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How GitHub Copilot Free is a great thing for the whole world 

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All thats required is a host device with limited power and an internet connection. Either through a mobile device, internet caf, or shared computer in a school or library. And like the free version of GitHub CodeSpaces, this free version of GitHub Copilot does come with limits: 2000 code suggestions and 50 chats per month.

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CIOs’ top 2025 goal? Turning around IT’s sagging reputation

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Macroeconomically, data indicates that IT spending since 2000 has increased 130%, while GDP has only increased 29%. At the Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2024 in Barcelona, attendees were told that “on average, only 48% of digital initiatives meet or exceed business outcome targets.” Putting technology in the hands of end-users is not enough.

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Survival tips for startup founders living through their first market correction

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As an entrepreneur and venture capitalist who has lived through two downturns (the post-2000 internet bubble bust and the post-2008 financial crisis), I know that entrepreneurial innovation is always alive and that company-building is a marathon, not a sprint.

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Clickatell raises $91M to scale its chat commerce platform and US expansion

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As the largest digital platform in the world with more users than the internet’s 4.7 Founded in 2000, Clickatell is a pioneer in this mobile communications and chat commerce space. billion users, it only makes sense for businesses to communicate and transact with consumers through chat channels.

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Gary Vaynerchuk, Mark Cuban back web3 project tool Thirdweb

TechCrunch

“Look at what happened from 1995 to 2000 on the ‘internet’ and use that history lesson to deploy how much will be ‘fixed’ in web3 over the next half decade. Web3 is happening and NFTs are here for the rest of our collective lives,” Vaynerchuk said via email.

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Austin’s Will Hurley on the city’s incredible tech rise

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Laura Lorek has lived in the Austin area since 2000, where she's been writing about established companies like Dell, NI, IBM, Apple, Oracle, Google, Meta and tech startups like Opcity, now Realtor.com, Homeaway, now VRBO, RetailMeNot, Indeed.com, Homeward, OJO Labs and others. But in 1999, he heard the siren song of the Internet and left.

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25 years of Wi-Fi: A quarter century of Broadcom innovation

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Like the internet and computer, Wi-Fi has woven itself into the fabric of our daily lives for more than two decades. From 1999 to the early 2000’s, there were no Wi-Fi enabled mobile devices, only a small number of laptops equipped with Wi-Fi connectivity. million Wi-Fi enabled devices shipped in 2000.