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Ask.com has given up on trying to build a search engine that can compete with Google and says they will shutdown their internal search service and outsource results from an unnamed competitor. Ask will lay off 130 engineers who had been dedicated to building the search engine, and also get rid of thousands of computer […]

First it has to be said that the vb.ly service was reserved primarily for porn site urls. The service was setup to be a way around not safe for work websites but as we have never seen this service before it is unlikely that the domain was a Proxy that allowed viewing of Adult Content […]

Google is now reading a push of its online television service that is suppose to bring together all of the best features of online video and place them on your television. Now as I am writing this I am trying to decide what I will do tonight since not a lot is on tv.. I […]

Most people are familiar with URL Shortening Services like tinyurl bit.ly or custom private services such as fxn.ws used by Fox News.. The primary use of such a url is to make it easier for your readers to click or to comply with chat services and sites like twitter.  If you go to Amazon.com and […]

It seems one of the best domain registrars may no longer be as Bob Parsons of GoDaddy.com has decided to put the business up for auction. The expected sale price for the company that has yearly revenues of $800 million dollars a year is suppose to be around 1 Billion dollars. Hopefully a good company […]

Downloading pirated products including software, music and video is something that industry associations have been fighting for some time.  As we have seen some artists that seek to protect their rights can get hammered by their fans case in point Metalica whos lawsuit against Napster is said to be reason for breaking up the band […]

After many years and many lawsuits it seems Craigslist has finally given up on offering an adult services section. Recent attacks on the site have gone one step farther and accuse them of fostering underage prostitution.. you never really heard those accusations in the past and it most likely has something to do with treaties […]

I was watching a show on the history of the Game industry the other night… it was probably on CNBC or some other cable station and they talked about how the game  Tetris had been one of the main reasons people purchased hand held Gameboys. This got me thinking of how hardware and software interact […]

Microsoft just announced a new program for Technology Business Startups called BizSpark. The BizSpark package is more of a backend package including Windows Server all versions, SQL Server, Visual Studio Enterprise and a number of other tools that businesses would spend thousands of dollars putting together on their own. Although the package does not from […]

A new report by the McAfee Virus Team announced that Cameron Diaz is the Most Infected Star on the Internet. Unlike Pamela Anderson they weren’t talking STDs… the study examined the number of files mostly screen savers and media like that are downloaded and found that the person’s image who was most linked to malware […]