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Microsoft is yet to announce its new CEO, and now its believed that the company won’t just announce Ballmer’s successor. Recent rumors suggest that Ballmer may give up his seat on the board, and that the board is considering replacing chairman Bill Gates, who also happens to be Microsoft’s co-founder and first CEO. While the company hasn’t confirmed anything as yet, Bloomberg reports that even if he’s replaced as chairman, Gates will remain involved in product development at Redmond, but will reduce focus on administration matters.

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Bill Gates To Remain Involved In Product Development At Microsoft original content from Ubergizmo.

This article was written on September 15, 2006 by CyberNet.

A few days ago “d_leaper” commented asking why we haven’t created Microsummaries for Firefox yet. I hadn’t really thought about making a Microsummary before so I started to look into it.

If you’re not familiar with Microsummaries then you shouldn’t feel bad. It is a new feature in the upcoming Firefox 2 that will allow people to stay updated with what’s going on in a particular site. Microsummaries are often referred to as “Live Titles” because that is exactly what they are.

When you create a bookmark for a site that has a Microsummary available you will see a drop-down menu of choices that you can choose for the title of the bookmark. The first (default) choice will be the typical title of the page while the other choices that are offered will be the “Live Titles,” assuming they are available. They will then be periodically updated as the content changes.

With that in mind I created three different types of Microsummaries depending on what type of page you are viewing on CyberNet:

1. When you bookmark our homepage the Microsummary option will show you the title of the most recent article that is available:
   
2. When you bookmark an article’s page, for example this one, the Microsummary will show you how many comments the article has received followed by the article’s title. That way you can bookmark multiple articles and still be able to distinguish them from each other.
   
3. The last one is for our registered users (you must be logged in for this to work). It utilizes the Unread Comments feature that we implemented a few weeks ago.

   When you bookmark the Management page the Microsummary will either be title of the last article that was commented on or it will display “No Unread Comments” if you are up-to-date on your comment reading. 🙂

   Here is what it looks like with some unread comments:
    

   Here is what it looks like without any unread comments:
   

I hope some of you will find those Microsummaries to be useful. All of the screenshots I took were of me creating the bookmark so that it is easy for you to see how to “activate” the Live Title. Remember, these will dynamically change based on the content that is within the page.

Let us know if you have any comments or recommendations.

Copyright © 2014 CyberNetNews.com

In the nine years since Amazon Prime was first launched, the service’s price has remained constant, its a $79 per year subscription that gives customers free two-day shipping of over 19 million goods purchased through the world’s largest online marketplace. Unfortunately, its possible that the Amazon Prime membership cost might go up in the near future. Amazon said in a call with investors and analysts that an increase between $20 and $40 is possible for customers in the U.S.

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Amazon Prime Membership Cost May Rise Soon original content from Ubergizmo.

Robots do seem to be in the spotlight lately, and in this case, scientists from Spain have come up with a robotic “tongue” that is able to identify the difference between various types of beer. This particular robotic tongue is already nearly 82 percent accurate whenever it takes a swig of various brews. Drawing inspiration from nature as usual, the scientists have decided to make this robotic tongue feature 21 ion-selective electrodes to base it on the same way which we taste. This would function as a sensor array, where each of the 21 ion-selective electrodes would be able to play a role in determining the different levels of particular elements that are present in each beer.

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Robo-Tongue Knows Its Beers original content from Ubergizmo.

Ever since Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced last year that he is going to step down within 12 months, there has been a lot of speculation about who is going to get the top job at Redmond. Many names have been floated of both internal and external candidates, one of the first to declare himself out of the running was Ford CEO Alan Mulally, who reiterated his commitment to the auto manufacturer. Another Microsoft CEO candidate has taken the same path, kicking all rumors to the curb, its Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg who confirms that he’s not planning to leave Ericsson for Microsoft.

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Microsoft CEO Candidate Hans Vestberg Kicks Rumors To The Curb original content from Ubergizmo.