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Someone should make a soap opera about this, Tim Sneath vs. Paul Rouget, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) vs. Mozilla. A battle of words to figure out whose new browser is the real modern browser. The current chapter: Microsoft steps up for a lecture on what a modern browser really should look like. The message: Firefox has […]

Yesterday Amazon added Instant Videos to its Amazon Prime service, giving members the ability to stream over 5,000 movie and TV show titles. Hot on the heels of that story, today Netflix worked out a deal to stream a big portion of the CBS library of TV shows on its service. Looking at what the […]

That sound you hear is the silent death of Google Chrome’s URL bar—or at least, the contemplative consideration of such over at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. An email sent to the Chromium developer mailing list by product manager Jeff Chang indicates that Google has, “a number of UI / frontend efforts under way” […]

If you happen to be on a fast (and really fast) broadband connection, this tip would actually help you out getting there, even faster. Most of the modern day web browsing speed is limited by the peeks of the IO of your hard disk drives. High seek times and relatively slow transmission rates when compared […]

Microsoft is generally tight-lipped about its operating system releases, but its efforts to stay mum on the topic were apparently undermined by one of its own last week. In an Oct. 22 blog post from Microsoft Netherlands, the writer noted: “Furthermore, Microsoft is on course for the next version of Windows. But it will take […]

Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer outlined their new partnership in an analysts’ meeting in London today, painting a picture of Nokia as Microsoft’s premiere Windows Phone partner and of Windows Phone as Nokia’s core smartphone platform. “Nokia will adopt Windows Phone as our primary smartphone strategy,” Elop said. “We will help […]

Microsoft got a huge boost by the deal it did with Nokia. This will ensure the platform has legs and will probably ensure the slow death of HP/Palm WebOS which announced three new products this week. While the WebOS looks like road kill, let’s not forget the Nokia-Intel joint venture: the MeeGo OS, a Linux-based […]

The first batch of netbookz to hit the scene was greeted with awe and surprise. Thosetiny laptops, which were once sold at a premium, could be had for half the price of a typical system seemed incredible. Since then, the stakes have risen: The Apple iPad has proven that it can be the secondary web […]

5. From Rebel to Lumbering Giant Microsoft started out as the plucky disruptor that popularized the PC graphical user interface through wide distribution and lower pricing compared with Apple’s Macintosh OS. In a similar vein, Google was able to dominate search thanks to its amazingly relevant search results and its bare-bones homepage that featured the […]

2. Monopoly Mania The downside of dominating an industry is that you’re an immediate target for antitrust allegations. Microsoft experienced this during the late 90s and early 2000s, with accusations of unfair business practices against competitors such as IBM, Real Networks, Gateway, Netscape, and Apple. Google’s antitrust headaches have just started, with European legislators looking […]

If you purchased a new computer with Windows Vista preinstalled on it, you may have received an actual Windows Vista DVD with your purchase or a Recovery Disk created by the computer’s manufacturer, or maybe your new computer came with a Recovery Partition on the hard disk in lieu of a Recovery Disk. While a […]

IT is constantly evolving as new technologies are implemented. Certifications are one way IT professionals can keep up with current trends in IT technology, build their IT resume and open new doors of opportunity. Which certifications are right for you depends on your career path. A certification in your current line of work will validate […]

The iPad is almost a laptop computer. After all, you can write documents in Pages, and draw beautiful pictures in Sketchbook Pro. But when you need to print them out, your options get pretty slim. Apple’s official answer for iPad printing is to sync your documents back to your Mac or PC and print from […]