Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Amazon, the world's leading book e-tailer, is getting larger by acquiring Audible. Audible is the leader of audible books sales on the internet with some 80,000 titles in the stable. Reuters is reporting that Amazon will pay $300 million for Audible, a 23% premium.
This move gives Amazon a ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
A few years ago there were a lot of executives talking about network security. Now, most of them had no idea how to get it, but they were concerned because they were reading lots of stories of break ins and data loss. Unless my ears are letting me ...
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Wordpress, a very substantial blogging engine and CMS, has recently announced that all Wordpress.com hosted blogs now have 3 GB of storage, up from the 50 MB they previously had. This is huge news. Blogger, the Google offering, today hands out 1 GB, and to get 3 GB ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Widgets are a hot topic, we have covered them here on Technology Story (search: widget), and it seems like the momentum is only growing. I am excited about seeing the new J.J. Abrams movie Cloverfield, so I hit the site this morning and noticed right away that they are ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
I feel somewhat obligated to continue my post on Apple and the role they will play in the world - especially since they made their annual set of announcements at MacWorld yesterday. It was not the same blockbuster type of list as in the past, but they did make ...
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
I have to start this off by admitting that I have been working with PC's since 1981. Sadly, that is longer than some of the developers that work for me have been alive. Having hung around the technology world for 27 years or so, I have been blessed ...
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
So, I had a strange experience this week because I was in a meeting with a few bankers and I started talking about Second Life, and started to tell them about the banks that are opened there. Half of them had never heard of it, so I logged ...
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
As I mentioned previously, I ordered an OLPC laptop through the program where you buy two and receive one, while the other gets donated to a needy person overseas. I have been playing with it as I have time, and have also run into a friend of mine that ...
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