Microsoft and Yahoo Partner
Friday, July 31st, 2009 Posted in News and Blogs | 77 Comments »After much back and forth, Microsoft has made a deal with Yahoo that could potentially help the company to rival Google in internet search and advertising. BusinessWeek reports, "Advertisers and online publishers want a viable alternative to the ...
AOL Brand No Longer AWOL
Friday, July 31st, 2009 Posted in News and Blogs | 26 Comments »It's baaaack! Well, it never quite went away. But for some time now AOL has been treating its own name like the crazy aunt in the attic; better tucked away and not discussed except at family reunions involving alcohol. It appears ...
Windows XP to Windows 7: Fuhgedaboudit
Thursday, July 30th, 2009 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »Even Microsoft is recommending that XP users just scrap their PC's and start over with a new one pre-loaded with Windows 7 when it comes out this Fall. "If you're running Windows XP, or any other operating system for that matter, ...
Smartphone Translator
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 Posted in News and Blogs | 63 Comments »Remember the universal translator device from Star Trek? The real thing might not be far away. Dial Directions, a voice activation and recognition software company, and Sakhr Software, an Arabic speech and language tech company, merged on Tuesday ...
Cheapo Laptop Wars
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 Posted in News and Blogs | 72 Comments »Best Buy should know better than to get in a bare knuckle mano-a-mano price war with Wal-Mart. That's like getting into a hairspray competition with a news anchor. Are you nuts? Best Buy laid down the gauntlet recently with a $299 ...
A Rush Patch Job From Microsoft
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 Posted in News and Blogs | 29 Comments »Microsoft's next regularly scheduled security patch day is August 11th. Why wait? How about doing it, oh say, today around 10 a.m. PST. Especially when the Black Hat security conference starts tomorrow in Las Vegas and who knows what ...
Green IT Saves Money
Monday, July 27th, 2009 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »As many of you already know, the recession is having a widespread effect on the technology industry. One example is that many companies are now looking into green IT in order to save money on data hosting. Rhonda ...
New EBay Changes Catering To Big Dog Sellers
Monday, July 27th, 2009 Posted in News and Blogs | 45 Comments »Pity the poor Mom and Pop seller trying to make it on eBay. EBay is instituting more changes today to stack the deck against them and shore up the more established larger vendors. As first reported by the Wall Street Journal ...
