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 … Read more →
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. … Read more →
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 … Read more →
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 … Read more →
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 the … Read more →
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 … Read more →
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 … Read more →
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 … Read more →
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 … Read more →
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 … Read more →
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 … Read more →
Sometime this summer, Google will open up a brand new data center in the old paper factory in Hamina, Finland. Google is also considering opening up data centers in Sweden. The Finnish data center will employ 50 people and will contain “thousands” of servers. More information than that, is not available at this time. It’s … Read more →
This is almost breaking news, because when Apple announced the iPhone, Steve Ballmer laughed at it. Now, a different choice of words are coming out of Steve Ballmer’s mouth, about the iPhone, when he said at a speech at the University of Washington: “Apple’s done a very nice job that allows people to monetize and … Read more →
Like the “Hello” ad for the iPhone premiered at the Oscars some years ago, an iPad ad now also appeared for the first time, at the Oscars. The background music in the ad is “There Goes My Love” by The Blue Van. I’m sure the song can be found in the iTunes Store if you … Read more →
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. I bet you have an account on at least one social media network, such as Facebook or Twitter, am I right? What if … Read more →
Each year, Fortune (the magazine), elects the world’s most admired companies. For the third year in a row, Apple is the winner. This year, Apple even increased it’s distance down to 2nd place, Google, and 3rd place, Berkshire Hathaway (investment firm). A total of 4,200 executives and analysts voted in Fortune’s study. As BMW CEO … Read more →