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THE RACE FOR YOUR MAIL

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By Steve Hogan

The echoing sound of “You’ve Got Mail” faded this summer as Google’s Gmail powered past AOL and captured the third place position among email servers.

With a growth rate of 46% over the past year some are saying Gmail will overtake Windows Live Mail/HotMail at the number 2 position by early in 2010. Possibly even as early as Feb. 2010.

CURRENT POSITION

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AMD VISION… Keeping Buyers In The Dark

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Apparently, folks in the market for a PC these days – don’t care much about MHz or anything else in their system.

According to this NY Times story, big box retailers like Best Buy are now making a concentrated effort to make the labels on their shelf space – more user friendly.

HOGWASH! Don’t believe a word of it. It’s just another ploy to keep consumers in the dark.

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Best Secondary Web Browser?

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By now most of us are familiar with Mozilla Firefox, and a lot of us prefer it over the pre-installed Internet Explorer, and the ancient Netscape, but there are several other browsers out there definitely worth a mention, and could possibly have you guys wanting to make a switch. Here are the top ten web browsers for 2009 according to several PC magazines ranked by features set, speed, security, ease of use, and help & support.

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