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Every notable social network enjoys a couple years of dominance before it’s cast off into the shadows to make room for “The Next Big Thing.” Friendster held it down from 2002 until 2003, when it was eclipsed by the advent of MySpace. MySpace lost its sheen once it became less about flirting with random users and more about dodging Friend Requests from everyone you’d ever met. It was completelyonthe radar come 2004 – right in time for Facebook to reign supreme....

The release candidate for the next version of Windows Home Server, codenamed ‘Vail,’ isavailable for download. On Tuesdaywe forecastedthat Thursday would be the release date of the RC, and we were correct. The files are available for download on theMicrosoft Connect website. Vail has had a somewhattumultuous lifefor an unreleased consumer server product; it has been the subject of last-minute extensions, leaks, and other intrigues and controversies that do not generally circle the home server market....

The Cult of Machas reported a very weird, albeit fun fact that Apple CEO Steve Jobs and TV’s Homer Simpson’s mother are biological siblings. Here’s how the story goes: As you may or may not know, Steve Jobs was put up for adoption as an infant by his birth parents,Joanne Carole Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali, because they were unmarried at the time. When they later married, Joanne had another child named Mona Jandali....

Nokia, Finland’s largest company and the world’s number one mobile manufacturer by volume, is in trouble. Failure to adapt its smartphones has left the company languishing where it once dominated, as stylish computing corporations and search specialists now hold the top revenue spots. Nokia’ssecond quarter financial resultswere horrifying to many, let alone those associated with the company. The Espoo-based mobile maker record a €487 million operating loss (a drop of €782 million in just one year), overall net sales plummeted 11% quarter-on-quarter and 7% year-on-year, as smartphone sales dropped 32% to 16....

We’re finding ourselves in a very unique position, at the moment. It isn’t often that we have a device that launches at one time, then a physically identical device launches at another time, but yet there are differences to be measured. But that’s exactly where we’re finding ourselves at this very moment with Thursday’spending launchof the iPhone 4 on Verizon Wireless. For current Verizon customers, theresults statedby the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg won’t come at all as a surprise....