The site, which drew a big initial crowd thanks to “The Landlord” video featuring Ferrell and McKay’s toddler daughter, now averages 3.2 million unique visitors per month, according to a press release.
The two-year-old site is backed by comedian Will Ferrell, along with Adam McKay and Chris Henchy. The Web site also has the backing of [...]

Cloud storage has become a big trend with the involvement of many storage and networking vendors, such as Netgear, with its new ReadyNAS Vault, or Marvell, with the Sheeava computer.
Unlike the established LaCie, which was founded in France in 1989, Wuala is still a relatively new start-up. Before the merger, the company’s personnel included just [...]

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The API includes functions for creating and deleting tables and columns, as well as for changing cluster, table, and column family metadata, such as access control rights, according to a white paper on BigTable, which gives the following description of its evolution and usage:

I’ve queried Google on this potential news and await a response. Given [...]

These fans seem to be casual music listeners in their thirties, knowledgeable about computers and personal technology but not obsessed with it. They may have an
iPod at home, but have grown tired of their own personal music collection or haven’t gotten around to connecting it to their
car stereo. They’re old enough to remember a [...]

Whatever will they pick up next?
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One can only hope for some form of reconciliation in the sad Google Street View divorce. At the very least, wouldn’t it be nice if Google picked up the legal bills? Or if the company offered to pay for counseling? On the other hand, will the poor [...]

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(T)he ideal scenario for the commercial vendor is to bring its product to market first, to judiciously improve its product features, to keep its product “closed” so the open-source product cannot tap into the network already built by the commercial product, and to segment the market so it can take advantage of a divide-and-conquer strategy.

But [...]

Microsoft did something that it rarely does last week when it announced availability of its Hyper-V server virtualization technology months ahead of schedule. Unlike Microsoft Virtual Server, which ran as an application, Hyper-V is a true hypervisor capable of hosting multiple instances of Windows and even Suse Linux.

VMware is way too ubiquitous and strong [...]

“We feel that with longer snippets, you get a better understanding of what the site is about and whether you should click through,” Allon said. “We noticed with longer snippets, people (less often) click and come back because they didn’t find what they want.”

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One example: a search for “revolutionary technological developments [...]

A few months ago, spam came to Google Calendar. Now phishing has arrived.
“We are having congestions (sic) due to the anonymous registration of Gmail accounts, so we are shutting down some Gmail accounts, and your account was among those to be deleted. We are sending you this email to so that you can [...]

Bungee Labs is extending the hosting options for its Web application development environment, Bungee Connect. Today, developers using the Bungee Connect development environment can host their applications on Bungee’s multitenant grid in the U.S. and Europe or on Amazon EC2. Beginning in July in public beta, organizations will be able to deploy Bungee Connect applications [...]