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Web 2.0 may be the most over used buzz phrase on the Internet today.  Anything with soft graphics and some VC money behind it seems to be a "New Web 2.0 Company".  Yet the concept known as web2.0 is real and it is important to be implementing some web 2.0 principles if you expect your […]

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This post started out as comments I was making on Mark Cubans blog as I started to type the comments it quickly became apparent that I had far more then a few comments on the situation.  However, given that this post is still at least in part a response to Mark’s post you may want […]

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Ok I have had it!  Ever since the Web2.0 Summit in San Francisco California on the 7th-9th of November all I have been reading is posts and articles about how the “Web 2.0 Bubble” is going to burst.  From Blog Posts, to columns and even the New York Times and Forbes have all run articles […]

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And Yahoo Deserves it too!
You bet they do, so what is this all about?  It is about Googles new customized search program that allows users to build their own search engines.  The bigger issue is that if you are an adSense Publisher you can then display your adSense on the results page.
So how is this […]

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Back in August I posted an article called “Is Yahoo Crazy?“, well my friends I think the answer is now a clear yes . In that article I picked mostly on the fact that Yahoo Released a service called Yahoo! Search Builder that lets you build your own search engine and customize the results.
I […]

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A few weeks ago a service called SpiralFrog was launched and we were one of the first to report on it in our article, "SpiralFrog - More Proof the Music Companies Just Don’t Get It". Well this weekend a similar story was announce about legal movie downloads. 
The new service run by Amazon.com […]

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I was a solider at one time in my life back 17 years ago. I joined the Army at 17 and then served in the US Army Airborne during the First Gulf War. After that I served for 2 more years for deployments with combat engineers in Panama, Hondours and El Salvador.
Today in my mid […]

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Last week Google announced that you can now download entire copies of books published prior to 1923 that are no longer under copyright protection and in what is called the “public domain” on Google Books Beta.
Looking at it a bit creatively we came up with an idea where a web master could use it to […]

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Recently Google announced that they now allow PDF Downloads of all public domain books that are cataloged in “Google Books – Beta” (basically this is any book published before 1923). While many of the Internet Marketing blogs and news sources are reporting on this it is clear that the only reason they are doing […]

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On August 14th Google Announced the release of a new version of Blogger called you guessed it Blogger Beta (is everything any Search Engine does always Beta?). We did not pay that much attention here at Comtech News as we keep focused mostly on stuff like SEO, Local Phone Service , Digital Music […]

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Yea you read that right. I think they are just nuts in certain ways. First I want you to go to yahoo and try to run a search with their blog search engine. Good luck with that it is almost impossible, now if you do a news search you will see some […]

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Who do you think will win, Microsoft or Sony?
What am I talking about? I’m talking about the fight over the format for High Definition television DVDs.
There are two competing formats. HD-DVD which is supported by Microsoft and Blu-Ray which is supported by Sony. Sony’s Playstation3 will feature Blu-Ray and include games on Blu-Ray […]

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Are you trying to decide between HD-DVD and Blu-ray?
HD DVD is the first of the High Definition DVD formats to hit the market. David Carnoy at CNET writes Ten ways HD-DVD falls short.
Here is the quick list of 10 ways David says HD DVD falls short. Make sure to check out his article for […]

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Ever wonder what some of the HDTV technobable and jargon means?
Have you read an article about Home Theater and wonder what terms like these mean? 720p, 1080i, EDTV, 5.1
We’ll I’m putting together a HDTV glossary that explains what all the technical terms mean in easy to understand language.
I hope you like it! If you […]

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Hi,
My name is Ben Fitts and I’m a tech geek.
I love Home Theater. I really enjoy movies. I used to go to the movies almost every week. Now days I just use Netflix or OnDemand movies. I’ve had a Netflix membership since 2000. I’d rather hang out with my family and […]

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