Jun 07
Fabrice Tourre of Goldman Sachs has the distinction of being the only person sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission for fraud in selling mortgage backed securities. While that may remain his primary claim to fame (thanks to a front-page article in the New York Times), there may be a secondary distinction added: the worst handling of …
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May 12
At the second day of the Google I/O Conference this week, the company announced that the Chrome-only portable computers, to be called Chromebooks, would become available in mid-June. Google made its intent to develop Chrome into a stand-alone operating system clear when it initially announced the browser in September of 2008. The nearly three years between …
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May 10
Microsoft just announced that it will be paying $8.5 billion for Skype. It is the largest purchase ever for Microsoft, who in recent years avoided big ticket acquisitions since the lackluster results of its purchases of adQuantive and Danger (the makers of the sidekick phone, which gave Microsoft the flop known as the Kin). Microsoft …
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Apr 21
Recently, Google introduced a new feature called Google +1. The announcement is clearly aimed at facebook’s ‘like’ button. It will begin by adding a ‘+1’ button to each entry in a search result but soon it will be possible to have web sites add Google +1 buttons to go along with the facebook like buttons and …
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Apr 12
What many people do not realize is that what they are seeing in Google search results may not be what others are seeing. Some of that is self-evident. Google results are different from one language to another and one country to another. In searches for service and retail businesses they go further in geo-tagging your …
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Apr 06
Lizamoon is named after the web site that it was first noticed on. However once experts knew what to look for earlier infections have been found. However in less than four months there are now over one and a half million web sites that have been infected with the Lizamoon virus!
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Apr 21
Why Google’s +1 button and the narcissistic Internet is a bad idea
April 21, 2011
Recently, Google introduced a new feature called Google +1. The announcement is clearly aimed at facebook’s ‘like’ button. It will begin by adding a ‘+1’ button to each entry in a search result but soon it will be possible to have web sites add Google +1 buttons to go along with the facebook like buttons and …
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