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Microsoft Ends Bid To Buy Yahoo - Can This Really Be True?

When I first read the words, ‘Microsoft Ends Bid To Buy Yahoo’, I almost could not believe my eyes. But it has been confirmed and maybe, just maybe that will put an end to a saga that has consumed way to much time for the press, public and bloggers. On any given day, there were […]

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Google And Its Fleet Of Hybrid Vehicles

Google has a project called RechargeIT that is assisting small start up companies in their development of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Google has also put into service a small group of demonstration vehicles for its corporate fleet of cars. These vehicles are charged using solar power which is being generated on the Google campus, located […]

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Microsoft Still Struggles Getting The Enterprise To Use Vista

Microsoft is still struggling trying to get big businesses to start using Windows Vista operating system. According to a survey by Forrester Research, Inc.  about 87% of companies with 50,000 or more employees are still using Windows XP. But the wording of the report takes on a nasty tone when it compares Vista to the […]

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‘Spam King’ Escapes From Federal Prison - Kills Self & Family

Edward “Eddie” Davidson, 35, the man better known as the ‘Spam King’ ,walked away from a federal prison in Colorado. Davidson had been previously convicted of sending thousands of unsolicited emails that attempted to solicit people to invest in questionable stocks.
According to the Rocky Mountain News the article states:
According to Lakewood police Tuesday, Davidson apparently escaped […]

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Hack Attack On The Mac

For years we PC users have been the source of jokes from Mac fans, who often criticized our ignorance for using Windows, since the Apple OS was so superior because of a lack of attacks. I believe we PC users realized that the main reason for Winodws hacks and attacks were two fold. First, Windows […]

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IE7Pro - If You Can’t Beat Firefox - Emulate Them

There is a  new add-on for Internet Explorer that they call IE7Pro which adds a lot of the features that we Firefox users have become accustom to using.  I downloaded a copy of IE7Pro and installed it. It does work well. On their web site,  IE7Pro is described as:

IE7Pro is a must have add-on for […]

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Mojave Operating System - Trick or Treat?

Over at C/Net they have an interesting article about a new plan that Microsoft is trying to revive the image of Vista. Seems that Microsoft went to San Francisco and located anti-Vista folks and gathered them up for an experiment of sorts. According to the article the participants were introduced to a new operating system […]

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Would You Want To Own Your Internet Connection?

Over at Google they have an article which describes the prospect of owning your own Internet connection and what it might take to do it. They also discuss an experiment going on up in Canada, in which 400 homeowners will be able to purchase thier own Internet connection. In the Google article it states:
It may […]

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What Happened To Microsoft’s Windows Home Server?

It started out with a bang. During the beta testing I was excited by the prospect that home users could take advantage of a home server that would automatically backup ALL the computers on a network. The software was simple to use and held great promise. But than the problems started to surface. People started […]

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Microsoft Releases Beta For Windows Live Calendar

Microsoft is making available for download, a Windows Live Calendar that can be synchronized with Outlook. Called Outlook Connector, the beta software is described by Microsoft as:
Microsoft has just released a new version of the Outlook Connector, giving users access to the Windows Live services through Outlook. In what will be a popular move (judging […]