It’s Official: Microsoft buys Yahoo and Google buys Facebook
Posted on April 1, 2008 - Filed Under Industry News | 7 Comments
Holy crap! It looks like it’s a done deal. Last night Yahoo agreed to be acquired by Microsoft for $47.2 billion, only $2.6 billion more than Microsoft’s original offer on Jan. 31st. This is huge news!
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There have been many speculations circling around about the buyout for the last two months and what it would mean for Google and the rest of the Internet if it happened. I guess we can stop guessing and just start praying!
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Read More..>>Goodbye, Expensive SMS and Calls; Hello, Mobile VoIP from Samsung
Posted on January 30, 2008 - Filed Under Industry News | Leave a Comment
Voice over Internet Protocol or VoIP will not only rule the personal computer scene but also the mobile telecommunications scene, too, thanks to Samsung Network’s launching of a VoIP service for mobile phones.
Starting up the struggle between networks to cut phone charges, the Samsung Wyz 070 service allows phone calls using WiFi (or Wireless Fidelity) wireless Internet connection. WiFi is the most widely used
Through WiFi connections, Samsung Wyz 070 charges a caller 83.75 per cent less than it would for an ordinary call. That’s one big discount, if you ask me!
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Read More..>>Servers – Coming to a Home Near You (Maybe Even Yours!)
Posted on January 20, 2008 - Filed Under Industry News | Leave a Comment
If you are a fan of old movies then you have no doubt seen the flicks from the 50s and 60s where servers were depicted as these massive machines that only a special few got access to. With their tape drives whirring, lights flashing and occasional odd noise they were marvels kept in climate controlled rooms and costing millions of dollars.
What a difference a few decades makes. Today, servers are becoming as commonplace as the microwave – and just like the microwave, they may soon be coming to a home near you!
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Read More..>>Adobe Share - Access and share files and documents online
Posted on January 7, 2008 - Filed Under Industry News | 2 Comments
It seems like everyone and their grandmother is coming out with some kind of online Office or online document management suite these days! Just today, I wrote about the new Microsoft Office Live Workspace service that allows users to store and share Office documents online.
Before that, I wrote about a cool web service called DocSyncer which takes all of the documents on your computer, stores them online for free and allows you to open them online using Google docs!
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Read More..>>Vista SP1 available, Picasa on iPhone, Yahoo shortcuts Wordpress plugin, and Google Analytics updates
Posted on December 13, 2007 - Filed Under Industry News | 2 Comments
Today’s a pretty happening day when it comes to new features, new software patches, and new programs in the tech world! There have been a couple of cool items announced recently that really kicked up my interest, so I thought I would share some of it with everyone as it will probably effect you in one way or another!
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Read More..>>Windows Live Search Webmaster Center open to public
Posted on November 16, 2007 - Filed Under Industry News | Leave a Comment
If you’re a webmaster and you know a little bit about SEO, then you have more than likely created a Google Webmaster Central account and submitted an XML sitemap to the service for better crawling and indexing of your web pages. It’s also a great tool to analyze your robots.txt file, to view your search rankings for keywords, and to see the number of internal and external links to your site.
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