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Amazon Web Services

Amazon releases secure cloud for government

Amazon’s move reflects the ongoing adoption of public cloud services by government entities, including the U.S. Treasury’s Recovery Accountability and Transparency board, which hosts Recovery.gov and Treasury.gov on AWS, as...
Sony's new ultra slim Z Series laptop

Sony announces Vaio Z Series Laptop

Sony revealed its latest batch of laptops at an event in London today, including the Vaio Z Series – a new ultra slim, premium 13.3-inch model. Aimed at the mobile office worker, it weighs less than 1.2kg and is 16.65mm thin, according...
ABR Activation Backup

Backup-Restore Windows Activation

The Windows operating system preserves registration information to the PC, the system was properly registered on. The file is created whenever Windows is activated on a system. It holds hardware information which means that it cannot be copied...
Windows XP

How long should we support old versions of Windows?

Apple this week announced their new iCloud service, joining MobileMe and iTunes in the cloud. With it though they also announced they were missing support for Windows XP from the new product. Indeed they were only supporting their own desktop...
Look up IP address

Look up IP Address Information

The IP (Internet Protocol, see The IP: The house number of your Computer for more information) address is a unique device identifier. All website on the Internet has an IP address associated with it, as does every computer that is used to connect...
Domains

XCommerce.com domain name acquired by Paypal

Xcommerce.com domain name was recently purchased by Paypal. Even though the whois records show DNSination as the current owner, it seems that Paypal is behind the purchase. According to Jamie Zoch, from DotWeekly, Paypal registered other interesting...
.co Domain Bulby Awards

.CO Internet unveils new Bulby Awards

After .CO Internet announced last week that it has exceeded one million .CO domain registrations, today the company made another interesting announcement. .CO Internet unveiled the new Bulby Awards. You can read the press release after the jump: “Less...
Kogan Agora Google Chromium Laptop

1st ever Google Chromium OS Laptop, Kogan Agora has finally arrived

We all know how Google wants to dominate the world, so they do it one product at a time. And now here come their latest OS, Google Chromium OS installed in laptops via Kogan. Kogan, an Australian company, called this laptop the Kogan Agora....
Desktop OS Market Share

Win 7 Beats Win XP in United States

Windows XP had been there on top for a long time but now Windows 7 holds the first position and become the most widely used desktop operating system in the United States. Windows 7 and Windows XP have 31.71% and 31.56% of the desktop operating...
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W3C officially opens HTML5 to scrutiny

The World Wide Web Consortium has reached an important point in the long journey to standardize HTML5, the next version of the Hypertext Markup Language used to describe Web pages. HTML5 officially reached “last call” status this...