphaWorks: From software theory to fact

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Laura Bennett, senior engineering manager at IBM’s software development community, discusses how the group helps turn research concepts from the labs into practical products. Semantic Web, rapid application development, data visualization, and health care applications are just some of the emerging software types being investigated by IBM’s AlphaWorks…
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So you think SMS is dying? Think again.

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

SMS messaging is approaching antiquity, but Brenda Suarez of Airline Solutions says it’s so entrenched that it won’t be replaced with a newer service that costs less and allows even faster and more on-demand contact. Commentary–In a world where technology is obsolete almost the moment…
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The Long Tail of Services

Monday, April 28th, 2008

The “Long Tail” explains the growing use of services outside of the core domains of SOA, business process implementation and integration, says XAWare chief science officer, Kirstan Vandersluis. Commentary–The “Long Tail” moniker has been used extensively (some would say overused) in marketing and mass media over the last couple…
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