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Vizio seems determined to stand out in the HDTV market and by standing out it seems that they are making an attempt to do so in other ways aside from being one of the more affordable models on the store shelf. The latest announcement coming from Vizio includes HDTVs that… Continue Reading »

Remember your first time?  No, not that one you pervert.  Your first time on the Internet or even using a computer.  After all the years, through all the changes, it began with what was never even meant to be a computer by a brilliant man.  Today, we tip our hats… Continue Reading »

Yahoo has announced that the long delayed closing of its Yahoo 360 social networking service will now happen on July 13th.  Yahoo 360 opened with great fanfare in 2005 and was hoped to become a serious competitor to MySpace and Facebook, but it never happened.  The site’s closure was first… Continue Reading »

According to their official blog, Google says this morning’s outage was caused by a “system error” that rerouted some traffic through Asia, causing a traffic jam.  The bottleneck resulted in GMail, Blogger, and Google itself loading slowly and in some cases being totally unavailable.  Anyone on Twitter knows it caused… Continue Reading »

Yesterday in a speech at Stanford University, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer suggested Microsoft will be taking more risks with its search entries.  Acknowledging Google’s dominant position, Ballmer pointed to opportunities Microsoft can afford to chase and evolve.  According to Ballmer, some will be hits, some will be disasters. “There are… Continue Reading »

The world of technology is a weird place.  Flying images and sound through the air, microwaves, and bicycles.  So our stories have nothing to do with that.  Yahoo’s cleaning house and next out is Geocities.  Italy thinks you want to watch the dead online.  Also, trains in Japan are starting… Continue Reading »

Back in 2008 it seemed we couldn’t do anything about hearing something about Microsoft buying up Yahoo.  The deal never worked, possibly because of then Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang who seemed to dislike the idea.  But, Yahoo now has a new CEO, Carol Bartz, and it seems she might be… Continue Reading »

I just got an e-mail telling me Yahoo Briefcase is closing down on March 30, 2009.  What is Yahoo Briefcase?  It was Yahoo’s online storage service that provided a whopping 30MB (yes, megabytes) of space to you could access your files anywhere.  HP just dumped their “Upline” backup service, but… Continue Reading »

Yahoo has had a lot of issues recently.  Google virtually has the search engine market cornered and Yahoo is looking to catch up.  Yahoo has tried all kinds of things like acquiring plenty of web services without much of a return.  Carol Bartz took over as Yahoo’s CEO last month… Continue Reading »

Since most people now conduct their research on the Internet, they will benefit from tools that help them organize their searches.  Yahoo hopes that users will turn to their new Search Pad application, a feature currently in beta testing. With the Search Pad, users will be able to use automated… Continue Reading »