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GeoCities is Shutdown, What’s Next Yahoo?
GeoCities shares a story which only early internet know about. Geocities started in 1995 as an exclusive free webhosting service with subdomains: yourname.geocities.com. The service gained a lot of popularity…
Motorola’s New Android Bet: CLIQ. The Last Hope?
Motorola is into Do or Die situation. With most of the departments already declared bankrupt and business shutdowns, Motorola stands ont he edge trying it’s last Hope: Android After the roundup of…
Orange and T-Mobile Join Hands to Become UK’s Biggest Telecom Provider
The deals like this, brings new hopes for the customers and areas where Mobile usage isn’t as dense as US, Japan, China. Today, as per the latest press release, Orange…
Recession and Necessity are the Mother of Invention
Th famous Idiom of “Necessity is the mother of Invention” might see a change in future. The Recession brings cost cutting, tighter time schedules, faster deliveries, efficient utilization of resources…
Avaya Ready to Buy Nortel for $475M. Visions, Challenges Ahead
Nortel was once among the most powerful Telecom euipment manufacturer. This Canada-based company once had a stock quote of $240/share. Industry had worst for Nortel, It went down to as…
Apple Q3 Earning results Top Recession-Resistant Speculations
Apple fans, investors and market analysts, all are thinking and discussing one thing at this moment: Growth of Apple. They are ready to announce their 3rd quarter earnings today after…
OpenSource alternative for almost Everything. Recession Friendly alternatives
While looking over SourceForge’s downloads recently, I noticed that applications exist in the openSource world just about for every need. OpenSource tools are Not only are they handy (obviously), they…
Industry gains Momentum, MAC Rises, PC Falls
It’s been a tough gravel and mud road for everyone in the technology sector over the past year of economic crises. But we are now observing small signs of recovery,…
Microsoft following GM’s Mistakes?
It’s always shocking when a stalwart of any industry topples. It makes people pause and lay blame in a variety of directions. Some may be slightly confused that GM is…
Psystar files for Chapter 11. Is Economy to be blamed or piracy?
Psystar, the unauthorized Mac clone maker, battling Apple in a California courtroom has filed for Chapter 11. The news, reported first by the Mac Observer from what I can tell,…
Cutting costs: Do we need branch routers anymore?
Recent wireless-centric remote networking announcements imply that the corporate LAN experience can simply be “extended” into enterprise branch offices without the need for IP routing. Such a setup is possible,…
Twitter as a recruitment tool
My earlier posts had been around different applications of twitter like controlling your home appliances, etc. Now expect the next step. Jobs! Job boards that charge for job postings might…
What Obama can do for and to Open source, practically
I dont want this answer “nothing”. I sought to ask what the new Administration’s policy may be toward open source. What resulted was a lively discussion of the President’s politics and…
Hiring independent contractors to help with small projects is a win-win
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in testimony before the Congressional Joint Economic Committee on Tuesday noted that there are signs of recovery in the U.S. economy but that unemployment will…
Can Obama curb offshoring with tax code? Obama Failure?
Experts say no, because the real draw is the low cost of skilled labor in places like India There were articles over the net which said “will Obama TAX the…
