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Sunday, 18th July 2010

70,000 Blogs Shut Down by U.S. Law Enforcement

Blogetery, a Wordpress platform, has seen its entire community shut down by its host, BurstNET. Subsequent statements by BurstNET indicated that the service was suspended at the request of an unidentified law enforcement agency. "(Blogetery) was terminated by request of law enforcement officials, due to material hosted on the server. We are…

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Google to Discontinue Nexus One

Despite coming in second in ReadWriteWeb's 2010 Best of the Web poll, the sales numbers for Google's Nexus One were dismal. In the same amount of time it took Apple to sell 1 million iPhones, Google only sold 135,000 of the Android-powered Nexus. Now, Google is discontinuing the Nexus One altogether. On July 16, the company announced that it…

Mobile Curt Hopkins comments

Cloud Computing

OpenStack: Rackspace and NASA Nebula Join Forces for Open Cloud Ecosystem

Rackspace and NASA are open-sourcing code and technology for people anywhere to create their own cloud environments. Called OpenStack, the initiative is one of the most substantive efforts to support interoperability in the cloud. As part of the initiative, Rackspace is donating the code that powers its files and servers, the foundation for its…

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So You've Launched, Now What?

After months of hard work, designing and building your product, you launch. You've sent out press releases, and you're all prepared for "go." And then... Sometimes things simply fall into place. There's tons of buzz. You pick up customers rapidly. And sometimes things sort of go nowhere.

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Google Places Offers Free Trial of "Tags" Ad Program

In an effort to encourage more business owners to take advantage of its Tags advertising program, Google Places is offering a 30-day trial to users who sign up by July 23. The Tags program was one of a handful of features rolled out in April when Google revamped its Local Business Center and re-branded it as Google Places as part of a larger…

John Paul Titlow comments

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