Rise of the Machine

There&rsquo;s no simply denying that 2009 was a good year for Facebook. Almost everything about Facebook was up and revenue went up too. The social networking supersite has completely dominated the world of social networking; Mark Zuckerberg&rsquo;s brainchild has taken the web by storm. In US alone it&rsquo;s grow stronger and bigger. Facebook have been the subject of endless business model speculation, much of what net prophets preached about Facebook has now come to pass. It is now the most dominant and largest social networking site in the web. The company is now well positioned to make ...</![endif]--></!--[if gte mso 10]></![endif]--></!--[if gte mso 9]></![endif]--></!--[if gte mso 9]>

Almost every gamer across the globe knew Halo, one of the most popular game in the planet and probably the best video game ever. Halo has stood the time, it&rsquo;s already proved itself. Halo is Microsoft&rsquo;s last bid and the only weapon of choice it got on its arsenal on its struggle with Sony for the battle for the game console supremacy. Halo is exclusive to Microsoft&rsquo;s Xbox 360. Halo has already earned its reputation as a cross media property, the success of Halo has spawned a number of secondary products such as Playbook novels, there&rsquo;s even a Halo themed Mountain Dew beverage. Halo ...

Early on, I was amused when Microsoft would tease the public about its next big hit. Microsoft was pretty good and smart in controlling media. It was the company&rsquo;s heyday. That game is over. Microsoft is no longer the crown jewel of the tech world. The downturn began when Zune made a headline, remember the Zune screen of death. Zune was Microsoft&rsquo;s weapon of choice in the highly lucrative digital media player market. Its Microsoft own version of iPod. Microsoft have been eyeing the digital media player market for years, the Redmond&rsquo;s beast got ambition to enter the consumer electronics ...

Europe is facing a tough battle, the threat of energy shortfall. There&rsquo;s a growing gap between demand for electricity and capacity of power stations to supply it. Technological innovation holds a great promise and solutions, and it&rsquo;s already exits. But it will take decades for clean technologies to be distributed on a large scale. That&rsquo;s doesn&rsquo;t mean that we are powerless we got some options, adopting combined heat and power systems switching from coal to clean energy technologies, embracing renewable energy. One potential target is nuclear energy, Europe got a well developed nuclear ...

Today, taking cost out of IT while delivering solid performance is critical on business. As growth organizations cope with rapid data growth, the need to drive increased agility while reducing complexity and cost has become one of IT&rsquo;s great challenges. Linux provides a cost effective platform that delivers optimal performance and can be easily managed and scaled. Just as important, the scaling of the IT infrastructure management can be done without increased complexity. No wonders the business world has embraced it enthusiastically, and used Linux for their data centers. These days Linux ...

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For the past few months we have seen an tremendous growth in computing and exponential growth in storage requirements. On our current economic conditions, taking cost out of IT while delivering solid performance is critical. As companies cope with the rapid data growth the need to drive increased agility while reducing complexity and cost has become one of IT&rsquo;s great challenges. And the answer to those challenges is dynamic infrastructures. Today&rsquo;s applications is getting extreme, IT companies are in great needs of cost effective storage that delivers optimal performance and could easily ...

Finally the day has come; Facebook Connect is now live for all who wish to integrate into their sites. Facebook Connect is the social network&rsquo;s hottest tool for expanding their social services. Facebook Connect service was originally announced last May just one day after MySpace announced its very own Data Portability Initiative and a few days before Google announced Google Friend Connect. Facebook is betting hard on Facebook Connect to become the primary identity standard on the web. Facebook Connect is a huge step in social networking world. Connect will allows users to port their profile ...

Facebook&rsquo;s Mark Zuckerberg has announced that he was leading a once in a lifetime media revolution, Facebook, the super hot social networking site, has taken the web by storm. Its hits front page and generated a tons of buzz in the blogosphere. Facebook is one of the fastest rising dot-coms in the history of the web and probably the one of the best startup ever. The company has already surpassed 120 million active users according to the site statistics, it numbers continue to climbed; there is no sign of slowdown. But despite of its rapid growth many have criticized Zuckerberg lack of focus ...

Yahoo sad, alone and in great trouble. The iconic Yahoo suffered a painful blew after it lost a high profile search deal with search company Google, Yahoo reportedly try to reach out to Microsoft, perhaps to restart another acquisition talks but the software company declined Yahoo, its no longer interested to Yahoo acquisition. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has just announced that all Yahoo acquisition talks are done. Wall Street has recommended this option. Yes, Yahoo got alternative, it&rsquo;s Microsoft. The tragedy begin when Google walk away, the desperate Yahoo try to seek another elephant in ...

Chrome is Google&rsquo;s latest salvo in the much anticipated browsers war. It is the Google&rsquo;s weapon of choice in its bid to become the leader of all internet. When Chrome was launched in September its taken center stage and generated shock waves that struck almost every corners of the web, even the mighty Microsoft was stunned. Chrome is a piece of technology, it got the power, speed, stability and sophisticated technology that could put competitors on shame. The company claims that Chrome was designed to make browsing the web faster, safer and easier, it is an open source browser based on ...

Rumor is rife on the web that Microsoft is in talks to buy eBay. Microsoft to buy eBay? Is this a joke? The software giant is considering buying online auctioneer eBay and merging it. Is this mean that Microsoft turned more attention onto eBay rather than Yahoo? Microsoft has &ldquo;dramatically&rdquo; changed direction here and it&rsquo;s going for eBay, the strategy was completely changed,its moving toward ecommerce. Is eBay better than Yahoo? There are always plenty of good reasons for Microsoft 's decision to take eBay. Maybe this has something to do with Microsoft recent acquisition of eshopping ...

When Microsoft unveiled Silverlight, its generated tons of shockwave in the blogosphere, the rich internet application from Microsoft hit center stage and it took the web by storm. Silverlight is a cross browser, cross device, it&rsquo;s a browser plug-in that provides online video and interactive media applications. The Redmond&rsquo;s new rich internet application boast strong development tools, perfectly adopted for rich interactive web applications, this will take user experience one step further. Microsoft launched Silverlight to compete head to head with industry leading Adobe Flash which dominates ...

Google vs. Microsoft: The turf war, Microsoft thinks it has found a way to sell online ads. Google readying a counterattack. Welcome to the battle of the brands, clash of the titans, the good and evil. What about you see is the most ferocious and bloodiest battle ever seen in web history. Google, the search king, dominant leader in online ads against Microsoft the monopoly provider of desktop OS and web browser. The first great battle for the future of the web, the winner of the battle stand to make billions of selling eyeballs to advertisers, selling services, even computer power. The stakes ...

Is Microsoft deserve Facebook? I heard that Microsoft is going to buy Facebook. We know that Microsoft is already in bed with Facebook and best positioned to strike a deal! Microsoft has paid Facebook premium to thwart Google, just to keep Facebook from the prying lenses of Google and Yahoo! What exactly is Microsoft buying here?Technology? Facebook is great, with 70 million active users, it is one of the most trafficked websites in the world. Its what we called as the forefront of connecting people to one another and it maybe too late for social networking competitors out there to catch up. Microsoft ...