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Operating System Market Share

Microsoft sold more than 60 million copies of Windows 7 by the end of 2009. This quick growth has continued through the first quarter of 2010 and now Windows 7 has 10% market share. Windows XP dropped to 64.46 percent market share, Windows Vista to 16.01 percent, and Windows 7 jumped to 10.23 percent. Mac

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Hacker sentenced to 20 years in prison

Hacker Albert Gonzalez, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for participating in a cybercrime band that stole tens of millions of credit and debit card numbers. He hacked into computer networks of companies such as TJX, DSW, Barnes & Noble, Office Max and Dave & Buster’s.

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The most networked countries

According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Information Technology Report, the most networked countries are: Sweden, Singapore, Denmark, Switzerland and (on the fifth place) U.S. Read more at weforum.org.

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GoDaddy will stop registering .cn (China) domains

The reason of this decision is that the Chinese government wants all registrars provide photo identification, business identification and physically signed registration for all .cn (China) domains registered through GoDaddy.com. Christine Jones, executive vice president from GoDaddy Groups said – “We have 40 million domain names under management. We’ve done this a lot. This is

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Twitter reduces spam

According to a data from Twitter, the website recently significantly reduced spamming activity. On February 2009 only 5% of twitts were spam, on August 2009 more than 9% twitts were spam, on the beginning of 2010 only 1% of twitts are spam. You can read more at blog.twitter.com.

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Opera Mini Browser as an alternative browser for an iPhone

Opera Software announced that it is submitting its Opera Mini Web browser to Apple Store. One of an interesting feature which Opera will have (and which Safari doesn’t have) is the ability to search the content of a Web page.

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New York Times TV

Internet overtakes print in news , so print media switch to Internet and try to provide not only text but also multimedia. New York Times made a next big step toward this trend and it is offering a TimesCast. It is a daily video news program about the top stories The Times is following. It

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Google shuts China Website

The Chinese Government refused to allow access to websites like Facebook, YouTube and Blogger. Then relations between Google and China have become more stressed because of Chinese hacker attacks on the search engine. Today, Google has finally stopped all censorship on Google.cn by redirecting users to Google.com.hk (Google Hong Kong). Source: googleblog.blogspot.com/….

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No quantity, but quality matters

A group of researchers have been published a research paper which has proven that Twitter follower count is relatively an insignificant metric when it comes to determining influence. The researchers examined the Twitter accounts of millions active users. The conclusion is that accounts with the largest number of followers are not always related to their

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OfficeTalk – Twitter from Microsoft

Microsoft is testing Microblogging Service called OfficeTalk. The service is designed for business to let employees share information similar to the way that we use Twitter.

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