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Ning.com Goes Pay Only On July 20th 2010 Will You Keep Your Account?

The reason behind going all pay is not certain but it is probably due to the number of accounts that are not generating income for the social network Unlike Twitter where it is Mass Chaos the idea behind ning.com is to allow people to host their own sites that allows members who are also members […]

WordPress Automatic Introduces VaultPress Backup Services

Automatic the makers of WordPress have just introduced a new backup service for self hostedĀ  WordPress sites called VaultPress. This new service will provide automated backups of your content to their servers and allow you to make restores of your content in the case of catastrophic failure on your webserver. VaultPress is now in Beta […]

Apple Releasing iPhone Signal Patch That Won’t Improve Reception

Apple has announced a patch for their iPhone 4 and 3 versions that will recalculate the bar values for available signals. It seems that the formula they used to display available signal strength was off by at least 50% so users that thought they had 4 bars only had two or less and anyone with […]

Broadband Access Is Now A Civil Legal Right In Finland

Well before you start packing up the kids and heading to Finland now that it is a Civil Right to have Broadband you still have to pay for it. The Government of Finland just passed a law that Telecom companies must provide all citizens Access to Broadband cable at a reasonable price. Their idea of […]

Lack Of Reliable Features Means Delay In HTML5 Video Distribution

A recent post on YouTube’s API Blog explains the reasons why HTML5 is not ready for Primetime Video Distribution. While many independent and smaller sites that do not need the full features of Flash may adopt HTML5 Video it seems that larger sites that serve to many platforms and allow their videos to be embedded […]

Chinese Censors To Shutoff Google On June 30th

With one of the largest markets domination in China is what every international company wants. It seems Google’s chance at least for the foreseeable future has come to an end due to limitations placed on them by Chinese Censors. Since January Google has been redirecting Google.cn to Google.com.hk to bridge the difference in content availability […]

Dell Knowingly Selling Crap Computers For Years? Thousands Say Yes

It seems that Dell Computers is putting close to a Half Billion dollars aside due to complaints that they have been selling computers with bad components for years. Reports of large batches of computers sold to corporate customers all going bad at once has sparked a number of investigations and many many complaints. It seems […]

Original Archive Site BigPond Turns Off Its Lights

You look around and many of the original internet archive sites that fostered the reason to use the net have gone to the wayside as new offerings of data sources and information have taken their place. For decades sites like BigPond have been serving Open SourceĀ  software along with Shareware and information projects to internet […]

HowTo – Understanding Custom Post Types In WordPress 3.0

With WordPress 3.0 comes the feature of adding custom post types but what are custom post types and what do you need to do to implement them…. First we have to understand what is a Post Type… Anyone who has used WordPress for a while and looked through not only its dashboard interface but also […]

British Music Industry Files DMCA Violations In Google Search Results

The British Music Industry has filed complaints against Google because search results are returning links to Copyrighted Music. Approximately 10 websites hosting files and probably thousands of webpages linking to them are under scrutiny by the group. The content is not hosted on Google’s Website and Google is not hosting the pages that link to […]