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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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Apple Dropping Support for Windows XP?

by Mike Mansell June 13, 2011

Even with Apple’s famed Macintosh product line becoming more and more popular and well-supported each and every day, there is absolutely no denying the fact that Microsoft’s Windows operating system easily surpasses the popularity of Mac OS X several times over. But even with the improvements made in the 2009 release of Windows 7 a [...]

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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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Review: Fluid App Turns Websites Into Mac Apps

by Mike Mansell May 25, 2011

Fluid is an application that allows users to create what is more or less a mini web browser configured to display a specific webpage or web application. What sets Fluid aside from features such as Google Chrome’s “application shortcuts” is the fact that it creates an actual Mac application to wrap the website frame in. This means that it can be pinned to the OS X dock for quick and easy access any time, making it a must-have for those of us who would normally keep a tab open in our web browsers.

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Bing Reaches 14% Marketshare

by Mike Mansell May 12, 2011

In the world of Internet search engines, there has always been this huge perception that Google would always be the largest and dominant search engine on the Internet. After all, we how many times do we hear the term “Bing it”? ”Yahoo it”? ”Jeeves it”? Exactly. Google has not only become a cultural icon, but [...]

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