Yearly Archives: 2008

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Zune users, you are fired as of today!

We heard that Microsoft is preparing for a mass layoff of its employees/contractors in January. Well, I guess they are doing a rehearsal today by “firing” their Zune users. Zune…

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Are you a Microsoft employee/contractor? Be afraid, very afraid!

Rumor has it (here and here) that Microsoft is preparing for a worldwide mass layoff sometime in January. The software giant has about 91,000 workers around the world and many…

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Twitority's Jon Wheatly about the hype and debates

Earlier this week, Loic Le Meur asked for authority-based Twitter search. Jon Wheatly, a young coder from the UK, only needed 12 hours and numerous cups of coffee to make…

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Turkish Web TV provider MYK Medya finds investor with huge network

On the last day of this very productive year for web business in Turkey, a big investment & partnership news was just announced. Serdar Kuzuloğlu, founder of MYK Medya, posted…

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Breaking: Apple Announces it's Latest Release, The Mactini.

This is breaking news, we’ll update this with more information the moment we hear it. For now, watch the video:

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Detect Fonts Quick and Easy with WhatTheFont

WhatTheFont is a neat little tool from MyFonts.com which does one thing and does it well, it detects fonts from images for you. All you need to do is upload…

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YellowPages Paid $3.85 Million For YP.com. Bargain...

Robin Wauters of Techcrunch shared an interesting little nugget of information today. News that AT&T’s Yellow Pages purchased the domain name YP.com from LiveDeal (formerly YP Corp.) for $3.85 million….

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Latest Release of Mozilla's Ubiquity Is Slicker and Faster. Extension of the Year?

I installed Mozilla/Humanized Firefox extension Ubiquity the moment it was first released. The Firefox extension adds a collection of user-contributed keyboard commands which allow you to perform any number of…

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A quarter century of Apple sweetness infographic

Grab your old Macs, place them on a table, and see the color pattern. Yes, from beige to bright colors to white to silver. Same in Wired’s infographic shown here….

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Developing iPhone apps not worth the effort anymore

If you’re an iPhone app developer, you’re basically working for that one big hit. Like the developer of the iFart app, he told VentureBeat ow much profit he makes on…

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$100 laptop brings John Lennon back from the dead

Those of you who live in the States have probably seen tons of OLPC ads lately. The charity organization is looking for new money streams to bring more laptops to…

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Sorry Apple user, you're just a plain boring sheep now

Anyone who has spent some time in a coffee bar with wifi already knew it, yet it’s official when Wired reports it. Mac users aren’t special anymore. First of all,…

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Robert Scoble Explains How to Use Friendfeed

Robert Scoble; tech journalist and passionate Friendfeed user has released a fantastic video demonstrating why Friendfeed is so useful and why you should be trying the service out too. FYI,…

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This Website is Rated PG. Parental Guidance is Advised.

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, the UK’s culture secretary Andy Burnham is recommending that movie-esque ratings should be applied to all English language websites across the web. He…

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Amazon has a Very Merry Christmas

Amazon.com had it’s best Christmas ever with more than 6.3 million items ordered during its peak day December 15th, nearly 1 million more than 2007′s 5.4 million. There has however…