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Google Plus: I’m Really Not Impressed

by Mike Mansell July 20, 2011

Let me start out this post by saying that Facebook is far from perfect. Back in September I expressed my growing frustration with the social network that at the time was being riddled with levels of spam that many like myself deemed simply unacceptable. And while I still think that Facebook has a lot of room to grow and that there are definitely improvements to be made, I must say that the social network is heading in an alright direction in my eyes.

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Do You Need A Data Plan?

by Keaton Taylor July 19, 2011

Most all of us have at one point or another been robbed by our mobile phone carriers by the ridiculously expensive data plans, and while we continue to believe that we need these data plans I’m saying to my carrier AT&T ”thanks, but no thanks.” Over the summer I flew half way across the globe to [...]

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1 Year Later: Was .CO A Huge Bust?

by Jeff Weisbein July 18, 2011

In two days, the .CO domain registry will celebrate the first anniversary of its public launch and don’t forget the fact it recently hit the 1 million registered domain mark after ten months of existence. That’s not too shabby, however, there is no question the launch of .CO was surrounded by a lot of hype which contributed to the rapid adoption.

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Could a Microsoft/Baidu Partnership Compete with Google?

by Mike Mansell July 6, 2011

Serving China, a country with four-hundred and fifty million users online, Baidu is, as it stands, a popular search engine primarily focused on the Chinese market. The search engine in itself has been around for quite some time now, but with Google’s move to pull out of China in March of last year the search engine has become what many see as the go-to search engine in China.

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MySpace Sells for $35 Million

by Mike Mansell June 30, 2011

It’s amazing how quickly things in life can change. Just a few short years ago social networking website MySpace was legendary and considered hip amongst the younger generation. Really, I remember a time when you would meet a person in line at a grocery store, and instead of swapping mobile numbers or even email addresses [...]

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State of Wyoming Makes the Switch to Google Apps

by Mike Mansell June 23, 2011

Less than a year ago I wrote about a new venture that Internet giant Google was embarking on. After years of developing well-known and highly used and trusted communications and collaboration platforms for individuals like you and me, the company was working on making Google Apps specifically for government organizations.

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Comcast + Skype = Genius

by Mike Mansell June 15, 2011

Video conferencing is by no means a new or unorthodox concept. If you look ten or even fifteen years back, large companies were taking advantage of video communications system to hold virtual and entirely visually interactive discussions and meetings with colleagues around the world.

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Schmidt Admits Fault for Failing Google’s Social Potential

by Mike Mansell June 2, 2011

When it comes to the Internet, it seems that there isn’t an avenue that Google has yet to conquer or doesn’t have its sights on already. With grass-roots originating in the search and information field, Google’s technological accomplishments and growing reputation for consumer and business focused cloud services has allowed the company to become one [...]

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VMWare Is Building A Cloud-Computing Powerhouse

by Mike Mansell June 1, 2011

While not exactly a household name, virtualization development company VMWare has made great progress in terms of both consumer-based and commercial server and desktop virtualization; the technology that allows for multiple operating systems to run simultaneously in a shared “host” and “guest” infrastructure. For many day-to-day users, this type of application allows one to run [...]

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IRCCloud Review

by Mike Mansell May 26, 2011

If there’s one thing I hate, it hands-down has to be missing out on things. Really, it’s a common thing for me to rewind the security camera tapes at work to see what happens when I’m not there. Some people call this “creepy”; and to an extent I’d probably have to agree myself. And needless [...]

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