This week I was having a conversation with my younger brother and he was telling me about this new RIA platform for Java called JavaFX (He’s an interactive Java developer). From what he told me it sounded pretty cool, a lot like version 1 of Silverlight. Here is what I found [...]

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Over the holiday my wife was so kind as to use her hard earned Holiday bonus and buy me an iPhone. For the last two years I have had my trusty old Sprint Treo connected directly to my companies Exchange and personal POP3 server. Now that I have made the first step in switching to [...]

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For those of you in hibernation for the last few years, Google is taking over the world, one free service after another.  This weekend I decided to break ties with Godaddy’s crappy email hosting (5 accounts, 1 GB storage, $20 year) and switch to Google Apps.   My reasons were quite simple, Free is Free and [...]

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Yesterday I read this interesting article titled Google and Friends to Gang Up on Facebook. The basis of the article was Google’s new alliances, which they hope will give them a way to take on Facebook. Specifically, Facebook’s recent decision to allow developers the ability to write against the Facebook platform API. The article states [...]

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Amazon says: “Social phenomena happen, and the historians follow. So it goes with Google, the latest star shooting through the universe of trend-setting businesses. This company has even entered our popular lexicon: as many note, “Google” has moved beyond noun to verb, becoming an action which most tech-savvy citizens at the turn of the [...]

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