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Written by Stan Beer
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Monday, 07 May 2007 |
The social networking virtual world called Second Life has caught on like wildfire in Europe, while North Americans have been far more reserved in their adoption of the service, according to web analytics firm Comscore. However, the most recent stats from Comscore highlight a growing issue concerning the use of sample panels for determining the number of web site visits.
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Written by Stan Beer
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Sunday, 06 May 2007 |
Now that Joost, the peer-to-peer Internet TV service, is about to burst out of beta and onto computer monitors around the world, comparisons of the new service to YouTube still crop up in the media. The fact is, however, Joost and YouTube are not competitors - they are distinct forms of web-based video entertainment.
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Written by Stan Beer
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Sunday, 06 May 2007 |
Former Merrill Lynch dot com bubble analyst Henry Blodget believes that any acquisition of Yahoo by Microsoft is doomed to failure because of the vastly different corporate cultures involved. Whatever one thinks of Blodget's past record of picking Internet stocks, in this instance he's probably right.
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Written by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 03 May 2007 |
Kevin Rose knows on which side his bread is buttered. Without the Digg community the site he founded is nothing. However, the events of the past 48 hours show that the social networking phenomenon has run up against its first real challenge - and it's a doozy.
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Written by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 02 May 2007 |
Now that it's official that Ubuntu 7.04 will be the first popular Linux distribution to hit the mainstream PC market thanks to Dell, the time for excuses are over. With a pre-installed version of Ubuntu soon to be available on select desktop and notebook Dell PCs, users will finally be able to compare apples with apples - or in this case Ubuntu Linux with Windows Vista or XP.
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Written by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 02 May 2007 |
Social networking site Digg has faced a mutiny by its users over the posting of an allegedly illegal HD DVD decryption code that was leaked onto the net.
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Written by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 02 May 2007 |
When Apple founder Steve Jobs took the stage at Macworld in January, he stated how happy he would be if the iPhone managed to capture a 1% share of the 1 billion unit annual global market for mobile phones in its first year. Therefore, if the figures of a new purchasing intentions survey are accurate, Jobs should be jumping in the air and doing heel clicks.
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Written by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 01 May 2007 |
Throughout its early history, Microsoft played the ultimate "me too" software company, with spectacular success. The news coming out of the Mix 07 developers' conference features Microsoft once again arriving late to market with a technology platform designed to upset Adobe's apple cart. However, this time Microsoft may have arrived at the platform too late to catch the train.
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Written by Stan Beer
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Monday, 30 April 2007 |
No DRM and no renting seems to be the new mantra as the charismatic Apple boss, Steve Jobs, continues to snub his nose at the power brokers of the recorded music industry. In the latest such thrust into the solar plexes of the record moguls, Jobs indicated to Reuters that he had no interest in implementing music subscriptions on iTunes.
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Written by Stan Beer
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Monday, 23 April 2007 |
Having had a go at a few more Linux installations than the average newbie, I can say that Ubuntu is probably about as easy an install as it's going to get. Sure you can run into hardware driver issues but Ubuntu advocates are right when they say it's probably just as easy and maybe easier than installing Windows. However, at this point in time it needs to be.
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Written by Stan Beer
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Monday, 23 April 2007 |
The backdating of options isn't illegal but not disclosing and accounting for them properly to shareholders and regulators certainly is. In the case of Apple CEO Steve Jobs, 7.5 million backdated options he received in 2001 have threatened to bring him down but an examination of the matter by the San Jose Mercury News predicts that he will probably be exonerated of blame.
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Written by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 19 April 2007 |
One word around town is that Michael Dell himself uses the latest version of Ubuntu, version 7.04 (Feisty Fawn), which is just out of beta today. Another word around town is the Dell is getting set to release some product pre-loaded with Linux by the end of April. If so, any bets as to which distro Dell puts to market first?
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