Microsoft, yesterday, Vista Beta 2, in 32 and 64-bit editions, for free downloading for all. Once the ISO image of software DVD has been downloaded, the file must be burned to a DVD.
Wednesday afternoon, Microsoft made available English-, German-, and Japanese-language versions of Vista, each in either 32- or 64-bit editions, for downloading. The files, which are in .iso format, are extremely large: the English language, 32-bit version, for example, weighed in at 3.13GB.
Posted on:06/08/06 at Category: Software
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According to a report released today by Comscore Networks. Google now performs more than twice the searches requested through Yahoo and MSN combined. But it's not all rosy for Google: A related report claims that Google is trailing the competition in other services.
Posted on:05/23/06 at Category: Search Engines
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Microsoft’s chief executive, Steven A. Ballmer, in a speech last Thursday said that company is planning to boost its investments in MSN and other online ventures like windows-live initiatives to $1.6 billion next year in a bid to catch Google, which currently dominates the search market.
Posted on:05/19/06 at Category: Search Engines
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Google has released its Notebook service from Google Labs as beta for users to test and try.
Firefox users can easily add Google Notebook to their browsers using an extension (small code) provided by Google . Users must have a Google Account to use it. Notebook installs as an extension to Firefox. Google Notebook is also available to users of Internet Explorer 6.
Posted on:05/18/06 at Category: Internet
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Seagate Technology last week announced the Seagate ST1.3 Series 12GB 1-inch photo hard drive especially targeted to pocket music player and digital photo storage market segments.
Posted on:05/17/06 at Category: Hardware and Peripherals
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Hitachi has announced a new mobile hard drives based on perpendicular recording technolog. Company has today announced its new 2.5″, 5400RPM Travelstar 5K160 series hard drives.
hitachi-5K160The drive uses perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) tech and is aimed at the notebook market, but it will be used in next generation 1.8-inch drives, ready in the second half of this year.
Posted on:05/16/06 at Category: Hardware and Peripherals
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ICANN, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has given its approval for the creation of .Tel Top Level Domain (TLD) and the contract for the domain has been awarded to Telnic Limited.
Posted on:05/15/06 at Category: Domain Names
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According to the report on China's Internet information and resources published by the State Council Informatization Office .CN domain name registration (for china) ranks the sixth in the world in terms of volume (registrations).
Posted on:05/13/06 at Category: Domain Names
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Google Inc. on 10 May 06, Wednesday has launched many new products in its ongoing duel with rivals Microsoft and Yahoo. The company has added a new tool viz.
Google Gadgets & Plug-ins to make it easier to share information through its online search engine and enabling users to download mini-applications, or "widgets," designed to become fixtures on a computer screen.
Posted on:05/11/06 at Category: Search Engines
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According to an article in WSJ today "The push by the world's biggest Internet search firms to dominate what customers see when they turn on their cellphones has accelerated in recent months with Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. all striking deals with service providers and others in the cellphone industry."
Posted on:05/08/06 at Category: Search Engines
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Mozilla has released an updated version 1.5.0.3 of its Firefox browser, fixing a known security flaw reported last week, relating to the way Firefox browser handles JavaScript code.
Posted on:05/03/06 at Category: General
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Every few months Google updates the algorithm it uses to rank websites in its index. Some of these updates are more significant than others, but because of Google’s market leading position these updates can be extremely significant to many online businesses.
Posted on:05/01/06 at Category: Search Engines
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On today’s highly competitive Google AdWords pay per click (PPC) search engine, it is now more important than ever to ensure that your PPC campaigns are optimized to their utmost potential.
You should be achieving maximum return on investment (ROI) for the keywords or phrases that are most relevant to your business and are most likely to provide you with targeted traffic to your website.
Posted on:05/01/06 at Category: Web Marketing
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In yet another example of "ransomware," a new Trojan horse holds data hostage until a ransom is paid. The Trojan horse threatens to delete files unless the victim pays up.
Posted on:05/01/06 at Category: Security and Legal Issues
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Desktop and workstation hard drive capacity takes another giant stride, as
Seagate has announced its brand new 750 GB hard disk drive. Called the Barracuda 7200.10, with its 750 GB capacity, the sleak unit represents one of the largest disk drive capacity ever from previous record of 500 GB.
Posted on:04/27/06 at Category: Hardware and Peripherals
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For many products, pay-per-click search engines can be very good. The idea is that you decide what you're willing to pay per click through to your web site.
In fact, now that advertising prices are much cheaper than they used to be you could really clean up by using the Pay Per Click Search Engines.
Posted on:04/25/06 at Category: Web Marketing
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This article assumes you already know what a 'meta-tag keyword' is and know a little about their importance to search engines. In this article I will attempt to explain the art of choosing the most appropriate and best performing keywords for your web pages.
As you should already know keywords contained within your websites' meta tags are extremely important in allowing search engines to determine the content of your web pages.
Posted on:04/23/06 at Category: Web Design
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RSS is the latest craze in online publishing. But what exactly is RSS?
RSS or Rich Site Syndication is a file format similar to XML, and is used by publishers to make their content available to others in a format that can be universally understood.
Posted on:04/22/06 at Category: Web Marketing
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Latest build of Microsoft's Windows Vista indicates that it would most likely do what so many other Windows releases have done by simply offering users a few major changes and many subtle or minor updates, instead of a totally brand new revolutionary product.
Posted on:04/21/06 at Category: Software
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Sending out link requests is a time-consuming business. So wouldn't it be wonderful if other sites linked to you without being asked? Sound impossible? Well, it can be done and here are ten strategies to prove it. Why not start 2006 by making sure you use them?
Posted on:04/20/06 at Category: Search Engine Optimization
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Most of the visitors to your website are going to spend 99% of their time doing one thing: reading your content. Given that the web is a medium mainly devoted to reading, it's surprising just how ignorant most page authors are about typography. If you use the wrong font, you make your page painful to read - or even impossible.
Posted on:04/20/06 at Category: Web Design
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A truly shocking number of web designers are unfamiliar with the basic principles and elements of design. Having never been through any formal design education, many just go with what they think 'looks good', with very mixed results.
If you're going to design a website, you'll do much better if you have some idea of what you're doing when it comes to graphic design. Here, then, is a crash course in the principles and elements most useful to web designers.
Posted on:04/20/06 at Category: Web Design
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So your web pages have great content, a nice design, but hardly anyone seems to click through from them to any other part of your website. In many cases, the problem is the load time - people are abandoning your site for the simple reason that it just takes too long for the thing to load.
Posted on:04/20/06 at Category: Web Design
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Google is reported to be redesigning their search page layout to provide more information to users about a site simply by selecting the new icon next to each site link being called as 'expandable arrow'.
Posted on:04/19/06 at Category: Search Engines
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When people refer to "organic SEO (search engine optimization), they almost always use it as a blanket term to describe the unpaid, algorithm-driven results of any particular engine.
However, a sophisticated search engine optimization company will often take the meaning of "organic" one step further. To such companies, the description of "organic SEO" is not limited what shows up in the "natural" search engine results - it includes the methodologies used to achieve such rankings.
Posted on:04/19/06 at Category: Web Marketing
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Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corp. apparently looking at taking on software giant Microsoft in the operating system arena, by indicating that the company has been seriously looking into buying either Red Hat or Novell, the two companies which dominate the Linux market, in its quest to launch its own a version of the Linux operating system.
Posted on:04/19/06 at Category: Software
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Adsense is the best income generating program ever spawned! Why? There is no product or service to promote. Only your domain. Webspace, an Adsense account, and highly targeted traffic is needed. Your success with adsense, you will soon learn, is as easy as driving a car or cooking a four course meal.
Posted on:04/17/06 at Category: Web Marketing
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Microsoft has some serious catching up to do in the Internet search market where Google is the clear leader for now.
According to market research company 'comScore Networks', Google's share of Internet search queries in Feb 2006, rose to more than 42%, from 36% a year before.
Posted on:04/17/06 at Category: Search Engines
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Google has released its calendar service,
Google Calendar, to the public in beta, offering an appealing set of features, complete with Gmail integration and SMS notifications. Code-named CL2, the free service, makes it easy to keep track of your own schedule and share calendars with others.
Posted on:04/13/06 at Category: Search Engines
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Google acquired 'Orion', an advanced text search algorithm invented and developed by an computer science doctoral student Ori Alon working with the University of New South Wales, Australia.
Posted on:04/10/06 at Category: Search Engines
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Many people seek for a way to earn their living independently. They want to be their own boss. They want manage their time themselves – and enjoy their leisure time when others go to work.
There are convincing arguments to work from home. A lot of lifetime gets lost on the way to work. Sticking in traffic jams can be avoided. Parents can spend their time near their children.
Posted on:04/10/06 at Category: Web Marketing
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You're ready to become a Netpreneur. All those Internet success stories have you eager to jump on the success bandwagon. Why not? Why should someone else make all the profits.
There has never been a better time in history to start your own business. An Internet business can be started with very little capital.
Posted on:04/08/06 at Category: Web Marketing
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