Archive for the ‘IT’ Category
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Google Knol, the paid Wikipedia
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Writers has now a good occasion to make profit. Google launched this week Google Knol, the user-generated encyclopedia similar to Wikipedia. And every author can earn money from his work, depending on the hits of his articles
Google official blog says that “Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people [...] -
Google Health and Search Factory Tour
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Google shows the latest research in various search-related fields and announced the official debut of Google Health.
R.J. Pittman, Director of Search Properties, showed some of the amazing advances Google made in image search, as well as how ads might work to enhance the user experience on image search. “There are over 300 [...] -
One more try for Microsoft to buy Yahoo
Sunday, May 18th, 2008
As I said in a previous post when everyone considered Microsoft gave up, it lost a battle, but not the war. Such a transaction is not a simple business deal, to make an offer and wait for an answer. It implies a very complex strategy over several years. So, a first [...]
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The digital Europe - i2010 Initiative
Sunday, May 18th, 2008
Preparing Europe’s digital future i2010 Mid-Term Review {SEC(2008) 470}
INTRODUCTIONInformation and Communication Technologies (ICTs) continue to be a major driver of economic and social modernisation. Today, businesses in the EU devote 20% of investment to ICTs, and the sector accounts for 26% of overall research expenditure. Moreover, 60% of basic public services [...]
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Astronomy live with Microsoft: WorldWide Telescope
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Microsoft researchers has been developing an interesting astronomy application, now as a public beta, allowing you to see pictures from several observatories. The service is free of charge and uses high-resolution images from the world’s best land- and space-based telescopes.
WorldWide Telescope is a rich, Web 2.0 application allowing people to easily [...] -
Fusu, the Domain Stock Exchange for premium domain names
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
I thought longtime ago for a stock exchange for domain names. As any other domainer. It is the perfect tool for the domain name market. An emerging market. Fusu did it.
Domaining, as it is defined by Wikipedia, is the business of buying, selling, developing and monetizing Internet domain names.
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Dreamhost and the transfer of the domain names
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
If you have domain names registered with Dreamhost ( New Dream Network LLC), take care that you can be in the same situation as me, having more domain names with Dreamhost, trying to transfer it to another registrar, and losing the domain names because they do not answer to you.
I was [...] -
Dreamhost, no answer yet
Saturday, February 16th, 2008
The hope to get back my domain names registered with Dreamhost and for which I am the registrant, still a dream, after 11 days. The only answer to my request for an authorization code to transfer the domain names to another registrar, is an answer from February 7th, 2008: “Your [...]
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New Google’s version of Android SDK m5-rc14
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Android SDK m5-rc14 is now available for download, with new and improved features:
New user interface
Layout animations
Geo-coding
New media codecs
Updated Eclipse plug-in(Source: Android Developers Blog)
The developers say that they are still missing the change of the telephony package. “We still cannot detect the ingoing/outgoing call number or send DTMF tones [...]
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Yahoo join the mobile market with oneConnect
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
If I’d had enough money I’d invest it right now in the mobile industry. It is a real explosion, many of the biggest Internet companies are interested now in this market.
Yahoo announced on Tuesday the launch of a new services called oneConnect that will aggregate mobile [...] -
Dreamhost and the full power of the registrars
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
So, let’s see shortly the problem for the readers that did not see my previous post:
New Dream Network, LLC is a ICANN accredited registrar and, same time, a web hosting company.
When I bought 5 web hosting packages from them, I registered with them 5 new domain names, the registration [...] -
Xperia X1, a rival for iPhone
Monday, February 11th, 2008
Sony Ericcson decided to join forces with Microsoft in order to realize a smart phone powered by Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, Xperia X1.
Xperia X1 will have a 3 inch touch screen and will include a full QWERTY keyboard within a quality metal-finish body, with a stylus and a 3.2 megapixel [...] -
Dreamhost, the nightmare web hosting and domain name registration service
Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Shortly: some years ago I started to use the Dreamhost web hosting service and now, after they closed my accounts without a reason, they refuse to charge back my money and to get me access to the domain names I registered with them.
It was ok at the beginning, some years ago. [...] -
The big known surprise: Microsoft buys Yahoo!
Friday, February 1st, 2008
So, the decisive step is done: Microsoft Corp. has made a bid to buy Yahoo Inc. for $44.6 billion, in order to better compete with Google Inc. If Yahoo! agree, it will be the problem of the U.S. Justice Department to check if this deal complies with the antitrust [...]
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eBay auction business downgraded
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
In my opinion as an user eBay was losing its competitiveness due to its own rules. Too many rules, too restricting rules, a very complicated system for sellers, not a very good search system for buyers, and not a very good integration of all its parts. Now the new CEO, John [...]
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Microsoft to buy Calista Technologies and join Citrix Systems for virtualization
Monday, January 21st, 2008
Microsoft intends to develop in the virtualization field, with a more extensive strategy that includes the relaxing of the licensing for its virtualization software and lower prices.
Virtualization is a technique for hiding the physical characteristics of computing resources from the way in which other systems, applications, or end users interact [...] -
Mass of Media: Steve Jobs
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Violet Blue: Steve Jobs snubbed me
CNET News.com, CA
If you want to look at how the personalities of Apple’s two co-founders, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, differ, perhaps one way would be to measure their …
Investors Boo Steve Jobs
Red Herring, CA
As has become tradition, Apple CEO Steve Jobs sought [...] -
MySQL bought by Sun Microsystems
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
A new try for Sun Microsystems to come back between the leaders of the IT industry, by buying the most popular open source database, for $1 billion.
MySQL is a multithreaded, multi-user SQL database management system which has, according to MySQL AB, more than 10 million installations. The basic program runs as [...] -
Wikia Search, the new search engine powered by MediaWiki
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Next week will be officially launched Wikia Search, powered by the free software MediaWiki and managed by Wikia Inc., with about 50 million to 100 million Web pages indexed.
Wikia Search will have open-source search algorithms and application program interfaces, and will include the Grub search project, acquired by Wikia in July 2007.
Jimmy Wale, [...] -
Outsourcing predictions for the new year 2008
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
A high importance is given to the IT outsourcing industry. From this point of view, there are two special “destinations” for the corporations: India, and Eastern Europe.
Phil Fersht suggests some trends for the new year:
Offshoring panic will continue, but will force providers to innovate
The standardization of technology platforms within [...]
