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This has been all over the news. Here’s the press release: Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and America Online, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX), today announced that they are expanding their current strategic alliance. The agreement creates a global online advertising partnership, makes more of AOL’s industry-leading content available to …
From Vnunet: Almost 40 million people worldwide signed up for digital subscriber line (DSL) technology for their broadband access in the 12 months to 30 September 2005, research published today has claimed. According to the data produced for the DSL Forum by industry analyst Point Topic, the growth in DSL uptake equates to over 100,000 …
From TechRepublic: Analyst firm Directions on Microsoft, which last week published its list of Microsoft’s top 10 challenges for 2006, cited the marketing of Windows Vista as its top concern. “Windows Vista could offer large organizations improvements in software development, security, reliability, systems management and user interface,” according to the report. “However, public demonstrations have …
I received the latest issue of the Windows Secrets newsletter. I printed it out and read through it, and there was one link I wanted to follow. I use Outlook 2003, and when I clicked on the link, I had my first encounter with Microsoft’s new anti-phishing mechanism. A message popped up telling me the …
Microsoft used to let you download a complete version of IE for you to save to your computer. They don’t do that anymore. Now you download an IESETUP file that is only 300kb or so. It then downloads all the files that are needed for installation. There are temp files left on the hard drive, …
I received this email early this morning: Dear WinZip Customer, Because you already use WinZip, we thought that you’d like to know about the additional benefits of our latest release — WinZip 10.0. What’s more, you can upgrade now and SAVE 50% off the list price: http://www.winzip.com/offer.cgi?kad=sFo9FEhnwuzr-7Z7GXnD& dmm=516354&kmlw=1&es=232 New in WinZip 10.0: > View All …
From TBO.com: Belarusian lawmakers have passed legislation that would crack down on Internet dating and online spouse searches in the latest of a series of stringent government controls backed by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko. Authorities said the measure, which was passed 101-1 by the lower house of parliament Wednesday, was intended to help halt human …
From BusinessWeek: Could 2006 be the year that personal computers once again dominate the technology news? PC innovation has been in short supply, and the last really big events came in 2001 when Apple released its OS X operating system and Microsoft followed with Windows XP. Next year promises to bring major changes in both …
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After AOL, Lycos, and Yahoo comes A9. I don’t know anyone who uses this search engine, but obviously someone does. The 99 top 9 Every year many search engines come up with a list of what people searched most frequently for over the previous 12 months. The predictable lists usually contain the expected big events, …