Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on November 08, 2006 by CyberNet.

CNet has launched a new site, called Webware, that will cover a lot of online software to help make you more productive. It looks like they started posting to the site in April but they are just now officially announcing it. Looking through the long list of posts that they already have done I am surprised to see how many similarities there are between the new site and TechCrunch (who also focuses on Web 2.0).

While Webware is still new I think they can gain a lot of ground quickly by promoting themselves on their parent site CNet who receives millions of visitors each day. They currently have a link on the CNet homepage under “More Stories” but I don’t see any kind of permanent link located in their sidebar, which I am sure would really help.

It will be interesting to see how TechCrunch, with more than 136,000 feed readers, will perform against their new competition. There are also many other sites, such as GigaOM, who are also in Webware’s line of fire.

News Source: Digg

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This article was written on March 02, 2007 by CyberNet.

When you buy a domain name, common sense would say that it is yours for the keeping. The only time that we really hear about people losing a domain name is when they forget to renew it after it expires, and in order to get it back you normally have to fork out a good chunk of money.

There was just a situation, however, that goes beyond what many people have ever thought about happening. The owner of the domain FamilyAlbum.com found himself pinned in a corner when he saw that he no longer owned the domain. Apparently GoDaddy was informed that the email address specified for the Whois registration was no longer valid. GoDaddy sent the owner of the domain an email to that account, and after no response for 8–weeks GoDaddy automatically took possession of it.

GoDaddy’s response was:

We cancelled the domain name registration on this domain name because the customer did not respond to our email request to update the information. In fact, we did not hear from the customer for more than eight weeks after our initial contact attempt. Per ICANN regulations, we are required to collect valid information. Per our Registration Agreement, we will cancel the name for invalid Whois if the information is not updated within the appropriate amount of time.

What is really aggravating is that they only sent an email. They didn’t try to mail him a quick letter or even pick up the phone to call him, which would have worked since that information was still said to be valid. Instead they relied on an email address that people have a tendency to change quite frequently.

After GoDaddy got the domain they turned around and sold it for $18.99, which is their backorder price. That means someone probably notified GoDaddy that the email address was no longer valid just so that they could swoop up the domain themselves. I did a little hunting around and it appears as though the domain is just for personal purposes, but that still doesn’t excuse their actions.

If you are using GoDaddy for your Registrar,I highly recommend that you make sure your Whois information is up-to-date. That would be really horrible to go through a lot of work setting up a site just to have it taken away from you!

Source: Domain Name Wire [via ThreadWatch and Digg]

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This article was written on April 25, 2008 by CyberNet.

Microsoft’s fiscal 3rd quarter has just come to an end and their earnings have been reported. Overall, they saw their net-income decrease by about 11%. Part of the drop is due to the money they had to charge, $1.42 billion, to cover that whole fiasco they got into with the European union and their antitrust investigation. The other part of that drop in revenue, as the Wall Street Journal explains, is because of a “revenue influx in the year-earlier period associated with sales of the Windows Vista operating system.” Last year at this time, Vista had just arrived on scene and people were buying new computers with Vista installed, left and right.

During the conference call report from Microsoft, they also brought up the bid that they have made for Yahoo. We’ve already known that they had no plans to increase their offer of $44.6 billion, but Microsoft reiterated this once again. Chris Liddell who is Microsoft’s chief financial officer, l said that Yahoo is expecting an unrealistic amount of money. He was quoted as saying, “Yahoo continues to have unrealistic expectations of value. I’ve yet to see any evidence that our bid undervalues them (Yahoo).” Then he went on to say, “The best argument that I’ve heard for raising our bid – that we can afford to – is not one that I favor.” Microsoft may just have to walk away from Yahoo empty-handed.

Other news coming from the conference call:

• Vista Sales Update
• Entertainment division update

Regarding the Vista sales update, the last time we heard any number was in January and at that point, 100 million copies had been sold. Now they’re saying that a total of 140 million licenses of Vista have been sold which tells us that between January and now, 40 million licenses were sold. That’s not a bad number at all, and it doesn’t include volume licenses sold to corporations, but it does include those who are taking advantage of the “downgrade” to XP service that we’ve previously mentioned.

A big winner this quarter, once again comes from their entertainment division. This particular division saw an overall growth of 68% which means they’ve got the sales of Xbox 360 consoles and games to thank. Despite the fact that Microsoft saw their net-income decrease by about 11%, they still rank #44 on Fortune 500′s annual ranking of America’s largest corporations based upon revenue and profits.

In a nutshell, here’s what we can gather from their earnings report:

• Sales of Windows weren’t as strong as expected
• Sales of Office and other business apps were slightly down
• Sever and tools sales were up quite a bit
• Revenue from entertainment division was way up
• Outlook for their 4th quarter 2008 and fiscal year 2009 is optimistic

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The future of Meego has become a little clearer this morning, now that the Linux Foundation has announced that it’ll be replaced with Tizen — a new Linux-based, open-source OS. Samsung and Intel have been tapped to lead the development of the platform, in collaboration with the LiMo Foundation — a consortium of companies including Panasonic Mobile Communications, NTT DoCoMo and SK Telecom, among others. According to its stewards, Tizen will support HTML5- and WAC-based apps and will be designed to run across a wide spectrum of devices, including smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, netbooks and in-car infotainment systems. The MeeGo project, for its part, already seems to be on board with the initiative, promising to “make sure that users of MeeGo can easily transition to Tizen,” while assisting MeeGo developers, as well. The new OS is slated for release during the first quarter of 2012, with the first Tizen-laced devices scheduled to hit the market around the middle of next year. For more details, hit up the source link below, or trek past the break for the full PR.

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This article was written on December 26, 2006 by CyberNet.

Mozilla really seemed to step up the game in 2006 when it came to Firefox. With the new release of Firefox 2 they even went as far as to air commercials on television that were created by Firefox fans! It has been an amazing journey following Firefox throughout 2006 and I went through all of our Firefox stories (totaling more than 240) to pick out our favorites. Here they are in chronological order (the top of each list being the most recent):

Firefox 1.5 Related:

• Download Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.1 And 1.5.0.9
• Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.8 Released
• Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7 Released
• Firefox 1.5.0.6 Has Been Released
• Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.5 Available For Download
• Mozilla Thunderbird & Firefox 1.5.0.4 Released Today
• Firefox 1.5.0.3 Released With The Security Patch
• Did Mozilla Fix The Memory Leaks With Firefox 1.5.0.2?
• Firefox 1.5.0.1 Has Officially Been Released For Download

Firefox 2 Related:

• Where Does Firefox 2 Stand on Vista Compatibility
• Download Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.1 And 1.5.0.9
• Make Firefox 2 Show Tabs With Your OS Theme
• CyberNet’s Updated Guide On Firefox 2 Tweaks
• Firefox 2 Is Now *Officially* Released And Has A Redesigned Homepage
• Paul Thurrott Says Firefox 2 Is A Dud
• How To Change User Agents In IE 7 And Firefox 2
• Mozilla Fixes 2300 Bugs In Firefox 2.0 So Far
• CyberNet’s Extensive Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 Review

Firefox 3 Related:

• Firefox 3 Produces Wonderful Anti-Aliased Corners
• Latest Firefox 3 Nightly Passes The Acid 2 Test
• Download The Newly Released Firefox 3 Alpha 1
• Firefox 3 To Have Advanced Microsummaries
• Mozilla Starts Brainstorming Features For Firefox 3 And Beyond

General Firefox:

• Trimming Down Firefox For The Holiday Season
• Firefox Gets Its Television Debut
• 200 Firefox Extensions Installed At One Time!
• Firefox Crop Circle Now On Google Maps
• Minimizing Firefox Memory Leaks
• What Would Happen If Microsoft Owned Firefox?
• Mozilla’s World Firefox Day Participants Acknowledged
• What Are Your Favorite Firefox Extensions
• Mozilla Firefox Add-ons Page Gets A Nice Facelift
• Creating A “Sandbox” To Test Firefox Extensions
• Crushing Those JavaScript Pop-ups In Firefox
• Topics Mozilla Covered In The Meeting With Microsoft
• Firefox Easter Egg – The Book Of Mozilla
• The Funniest Firefox Extensions
• Using Keyword Searches In Firefox And Opera
• Greasemonkey Scripts That Save You Time
• How To Make Firefox Look Like IE
• Mozilla Switches From “I’m Feeling Lucky” To “Browse By Name”
• 10 Great Firefox Extensions For Tabbed Browsing
• 10 Privacy And Security Extensions For Firefox
• How To Upgrade Your Portable Firefox
• Firefox Hits 200 Million Downloads
• A Look Back At Firefox (Phoenix) 0.1
• Compatibility Issues When Testing Firefox
• How To Customize Firefox’s Toolbars
• Tweak Firefox’s Password Saver Without An Extension
• What You Need To Know To Be A Firefox Nightly Tester
• Firefox Becomes The First Third-Party Program On Google’s Homepage
• Reducing Your Memory Usage In Firefox
• This May Help Your Firefox Memory Leak

I was inspired to do this post from the Firefox Extension Guru who just wrote an article reviewing what has happened with Firefox in the past year. There are a number of significant details that he included that I don’t think I even knew about. I don’t want to spoil the article but I do want to point out that towards the end there is some information on future releases that includes Firefox 2, 3, and 4! If you like his post as much as I do make sure you Digg it!

So as the year comes to an end I would like to congratulate Mozilla on the hard work and dedication that has surely paid off. Firefox’s market share continues to rise and I can’t wait to see what 2007 brings!

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