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60% Of World’s Population Now Has Cell Phone, Highest Ever

In: Computing| Gadgets| Internet| Technology

2 Mar 2009

A U.N. report published today states that six in ten people (60%) of the world’s population has a cell phone subscription. The driving growth trend is coming from poor, developing countries. This 60% figure is up from just under 15% in 2002.

Internet use has more than doubled to 23% in 2008 up from 11% in [...]

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Important Dates In Microsoft’s History

In: Computing| Inspiration| Technology

27 Feb 2009

Some key dates in the history of Microsoft Corporation:

1975–Paul Allen and Bill Gates, friends who had co-written a programming language for the Altair hobby-kit personal computer, license it to the makers of the Altair. This programming language is the first Microsoft product.
Jan. 1, 1979–Microsoft moves from Albuquerque, N.M., to the Seattle area.
1980–Microsoft chosen by IBM [...]

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A Sexy New Notebook From Sony Vaio

In: Computing| Gadgets| Technology

27 Feb 2009

Sony’s big news announcement at CES involves a very tiny package. But don’t call it a netbook. Sony spokesfolk were adamant that–even though the newcomer packs an Intel Atom processor and 2GB of RAM–this superslim P-series computer is a lifestyle machine. The distinction sort of makes sense, too: At the $899 starting price that Sony [...]

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Internet Information Server Configuration Made Easy by Windows Server 2008

In: Computing| Microsoft| Technology

1 May 2008

Whether it is an administrator struggling to meet the uptime guaranteed in a service level agreement, or a developer working to meet a delivery deadline, both developers and network administrators have wrestled with web server configuration since Microsoft first introduced Internet Information Server (IIS) many years ago. While there will still be plenty of challenges [...]