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August 19
Piecing together Microsoft’s cloud-computing vision

The term “cloud computing” has become almost meaningless — being used synonymously for everything from software-as-a-service (SaaS), to platform-as-a-service (PaaS).

But a new white paper,…
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ECMA What? Harmony Who? TC39? Tamarin? JavaScript! Alex Russell has seen the confusion of the many names that were bandied around with the Harmony news last week. There are so many names, that involve specs, projects, and general technical jargon…
August 18
The Future of the Desktop Everything is moving to the cloud. As we enter the third decade of the Web we are seeing an increasing shift from native desktop applications towards Web-hosted clones that run in browsers. For…
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3-D Movies: Coming Back at You The brick road wasn’t just yellow. It was school-bus-parked-on-the-surface-of-the-sun yellow. That’s because when The Wizard of Oz premiered in 1939, Hollywood was still testing its newest toy,…
August 17
Pandora On the Verge of Closing Shop Pandora is an internet radio service that allows you to create your own radio station based on songs and artists that you like. While you can’t necessarily pick and choose what you’ll hear on…
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Clever Bradesco Olympics Ads
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Cracking The Codes!! (pics) While the rear ends of these world class female athletes may look great to you guys, they are actually communicating with each other on which move they will make next.
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Debian Turns 15 Years Old The most popular and stable GNU/Linux operating system Debain has turned 15 today. There are many interesting facts about Debian which makes it even more adorable. Debian was announced on 16 August…
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Record-breaker Bolt claims gold Usain Bolt powered to a new world record as he produced a stunning run in the 100m Olympic final.
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Incredible: Phelps' Miracle Finish Frame-by-Frame Underwater An underwater frame-by-frame shot of Michael Phelps’ .01-second victory in the 100m Butterfly Final.”Phelps brought his hands down through the water and touched the wall .01 seconds before Cavic…