In days of yore, it was easy to spot a geek. We were the ones inside on a sunny day indulging our unfashionable blog obsessions to the detriment of our social standing. Now, thanks to the arrival of “geek chic”, what would once result in ridicule is now considered “really cool”. So, to separate the […]
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The Outrageous Costs of Data Center Downtime
As the Internet has extended its reach into all aspects of our lives, so, too has our dependence upon it grown. As of 2012, the average U.S. consumer spends just over three hours each day online, much of it using data-hungry applications like games and media streamers—and this value is only expected to grow as […]

How Google’s Design is Dictated by Dollars
After living through the Bronze Age, the the Iron Age, and even an Ice Age or two, mankind has reached what may very well be known to future historians as “The Google Age.” Beyond providing instant answers and a bit of interactive fun via its trademark Doodles, Google is a driving force of industry innovation […]
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The fifth revision of the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), also known as HTML 5, is the latest incarnation of the language that forms the very backbone of the World Wide Web. Traditionally, HTML has been the invisible framework used to present Web-based content like text and images in a “Web page” format, but since the […]
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Top 50 Open Source VoIP Apps
For many businesses, open source VoIP programs and apps offer a great way to save thousands of dollars every year in telephony costs. Here are a few of the open source programs and developers out there that have had loads of success as VoIP and open source solutions for it become more and more common in businesses around the world.