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US State Department Switches to Chrome from Internet Explorer

by Ashley King on March 6th, 2012

  Who would have ever expected Hillary Clinton to be fielding geeky questions at a Town Hall meeting for the State Department, but that’s exactly what she did this past week. A concerned person in the audience asked her what could be done about the slow update process for the infrastructure in the Statue Department, [...]


Chromebooks Popular as Educational Tools

by Ashley King on January 25th, 2012

While Chromebooks haven’t taken off in the mainstream market, Google has announced that they are popular with school administrators. Schools are deploying 1-to1 programs with the Chromebooks, where each student receives one of the laptops. While this is certainly not the majority of schools, the fact that they seem to be a great way for [...]


Apple’s iPhone Not Profitable for Carriers?

by firefoxs on September 7th, 2009

According to a research report released by Denmark’s Strand Consult, the iPhone is not the profit-generating machine that people have made it out to be…that is, unless you’re Apple. For carriers, however, gaining the exclusive rights to sell the iPhone isn’t exactly a winning situation. The report says that the hidden costs of the phone, [...]


Gmail Ads Within Email Thread – Is This New?

by firefoxs on September 7th, 2009

Today I spotted a contextual advert within an email thread in Gmail. Usually these ‘sponsored links’ are displayed in a separate pane on the right-hand side of Gmail – i.e. outside of the actual email content. But this places the ad squarely within the content of the email thread. It’s possible this has been around [...]


Real-time search: the next Big Internet Thing?

by Liz on August 12th, 2009

Real-time search is being hailed as the next internet fad that´ll turn tiny start ups into million dollar corporations overnight. But is there real money in real-time?