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Microsoft has filed a patent for a "Metered Pay-As-You-Go Computing Experience." The exact words of the filing's abstract are as follows:
Twellow, our tool that has made finding fellow Twitterers with common interests easier for a number of users has just made searching for these people even more convenient. You can add special characters to your queries to enhance your search. If you are unfamiliar with Twellow, think about it as a yellow-pages service for finding people on Twitter. You can search for things or browse…
Six Apart, the company behind the popular Movable Type blogging platform recently introduced a free social application for use with that platform. Now, they have posted the "laws" of this application. Those are:
The people and businesses that rely on the SeaMeWe-4 underwater cable for Internet connections cannot be happy. Although repairs following a December 19th incident were more or less completed on schedule, a new break has screwed things up yet again.
Google employees in different cities around the world have been doing their best to prove that Google is not evil. Well, I haven't seen this cited as an official reason, and I like to think that they're doing it because they care, but different branches of Google are helping children in a variety of capacities this holiday season.
Closing the sale is a delicate and at times unpredictable process. Consumers have varying reasons to reject or accept an offer and often some incentive is necessary. But what kind of incentive is most effective and brings the most return for the retailer? A discount? A gift? Free shipping?
