Archive for the 'Information' Category

New OS, Love it? Nope!

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People used to jump onto new stuff like bees to honey but in today’s recession wrecked world, that may not be the case. With Microsoft announcing the release of their new and hopefully improved operating system, people weren’t actually jumping up and down with joy, but with trepidation that they’d have to shell out a [...]

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The Web – When will it End

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Never, or till somebody pulls the plug and drives the world into chaos, out of Twitter and their other social affiliations. As of 2007, there was already a record number of 155 billion web sites on record, and the buck didn’t stop there for who knows how many more have been added to this day. [...]

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Gadgets for All Weather

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Gadgets may be getting smaller and smarter but have you noticed they have also gotten a whole lot tougher. gadgets and gizmos for every environment are now available, enough to withstand the rugged ways we use and take them. From waterproof cameras and electronic goods, manufacturers have finally taken the human factor to heart and [...]

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Apple’s iPhone 3GS

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The company has managed to garner success with their previous two models but this new installment is not getting too good a reception with minimal improvements and even some newly surfacing over-heating issues that are slowly filtering into the many bulletin and discussion boards that tackles the product. There was an issue with previous models [...]

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Twitter More Than Just Social

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Twitter is becoming more and more a household name, bringing the death of Michael Jackson out to most and organizing protests in Iran but there is one developing use for the micro-blogging site that is sweeping the business world, customer support. Much like call centers, the micro-blogging site has allowed businesses to communicate with customers [...]

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Facebook: More than a social network site

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We all know what social network sites are. The term social network is not a new term, not a new idea. But it’s really the way people take an old idea and make it into something new is what really takes the cake.

Online social network Facebook is more than just a social network site where [...]

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VoIP – Bot net Haven

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Seems the lowly bot net is shifting focus to VoIP software that it manages to hijack and use as propagation method as well as for stealing information. Botnets have long been pursued and have even been found to exist on stand-alone units that have been running continuously for more that 10 years. These malware can [...]

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Jjot

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A few days to go and the New Year is upon us, and it’s time to brainstorm on what possible resolutions we’re going to keep.Where better to take those ideas down but at Jjot?
Jjot is a lightning fast sticky note web application filled with smart features like archiving, search, and sharing. Jjot is very easy [...]

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When the cat is away, the mouse will play!

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It is simply astounding how simple, yet so effective a computer mouse is. To think that it took a long while before the mouse became part of everyday computer life. Originally conceived in the 1960s, twenty years will have passed before the mouse became what it is today. A well [...]

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Beware of Internet Crimes

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Crimes related in the Internet are increasing, and we see crimes today that we have never seen before. Because this is relatively new we don’t have many solutions.
The most popular high tech crime usually happens over the internet. The internet has opened up many different opportunities for hackers and scam artists and has [...]

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