By Greg Mills
When out of the blue someone offers you a horse, it is rude to immediately check the horse’s teeth right in front of them. Eventually, however, one takes a look at the finer details of the critter. Is it a broken-down, sway-backed hay burner or a fine race horse worth more than the family farm?
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A large sample of millions of website visitors detailed by Google Analytics indicates that the entire Android ecosystem combined, while slightly ahead of the iPhone 4, continues to be outpaced by Apple’s iOS, largely due to the rapid growth of iPad, reports “AppleInsider” (http://www.appleinsider.com).
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By Greg Mills
I live in Kansas City, Kansas. I pay US$49.90 a month to Time Warner Cable for “Road Runner Turbo” Internet service. We had download speed this morning of 26.45 Mbps and an upload speed of .94 Mbps and a ping in 42ms. My iPad came in at 6.24 Mb/s download and .56Mb/s upload. Lithuania has an average speed three times what I do now. Just wait, Lithuania.
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By ‘Doctor Dave’ Greenbaum
When Google suffered a major outage recently and temporarily lost customer files, I, like others, saw the signs of a storm coming.
Cloud Pull helps you weather the storm and keep your cloud-based information backed up. It is a simple program that is simply indispensable.
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Earlier this week we reported that Google is ending end support for H.264 on its Chrome browser. The company has reiterated its plans to push its own open WebM video codec via Flash-like plug-ins for Safari and Internet Explorer users so it can ship free platforms without incurring external licensing fees.
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