http://itsmstrategy.com Tue, 06 Dec 2005 02:24:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A few days ago I noticed that the Yahoo home page had changed: If you notice, suddenly there’s a “Start on Yahoo” link to the left of their logo. Put this in combination with the news about the Yahoo Instant Messenger “upgrade” which takes a page straight out of the spyware ... http://itsmstrategy.com/yahoo-attempts-to-increase-user-base.htm With the launch of Google Talk, Google has simultaneously jumped into the instant messaging and VOIP marketplace. With a slick, simple signature Google style interface - it is a nice-looking, unobtrusive piece of software. It even includes the GMail notifier, which means that you aren’t adding another program to your start-up ... http://itsmstrategy.com/google-talk-takes-swipe-at-skype.htm Google has rethought their desktop search tool and attempted to create an all-around useful tool, called Google Sidebar. The new Sidebar integrates a RSS reader, new mail notifier (works with Gmail and Outlook), custom weather, custom news headlines, custom stocks, image search, and Quick view - a list of frequently viewed ... http://itsmstrategy.com/google-sidebar-desktop-search.htm Google definitely seems to be shuffling out a new index, and some of the changes seen in Google Update Bourbon seem to have been rolled back. The main thing I’ve noticed so far is that one of my sites that has had a double listing for years, and lost it in ... http://itsmstrategy.com/google-update-cutts.htm Recently Yahoo announced that their index now contained over 20 billion “web objects”, specifically 19.2 billion web documents, 1.6 billion images, and over 50 million audio and video files. At first this number was blithely accepted, but within hours, the impact began to sink in… 20 billion is a lot, and ... http://itsmstrategy.com/yahoos-20-billion-web-doc-index-kerfuffle.htm Advanced Micro Devices hopes that game enthusiasts will soon be snatching up laptops built on two new mobile processors that the chipmaker introduced Monday. The Turion MT-40 and MT-37 chips are available to PC makers for $359 and $268, respectively, in bulk amounts. Longtime AMD supporter VoodooPC has already pledged ... http://itsmstrategy.com/new-amd-chips-meant-for-mobile-gamers.htm Remixed versions of Windows abound on file-sharing networks, supercharged with the latest security patches, tools and applications. Pirated copies of Microsoft’s operating system have existed as long as chintzy PC owners themselves. But now pirates are doing more than just cracking Windows — they claim to be improving it. There’s a lot ... http://itsmstrategy.com/windows-got-ya-down-try-a-remix.htm Celebrating the dawn of a new era in entertainment, millions of game fanatics around the globe came together tonight for the televised unveiling of the Xbox 360™ future-generation game and entertainment system from Microsoft. An audience of millions watched “MTV Presents: The Next-Generation Xbox Revealed” as celebrities, professional athletes, musicians ... http://itsmstrategy.com/xbox-360-ushers-in-the-future-of-games-and-entertainment.htm NEW YORK (AP) — A computer problem at an unidentified stock trader caused erroneous, exaggerated prices — some as high as $950 per share — to be posted to the Nasdaq Stock Market Friday morning for 1,680 different stocks, a spokeswoman for the Nasdaq said. The Nasdaq said trades using possibly ... http://itsmstrategy.com/computer-problem-causes-false-stock-quotes.htm Intel unveils some architectural details of the upcoming dual core processors. The new processor looks a lot like two Pentium 4’s in a single package, but with some important differences. Read The Rest Here more… Service Management Online Store http://itsmstrategy.com/intel-dual-core-architecture.htm