Articles Archive for November 2009
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With Firefox and Chrome doing very well, Internet Exxplorer is losing ground in the total browser market share.Latest surveys indicate that the open sourced Firefox browser has racked up one fourth of the total browser market share.Add to this the Chrome and the Safari 4.0 browsers and there is reason to believe that Microsoft are feeling the heat in the race for dominance in the browser market shares.As of now, IE are still on top when it comes to percentage of users(largely due to Windows being shipped in with the IE …
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In a bizarre incident in Canada, a man was arrested for failing to tweet!!!THe person-a music executive in Canada. The arrest was made because the man failed to help the police disperse a crowd who had assembled to greet a teenage pop singer.
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When thousands of people had gathered to greet the teenage star Justin Bieber,it soon led to pushing and shoving. This is when the police asked the the records company Def Jam to send out a tweet asking for calm.Now when the company failed to do so, the police arrested the vice …
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It is important to know how an internet payment processing works.Which will help you build your site.For this first you need to know the participants in a typical online transaction.They include
-Acquiring Bank
An acquiring bank is the bank or financial institution that accepts payments for the products or services on behalf of a merchant.Such banks accepts or acquires transactions performed using a credit card issued by a bank other than itself.But the merchant must open an Internet Merchant Account with an Acquiring Bank to enable online credit card authorization and …
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The USB technology has been one of the sucess stories of the computing world.The USB drives are now longer devices that can hold a little information but they can now be used for storing large amounts of data with storage capacities going as far as 500GB and more.And the sizes of these devices have also reduced drastically.But have you ever wondered which is the smallest USB flash drive,that is in terms of size,not the storage capacity?
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The answer to this is the Active Media Products’ WINK flash drive. The Wink Flash …
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Do you find that loading web pages is very slow,even after getting the fastest Broadband Internet connections?Well,many sites have to load so much content that they are ultimately very slow and you end up disgusted and using the “F” word more often than not. Well all this could change in the future with Google(who else)’s coming up with a new application layer protocol to transfer content over the web.
This new protocol named as SPDY (pronounced as SPeeDY) is designed to speed up the content movement over the internet and supposed …