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Facebook Cause $2 Billion Daily Work Hour Loss in Denmark

March 19, 2010

An organization within Denmark published a study yesterday, made by Dwarf and Userneeds, showing that Facebook is the cause of $2 billion in loss of working hours. In a country with a population of 5,500,000 people, around 55,000 of them spend more than 30 minutes of their work day on Facebook, meaning a loss of [...]

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Friday Flick Find: Google Threatens To Kill Users

March 19, 2010

I’ve been writing more about Google these past few weeks, than what I usually do. Most of the reason is because of the issues between Google and China, and sometimes I also mention how I’m not totally crazy about the fact that Google is becoming more and more The Internet, if you know what I [...]

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Microsoft Phone 7 Copies Apple – No Copy/Paste, No Multitasking & No Flash

March 19, 2010

Most advanced Mac users are used to seeing Microsoft copying many of the thinks that comes out of Apple in Cupertino (like Mac OS X Leopard and Windows Vista, as shown in this video by David Pogue).
Well, it’s no surprise that Microsoft probably is a bit jealous of Apple’s success with iPhone, so they’ve decided [...]

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iPad: 120,000 Pre-Orders First 24 Hours. $75,000,000 Revenue.

March 17, 2010

CNNMoney.com reports, based on calculations done by Investor Village, that 120,000 iPads were sold during the first day of iPad pre-orders.
They estimate that 69% ordered the Wi-Fi only edition, while the storage capacity was almost equally divided with 33% each (16GB, 32GB, 64GB).
Victor Castroll, an analyst with Valcent Financial Group, said:
“Apple has been able to [...]

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IT Pro’s: Total Cost of Ownership on Mac’s Lower Than PC’s

March 16, 2010

The Enterprise Desktop Alliance recently surveyed 260 IT administrators in the United States to learn which computer environment they believe is the cheapest to manage, when it comes to Macintosh vs PC.
Their results showed that Mac’s cost less to manage than PC’s, according to 65% of the IT admins, with 19% of them saying Mac’s [...]

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Picking a Web Host – Check Reviews First [Sponsored Post]

March 16, 2010

This is a sponsored post, paid for by ReviewMe. All views expressed in this post are mine and are not influenced by the fact that I have been paid to write this.
Can you imagine driving around in a car that works only 95% of the time? No, that’s not a very good solution if you [...]

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Google 99.9% Certain To Shut Down In China

March 16, 2010

Recently I wrote that Google apparently didn’t mean business when they threatened to pull out of China and close down their activities in the country. It seems I was wrong, well, 99.9% wrong, according to Financial Times.
Due to a hardening in positions from both the Google side and the Chinese government, it now seems more [...]

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Hidden Cameras – Would You Spy On People? [Sponsored Post]

March 16, 2010

This is a sponsored post, paid for by ReviewMe. All views expressed in this post are mine and are not influenced by the fact that I have been paid to write this.
These years, we see more and more security cameras everywhere we go. There’s no limit anymore, everything can be under surveillance one way or [...]

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Happy Birthday “.Com” – 25 Years In Service

March 15, 2010

Happy Birthday, .Com domain. You’re now 25 years old.
On March 15th, 1985, Symbolics registered the first .com domain, Symbolics.com.
The 2nd domain name to be registered under .com, was bbn.com, which was registered April 24th – more than a month after Symbolics.com.
In 1985, only six domains were registered and 53 domains in 1986.
Today there are more [...]

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Wikio Shopping – Easy Price Comparison In The UK

March 15, 2010

This is a sponsored post, paid for by Ebuzzing. All views expressed in this post are mine and are not influenced by the fact that I have been paid to write this.
Most users who have tried online shopping is aware of one or more portals that allows price comparison of a certain product, making it [...]

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How To: iCal Birthday Reminders With Alarm (iCalBirthdays 2.0)

March 12, 2010

Here’s a quick and really neat trick for Mac users who would like to have birthdays listed in iCal. As default, your Mac will easily display birthdays in iCal, based on dates from your Addressbook, but it can’t give you an alarm and there’s no way to modify the events to do so.
So, somebody created [...]

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Friday Flick Find: REGEN (Amazing short film, Making Of & Bloopers)

March 12, 2010

The title of this amazing shortfilm is “REGEN”. At this time, it has around 200,000 views on YouTube, so chances are, you haven’t seen it yet – I hope It’s short but it deserves a look, it’s really great work from the people behind it. And speaking of “behind it”, there’s a behind [...]

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iPhone OS 4.0 With Multitasking Support This Summer

March 12, 2010

Sources with a proven track record in predicting Apple’s technological advances, told AppleInsider that Apple has developed a “full-on solution” to multitasking on the iPhone OS, but offered no specifics on how the technology would optimize resource conversation and battery life – two of the most critical issues surrounding the matter, alongside security.
iPhone OS 4.0 [...]

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Google In Talks With China After Hacking Attempts

March 11, 2010

Google recently threatened to close down its activities in China, including their office, and pull out of the country, after they learned about the hacking that came from China.
Apparently, it now seems that Google only mean business when they decide to stop supporting Internet Explorer 6 on YouTube and not when it comes to pulling [...]

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Facebook: Bigger Photos For Better Viewing

March 11, 2010

Ever since I started using Facebook, I’ve wondered why our uploaded photos always showed in such a low resolution, without the possiblity of enlarging them.
Now, Facebook has begun increasing upload size for photos from the previous 604 pixels maximum size, to 720 pixels, an increase of almost 20%.
I think 720 pixels is still quite low, [...]

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Google’s Phone, Nexus One, Doesn’t Sell As Expected

March 10, 2010

The expectations for Google’s phone, Nexus One, was quite high when it was first announced. Try to google “nexus one iphone killer” and you get about one million results. Yeah, lots of people thought Nexus One would be the iPhone killer. iPhone killers are not new though, every few months a new iPhone killer appears [...]

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Debt Consolidation [Sponsored Post]

March 10, 2010

This is a sponsored post, paid for by ReviewMe. All views expressed in this post are mine and are not influenced by the fact that I have been paid to write this.
“Debt” is a term used when you owe something, but it doesn’t have to be money. Having a debt can also be a moral [...]

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Google Street View – More Funny Pictures

March 9, 2010

My post from a month ago, Funny Pictures: Google Street View Launched in Denmark, keeps topping the “popular posts”-chart here on the blog. I guess people like to look at funny Google Street View pictures, and that’s understandable, because there are some very funny and whacky moments out there
I’ve been gathering some more [...]

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