I was recently reading the comments on a post from Gizmodo showing the incredible growth of Google since 1996, summed up by the following graph (which is just an excerpt of this infographic): Gizmodo via Computer School Not only is the growth amazing, so is their ability to keep up with that growth. Clearly, Google [...]
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Gang Uses Facebook Places to Rob Homes
Well, it was bound to happen, and although these guys have been caught, it is probably still happening elsewhere. A recent PC World article describes a gang of thieves utilizing Facebook Places, and a Twitter aggregator, to identify homes with no occupant. Because, the owner had just geo tagged himself elsewhere. Police in Nashua, New [...]
Full Story »Manage VMWare Servers from an iPad
Srinivas Krishnamurti, Senior Director of Mobile solutions at VMWare, announces a new VCenter client application for the iPad. IT systems administrators will be able to use the app for managing their ESX 5.0 VM farms through, what looks to be, an extremely intuitive interface. Via the iPad’s touch interface, sysadmins can list the servers being [...]
Full Story »Gmail Priority Inbox is Finally Here: Amid Much Hype
I’ve been waiting for the Gmail priority inbox to finally show up in my “Google for Domains’ email account; Today I was happy to finally see the link to enable it. I get so much email from subscriptions, newsletters, alerts, twitter feeds…. (and the list goes on) that I’m often losing important email in the [...]
Full Story »A Pinky for an iPad
On April 15, , Bill Jordan from Aurora Colorado went to the Cherry Creek mall in Denver to purchase an iPad for his employer but left sans 1 pinky finger. Bill had just purchased the iPad at the Apple store when a man walked up behind him as he was exiting the mall and snatched [...]
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