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All Your Base Are Belong To Google

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

Just days after the shaky release of Google Analytics, Google have announced one of their more curious offerings is now available, albeit this time under a Beta label.
I have to admit I was initially puzzled and still am in a way by Google Base - it’s purpose doesn’t jump out on first glance.
It’s also […]

Samsung Proclaim “Digital Paper Age” With New Flash Chip

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

Samsung have made a bold announcement that the world is set to enter a “digital paper age” with the introduction of a 16 gigabit flash memory chip.
According to the company, devices like CDs and hard disks are set to disappear as flash memory dominates the information age:
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“In the same way that civilization rapidly progressed after […]

7 Editions of Windows Vista?

Monday, September 12th, 2005

Windows IT Pro is carrying an exclusive from the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference that the next OS from the software giant is to come in no less than seven different flavours.
The editions will fall into two general categories - Home and Business, much like Windows XP Home and Pro editions.
The Home category will feature 4 […]

MSN First to Implement RSS Search Operators

Sunday, September 4th, 2005

WebProNews.com is reporting that MSN have included two new search operators to search.msn.com for searching RSS feeds without the need for creating long, complex search strings.
Putting feed: before your search term will return any RSS, RDF or Atom feeds that contain the query, so for example feed:Igniq will return not only the various feeds on […]

Jacques Chirac Feels Threatened by U.S. Search Engines

Saturday, September 3rd, 2005

The Telegraph is running a story about Jacques Chirac’s plan to fund a euro-centric search engine in order to defend against the threat of “Anglo-Saxon cultural imperialism.”
The French prime minister is concerned about the dominance of American giants like Yahoo! and Google in French culture and intends to provide loans to a French group to […]

Internet Explorer 7 Logo Revealed

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

The new logo for Microsoft’s long-awaited IE7 has been published on the official IEBlog.
Microsoft have darkened the famous “e”, and added a new golden ring that is meant to make the logo stand out a bit more than the one for IE 6.
The logo above will be used for Windows XP with Service Pack […]

Google Stealthily Upping Adsense Earnings to Counter Yahoo!?

Thursday, August 11th, 2005

It appears that Google have been rattled by Yahoo!’s entry into the contextual ad business and have begun upping the earnings of AdSense publishers.
Jason Calacanis, the man behind the Weblogs Inc. blog empire, has reported on a ~15% increase in his AdSense earnings since it was announced the Yahoo! Publishers Network had gone beta. The […]

Yahoo! Messenger 7 Launches

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

Yahoo! have launched version 7 of their Yahoo! Messenger software, which includes a number of new features.
Top billing goes to a new feature that allows worldwide PC-to-PC calls, though I can’t see how this is different from the previous version, which allowed any two users who had a microphone to converse.
What is definitely new however […]

Microsoft seeking testers for OneCare service

Thursday, June 23rd, 2005

According to an article on C|NET, Microsoft is preparing to start testing of it’s new anti-virus/spyware/firewall software service, titled OneCare. They are currently looking for testers to iron out initial bugs and have stated that they plan to begin testing somtime this Summer.
In an announcement on their OneCare website, Redmond said that the new […]


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