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Apple co-founder Steve Jobs Passed Away Today

We heard lots of Jobs’s dead message. but this is real. The great man in this world of IT, passed away today, 2011 Oct 5, he is only 56 years old. We do not know whether there is other guy is greater than Jobs, maybe Bill Gates? But we know Jobs is the only one [...]

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Microsoft Show Windows 8 on Build 2011

Yesterday Microsoft showed much more newer Windows 8 Edition on their Build 2011 conference, as well as how the Windows 8 run on a variety of new hardware, including tablets, ultrabooks, and touch-enabled desktops. You can visit Microsoft Build 2011 official site to watch the video of Keynote.

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Google’s Facebook ?

Google pushed a news today about their new project: Google Plus. It is a similar web product and service with Facebook. Actually, it should not a new project. Google started a Facebook like website very earlier, they had Google Wave, Google buzz, but all them seems failed. Maybe this time Google Plus is a chance. [...]

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Microsoft Mango Beta will come in 24 hours ?

Just read the message from Twitter: seems the Windows Phone 7 Mango beta system will be release in 24 hours. Original Twitter URL is here. Actually, it is June 22 now, I think Microsoft will release today ? Anyway, we still hope Nokia can release their WP7 earlier. Seems the end of this year is [...]

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China Government’s New Search Engine

2011 June 20, People’s Daily, a News and Media company which managed by China Government, rebranded their own search engine, the domain name changed from Goso.cn to Jike.com. Jike, means fastly and quickly in Chinese. People’s Daily said it also chose the name because it sounds like “geek” in English, “representing a computer expert or [...]

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Air Canada Workers Strike

Just now we received email from Air Canada: Dear customer, We are very disappointed that an agreement with the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) leadership has not been reached, leading call centre and airport customer service agents in Canada to take strike action. How will this affect your travel plans? Rest assured that we will continue [...]

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Office 365 and iCloud news

Today we got 2 news about cloud computingL The first one is that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confirmed Office 365 will be released in June 28, this is no more bate version. "June 28th is the date for General Availability of Office 365! > 100,000 real customers on beta…Partners, are you ready???" Jon Roskill, corporate [...]

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Microsoft to buy Skype tomorrow ?

Updated: We got a newest news: Microsoft has already done the deal, the purchase price is $8.5 billion. I think Microsoft will announce tomorrow morning  (May 10, 2011). ————— We read lots of message about Microsoft is to buy out Skype today or tomorrow or soon, the price is about $7 billion or $8 billion. [...]

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