With all the hype surrounding the recent announcement of the much anticipated Apple iPad, there have been ample discussions as to the significance of this new device. With statements such as “it’s just a big iPod Touch” and “it will fail because it lacks [a camera, multitasking, support for Flash, a standard USB port],” it [...]

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To summarize – GeekRetreat Stanford completely exceeded my expectations and the organizers ( Heather Ford, Justin Spratt and Eve Dmochowska) deserve special recognition for their vision and approach which achieved such a superb result from such a motley crew of delegates. To expand, read the the rest of this post…

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We have really been looking forward to announcing the launch of our new online résumé/CV product called Twitsumé and it has been tough to not say too much. But at last the launch date has arrived and we can tell you all about it. First things first – it’s found at twitsume.com
In a nutshell, Twitsumé.com [...]

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Yup – it’s true. Twitter has experienced one of the longest outages in years, while Facebook has been experiencing intermittent disruptions for a number of minutes (becoming hours) already today.
The reason for Twitter’s down time is a “denial of service” (DoS) attack according to their status blog.
The reason’s for Facebook being down/disrupted are less clear, [...]

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Software as a Service (SaaS) could well be a favourable business investment to explore in recessionary times and has been driven by the need to find cost-effective, beneficial ways to run businesses.
A recent Gartner report stated that SaaS revenue in the enterprise application market was on pace to surpass 6.4-billion dollars, and that the [...]

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