It’s been 5 years since Microsoft has made a release in the Windows Server family. Like many of the other software offerings from Microsoft, the development cycle has been inflated as the company looks to make significant changes to usability and security. Windows products are often bogged down with unnecessary features and are a favourite target of […]

While the E-mail offering from search engine giant Google still lags behind services like Hotmail/Live mail and Yahoo! mail in terms of numbers, there are a number of evangelists for the Gmail - can you blame them, it’s A Google approach to email. It would make sense that someone like Matt Cutts would not only be considered a […]

For many companies, the idea of the Internet going down is beyond a disaster. Multi-national, multi-office Enterprises and Mom-and-Pop E-commerce sites could be hit equally as hard if there was a multi-car pile-up on the Information Superhighway, and what separates those that survive and those that fade off into the sunset may be determined by […]

Social applications are becoming more and more common within the Enterprise. As the average user becomes more comfortable using and utilizing social applications, it becomes more and more realistic to incorporate these into the Enterprise. Couple that level of comfort with the convenience of web-based applications and it makes even more sense, especially with more and more […]

Google has always touted their superior search algorithm as a big part of being the dominant search engine; the algorithm, likely the biggest secret in the company, is the reason the site is able to provide the most relevant results to your queries. However, there’s been a screenshot released by a French blog that suggests […]

Everyone has heard the expression ‘crime doesn’t pay,’ but spam used to seem so different; from the comforts of their home, spammers send millions of unsolicited E-mails hoping to get a bite from a small percentage of them and cash in on the results based on the numbers. Using a common affiliate program, they get paid […]

That’s right. Finished. Over. End of Life. Move over Web 2.0; the next phase in the web, Web 3.0, the new “Semantic Web or the Intelligent Web” is here. Or is it? There is definitely a lot of blogging and articles being written on the subject. Articles about the Semantic Web, a term coined by […]

Citizen journalism or participatory/public journalism is one of the more popular forms of user generated content. From hobby writers to professional bloggers, this form of journalism allows the general population to play an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information and  provide independent, reliable, accurate, wide-ranging and relevant […]

Ten years ago, Dell was virtually the king of the computer Industry, and from that throne, Michael Dell made a brash remark at ITxpo97. He was asked what he would do if he were the CEO of Apple:
“What would I do? I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.” (link)
Obviously making […]

I never really thought I would be coming up with a completely original idea when I started writing this post, but to see a near-identical article posted on the famed Valleywag site just yesterday (when the idea for the post actually planted its seed) was a bit deflating. However, having read that article, I will […]