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Here’s something I didn’t expect to read this morning. Virtual worlds are big stuff. The kid-oriented variety, anyhow. Indeed, The New York Times reported today that despite the less-than-stellar magnetism attributed to the teen- and adult-specific gamespace/marketplace called Second Life, the places on the Web reserved for the youngest of computer-savvy generations are quite the [...]

The last 365.2425 days – give or take – have comprised a pretty remarkable period of time. Everything in the tech space has appeared supercharged since that day of new beginnings past. Whether you look at advancements made in root technologies that have enabled the transmission of higher and higher quality media over the Web, [...]

The first Web browser to garner mainstream acceptance among the Internet’s earliest users (in the general consumer sector, that is), Netscape Navigator has been slated for final decommissioning come February 1, 2008. The news of the program’s imminent departure was released late last week by its current owner, AOL. As much as we knew Navigator’s [...]

The year is almost through. Eggnog’s running low. The once fresh-cut Douglas-firs placed inside millions of homes over the holidays are running dry and approaching their final demise. Bottles of bubbly are being prepped and placed on standby for the global celebration to happen next week for the new calendar’s arrival. So I think it’s [...]

In a bid to diversify its holdings in the realm occupied by its Web-based business, Wal-Mart has done something quite unpredictable and peculiar. It has launched its very own SEM service. (SEM is short for search engine marketing.) Indeed. The company that started small and unsophisticated decades ago and grew to become the largest retail [...]

Unlike many retail giants of mostly brick-and-mortar, chain-linked proportions headquartered in the US, Amazon has shown a nice finish to 2007. The company, one of the largest of all online retail outlets, displayed a record number of sales this month – 5.4 million for the day of December 10th alone – effectively pushing the marketplace [...]

What seemed to grow more and more apparent throughout the last few months in advance of Macworld Expo ’08 has finally been outed by big media. The Financial Times reported early yesterday (in its trademark salmon-colored pages) that Apple and 20th Century Fox, a entity held by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, inked a deal that [...]

It’s arrived! And ahead of schedule, we see. Earlier this week we received a memo sent by the CEO of Red Room, a writer-reader oriented online networking solution. The company head, Ivory Madison, conveyed some happy holiday wishes to the team here, and also mentioned that abovementioned site, which I myself spoke favorably of just [...]

Sure, we’re a tad too late to the punch. We probably should’ve spent a few moments earlier in the week sharing a thought or two about the Web-2.0-ification of Queen Eliza and her immediate familial subjects relatives – in advance of her holiday greeting. But better late the never, right? Okay, putting aside the fact [...]