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By Robert Young
Back in the 1970’s, the television industry began a long period of market realignment that was caused by the introduction of a disruptive innovation called cable TV. After decades of market incursion, cable’s impact on the TV landscape is now complete and its disruptive effect has reached its peak. The result [...]

Digg and Del.icio.us are great tools to discover interesting content on the web which has been curated by the crowd. Since then, we have had newer tools like Clipmarks and eClips emerge, and have become useful part of our digital lives. Maybe it is time to add StumbleUpon, a web discovery extension for the Mozilla [...]

Facebook might have dominated the headlines, and the conversation, but look who is making a comeback, and catching up: Friendster. Sure, Alexa rankings are as reliable as the New York Yankees pitching, but for what its worth, it still merits a look. Scott Rafer pointed out earlier that Friendster is big in Asia, Phillipines in [...]

At the recent Google Press Day, I was intrigued by the continuous chanting of the “focus on search” and back to the basics of 70% mantra by the senior Google executives. I wondered to myself, well perhaps, a little fear of the big brother up north is making them circle the wagons a little.
Of course [...]

Hey if Intel can reside inside of a Mac, then an AMD 64 chip inside a Dell server is not that preposterous. Looks like, AMD finally broke through the last remaining barrier in its competition with Intel. Dell, however, is still resisting using AMD chips in its desktops and laptops. Only a matter of time. [...]