Tag Archive: private

Jan
30
2012

Review: South West Broadband – VPS Hosting

If you’ve been following my tweets lately, you’ll know that I recently moved GEEK! to a brand new VPS server. I did this for many reasons – but primarily because I felt that I was ready to move on from shared hosting and onto something where I’ll learn a little more about how webservers work. …

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Feb
03
2010

Office 2010 is now in release candidate, public copy not available (yet)

Microsoft is already handing out the release candidate to a select group of testers. Microsoft has given a select group of testers access to the latest build of the Microsoft Office 2010 suite – the release candidate. Sadly, at present, the release candidate isn’t available for public download. However, I would think that Microsoft will probably give …

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Sep
01
2009

eBay agrees to sell Skype

eBay has recently agreed to sell Skype, which marks the end of its near 4 year ownership. The company has been sold to a group of private investors. eBay has complained many times in the past that Skype wasn’t as profitable as they’d hoped. Ever since eBay bought Skype for $2.6 billion in 2005 they …

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