One year ago, Yahoo rolled out Messenger 9 with video conferencing abilities. It was not a strong competitor to Skype, but was an obvious direction for the IM powerhouse. With Yahoo Messenger 10, video quality will be greatly improved making the tool a strong competitor with Skype for Windows users. Yahoo Messenger 10 will not [...]

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Google is currently in the process of building a replacement of its 10 year old file system, Google File System (GFS). GFS was never intended to handle all the kinds of applications that it currently governs–apps like Gmail and Youtube. The system, designed in the 90s, was made for batch-oriented applications such as web crawling [...]

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Sharepoint by Microsoft could be described as a “jack of all trades / master of none”. While Microsoft sales have fell for the first time in history, Sharepoint has climbed. The software can be used to build websites, as content management for those websites, as a business intelligence tool for corporate business, as a collaboration [...]

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A Foxconn employee, 25 year-old Sun Danyong, allegedly committed suicide after losing an iPhone prototype. After the employee could not locate one of sixteen prototypes entrusted to his possession, a Foxconn manager ordered an immediate search and interrogation of that employee. Thursday at 3 AM, the employee jumped from his apartment window and ended his [...]

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