JMH Techtronics

Someone has been working there sales jobs pretty well lately. Even the CIA, FBI, and National Security Agency are testing a social-networking site designed for use by analysts within the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies. Interesting concept. At least how they are talking about it being a Facebook for spies and all. Of course none of [...]

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With the coming of Google Chrome, one has to ask….Do you really want a new browser? Isn’t Firefox virtually perfect for most people in every way? If it isn’t perfect, then isn’t Opera nice. Keep in mind…I don’t give a crap about Apple browsers. You can give your own shout outs to your Lion King [...]

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If you spend your days jerking off to stories about Apple and Google, then this one is a good one for you. Microsoft was finally outdone in their attempt to acquire Yahoo! search and advertising assets. The agreement between Yahoo! and Google will basically give 90% of the search advertising market to Google.
When it [...]

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We have seen computers reach astounding speeds, and you can’t even keep up with how quickly they actually do speed up. Things are quite different from the first Windows 3.1 computer I had, or even looking back to the days as a child when i had the Vic 20, Commodore 64 and 128. Today we [...]

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We were looking for a relatively inexpensive option to access data at home from our combined work office and decided to do a bit of browsing around the online stores to see just what would work for us recently. We didn’t really want to pay a monthly fee of any sort like the remote office [...]

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I was reading an article on CNET earlier about all the crazy new merge names they were coming up with to describe the landscape of the battle for Yahoo!, and the Lord of the Web and it gave me a headache. So I popped a couple of pills and decided that I like my name [...]

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Do you even have Firefox 3 yet? I…well…checks version…2.0.something. Nope. Beta is available in that link.
So…we are already talking about Firefox 4. It won’t even be released this year, but why not get some early scoop on it? In an interview with Chris Beard, VP of Labs for Mozilla, Rafe Needleman discusses some of [...]

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Rumors going around lately, again, like they always are when it comes to Digg, saying that they are looking to get paid by someone like Microsoft or Google. Supposedly they came uout and denied the bidding war and will not be “selling out” to corporate overlords.
Arrington said Google, Microsoft, and two media companies may [...]

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There is really no way I can pretend that I wouldn’t rather see Microsoft running the world than Google, but hey, let’s get some search engine competition going on here regardless. Google is eating webmasters alive with their demands lately because their algorithm is easy to manipulate.
So…I’m sure you have heard that Microsoft has [...]

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Photographs have been time stamped for ages, but now they can be stamped with the exact location in the world where they were taken? Interesting concept. Stephen Shankland, at CNET wrote an article about it today which I found pretty interesting because I had not yet heard of this technology. Apparently it is being called [...]

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