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About Joetek

My name is Joe Taiabjee, and I am a web technology professional specializing in high-traffic, scalable web infrastructures. I am currently the VP, Engineering at Puretracks.com

February 2008

Posted on February 19, 2008 by
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Format war over: Blu-ray wins

Toshiba announced today that they would be discontinuing their production and support of the HD-DVD format, leaving Sony’s Blu-Ray format as the “winner”. It’s nice to have the format war done so that the industry can move on… finally. The problem is that so many people have put off buying into either format, that now Read More

Posted on February 1, 2008 by
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Microsoft and Yahoo

So Microsoft has thrown it down. After over a year of speculation, they have dropped a whopping $44.6 Billion to buy Yahoo in their bid to play “catch up” to Google. The Yahoo/Microsoft deal is not yet done; it is simply an offer. However, its pretty likely that this will happen, and that Yahoo will Read More