Geek up the Street Blog January Archive

The Mail Vault Interview

By Interviewer at 01/15/09 07:31

Name of your website?

The Mail Vault

Your name?

Rob Kraft

Your Location (city, etc)

Thousand Oaks, CA

Please give us a short summary of your website?

Offsite email archiving of all incoming and outgoing mail messages, company wide.

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Tags: email archives • offsite email monitoring • data storage • instant message retrieval •
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The New Yahoo CEO

One of the most established and successful website known to the face of the cyber-Earth, Yahoo has been through a lot of hassle during the last year. The biggest is the rejection of Microsoft's bid which made a lot of share holders get frustrated with the current CEO that time. As the new Yahoo CEO takes power, it seems like there are going to be a lot of challenges which she'll face this year. Who is the new Yahoo CEO and what can she say about some issues is what you can find here:

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The Great Geek Recession Survival Guide

Computers are a geeks life and there sure are a lot of geeks in each and everyone of us, the only problem with "geekiness" is the uncontrollable impulse to spend more rather than to earn more. Tech-y and online junkies tend to spend too much on online shopping, e-books and VOIP which is not helping them battle the recession and credit crunch. Read on here to find out the great geek recession survival guide:

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Pay-as-You-Go Computing

Microsoft has already applied a patent for a new business model in the PC business, pay-as-you-go computing. According to this model, someone in the supply heavily subsidizes the production of the computers. The end users then pay to use the computer with parameters such as the lenght of time the computer was used and the performance components utilized.

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New Projects or Stability?

When economy is getting shaky, would you leave your comfortable job in a big company and start with your own project that is left in your head? For a lot of people, that seems to be a crazy idea. Good jobs are already hard to get, so why leave when you have one?

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The One Laptop Per Child Cause

Education is the only treasure that can not be taken from a person. Sadly, not everyone has the opportunity to learn nor study because of their state of living, unavailability of institutions and teachers to guide them, but thanks to noble causes such as the One Laptop Per Child or OLPC movement, many will finally be able to learn and be educated. To support and learn more about the OLPC team visit read about them here:

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Tips for Microsoft

Microsoft, for all its bad reputation among a lot of geeks, is still the market leader due to its dominating performance especially in the business sector. It has more than enough money to weather the financial crisis and make an impact while all the others are pulling their funds.

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IE falls below 69% market share

Unless you are not tuned to technology news feeds, you are already probably aware of the fact that Internet Explorer's share of browsers have fallen below 70%, while Firefox claims more than 20% for the first time.

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Free Botnets Tracker Tools

SRI International is giving a free tool, BotHunter, which can help organizations to battle botnets by tracking down infected machines on their networks.

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Zunes stop all at once

Little known by people that Microsoft actually has a music player to *err* match Apple's iPod, called Microsoft Zunes. I hoped this post to be an introduction to Zunes, but I guess this will be a bad newsbreaker.

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