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A9, Is it How Search Engine Is Done? A couple of weeks ago a new search engine went online. There wasn’t much fanfare and reaction was equally muted. It was a9.com and it’s amazon.com’s latest move to muscle in on the search engine industry. A9.com is merely a shell around google’s index. What’s added is — Continue reading »

Cablecos, What Are You Waiting For? Word has it that DSL is fast catching up to cable in terms of market penetration. Perhaps as early as a few months ago, estimates were that cable users trumped dsl users by almost 2 to 1. Now the gap has narrowed considerably thanks to marketing efforts, price breaks, — Continue reading »

Reality Fatigue I'm not sure about you, but no matter where I turn these days I seem to find Donald trump's face plastered on everything. From TV shows to newspapers to online media, trump is all the rage. Enough already. The reality TV phenomenon is by no means exclusive to the apprentice. Island castaways, jilted — Continue reading »

Taking the phish out of water It was bound to happen. Earthlink has announced their new anti-phishing product called ScamBlocker, and they are making it available to all for free. Phishing is a technique used by hackers in which a spam sent to users contains links to fraudulent sites mimicking authentic sites such as ebay, — Continue reading »

caught between a rock and a soft-ware place some people are never satisfied. take the microsoft crowd as an example. the buzz in the industry is that microsoft is losing its focus because their release cycles are now getting too long. their next version of their much anticipated windows, code named longhorn, has slipped several — Continue reading »

spamidas touch when is spam a good thing. if you're the unfortunate victim of its assault (and who isn't these days?), you might be tempted to say: never. the spam fighters out there in cyberspace would like to remind you that they empathize with you and they are working hard to eliminate this parasite. a — Continue reading »

music to yahoo’s ears the latest good earnings news at yahoo and the announced 2 for 1 stock split is yet one more indication that the companies operating in the internet space have gained traction. it gives the kind of validation the internet sector deserves. yahoo has been making a number of right moves, not — Continue reading »

to e-file, or not to e-file the tax season is upon us yet again, and for some of us it makes death almost preferable over doing the taxes. the maze of rules and regulations is enough to make the most adept accountants' heads spin. of course, they are not complaining. for many this is their — Continue reading »