Facebook has sold a 1.6% claim ot Microsoft. For the privilege Microsoft has paid the sum of 240 million dollars. While that alone is impressive, whats more important here is that Microsoft beat its arch nemesis to the punch. Google is also interested in acquiring a piece of the Facebook pie.

Why?

Simple. Facebook has 50 million active users, and Google makes its money primarily in advertisements. For example, last fiscal year Microsoft made 1.84 billion dollars, and while thats a huge jump up for Microsoft, up 21% to be exact, Google made more than 13 billion. Now it seems that Microsoft wants to get a jump on some things. I can help but wonder if we will see MySpace type of technology entering into Facebook, I wonder is a huge merger between the social networks will occur.

I visited tigertom.org.uk search engine for the very first time today and I love it. I tried the site out by looking for a couple of items that were of consequence to me and it brought back pretty relevant results. I discovered my internet and news articles searches to be more results oriented, however I was a bit saddened with the images searching. I tried looking for photos of my favorite movie stars, but zero were found. Also one of my personal domains couldn’t be found. I also tried searching for images of “cats” and those items found were also not what I would think would appear. It should be noted that the search engine is in beta, and is not considered finished.I think overall it is a good resource I would make use of in the future.Head over to www.tigertom.org.uk and see for yourself.

Every owner of an online website understands the benefits of possessing a shopping cart on their business page. The multitude of options that site admins have in current times is nearly without limit. With the correct software package you can design a website that will let you to reach out to your prospects and discover your site bringing income with every click. The back end of this shopping cart software will leave nothing to be desired. You may track purchases and design plans for shipping and amounts for each product. You can even create online coupons with your shopping cart software so that you may give your customers increased deals to purchase your items.

Every single site that solicits a product is set up with some type of shopping cart and i want to show you the best shopping cart software developer. They have more than just shopping software for your site, they also have the mandatory stuff that you require to run your website like hosting packages. Have a look and then compare how much you save by having one provider for all of your services. Why pay more?

How many stories have we read about financial institutions or corporate powerhouses losing what to many of us is akin to vast fortunes because of loss of data. It occurs on a daily basis. Read any major business publication and you will see headlines denoting this.

Theres many numerous ways to incur data loss. Theres those evil hackers ever plaguing the electronic world, theres fires, floods, acts of god, and most likely, data corruption or input errors. Whatever the cause data loss is an unacceptable and preventable issue.

I find myself wondering why these companies don’t use online backup solutions to constantly update and store their data to a remote location keeping it intact, safe, and always ready for retrieval.

There are solutions that include encrypting your data, and holding it for later use. This is much preferred and prevents hackers, floods, fires, or data corruption from ruining your data, and your profit.because of its ease anyone can do this, and because its always available with a few clicks, it means next to no downtime for your enterprise.

Along the last couple of years, mostly  every facet of my life has somehow changed, with things only now just beginning  to get calm. After and during all that I finally, I took a bit of time  off and am not traveling or doing anything dramatic. Instead, I’ve used a small but of this recovered moment attempting to re-establish schedules  that erstwhile fell by the wayside.

One of those acts is how I am still caught up, something I did not do so well during this period of chaos. I’ve been testing out different aggregators, trying to discover one that makes me more effective that I can use while on the move. I’d surrendered on the mobile access, mostly because I was peering  at it through my Treo since it’s the one internet access point I without a doubt have on my person. It took me some time, but I just now got time to try Google Reader, and so far I’m very impressed, mostly because of Google Gears. Besides that it’s pretty awesome, it’s insanely advantageous if you’re a laptop user and I believe it has the aptitude to play an important part in the next  couple of years.

In a nut shell, Google Gears is some code that everybody can place  in their online implements to render them acessible offline. It’s built into Google Reader via a single install that doesn’t even ask you to restart your browser. Once utilized, a small icon arrives in the upper right-hand corner, green when online, purple when offline.

It sounds easy enough, but here’s what occurs when you press the green button. Gears downloads all of the posts in your Reader (minus the images) so that you may continue reading when you’re offline. You may still use the standard keyboard commands to move around and  scan your news fast, just like you were online. When you do get back to a live  internet connection, you just click on the purple icon, the Reader returns back online, and it harmonizes your un/read items back to the Google servers, adding to it any things you starred for upcoming reference.

If you are like me and enjoy the convenience of the internet, and internet commerce but aren’t a super geek, or high end computer programmer, then you want something that “just works”. You don’t want to spend days fiddling with it to get it to work. Even worse getting it to work only for one little thing to change on it and suddenly you must start from scratch. You need a solution that does what it claims, and is usable by everyone.

So you got a nice site, and you sell your item. Now you need shopping cart software. A great ecommerce software solution can be found in Ashop. Its a full featured shopping cart. And whats more is that its easy to set up, and easy to run. You needn’t be a programmer or even a very experience computer user to run this.

Your ecommerce software solution can be set up in 10 minutes, and you dont have to install a thing! There are literally hundreds of pre -programmed  features you will find useful for your commercial interests online. You can change the look of your site at a moments notice, you can actually do it with just a single click, no  consultant or programming knowledge necessary .

Now in the spirit of keeping it noce and easy the creators have a turial video for EVERY FUNCTION in this ecommerce software.  Its not something you will  have and not know what a feature will do for you. Theres a complete knowledge base, and a comprehensive manual as well, and if that were not enough, theres a help button by every feature. If you forget a reminder is one click away. And failing that, mind you this is customer service at its best, theres a live chat button in the admin panel. If you need to ask a question, click it and thee you are connected to someone with the company. Theres no waiting on hold etc, just service.

I cant ask for more than that.

System administrators get the head aches of the hi tech world. They are responsible for installing, monitoring, upgrading, and maintaining the hardware, systems, and the software. Things must run smooth, or someone will be yelling at the admin. Some larger groups have many admins, each with a specialization, but often they do everything.

System admins work on things like operating systems, server hardware, software programs, the devices on the network,the web servers, the email systems attached the them, the secuirty of each. Not a sexy job, but its very needed. A good admin is invisible, becuase if they do the job well you never need to call on them. Kind of like the cops that deter crime, they never need to make an arrest and so are never hailed as heroes.

Why does a enterprise need a sysadmin? They are the wood and nails of a the business’s IT building, so to speak. They do the boring, robotlike jobs daily to prevent the problems, and improve technical perfomance. If something does somehow break, they do the diagnostics. They must stay on top of the the changes to the quick technology changes to the systems of the enterprise, and because of that they often contain knowledge that most wont, and it will often prove to be a critical fact. Sysadmins will be needed throughout the foreseeable future. More and more systems go online daily and  they are variably complex, coupled with new technology.

Generally you want one with 3-5  years experience. For some positions companies might seek a 4 year degree, dependant on complexity. Many employers seek only a specific general certificate. Such as Cisco Certified Network Professional or Cisco Certified Network Associate.

Some innovative technology from Google again. YouTube, which is now owned by Google has created InVideo. InVideo is a animated overlay that plays inside a youtube video. It has a clickable message to it.

The ad is fairly simple and resides in the lower  20% or so of the viweing space. They start about 15  seconds into a video, are 80% see through and  remain up for about 10 seconds, then they are gone.

The video giant streams 3 billion minutes of video monthly. Well, thats alot of advertising dollars they weren’t using, alot of opportunities missed.

Its said that the embedded content wont have invideo, possibly because it may be embedded somewhere that wouldn’t flatter the advertiser.

You know, they should have this for television. Commercials are the worst part of TV. A nice little ad, quietly scrolling translucently at the bottom of the screen for 10 seconds, well I think thats hot!

Of course, when would we use the restroom if we didn’t have commercials? I hadn’t considered that. In that light its  as if they are doing a public service…

I jest, but how long until our web surfing is kept in a log and commercials are sent to individual sets based on the viewers surfing… Its coming. I just don’t know when.

A hacker from New Jersey has unlocked the iPhone, enabling the device made by Apple to be used by any carrier.

George Hotz unlocked the iPhone, and has connected it to the T-Mobile Network. T-Mobile is a major competitor of AT&T, who is the sole operator for iPhone.
Hota says to do the hack takes 2 hours, some knowledge of software and soldering. No word yet from either Apple or AT&T.

The hacker hopes that people will unlock their own phones  on their own, he doesnt want his discovery to be used to gain profit. His next project will be to unlock the phone without any soldering.

Hotz says it took 500 hours of work to discover this.

In the hopes of allowing operating system diversity in India, Microsoft will create several projects around Linux, Unix, and BSD. The deadline will appear in about 1 month. Microsoft hopes to grab some market share in India for Windows. Microsoft’s goal is operating system interoperability.

Microsoft will commission a team of “interoperability experts” to better facilitate working in the Linux world. This will be comprised of key developers from both sides of the coding circle.

Last year Microsoft created a council of experts in the US to assist people using microsofts products in a non windows environment. This council will meet bi-annually. Its a normal progression for Microsoft to establish a similar council in India