itNeighborhood Blog http://itneighborhood.com/blog An interactive community for IT Professionals. Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:48:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 en Apple Readies MacBook Air Add-Ons - PC World http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/29/apple-readies-macbook-air-add-ons-pc-world/ http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/29/apple-readies-macbook-air-add-ons-pc-world/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:48:04 +0000 itNeighborhood http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/29/apple-readies-macbook-air-add-ons-pc-world/

Peninsula On-line
Apple Readies MacBook Air Add-Ons
PC World - 27 minutes ago
Apple is taking orders for an optical drive and an Ethernet adapter that plug into the MacBook Air's USB port. With the ultra-thin MacBook Air reaching stores soon, Apple is selling accessories that make up for the laptop's skimpy features.
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MSNBC
Missing iPhones not Really Missing, Says Analyst
PC World - 2 hours ago
Analyst agrees that a high number of unlocked phones would affect Apple profits, if true, but says not to overlook the big picture.
Millions of iPhones Go AWOL BusinessWeek
Good News in the 1 Million Missing iPhones New York Times
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]]> http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/29/missing-iphones-not-really-missing-says-analyst-pc-world/feed/ Five Things You Will Do Before You Die http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/29/five-things-you-will-do-before-you-die/ http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/29/five-things-you-will-do-before-you-die/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:00:00 +0000 itNeighborhood http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/29/five-things-you-will-do-before-you-die/ What are some things you would like to achieve on the Web before you die?

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]]> http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/29/five-things-you-will-do-before-you-die/feed/ Heating your house with cold air http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/29/heating-your-house-with-cold-air/ http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/29/heating-your-house-with-cold-air/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:00:00 +0000 itNeighborhood http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/29/heating-your-house-with-cold-air/ Fifteen degrees may feel cold to you, but not to a heat pump that thinks it’s only five degrees outside.

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]]> http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/29/heating-your-house-with-cold-air/feed/ Another Amazon ‘cloud’ database — but this one will be Oracle-compatible http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/29/another-amazon-cloud-database-but-this-one-will-be-oracle-compatible/ http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/29/another-amazon-cloud-database-but-this-one-will-be-oracle-compatible/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:00:00 +0000 itNeighborhood http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/29/another-amazon-cloud-database-but-this-one-will-be-oracle-compatible/ Upstart database vendor EnterpriseDB plans in March to start beta-testing a version of its Oracle-compatible software that will work within Amazon.com’s Web-based computing service.

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]]> http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/29/another-amazon-cloud-database-but-this-one-will-be-oracle-compatible/feed/ Turkish social network Yonja raises $12.5m http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/29/turkish-social-network-yonja-raises-125m/ http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/29/turkish-social-network-yonja-raises-125m/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:40:13 +0000 itNeighborhood http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/29/turkish-social-network-yonja-raises-125m/ What is it about Turkey? They are really getting into social networking. Turkish social network Yonja (whose logo actually looks Irish to me) has raised $12.5M in Series A funding from Greywolf Capital Partners and Tiger Global Management, reports PEWire. HQ’d in San Francisco, the firm is led by founder and CEO Kerim Baran, who […]

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]]> http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/29/turkish-social-network-yonja-raises-125m/feed/ The productivity paradox http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/29/the-productivity-paradox/ http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/29/the-productivity-paradox/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:00:00 +0000 itNeighborhood http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/29/the-productivity-paradox/ Smartsheet’s Brent Frei and Mark Mader offer their take on why productivity growth has mysteriously slowed since 2004. If there were a Productivity Hall of Fame, John Deere would definitely occupy a place of prominence. The 19th century inventor introduced his cutting-edge steel plow with…

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]]> http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/29/the-productivity-paradox/feed/ Automattic Launches Group Twitter-style Platform http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/28/automattic-launches-group-twitter-style-platform/ http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/28/automattic-launches-group-twitter-style-platform/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:28:36 +0000 itNeighborhood http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/28/automattic-launches-group-twitter-style-platform/ Automattic has released Prologue, a Twitter style service for groups that is also being pitched as a distributed Twitter.
According to Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg, the new service is way for users to share short messages with a corporate structure, or with private messaging between different groups. Mullenweg says that although it’s not initially aimed to […]

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]]> http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/28/automattic-launches-group-twitter-style-platform/feed/ Mahalo Expands Multiprofiles: One Stop For Various Social Networking Sites http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/28/mahalo-expands-multiprofiles-one-stop-for-various-social-networking-sites/ http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/28/mahalo-expands-multiprofiles-one-stop-for-various-social-networking-sites/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:57:15 +0000 itNeighborhood http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/28/mahalo-expands-multiprofiles-one-stop-for-various-social-networking-sites/ Jason Calacanis has announced an expansion to the Mahalo social platfrom that allows users to access most major social networking sites within Mahalo itself.
The idea of social networking site aggregation or single landing page isn’t new, we’ve covered startups aiming to provide a similar service, such as MyLifeBrand, ProfileLinker and Loopster, but none have really […]

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]]> http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/28/mahalo-expands-multiprofiles-one-stop-for-various-social-networking-sites/feed/ Google AdWords, CrowdSpirit - January 28, 2008 http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/28/google-adwords-crowdspirit-january-28-2008/ http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/28/google-adwords-crowdspirit-january-28-2008/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:42:24 +0000 itNeighborhood http://itneighborhood.com/blog/2008/01/28/google-adwords-crowdspirit-january-28-2008/ Google Knows How Old You Are
Google recently began offering a new tool to advertisers; the ability to select a demographic segment to target web ads to. Publishers who sign up for the beta test can send demographic information to Google already; so information like gender and age can be targeted by someone buying a […]

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