Dec
28
Mozilla Launches Fennec Alpha 2 – Is This the Safari Killer?
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By Justin Kerr
Outside of mobile Safari, and perhaps to a lesser extent Opera Mini, the mobile browser experience can be somewhat unsatisfying. Poor page rendering, or completely unusable interfaces seem to plague the mobile experience. That’s where Mozilla has seen an opportunity to [...]
Dec
28
WiMax Will Falter In 2009
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By Justin Kerr
WiMax is a concept that has been around since mid 2001, but North American consumers only really got their first taste of the technology in September with the roll out of Sprint’s XOHM WiMax network in Baltimore. With verified download rates [...]
Dec
28
Brick and Mortar Sales Plummet, but Online Holds its Ground
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By Justin Kerr
This might not surprise anyone, but it turns out even the steep price cuts retailers used to entice consumers wasn’t enough to offset the sputtering North American economy. This holiday season – which typically accounts for around 30 to 50 per [...]
Dec
21
NVIDIA Now Providing Notebook Graphics Drivers on NVIDIA.com
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By Justin Kerr
Depending on the manufacturer of your notebook, finding updated drivers can be somewhat of a pain. After all, we are assuming that searching through a tangled index of cryptic model numbers probably wasn’t the game you intended to play when you [...]
Dec
21
The Music Industry Abandons Lawsuits and gets Ready to Boot Offenders off the Net
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By Justin Kerr
About a month ago we took a look at a disturbing new trend that was emerging in Australia involving the movie industry’s new approach to copyright enforcement. It now appears as though this heavy handed approach has indeed crossed the [...]
Dec
21
ComScore Shows Google on the Rise
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By Justin Kerr
The results are in, and this might not surprise you, but Google’s market share is on the rise. November’s results show a meager, but still notable bump of 0.4 percent giving Google a grand total of 63.5 percent of all [...]
Dec
14
Google Plans to Make Editorial Judgments on Search Results
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By Justin Kerr
Articles have been sprouting up around the web in response to Google’s admission that staff will help hand pick search results displayed to users. Many of these articles are rather opinionated, but we will leave it up to [...]
Dec
14
OCZ Prepares to Launch eSATA Flash Drives
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By Justin Kerr
eSATA ports are starting to become more mainstream in mid to low end motherboards, and OCZ thinks the time is right to start adding on non hard drive based peripherals. Its new lineup of memory sticks will do just [...]
Dec
13
Windows Live Thumbtack – The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool?
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By Justin Kerr
The Windows Live team has been pretty busy lately, and they certainly aren’t resting on their Loral’s with the launch of yet another web 2.0 service called “Thumbtack”. With Thumbtack users are able to save, edit, and share copies [...]
Dec
7
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By Justin Kerr
Respected Open Source advocate, and CEO of Collaborative Software Stuart Cohen warns that the business model behind open source software companies is broken. And that the nature of these businesses will need to evolve in order to survive. In [...]