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Google kills off Wave, Gears and Knol in project cull

...Google plans to scrap Wave, Gears, Knol and Bookmarks Lists in coming months, adding to the list of failed... Read more

23 November, 2011 by David Meyer

Free shipping drives online purchasing

In the US, online sales reached a record high of $1.25 billion on last week's "Cyber Monday", according to ComScore,... Read more

5 December, 2011

Google folds more of its failing products

...an "off-season spring cleaning series". The latest round of casualties includes Knol, Google Friend Connect, Google Gears, Google Search Timeline, and Google Bookmarks Lists... Read more

23 November, 2011

Google+ aims to subtract users from Facebook

...the company's long string of social failures, which now include Orkut, Knol, Google Lively, Google Answers, Wave, Buzz, Sidewiki, Profile pages and the bought... Read more

29 June, 2011

Google Wave's Goodbye as another one bites the dust (updated)

...out flops. We’ve already seen Orkut (it’s big in Brazil), Knol, Google Answers, Google Catalog, Google Lively, Google Squared, Google Viewer, Web Accelerator... Read more

5 August, 2010

Google launches Wikipedia rival Knol

Google's Wikipedia competitor, Knol, was opened to the public on Wednesday morning. So-called knols are... Read more

24 July, 2008 by Elinor Mills

Google develops Wikipedia rival

...online encyclopaedia that could rival Wikipedia. Google has named the scheme the "knol project", a knol being a "unit of knowledge", according to a blog... Read more

14 December, 2007 by Tom Espiner
<endeca_term>Knol</endeca_term> Buddy 1.4

Knol Buddy 1.4

Knol Buddy helps you discover interesting knols while you browse the web. This... Read more

2 March, 2010

Search guru offers wish list of Google reforms

...content on its own sites; it worked with YouTube, but not for Knol, a Google site where people can record tidbits of knowledge. "Yes, it... Read more

11 February, 2009 by Stephen Shankland

Summer traffic up for Google, down for Microsoft

...are climbing, no doubt because of new products such as wiki-like Knol. In July 2007, people spent an average of one hour and 34... Read more

13 August, 2008 by Stefanie Olsen

Googles Competitive Wiki

...greater sharing of knowledge, this new free tool is to be called "knol". (Knol meaning a single unit of knowledge.) Along with each knol will... Read more

14 December, 2007

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

1 hour ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
bobandroid

496,999 BT Fon Hotspots lovingly situated in your next door neighbours garden, no matter how you dress that up its still a pup... Not where I need...

3 hours ago by bobandroid on London Olympics: BT needs 25,000 more Wi-Fi hotspots
apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

5 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

5 hours ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

5 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

7 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

8 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

9 hours ago by debsmk on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

11 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

12 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

13 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

1 day ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
Iain Sutherland

I received the notification of Mageia 2 being released on Saturday, was already running Mageia 1. After running the installation X came back up...

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SoapyTablet

If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...

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