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Microsoft Launches Facebook Integration With Outlook

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Microsoft Outlook

This week brought an announcement from Microsoft that confirms once again that Social Media is here to stay, Outlook will be integrated with Facebook and Windows Live Messenger. Since last years announcement that Outlook was integrating with LinkedIn users had been waiting for the integration to continue.

What does this mean for you? Well, say your email is from someone who is also on Facebook, their data will appear in your inbox , allowing you to see the persons profile, connect a face with a name and see their status updates.

What this means for business is even more information collected about networks and activities. Seeing what your client is doing through their status updates could be the edge needed against competition.

For more information check out Microsoft’s video explaining Outlooks new features.


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Sex.com to be sold.

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

Sex.Com

Sex.com has made the news again, this time because it’s on the market. First listed as part of a foreclosure auction at Maltz Auctions, it was recently pulled to be sold separately, apparently in an effort to not devalue the domain name.

Entrepreneur Gary Kremen, a man also linked to match.com, first registered the domain name in 1994. Soon after, Kremen realized that he had lost ownership of the domain; a con man named Stephen Cohen had forged documents and stolen it. The site was reportedly getting 25 million hits a day and generating between $50,000 to $500,000 per month from the advertising, just not for Kreman.

In 1995 Kremen undertook the most expensive battle in dotcom history. Sex.com became the focus of a highly publicized legal battle about domain name ownership and the case inspired not one but two books. It also established the public value of a domain name as property in the eyes of the court, something we may take for granted now.

Sex.com made the news again in 2006 when it was reportedly sold for $14 million, making it the most expensive domain name ever. With all the internet buzz about the domain I am sure there will be some high bids when it is finally up for grabs this Summer.

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Animal vs OK Go – Stare Down at the Webby Awards

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

The Webby Awards recently honored the best of the web. Behind the scenes there was some more competition, this time between Dan (the drummer) of OK Go and Animal from the Muppets. Pretty funny stuff!

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We have a Winner!

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

HostingCon 2010

Thanks to everyone who participated in our Competition. This weeks photo caption winner was Steve with this caption “John’s attempt to get as close to the World Cup action as possible may be a little over the line.” You can also join us on Facebook for future competitions

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HostingCon 2010

Monday, July 5th, 2010

HostingCon 2010

Hard to believe but it’s already July and almost time for HostingCon 2010. Austin, Texas will be buzzing from July 19-21 with full days of exhibits and speakers. This years conference is focused on “Piloting Into the Cloud – Setting a Course for the Future” with lots of information about how the web hosting industry will be effected.

Keynote speakers are Lydia Leong (Gartner) – Trends emerging across the Internet infrastructure services industry (it isn’t just the “cloud”.), Andy Rhodes (Dell) – Total cost of ownership for a scalable infrastructure and Serguei Beloussov (Parallels) – A NEW vision with hosts on how to launch new services, improve existing services, and reduce churn in their businesses..

New speakers at the conference include thought-leaders from HP, Cisco, VMWare, Gartner, Dell, Digital Realty Trust, The United States Defense Information Systems Agency, and many more. Highlights include speakers Douglas Hanna (A Small Orange), Michele Martin (Green Geeks) and Micheal Joffe (Microsoft).

To see the schedule and speaker bios go to their Website. HostingCon is also on Twitter, Facebookand LinkedIn so you can interact with those attending.

This is the sixth year of HostingCon and they are expecting over 1,500 people from over 30 different countries. Expect to see the latest news, ideas and technology presented, as well as lots of opportunities to mingle and network. Hope to see you there!

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Apple iPhone 4 Now Available for Pre-Order

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Apple announced their new iteration for the popular iPhone smart device, the iPhone 4 at WWDC 2010 on 7th June and now the new mobile device is available for pre-order around the globe. The device features tons of new enhancements making it one of the most appealing smartphones available in the market today.

The iPhone 4 can now be pre-ordered from Apple’s website at $199 for the 16GB model and $299 for the 32GB model with a 2-year AT&T contract. Whereas the iPhone 3GS 8GB is moved back to $99 price slot. The unlocked smartphone is available for a starting price of £499 in UK and €629 in France.

The new features incorporated in iPhone 4 include FaceTime which enables video calling over Wi-Fi network. Both the front facing camera and the high-resolution backside camera can be used for video calling. The device comes with Retinal Display technology with 960×640 screen resolution at 326dpi to provide crisp image quality while the IPS technology improves viewing angles.

The iPhone 4 is powered by the same Apple A4 chip that is used in iPad tablets. This makes the iPhone 4 dramatically faster than previous devices while conserving battery life. Other notable features include stainless steel band, gyroscope, 5MP camera with LED flash supporting 720p video recording and dual-mic to enhance voice quality. Check out the complete list of new features here.

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Go World Cup Go!!!

Friday, June 11th, 2010

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Opera Mocks Google Chrome

Friday, June 4th, 2010

A while ago we posted the Google Chrome speed test. Here’s a “response” from web browser Opera. The battle has begun.

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Facebook Winner!

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Fireworks

We have yet another winner in our ongoing Facebook competitions! Congratulations to Steve Robillard for “If you have tweeted “he looks so natural” from a funeral you might be a computer addict.” Make sure to join us on Facebook, participate in the competitions and win cash money!

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Geeky Wedding

Friday, May 21st, 2010

Is this really legal?

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