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  • Win7 – MS’s toe back into the door

    Well on May 5th, it might just be the one day that ISPs around the world wished that would never come. Torrents or not, geeks by the millions are going to hammer servers at Microsoft, it’s mirrors and torrent hosts like never before. Even MS haters and ex users might be getting into the action,…

  • Google’s unsocial social network

    Google has likely been building this up internally for a while, as reported by the tech media: The problem with Google Profiles as a social network is that it’s not social. Google Profiles lacks the equivalent of Facebook’s “Wall Posts” and “Status Updates.” (Profiles has a status message, but only people on your Gmail Chat…

  • My first trip on my 4th Safari

    Arg! This seems to sum up my first run tests for Apple’s latest Chrome motivated kick at the browser can. Now, with IE8 out (and Gazelle on the way), Chrome 2 coming, FF3.1 almost there (depending on what day you catch the developers), Safari 4 beta rounds out the crowd of popular browsers that are…

  • Giving Google Some Latitude

    Google has been called Big Brother so many times, you’d think that the Big G would be synonymous with another “big g”. So now that Google has a way of not only knowing if you are thinking naughty or nice things, but where you are as well, people are starting to invest in even more…

  • Google Latitude… Big Brother or Bother?

    There is a slight chance that some of you might have missed the news over the last 24h from Google – they are now tracking you! Using the new version of their mobile map client, Google has given users (and itself) the ability to track, using GPS or manual location entry, one’s location via its…