According to TechCrunch, eBay is all set to acquire StumbleUpon, a popular web discovery site which helps users find new sites, and more recently videos. It’s often described as “channel surfing” on the web.Rumor has it that the price is anywhere from $40–45 million or higher, and Google and AOL were also said to be in on the talks.
The same thoughts are going through my head right now with this
Image hotlinking has become a big issue on the Internet. It occurs when another website directly links to an image on your own site which will eat up your bandwidth. If someone hotlinks to an image and their site doesn’t receive much traffic, the publisher may never notice that this is going on. However, if the site does receive a decent amount of traffic there might be a
It was just a couple of weeks ago that MetaMan sent us a tip saying that Comcast customers in the US were receiving warnings that they needed to cut back on their excessive bandwidth use, otherwise they would face termination (sounds like the Verizon ordeal, doesn’t it?). Some customers have already gotten cut off which is frustrating to say the least.
Joost isn’t even out of beta yet, and
The Direct2Dell blog just posted about a new laptop that Michael Dell has. It is a Dell Precision M90 that is fully tricked out with all of the latest technologies that most of us just dream about. So what kind of specs does this bad boy have? Check them out:
- Intel Core 2 Duo T7600 Processor
- 4GB DDR2 667Mhz DRAM
- 17" WXGA+ Widescreen LCD
- 160GB 7200rpm SATA hard drive
- 8X DVD +/-
Microsoft just released updated Virtual PC images for Windows XP that users can legally download. Virtual PC images are a single file that contain a “clone” of an operating system. The Virtual PC software is a free download provided by Microsoft and is used to run multiple operating systems inside of Windows. This is normally useful for developers who need to try a program that they’re developing on multiple operating
While Google Calendar is a great way to keep organized, people have found another use for it. Using Google Calendar and the new “Search Public Events” feature, people are able to scoop up “private” corporate data that’s probably meant to be private, but is set for the public to view.
Google Calendar allows users to select whether they want the content of their calendar private or public. If it’s made public, the data within those calendars can be returned
The Green Button is a forum that all Windows Media Center users have probably visited at some time or another. The community there is great, and they even have Jessica Zahn (a Windows Media Center Program Manager) participating in some of the topics. One topic that really caught my attention was started yesterday by Jessica and is asking for Beta participants for the next version of Windows
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