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Competition for building a profitable Web site is quite fierce. Yet many of us have dreams of a unique concept that will attract viewers, followed soon thereafter by advertisers. I’m not sure what percentage of aspirants succeed in this quest, but I would venture to guess that it’s a very low percentage. With the evolution of the Web to the Web 2.0, the task becomes even a bit more challenging. Though the competition is fierce in the Web 2.0 space, it’s encouraging to see a recently formed company quickly create critical mass.

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Building a Profitable Web 2.0 Web Site

“[R]ailhead may actually degrade the ability to provide intelligence data for use in the consolidated terrorist watch list,” according to the U.S. House subcommittee report. This massive government IT project is failing — and it’s not an isolated case. Large IT projects in agencies from the FBI to the Census Bureau spectacularly — and, it seems, regularly — crash and burn, much to taxpayers’ disgust. It seems there are certain aspects of government culture that make IT failure more likely. It just may be that it’s built into the system.

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Signposts on the US Government’s Trail of IT Failures

Cyber Monday, once considered the No. 1 shopping day for e-commerce and retail Web sites, has become the official kickoff to the holiday season and a key marketing event for the online community. As with any economic marker, it is vulnerable to credit crunches and significant financial tide changes. Just as weather predictions help us to plan accordingly, knowing what to expect from holiday shoppers during the highest selling season of the year enables online merchants to prepare properly.

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Cyber Monday Is Not Extinct - It Has Evolved

A decision expected on Thursday from a three-person government panel could lead to the closure of Apple’s online music, movie and digital book store, iTunes. Or it could provide what many in the digital media industry have long wanted to see: Apple backing away from the line it drew in the sand on pricing. The Copyright Royalty Board is scheduled to rule on a music royalties increase of nine cents per track. Apple has said that if the cost of its online songs at iTunes were to rise above the 99 cent price point, it would not be able to operate the site profitably.

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Apple Holds iTunes Hostage Over Royalties

Computing giant HP has announced its intention to acquire storage software company
LeftHand Networks for $360 million in cash. HP’s move is an attempt to shore up its presence in the fast-growing IP storage segment of the data storage market. Unlike traditional storage area networks, IP storage networks allow businesses to increase the amount of data they can store without making massive investments in fiber channel switches.

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HP Pockets LeftHand to Challenge Dell in IP Storage Space