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Opera Browser 11 for Desktop Released

Opera has released version 11 of it’s web browser for for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux which includes performance and standards compliance improvements in its Presto rendering engine, and other updates including a new extension system and “tab stacking” for easier tab management. What’s new Tab stacking Tab stacking […]

Google Maps 5.0 for Android Introduced

Googel has introduced Google Maps 5.0 for Android with two significant new features: 3D interaction and offline reliability. In order to create these features, Maps has been using vector graphics to dynamically draw the map as you use it. Building a vector graphics engine capable of achieving the visual quality […]

Chrome OS Vs Android

Is there much point in having Chrome OS when Android is established and could easily be made to work on laptops, etc. Using Chrome OS will mean that Google have users data and a standalone laptop will not be much use unless it has a live net connection. Sascha Segan […]

Open Source CMS Leaders

Alan Shimel writes on Network World “Open Source CMS Dominate the Market, Who Are The Leaders?” about a new report (that you can download for free) from Water and Stone which details the share of market and other facts about 20 of the leading open source CMS players. Report Findings […]

Google Launches Google Message Continuity

Google Postini Services has introduced Google Message Continuity, “a hosted continuity solution for your on-premise email server. Ensure rapid email failover in the event of a server outage with complete and constant email replication – all accessible at any time through Gmail.” The service is said to safeguard Microsoft Exchange […]

Amazon S3 Announces 5TB Storage

Amazon’s S3 service has announced in a blog post, customers can now have up to 5TB Storage. “We’ve raised the limit by three orders of magnitude. Individual Amazon S3 objects can now range in size from 1 byte all the way to 5 terabytes (TB). Now customers can store extremely […]

Google Opens Chrome Web Store

Google has today opened the Chrome Web Store. Google said ” Developers have already started uploading apps, and we expect the number to grow over time. Right now the store is only available in the U.S., but will expand to many countries and currencies early next year. The store will […]

Amazon Route 53 DNS Service Announced

Amazon Web Services has announced Route 53 DNS Service. Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service. It is designed to give developers and businesses an extremely reliable and cost effective way to route end users to Internet applications by translating human readable […]

PayPal Restricts WikiLeaks Donation Account

PayPal the online banking service has restricted WikiLeaks fund raising account. PayPal statement regarding WikiLeaks DECEMBER 3, 2010 PayPal has permanently restricted the account used by WikiLeaks due to a violation of the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, which states that our payment service cannot be used for any activities that […]

Google Buying 111 8th Avenue

Google is buying 111 8th Avenue in Manhattan for $1.9 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. “The 2.9 million square foot building, which occupies the entire city block between 15th & 16th Streets from Eighth to Ninth Avenues, was placed for sale in September by an ownership group including […]

Google Updates FeedBurner

Google has announced a major upgrade to FeedBurner with the emphasis on real-time stats. Google say “The new interface provides real time stats for clicks, views, and podcast downloads, which means you can start seeing what content is drawing traffic from feed readers, Twitter, and other syndicated sources as it […]

Use Google Analytics as Rank Tracker

Mike Pantoliano has written an interesting article at SEOmoz about how to turn Google Analytics into a rank tracker using custom variables. The article covers: How to set it up – Analyzing the Data – Creating Custom Reports and Advanced Segments. Read the Full Article