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The Arlington County Police Department in Virginia is using YouTube to help catch criminals. Surveillance video from crime scenes is being uploaded…
One of the things that social media is great at is soliciting and distributing user-generated video.
Like eating fruits and vegetables or building lighter cars, open-source technology seemed like the sort of good idea that would always go ignored. But according to Gartner, elements of open-source technology will be present in 80 percent of all commercial software by the year 2012.
As the news about Microsoft's offer to purchase Yahoo! went around, the search engine industry was inundated with the buzz and speculations.
While the big deal in the Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo is the money and market share changing hands, there are plenty of Microsofties who are wondering which Yahoo employees will become their co-workers, their bosses, and their replacements.
Given the hue and cry about Yahoo!'s expected layoffs and its less than perfect market performance in Q4, the word about the possible bid by Microsoft had already been in the air, which has now been translated in to a reality. Would the deal eventually materialize or not?
