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Amazon launches hard disk in the sky

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ImageAmazon today announced that it is releasing its persistent storage option, called Elastic Block Service (EBS), to its suite of Amazon Web Services cloud computing options. The company announced [...]Read more

Microsoft launches 3-D wonder Photosynth for consumers

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ImageOn Wednesday night, Photosynth, a technology demo from Microsoft Live Labs, is graduating from its "ooh, that's pretty" status to being a viable Web service for consumers.The technology, which [...]Read more

Yahoo plans software push for Net-enabled TVs

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ImageYahoo's Widget Channel software lets TVs run network-enabled applications such as this one for Yahoo's Flickr photo-sharing service.(Credit: Yahoo)Yahoo on Wednesday announced an effort to provide the software underpinnings [...]Read more

Facebook's latest geographic expansion: New offices

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ImageFacebook has simply gotten too big for downtown Palo Alto, where it has been headquartered since founder Mark Zuckerberg uprooted the company from dorm rooms at Harvard. With over [...]Read more

Zoho's last stand

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Image(Credit: Zoho)Sridhar Vembu, CEO of AdventNet, is not afraid of the going up against Microsoft Office or Google Apps. He is also the CEO of Zoho, which recently announced [...]Read more

Google tests mobile ads for YouTube

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ImageGoogle, ever eager to make some money off YouTube, is testing ads for the mobile version of the video service."You may have noticed that we started running a test [...]Read more

Why Mint works

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ImageThe online personal finance service Mint is getting a fresh coat of paint today. It's a good update, led by a former designer of Apple.com. I've been a fan [...]Read more

Report: Fees may sink Pandora soon

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ImageTim Westergren, the founder of popular Web radio start-up Pandora, has said in an interview with the Washington Post that his company may be close to a shutdown."We're approaching [...]Read more

GraphOn files patent suit against Google

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ImageSoftware maker GraphOn has filed suit against search giant Google, alleging that Google's Base, AdWords, Blogger, Sites, and YouTube services violate GraphOn's patentsGraphOn, based in Santa Cruz, Calif., acquired [...]Read more

Blogging company Six Apart to launch blog about blogs

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ImageSix Apart, which makes the Movable Type blogging platform and hosts blog services TypePad and Vox, on Monday is launching Blogs.com, a new site designed to help readers find [...]Read more

12 Worst Web glitches of 2008 (so far)

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ImageWe have been reminded several times lately that Web 2.0 is in no way a synonym for "reliable." Major services have crashed. Big product launches have fizzled. Users have [...]Read more

Street View throws Japan for a loop

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ImageDoes Google know judo? Maybe. Google Street View has pulled a sutemi--a judo throw in which you launch yourself at the ground, risking disadvantage, to topple your opponent--on the [...]Read more

Next gen Photosynth demoed at Siggraph 2008

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ImageA video from Microsoft Research and the University of Washington has been causing a stir online. The seven-minute clip, which was demoed at Siggraph 2008 gives a small peak [...]Read more

Twitter kills U.K. SMS updates in cost-cutting move

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ImageEuropean users of Twitter can no longer receive text message updates on their cell phones, in a temporary move designed to keep the start-up's telecom bills down.Twitterers can still [...]Read more

Idle LANs: Three nonaltruistic ways to use your PC's spare capacity

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ImageYou probably already know that you can take that desktop computer you leave on all the time and use its spare computing power to look for extraterrestrial intelligence or [...]Read more

Chandler: What went wrong

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ImageSix years in the making, the 1.0 version of Open Source Web and desktop info organizer Chandler finally arrived last Friday. It was not met with thunderous acclaim, nor [...]Read more

Last.fm app for music streaming, discovery

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ImageLast.fm's music-centered social network is one of our favorite ways to discover, share, and stream music online. Currently in version 1.01, the Last.fm application for the iPhone and iPod [...]Read more

Movable Type, Wordpress becoming social platforms

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ImageSix Apart is announcing Tuesday night the launch of Movable Type 4.2 and Movable Type Pro. The 4.2 platform gives blog publishers better performance, according to Six Apart. But [...]Read more

Measuring social networks' popularity by region

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ImagePerformance-monitoring firm Pingdom thinks we should look at social networks differently.The popularity of a social site such as MySpace or Twitter is frequently measured in unique users, page views, [...]Read more

First Look: Stitcher's iPhone app beta

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ImageUtilizing Apple's ad hoc distribution program, Stitcher let a beta version of their iPhone app loose on 100 testers today. While the app suffers from some stability issues, due [...]Read more