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Month: December 2008 (Page 4 of 7)

The Top 10 Everything of 2008 (including gadgets)

Time – Here’s a compressive list of 2008’s Top 10:

* Albums
* Animal Stories
* Awkward Moments
* Best Biz Deals
* Best Performances
* Breakups
* Buzzwords
* Campaign Gaffes
* Campaign Video Moments
* Children’s Books
* Crime Stories
* Editorial Cartoons
* Election Photos
* Fashion Moments
* Fashion Faux Pas
* Fiction Books
* Financial Collapses
* Fleeting Celebrities
* Food Trends
* Gadgets
* Green Ideas
* iPhone Apps
* Late Night Jokes
* Magazine Covers
* Medical Breakthroughs
* Movies
* Museum Exhibits
* News Stories
* Non-fiction Books
* Oddball News Stories
* Olympic Moments
* Open Mic Moments
* Outrageous Earmarks
* Photos
* Plays and Musicals
* Political Lines
* Quotes
* Religion Stories
* Scandals
* Scientific Discoveries
* Songs
* Sports Moments
* T-shirt Worthy Slogans
* TV Ads
* TV Episodes
* TV Series
* Underreported Stories
* Video Games
* Viral Videos
* Worst Biz Deals

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The hidden cost of Google Apps

CNNMoney.com – What happens when a business throws out its scheduling and collaboration tools and replaces them with Google’s low-cost, online business software? To find out, we at Blumsday migrated our entire shop of roughly a dozen employees and contractors to test out Google Apps.

Six months in, it’s clear that Google Apps is remarkably powerful for collaboration in many ways that Microsoft Office is not. But, unfortunately for small businesses looking to stretch their IT dollars in these hard times, Google Apps is far from perfect.

If you have not at least taken a gander at Google Apps, please do yourself a favor and click here: http://www.google.com/a. What you will find is the real deal, a “must know about” revolution in small business productivity software. Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) appears to have created a killer collaboration app for small businesses. Among the suite’s many, many features: It enables groups to process documents, send and receive e-mails, schedule meetings, chat, and access centralized storage spots for critical company information.

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User-generated video under siege

Fortune – If you visit YouTube.com – where close to half of all online video is seen – the power-to-the-people motto “Broadcast yourself” appears at the top of your browser. Lately, though, it’s hard not to wonder if the “you” in YouTube doesn’t increasingly refer to “them”: the Big Kahuna media companies whose video wares have been gaining more notice both on YouTube and elsewhere on the web.

Just in recent weeks, YouTube has signed deals with CBS (CBS, Fortune 500) and MGM that are noteworthy because both involve airing full-length TV shows like “Star Trek” and films like “Bulletproof Monk” on the site. Clearly these aren’t the user-generated clips on which the three-year-old site built its primacy (and got itself acquired by Google (GOOG, Fortune 500)). And even before those deals, YouTube had channels for all sorts of professional clips – everything from the BBC to Discovery Channel to Oprah to the NBA.

Of course, there is still a staggering volume and variety of Diet-Coke-and-Mentos-grade home video being uploaded to YouTube – some 13 hours of it each minute. And putting full-length Hollywood material on the web’s top video site is a logical next step. In some respects, YouTube is playing catch-up to compete with the flood of shows available on the web from all the major TV networks, both on their own sites and others like Yahoo (YHOO, Fortune 500) and Hulu.

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IT trends: The top five developments of 2008

ZDNet – While 2008 has been a tumultuous year in business, there have also been a series of developing trends that are quietly transforming the traditional strategies and the standard operating procedures of IT. Here are the five trends that having the biggest impact.
5. The rise of ultra-cheap PCs

A variety of “Netbooks” from leading PC vendors brought sub-$500 laptops to the masses in 2008. These low-cost, small-form-factor machines — pioneered by the OLPC XO and Asus Eee PC — were originally aimed at emerging markets. However, consumers from the U.S., Europe, and Japan snapped them up in surprisingly large numbers.

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Dell: Want XP? That’ll be $150 please!

ZDNet – How much extra will people people pay to avoid Vista? Dell has pushed the price of avoiding Vista up to $150.

More and more. In June, Dell (DELL) started charging customers an extra $20 to $50 for a downgrade to Windows XP. By October, Dell’s XP premium was up to $100. We checked in on Dell’s site today, and the retailer is now charging a whopping $150 for what Microsoft (MSFT) says is outdated software.

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