posted Aug 21, 2010 8:30 PM by Anton Small
msnbc.com: "With the arrival of Facebook Places , Facebook is showing (not for the first time) that it has the power to steamroll friends and competitors alike. People can gripe all they want about privacy concerns, but with half a billion members, Facebook is the only game in town, so leaving comes at pretty huge costs. And people developing new apps and services that might be within Facebook's reach? They should be afraid. Does this all sound familiar? It's not too tough a riddle: Just replace 'Facebook' with 'Google' and it all holds true. The question is, how soon until Facebook takes on Google directly?" |
posted Aug 19, 2010 6:47 PM by SmallShop News
Image via Wikipedi CNET News:
"If Facebook Places catches on with the company's 500 million users,
Facebook could be sitting on a gold mine of local business listings that
advertisers and users will love and Google will hate. Related articles by Zemanta
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posted Aug 11, 2010 6:48 PM by Anton Small
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The Register:
"Microsoft has advised Hotmail users struggling to ccess their email
accounts to surf via Google’s Chrome browser in order to successfully
connect to the recently overhauled service.
The
software vendor finally rolled out its latest version of Hotmail to its
350 million users last week, but since then the company has faced plenty
of complaints from disgruntled customers unhappy with the new
interface.
Many have griped that emails have disappeared and that scripting errors in Hotmail prevent them from composing new messages. Others cannot access their accounts at all, and the grumbles are continuing to mount up in the Hotmail forums.
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posted Aug 3, 2010 1:47 PM by Anton Small
Blackberry services stand to be banned from the UAE unless
manufacturer Research in Motion allows the UAE government to access
users' encrypted messages. Related articles by Zemanta |
posted Jul 26, 2010 6:31 PM by SmallShop News
Google Revamps Image Search |
posted Jul 25, 2010 6:47 PM by SmallShop News
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Sci-Tech Today To the list of dwindling worldwide resources add Internet addresses. According to experts, the nearly 4.5 billion current addresses aren't enough, only six percent of available addresses are left, and the Internet will run out of addresses by sometime late next year. Three main factors are behind the upcoming shortage. One is the explosion in web access from multiple devices for each user, primarily in developed countries. Each of those smartphones, laptops, tablets, desktops and other devices that access the web require a different IP, or Internet protocol, address. And the demand for device addresses is increasing rapidly, with TVs, game consoles, even automobiles offering web-browsing capability. Related articles by Zemanta |
posted Jul 8, 2010 11:27 AM by Anton Small
Image via CrunchBas PCWorld: "To put it nicely, the Firefox 4 beta's new user interface
is a sincere form of flattery. Honoring the great
tradition of 'borrowing' other browsers' features, the next version of
Firefox looks a lot like Google Chrome, with tabs moved above the
navigation bar and a single button that replaces the menu bar. That
doesn't mean the two browsers look and feel the same. Here's a breakdown
of Firefox 4 beta's interface features and how they fares against
Google Chrome: Related articles by Zemanta
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posted Jul 8, 2010 3:58 AM by Anton Small
InfoWorld: "As part of a company-wide shift toward cloud computing,
Microsoft is cutting hundreds of jobs worldwide with plans to create new
cloud-focused positions down the road, according to various reports TechFlash
has reported that Microsoft is eliminating jobs in the low hundreds in
the Seattle, Wash. region - and hundreds more globally. Though the
figures are imprecise, they don't appear to represent a significant
percentage of Microsoft 88,000-plus workforce--nor do they suggest that
Microsoft is in immediate financial peril
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posted Jun 29, 2010 12:56 PM by Anton Small
Fortune Kevin Rose, Internet personality and Digg social networking founder, tweeted over the weekend that Google has a 'Facebook killer' called Google Me in the works. Rose hasn't been terribly accurate and might have other fish to fry (Google Buzz competes with Rose's Digg) but he does have a lot of connections in the Valley. How would a Google Me work? Google already has about 30 different social properties that it has built or acquired -- including Orkut, a social network popular in Brazil.
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posted Jun 24, 2010 10:29 AM by SmallShop News
Apple's newest iPhone was selling briskly Thursday as thousands lined up
outside stores around the world to become among the first to own the
device amid concerns of supply shortages. |
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