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Point-of-Sale Decked out with Chrome

By David Dorf on July 8, 2009 12:00 PM

In 2004 Google left the comforts of search and advertising to try its hand at web-based email. The success of that product was followed by Google Talk, an instant messenger, and Google Docs, a web-based word processor and spreadsheet. In...

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Speedy and Scalable Analytics

By David Dorf on March 18, 2009 9:48 AM

Mike Olson, formerly from Sleepy Cat and Oracle, has a new startup called Cloudera. Much as Sleepy Cat supported the open-source Berkeley Database, Cloudera will be supporting the open-source distributed file system Hadoop. First, what is Hadoop, then how is...

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Store Location Matters

By David Dorf on February 6, 2009 11:37 AM

The closing of Circuit City was bad enough, but the ripple effects that will be felt across the US are only just beginning. This ABC News article looks at the side-effects of such a large closing, especially with respect to...

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Newegg Rocks!

By David Dorf on January 23, 2009 8:40 AM

I recently bought a very inexpensive router from Newegg, but once it arrived I found that Google reported the manufacture's website was ripe with malware. Google recommended I not visit the site, which makes support a bit tricky. So without...

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