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Entries from February 2008

On the Ropes, Vonage Struggles for a Comeback (Wired News)

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments

The pioneering voice-over-internet company is battered by lawsuits, customer defections and poor stock-market performance. Many have written it off, but Vonage is hoping for a second act.
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Tags: Small business

Canonical announces plans for Ubuntu Mobile

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: OS Updates, Linux, Open Source, Canonical

Canonical has posted some more details and a bunch of pictures of Ubuntu Mobile, a version of the popular Linux distribution designed for mobile computers using Intel’s Silverthorn processor like the Samsung Q1U Ultra. We’ve known for a while that Ubuntu Mobile was in the works, but it […]

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Tags: Web design

Flipping the Linux switch: The distribution maze

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Features, Linux, Open Source
Who doesn’t love choices? You can “have it your way” at fast food restaurants. No two cars ever cost the same, because of add-ons and price negotiations. We like choice. It’s a good thing.
Right?
Choice, really, is a double-edged sword. We get too many choices, and we can get easily overwhelmed. […]

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Tags: Blog News and Info

eBay Desktop 1.0 released

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Business, Utilities, Adobe, Freeware
What a time for 1.0. Hot on the heels of Adobe’s official release of AIR version 1.0 comes the 1.0 version of eBay Desktop. The two releases are so close you would think the makers of eBay Desktop planned it (which of course they did).
eBay Desktop 1.0 provides a desktop […]

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MazeFrenzy- Today’s Time Waster

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Fun, Games, Time-Wasters
MazeFrenzy is a mouse-pointer game where you must direct a red dot from “start” to “finish” on a light-colored path without touching the dark-colored boundaries. It’s very similar to the board game Operation. To play simply click your mouse on the red dot, let go of the mouse button, and drag […]

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Tags: Web design

iTunes hits number 2 on the charts

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Audio, Internet, Apple

In case you didn’t get the message, the format wars are over. No, not HD-DVD v. Blu-Ray, but physical media versus digital media. Whether you get your music or video on discs or online, the truth is, the folks who preferred analog recordings on vinyl lost their war long ago. If […]

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Remember the Milk releases optimized version for iPhone/iPod Touch

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Productivity, Social Software, iPhone
Web-based task scheduling and organizing tool Remember the Milk, has just released a full-featured mobile version that’s specially optimized for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Just to set your mind at ease: when they say full-featured, they mean full-featured. With the iPhone/iPod Touch optimized version of Remember the Milk, you can:

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Tags: Small business

Googleholic for February 26, 2008

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Internet, Google, Googleholic

Welcome to Googleholic - your bi-weekly fix of everything Google!This edition covers:

Put Google Talk in your blog - “chatback”
Pakistan’s YouTube ban causes two hour downtime
Google helps lay another undersea cable to Japan

Put Google Talk in your blog - “chatback”
Google Talk has announced a new feature called “chatback,” which is a way […]

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Creative Marketing Starts With Data-Crunching (TheStreet.com)

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Knowledge of your industry can bring originality to your business.
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Yahoo! Buzz: Digg clone now in beta

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Internet, Yahoo!, Beta, web 2.0
As we reported earlier, Yahoo! Buzz is now in public beta. Buzz is similar to Digg in that it lets users promote/demote (”Buzz”) content to the top of the metaphoric hive. However, currently only publishers involved in the beta can have content submitted to the site, which makes Buzz […]

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