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- What if the search-index was run by a non-profit? GOOG founders once supported that idea
- Soloution looking for a problemReread the tragedy of the commons. This is a bad idea. If different search companies have different businesses listed that will give rise to meta search engines that search the search engines and produce combined results in a single context.There is already a Firefox plugin...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- What's next for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform?
- So MS is going cloud...Well, well, isn't this interesting. Does MS concede that the era of packaged client software is over? Again, MS is the follower and not the leader, and again, MS is following Google to the clouds. My prediction is that this will be a field day...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Jitbit AspNetForum 6.0.2 (Windows)
- A powerful messageboard solution for any ASP.NET website. A discussion board ASP.NET component which can be installed in seconds. This ASP.NET forum is datasource independent (Access/SQL-server), supports user profiles and registration, private messaging, online administration, email notifications engine, RSS-feeds, it is cross-browser.
- Software downloads 2009-11-09
- Google Voice mails exposed for all to see and hear
- If you believe the "explanation"then no problem, though honestly, I think we just witnessed another reason why "living in the cloud" is not for those with anything of importance that needs protecting.I doubt that Google intended for all of those private voice mails to be made public.RE: Google Voice mails...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Windows 7 in action: a closer look at Windows XP Mode
- Now that's coolSo XP apps can be run directly on the desktop? Now that's cool :).How is this different than Virtual PC?Ed, I have XP running under MS Virtual PC 2007 on my Vista Business x64 machine. How is this different? I know that I had to supply...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- Aardvark's new design: simpler, cleaner, and kinda like Twitter
- If you haven't played with Aardvark yet, you haven't fully experienced the power of the Internet. If you are unfamiliar, Aardvark lets you ask a question and promises an accurate answer from a trusted source in under five minutes. If you use...
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- The Apple-Palm cat-and-mouse game: How long can it last? [poll]
- Reflects badly on both companiesI think this whole ordeal reflects badly on both Apple on Palm.It makes Apple out to be hypocrites. I mean, wasn't the whole reason for the lack of interoperability with other players a DRM issue? Didn't Steve Jobs say this himself the last time Apple was...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- JumpBox for PunBB Discussion Forums 1.1.10 (Windows)
- PunBB is a lightweight discussion forum that provides the essential features to host a thriving community without the tedious database, web server and application setup. It may have fewer bells and whistles than other forum applications but it has an intuitive user interface and renders XHTML-compliant output. Public discussion forums...
- Software downloads 2009-10-05
- JumpBox for the PunBB Discussion Forums Software 1.1.10 (Mac)
- PunBB is a lightweight discussion forum that provides the essential features to host a thriving community without the tedious database, web server and application setup. It may have fewer bells and whistles than other forum applications but it has an intuitive user interface and renders XHTML-compliant output. Public discussion forums...
- Software downloads 2009-09-29
- Gen X/GenY/Enterprise 2.0: are the naysayers right?
- It seems that analyst firm Forrester has woken up to the fact that Gen Y are not the big movers and shakers that we've been told the last couple of years. According to Read Write Web Enterprise: A favorite argument among those who talk about...
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
- Thieves: Beware the iPhone
- For those smart enough to buy a real smartphone[i]Apple?s ingenious Find my iPhone feature[/i]LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!! There are many programs out there that don't require you to pay an annual Apple tax and came out [b]long[/b] before Apple even thought about including this type of functionality. Oops, I guess you can't get...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-31
- Defamation or free speech? U.S. court orders Google to hand over identity of blogger
- If ordered by a judge...releasing the identity to the plaintiff is fair and necessary, otherwise you have no recourse.I will take issue with one statement however. You wrote "After all, it?s protected free speech to say that you believe someone is disingenuous or otherwise intolerable. It?s another thing to imply...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- The iPhone Telephony Tragedy
- Instant reaction ...... Apple and ATT ... two of the biggest global companies. Products and service in the 21st century? Crap :-(Obsolescence is the rule This does not excuse ATT's bad network, but anybody, buying any digital product should know that it will be surpassed in months, and obsolete within...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- Tapatalk 1.2 (Mobile)
- Tapatalk is an iPhone or iPod Touch social networking application that allows you to access your favorite discussion communities in an elegant and optimized iPhone interface. Tapatalk allows you to participate in discussions, view forum's photos, and an iPhone optimized experience.
- Software downloads 2009-08-06
- Amazon CEO apology: 'Stupid,' 'thoughtless' to remove e-books from Kindle readers
- A rare thing occurred yesterday: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos apologized. Quite the Kindle user flareup ensued after the company decided to remotely remove copies of popular George Orwell novels 1984 and Animal Farm -- yes, the irony was immediately apparent -- after it determined that it sold...
- Blog posts 2009-07-24
- Find Out 1.0 (Mobile)
- FindOut trawls through voluminous amounts of data out there on the Internet and matches it to your requirement. For this it makes use of two very efficient Discussion Forum and FAQ search engines, Omgili, and SnappyFingers which have made out a niche for themselves in their respective areas independently. The...
- Software downloads 2009-07-20
- Microsoft announces its Azure cloud computing pricing
- Microsoft announces its Azure cloud computing pricingCompared to Amazon...I compared the prices with Amazon's equivalent, the results are in my blog at http://bit.ly/OT7V8. Anyway, they seem to be approximately the same, which is probably the meaning that we should have associated with being "competitive" all along.Is that a lot or...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-14
- Pitney Bowes branded community reduces customer support costs
- During the 2007 postal rate change Pitney Bowes, which provides postal equipment and services to businesses, received more than 415K support phone calls on the rate change alone, all in under a month. This was in addition to the company's usual flow of customer calls, so its support teams were...
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Interview with HP user group president Nina Buik
- The advent of social media has made a big difference at Connect -- the independent user organization representing 50,000 professionals using Hewlett-Packard technology products and services. "We used to conduct a worldwide survey of our members and have to wait until all the data was compiled and...
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- Forrester survey: Enterprises taking aim at legacy apps
- Large enterprises plan on replacing their old applications this year, holding their software budgets steady and aiming to improve integration to save money, according to a report from Forrester Research. In a survey of 2,200 IT executives in North America, Forrester found the following: ...
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
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