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Information At Your Fingertips, Courtesy Of Google
Here's a quote from Bill Gates, "This next era that we're moving into is quite different than the original PC era." Where did that...
Code Execution Flaw Haunts AOL Radio
The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team has issued a high-risk warning for a serious security flaw affecting users of America Online's AOL Radio software.The...
New Tata Car For $2,500 And A Laptop For $75
Lots of attention being given to Tata Motors ability to introduce a small, five passenger car for $2,500 . If Tata can come up...
Reforming the DisGrace Period
ICANN GNSO has been studying the problem of Domain Tasting for months now in their usual thorough manner. I wrote about the study several...
Social Computing Developers Give Customers the MySpace Touch
The popularity of Facebook, MySpace and myriad other social network sites has triggered a gold rush of opportunity for specialists that build social computing...
Microsoft Business Division Head Jeff Raikes to Retire
The executive brain-drain at Microsoft is picking up pace, with Jeff Raikes, a 27-year company veteran and president of the Microsoft Business Division, announcing...
Ask.com Picks Two-timing CEO
So Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone has skipped town to the comfortable arms of a venture capital company. I might too if my share of...
Oracle Rings in the New Year With 27 Patches
The update is scheduled to be released Tuesday, Jan. 15. Though the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based company did not reveal the precise nature of any...
Rackable Takes Chance on AMD’s Quad-Core Opteron
Rackable Systems, best known for its high-density, x86 servers and storage products, is preparing to roll out several new systems that use Advanced Micro...
How to Secure and Manage Enterprise IM
Publicly available free IM services (like AOL / AIM , Yahoo, MSN, Google and Skype), which currently are widely used in many large companies,...