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Symbolics.com was the first-ever registered domain on March 15, 1985.  Looking back over the past 25 years, the growth of the Internet has been unprecedented writes Benny Evangelista in the San Francisco Chronicle.  His article outlines some interesting facts: In 1985, only six entities registered a .com, one of six top-level domain names created a year [...]

The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a partnership between the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), released the 2009 Annual Report about fraudulent activity on the Internet March 12, 2010. Online crime complaints increased substantially once again last year, according to the report. The IC3 received a total of 336,655 complaints, a 22.3 [...]

Logitech has updated their Squeezebox Server add-in for the Windows Home Server platform which allows the Logitech Squeezebox to playback music from Windows Home Server. Changelog: This release fixes Squeezebox Radio bugs found by 7.4.1 users. It is required when operating the Radio with the optional battery. Squeezebox Server Improved alarm reliability. Various scanner-related tag [...]

Do you consider yourself to be “The Defraganator”? Do you wake up in the morning and smell the hard drives? Well then, there is good news for you on the horizon. PerfectDisk 11 will be released on March 9th and from what we have seen it looks to add some killer functionality. Check out the [...]

Alex Kuretz, over at MediaSmartServer.net, recently broke the news that the much anticipated  HP MediaSmart Server 3.0 Software update will be available later this week.  Alex has had some advanced playtime with the software and offers some useful guidance and links to official upgrade guides from HP. Source: MediaSmartServer.net HP MediaSmart Server 3.0 Software Update [...]

The buzz is so loud that you might think there’s a beehive in the attic. Don’t worry my friends because you don’t need to call the beekeeper. The sound you are hearing is people talking about what is being called “The Mother of All Add-Ins” and that moment has almost arrived. The release candidate for Add-In Central is [...]

  Google plans to test ultra high-speed internet in "a small number of trial locations across the United States."  They expect the trial will start with approximately 50,000 up to potentially 500,000 people. Why does Google want to do this?  This is what they are saying: Next generation apps: We want to see what developers and users [...]

We here at Homeserverland.com have never been one’s to advocate using leaked software because it can tarnish one's perspective. They are looking at what is in essence is a unfinished version of the creators vision and what they take away from it can be completely wrong. With that being said, there are those out there [...]