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  • Vincent Tan is Friendster’s best friend

    Vincent Tan is Friendster’s best friend

    Well he just bought Friendster for an unconfirmed value of US$110 million. In the unlikely case that CHIP reader does not know, Friendster is a global social networking site with over 115 million registered user. That’s roughly 3 4 times the whole population of Malaysia……
  • Cyber Attacks On Your Life

    Cyber Attacks On Your Life

    Some of us finally had a taste of being at the receiving end of a cyber attack last week. Or maybe you got it but didn’t realise it. Yeah.. you did really. Those FB and Twitter addicts that were left pulling their hair last Thursday and Friday when they had difficulty accessing the sites to keep track of the happenings in their cyber world. Twitter site actually suffered outage for hours on Thursday before it was restored and anti-DDoS measure installed.
  • Yahoo! gone Bing!

    Yahoo! gone Bing!

    After launching a jab at Google via the Office Web announcement, Microsoft today delivered a left hook that it hoped will deliver the solid punch to rock its opponent
  • High Speed Broadband Wish

    High Speed Broadband Wish

    Here I’m again, stumped in front of my work desk. Cause: darn slow broadband connectivity that drags and drawls to generate even the simplest of websites. Did I say broadband just now – because this certainly does not feel like broadband to me, narrowband or…
  • Bye Bye Geocities

    Bye Bye Geocities

    Yahoo! recently sent out notices it that they’re closing down Geocities on 26 October 2009. There goes another piece of history to the basement of museum archives.
  • Bing! Microsoft Fights Back

    Bing! Microsoft Fights Back

    No sooner had I clicked the ‘Submit’ button on the last post “Google Pick A New Fight“, the boys in Redmont came out huddled from the meeting room and announced “You cross our line, now we are going to cross your line!!” Yeah… it seems…
  • Google Pick A New Fight

    Google Pick A New Fight

    Crossroads hd The latest buzz this week in the IT world has to be the news from Mountain View that after dallying with the Chrome browser, Google wants to go into OS development next. The hegemony of Microsoft is continually being challenged by the Google…