Microsoft reveals IE8 Beta 2
Beating its own deadline by several days, Microsoft today launched the second beta of its upcoming Internet Explorer 8 browser. Read more...

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Mozilla extension taps into typed commands

Update: Google may let users comment on, rearrange search results

Google may let users comment on, rearrange search results

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Google rolls out tool that suggests search queries

Microsoft adds privacy tools to IE8

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Microsoft's latest beta of Internet Explorer 8 includes better tab management, new services such as Web Slices and Accelerators, and an interesting feature some are calling 'porn mode.'

Web 2.0's most ridiculous sites
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The do's and don'ts of IT job seeking
Social networking sites offer IT job seekers the resources to find peers with similar skills and learn more about employers. But candidates should be aware that the online outlets also provide employees a glimpse into the personal lives of potential hires.

Videoconferencing on the cheap
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Review: Internet radio appliances roundup
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The Rise of Videoconferencing
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Elgan: Man vs. not-so-wild
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WAN optimization: Better than a 'real' upgrade?
With more companies consolidating data centers, it's becoming crucial to address bandwidth and latency issues -- and the WAN optimization technologies of compression, caching and de-duplication can boost performance without actually increasing the speed of the network.

Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is the most recent successor to grid computing, utility computing, virtualization and clustering. Cloud computing overlaps these other concepts but has its own meaning: the ability to connect to software and data on the Internet (the cloud) instead of on your hard drive or local network.

Testing service-oriented architectures: A primer for the real world
Along with the benefits of an interconnected system come spiraling costs if the system runs out of control. When undertaking SOA, testing is a necessary form of risk-management -- and Matthew Heusser describes how to do it well.

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