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(News) A look at the benefits and pitfalls of Google Apps Marketplace, Google's new initiative to integrate third-party solutions into Google Apps.
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(News) For Business' Sake, Yelp Needs New Owners
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(News) Google Remorse and the Buzz Privacy Backlash
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(News) Ever noticed how many trashy ads appear on Facebook? Would you want your company's ad in among them?
(News) It is a great idea, but runs against the law. Maybe it's time to rethink Google Books as the search engine meets its match.
(News) The clash between Apple and Adobe over Flash on the iPhone and iPad raises the spectre of Flash's potential demise at the hands of HTML5.
(News) Google rolled out a "click-to-call" feature for AdWords users with mobile campaigns.
(News) Google's Social Search can't tap into almost any Facebook content, greatly hampering its value.
(News) Facebook is releasing a toolbar for IE.
(News) Google Expands Social Search Test
(News) Global music labels have lost a lawsuit against China's biggest search engine, Baidu.com, which they accused of facilitating copyright infringement with its song...
(News) Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten is teaming up with Baidu.com to enter the Chinese market.
(News) China said Google's Android operating system will not be blocked if it follows local regulations.
(News) Pope Benedict leads a global religion, yet his priestly advice on social networking works for enterprises of all types.
(News) Google Reader can now check for updates and changes in Web pages that don't offer syndicated feeds.
(News) Google is trying to make it easier for people to find facts and event information directly in search results.
(News) China search queries had the smallest growth among the world's 10 major markets in 2009.
(News) YouTube's video page has been revamped to make it less cluttered and more streamlined.
(News) Facebook's usage grew robustly in the U.S. last year.
(News) YouTube is going into the online movie-rental business, starting with a handful of films from the Sundance Film Festival.
(News) Twitter had a 90-minute outage on Wednesday.
(News) Google became more aggressive about kicking rogue advertisers out of its AdWords program in the fourth quarter.
(News) The New York Times will start charging for some of its articles next year.
(News) Opera has acquired AdMarvel, which has developed a product suite that works as middleman between ad networks and mobile phones,
(News) The click fraud rate remained relatively low in the fourth quarter.
(News) Microsoft Cuts Time Bing Stores Some User Data to Six Months
(News) Ads to Play Bigger Role in Future Mobile Apps, Says Gartner
(News) comScore research shows Bing steadily gaining market share.
(News) China said foreign companies are welcome to operate in China according to local laws, after Google said it will stop censoring search results there.
(News) While free users pay 25-cents per extra gigabyte of storage, paid Google Apps Premier customers will pay $3.50. Microsoft offers 25GB storage for free.
(News) Google risks having its online services blocked in China as it defies local authorities by ending censorship of results on its Chinese search engine, analysts...
(News) A new survey finds that BI users are not watching social-media sites.
(News) Google is apologizing after it mistakenly e-mailed potentially sensitive business data last week to other users of its business listings service.
(News) A new IBM survey finds consumers want more online interactivity with stores.
(News) Aol has started laying off employees, and seeks to let go about 1,400 of them.
(News) Analysts see bad actors vying for a cut of Google's AdWords, defrauding advertisers.
(News) Google has apologized to a Chinese authors' group over its scanning of books by local writers into the Google Books service.
(News) The former CEO of BetOnSports.com is sentenced to 33 months in prison.
(News) Social networking and multiplayer online games are fueling dramatic growth in hard cash earned from goods that exist only in the world of online make-believe.
(News) Yahoo has signed up new partners for Connected TV but also faces new competition from DivX, Vudu and other Internet TV platforms.
(News) London is releasing large tracts of previously unavailable data about the capital city.
(News) Top Chinese search engine Baidu.com will open a separate company that offers online video, as rival Google's YouTube remains blocked in China
(News) Online video viewership continued to climb, but surprisingly not at entertainment-heavy MySpace, according to comScore.
(News) Twitter opens up a huge opportunity for self-expression, and part of that is undoubtedly visual. While the Twitter interface gives you some basic backgrounds...
(News) Twitter offers a number of basic backgrounds, but let's face it: they're mostly generic and boring. In order to get noticed for both your tweets and your style...
(News) The e-commerce sector is turning around as online spending went up during the U.S. holiday season, ComScore said on Wednesday.
(News) Microsoft Must Sell the Cloud to IT Pros in 2010
(News) Facebook has seen an almost fourfold increase in the number of visitors to its Web site from Japan in the last year, NetRatings Japan said Thursday.
(News) Apple is looking to add monthly subscriptions to the TV content available in its online iTunes store. Disney and CBS are interested in signing on.
(News) Google and Yelp would have created a great one-stop for local business promotion, which is something we need.
(News) Chinese video-streaming Web site Youku.com raised $40 million in new equity funding as it looks to expand its popular service.
(News) Google's book search project suffered a legal setback in Paris on Friday, as a court ordered it to pay
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(News) Ten privacy groups have filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission that seeks a roll-back of recent changes to Facebook's privacy policy.
(News) A long time ago, in the mid-to-late 1990s, AltaVista was a major search engine, but with the rise of Google its popularity slid, eventually becoming irrelevant...
(News) Plurk will explore all options including a lawsuit against Microsoft, after the software giant apologized for the theft of software code used in Juku.
(News) Facebook crossed the 100-million mark for U.S. unique visitors in November for the first time, according to comScore.
(News) Microsoft admitted that its Juku service in China was based on code stolen from Plurk.
(News) While classical music fans have hesitated getting into the download market, the elimination of DRM and the increased file bit rates now offer some good reasons...
(News) Both companies face privacy challenges and upset users as they try to balance privacy and commercial interest. Who does best?
(News) Goo.gl works inside Feedburner and from the Google toolbar. It's not something we really need, but, if Google just has to do this, what can we say?
(News) Facebook's new privacy controls make it easy for users to present different information to business contacts and personal friends. Here's how.
(News) Yahoo microblog site Yahoo Meme is now available in Chinese, but the service is blocked in mainland China, highlighting regulatory woes for the industry there.
(News) Microblog provider Plurk has won market share in Asia with the help of users around the world willing to translate it into dozens of languages outside of its...
(News) Aol may have finally gained its independence from Time Warner but it isn't free from its years-long crisis, which it will have to battle long and hard to recover...
(News) Facebook Changes Privacy Settings Yet Again
(News) Plurk, a Twitter-rival, is winning markets in Asia by offering service in 33 local languages, something Twitter has struggled with.
(News) Is your "Friends List" really secure? Facebook has already changed its new privacy options to better protect the information, yet concerns remain.
(News) Yahoo has expanded its integration of Twitter into its search results page.
(News) Amidst the slew of Google announcements this week, one that really made me sit up in my chair concerned a new mobile service called Google Goggles. Now, I don't...
(News) Google Apps Takes Aim at SharePoint with Groups Feature
(News) The #1 social network has begun rolling out long-promised changes. Beware of the "everyone" option.
(News) Ever since I got my Google Voice account, I have had to repeatedly explain to friends and colleagues what Google's free phone service is and (more importantly)...
(News) If "updated 17 hours ago" counts as living, Google's new topic pages for newspapers are already on life support.
(News) Google has turned on its real-time search functionality, delivering on a promise made in October.
(News) Does it really not work with IE8 or Firefox the way it says? I guess that's why this is a beta release.
(News) Facebook Forms Board to Improve Safety
(News) Wi-Fi equipment vendor Ruckus Wireless has patented a technique that appears to be widely used to improve video on wireless LANs.
(News) The search giant now delivers to personalized search results to all users, unless they opt-out. Previously, only signed-in users received them.
(News) Google acquires EtherPad developer AppJet and sends team to help with Google Wave.
(News) Social Networks at Work an 'Untapped' Value
(News) Twitter has built a new mobile site from scratch.
(News) Microsoft's Bing search engine suffered a 30-minute outage on Thursday evening.
(News) If there is something to like about the Bing Maps beta introduced this week, it remained hidden during my visit. The user interface is a mess, but some consumers will doubtless like it.
(News) Two Bulgarian residents are sentenced to prison time for an online money-laundering scheme.
(News) Microsoft is taking aim at Google Maps with a richer version of its own Bing mapping service that was released in beta on Wednesday.
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(News) Yahoo is expanding its integration points with Facebook.
(News) Google said Tuesday it will change how it grants access to news stories to give publishers more control over how much content people can see for free.
(News) Facebook will eliminate regional networks or groupings of people based on where they live in an effort to improve control over users' data.
(News) Think you've heard this before? You have--back in July--but it's really now about to happen, FB founder Mark Zuckerberg says. Regional networks? They're toast.
(News) Microsoft has launched a microblog-style service in China based on Windows Live Messenger, called MSN Juku.
(News) A U.S. judge orders an international spam operation to pay nearly $15.2 million for sending billions of messages.
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(News) China's biggest online auction and retail Web site, Taobao.com, plans to stamp its name on a new mobile phone, the brand's first foray into devices.
(News) A racist caricature is currently the top-ranked image of first lady Michelle Obama on Google's image search engine.
(News) I love live music. Well, music in general, but there's something about the anything-can-happen vibe and the interaction with the audience of concerts that's hard...
(News) Google said it plans to buy display ad company Teracent for an undisclosed sum.
(News) The 43rd floor of the Spear Tower in downtown San Francisco is empty. Possibly because of the slumping economy, there's just a big, open office space with...
(News) Alibaba Group, which owns Yahoo China, is increasingly adding features to retail site Taobao.com that the group formerly reserved for Yahoo.
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(News) A company that offered free Internet auction kits settles charges from the FTC that it then charged customers a monthly fee.
(News) Google Chrome OS Unveiled: Speed, Simplicity, and Security Stressed
(News) Yahoo has enhanced the news "shortcuts" it displays in Web search result pages.
(News) AOL is looking to cut by a third its global staff.
(News) A Chinese authors' group late Wednesday demanded Google compensate writers whose books the U.S. company scanned without permission.
(News) Microsoft Makes Big Azure Announcements at PDC 2009
(News) The U.S. FTC asks a court to declare an online check-writing service in contempt of a January order to authenticate users.
(News) A U.S. senator calls for new regulations on Web membership club offers.
(News) Google is testing a new image search feature called Swirl that groups similar results in clusters.
(News) Project sites, intranets, and team pages are now easier for business users to create--for free.
(News) U.S. residents are largely unwilling to pay for access to newspaper and magazine articles online, according to a new Forrester study.
(News) The FTC warns 10 Web site operators that they are selling questionable flu-fighting products.
(News) The world's most popular video-sharing site is planning to offer content in all of its high-resolution glory. YouTube announced that it will allow users to...
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(News) Bing to Use Wolfram Alpha Results
(News) Latitude can now keep track of where you've been and alert you when friends are nearby.
(News) Global ad spending fell 1 percent in Q3, but the market is in recovery mode, according to IDC.
(News) Last August I wrote about the changing landscape of free lyrics. As detailed in that story, LyricWiki offered an API that allowed applications (including iPhone...
(News) Google VP of search Marissa Mayer talked to IDGNS about the perfect search engine and the secret of Google's success in search.
(News) The biggest danger to Firefox, as it enters its second half-decade, is the changing role of browsers, from surfing the Internet to running applications.
(News) Microsoft has brought out its legal hammer against a businessman who publicized a problem with Bing's Cashback rebate program.
(News) Your iWeb site and Facebook profile represent you and your interests to the world. Wouldn't it be great if they worked together? Fortunately, it's easy to go...
(News) A Chinese government watchdog ordered Yahoo China to clean porn from a photo-sharing site it hosted, a reminder of woes faced by foreign Web companies there.
(News) Skype's cofounders have reached an agreement to withdraw their legal challenges against eBay and Skype's future majority owners.
(News) Throughout its history, Microsoft has earned a reputation for tenacity when entering markets created, and initially dominated, by innovative startups.
(News) Microsoft's search and advertising deal with Yahoo could be expanded overseas, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday.
(News) Baidu did not make clear whether it will indeed start linking to licensed music downloads after music provider Qtrax said it had reached a deal with Baidu.
(News) Google plans to beef up the video chat capabilities in Gmail for Google Apps customers.
(News) The founder of BetOnSports.com is sentenced to 51 months in prison.
(News) Only Google knows and they aren't being very specific, as suits their purpose.
(News) Yahoo China will be left out of Yahoo's US$100 million global branding campaign.
(News) A Michigan real-estate service can't shut out discount brokers from its Web site, the FTC says.
(News) Users can create up to 20 phrase-and-PIN shopping combinations, giving them a completely new realm of user name/password combinations to forget.
(News) The blocking, used to prevent large payments to some telephone companies, has been a contentious issue between Google, AT&T, and the FCC.
(News) Amazon Payments has introduced a new way to pay at Amazon.com and a number of other web retailers. The service lets users enter a phase and PIN to order goods
(News) A popular Taiwanese politician is championing the use of Plurk, a Twitter-like service that comes in Chinese.
(News) Google has improved how it handles music-related queries.
(News) Yahoo and Microsoft have missed the deadline to finalize their deal but plan to keep working on it.
(News) Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz pledged the company will regain the respect of analysts and investors as it stages a comeback.
(News) Google will work with a Taiwanese trade promotion agency to push AdWords among small and medium-size companies on the island.
(News) The official newspaper of China's ruling communist party accused Google of "malicious revenge" after a Google malware warning appeared by one of its Web sites.
(News) The English-language Wikipedia should have a system in place by December to vet anonymous edits for certain high-profile entries.
(News) Wikia, the for-profit company built on user-contributed content, turned a small profit last quarter for the first time, said co-founder Jimmy Wales.
(News) By giving us "free stuff" like e-mail, voice mail, search results, applications, collaboration, analytics, etc., Google knows more about us than we may easily be able to remember about ourselves. And that's frightening.
(News) There are two tasks in business that are really tedious: Tracking your receipts for expenses and capturing business card data.
(News) Google is opening up the Voice voicemail feature to non-Google cell phone numbers.
(News) Google has enhanced its Custom Search service by simplifying the personalization of its layout and by allowing for richer search results.
(News) Yahoo signed a pact to work with Taiwan's leading journalism school and the island's national news agency to research Internet news and broadcasting.
(News) Facebook Makeover: The Good, the Bad, and the Backlash
(News) Facebook Gets Another Homepage Makeover
(News) Google's Blogger went down for about 90 minutes overnight for most of its users.
(News) A German man has been arrested after allegedly stealing data and trying to extort a social networking site.
(News) AOL is working on a new "content creation" strategy, its CEO said Thursday at Web 2.0 Summit.
(News) Google cofounder Sergey Brin made a surprise appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit, where he answered a variety of pointed questions.
(News) Buying Omniture is "a no brainer" for Adobe, Adobe's CEO said Thursday.
(News) Facebook overtook MySpace because MySpace stopped innovating, a News Corp. executive said at Web 2.0.
(News) "Want to launch Microsoft Office? Sure, but first a word from our sponsor." That somewhat surreal scenario could become a reality, based on a patent application...
(News) A company that tracks click fraud says more traffic than ever is coming from botnets.
(News) Real-Time Search: Google and Bing Rivalry Intensifies on Facebook and Twitter
(News) Both Google and Facebook plan to let users buy music on their sites.
(News) Pew Survey Finds Nearly 20 Percent of Online Americans Tweet
(News) Bing Lands Deals with Twitter and Facebook
(News) Microsoft reached a deal with Twitter and Facebook that allows its Bing search engine to index public posts from the social media sites.
(News) A Chinese author group is mulling whether to take legal action against Google over its book scanning project, or join a U.S. legal settlement of the matter.
(News) Web 2.0 Summit kicks off on Tuesday, and its speakers will include the CEOs of Yahoo, Intel, AOL and Twitter.
(News) Google has tweaked its Voice service so that voice mail transcripts don't get indexed by search engines.
(News) An ad association has asked the Department of Justice to approve the deal proposed by Microsoft and Yahoo.
(News) Ericsson will soon launch a platform designed to let consumers buy online content such as news stories with the charge billed to their mobile phone.
(News) Services from Chinese search engine Baidu will be pre-installed on 3G handsets from China Unicom, a blow to Google as it fights Baidu for search market share.
(News) The Google Trike allows the company to photograph and catalog popular landmarks that are only accessible by foot.
(News) Twitter launched a new mobile site in Japan on Thursday as it tries to expand in Japan
(News) Amazon Rolls Out Same-Day Shipping
(News) Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said his company isn't looking to be acquired.
(News) Friendster will soon implement a micropayments platform for virtual gifts and games, seeking to bring in new revenue from southeast Asian countries.
(News) Google's search engine grew its search usage more than Bing's in September, according to comScore.
(News) A prominent British newspaper is hailing Twitter supporters for helping quash an injunction that hampered its reporting.
(News) Twitter is asking its users to refrain from changing their log-in data or else risk getting locked out of their accounts.
(News) Gmail can now detect whether a recipient has been left out of a group e-mail in which the person is usually included.
(News) If recent events haven't left you skittish about cloud computing's future and your distaste for Microsoft Word exceeds even your hostility for Dane Cook, then...
(News) Facebook Skyrockets, MySpace Plummets, Twitter Grows
(News) Pressmart Media, a vendor of technology and services for digital publishing, is offering hosted publishing services aimed at small print publishers.
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(News) Businesses Turn to Video Meetings
(News) Impressive? Yes, but what YouTube still does not do is earn a profit, despite its immense popularity.
(News) Polar Rose is developing a Web-based service that provides a one-stop Web site where people can see their friends photos regardless of where they're uploaded.
(News) The update increases the number of facts that can be displayed from 30 to 120. It also ranks them based on relevance and quality.
(News) Wikileaks is building a Web app that newspapers, human rights groups or others can put on their sites to allow whistleblowers to upload sensitive documents.
(News) Twitter May be Teasing Google, Microsoft into a Deal
(News) A sophisticated click-fraud botnet is redirecting traffic away from Google and other ad providers, costing them traffic and revenue.
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(News) Ask.com will begin providing search results about product deals and sales coupons in its search engine.
(News) U.S. online ad spending fell 5.3 percent in the first half of 2009, according to the IAB.
(News) Developers say Facebook's Application Verification program has proven effective at raising the visibility of their applications.
(News) Google has restored The Pirate Bay in its search engine index after briefly removing it last week following a copyright infringement complaint.
(News) Microsoft's Bing Slips a Bit
(News) A new study calls for open Internet rules and support for new models of journalism.
(News) The two search engines are playing different games, and users win as a result.
(News) Google is adding new functionality to a side panel that could provide quicker access to relevant search results.
(News) Kevin Rose of Digg and Mike McDerment of FreshBooks shares tips on how to attract and retain users for Web applications.
(News) The tight integration between the iPhone and Google is a big part of why people love their iPhones. The thought of a break-up is unsettling.
(News) Whenever you see something compared to Lotus Notes, as Google Wave has been, you know to expect an uphill slog.
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(News) Akamai is extending its content delivery network to the Apple iPhone as it introduces the Akamai HD Network, a system for streaming high-definition video.
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(News) It's a double dose of Microsoft-related video links this week, so small children, pregnant women, and those prone to seizures may want to read something nice by...
(News) Google Adds Links to Web Page Sections in Search Results
(News) If you were an early adopter of digital music, starting back in the days of Casady & Greene's Soundjam on through the birth of iTunes, it's likely that your...
(News) Today, widespread application outages are a new experience and make news. Someday we may become used to them.
(News) Google Outages Damage Cloud Credibility
(News) I know all the excuses, from Google is a "victim of its own success" to "what do you expect for free?" They are just excuses.
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(News) Zurb, an interactive design and business consulting company, has released Notable, a Web site capture and annotation tool that lets design teams collaborate and...
(News) Because it's free, easy to use, offers tons of storage space, and has a wide range of features, Google's Gmail is one of the most popular e-mail providers...
(News) Google's Sidewiki Lets People Post Comments About Web Pages
(News) As the company attempts to lead us into cloud computing it needs to do a better job of reporting its network status and outages to customers.
(News) China's Alibaba will team up with Grameen Bank on a microlending program in China that could draw loan recipients onto Alibaba's top e-commerce Web sites.
(News) Google News was down for more than an hour on Tuesday.
(News) Google has upgraded its Picasa photo management application for Mac and Windows machines with face recognition features.
(News) Yahoo will spend more than US$100 million over the next 15 months to aggressively promote its brand and products globally, the company's CEO, Carol Bartz, said...
(News) Hewlett-Packard is building collaboration software with video, application-sharing and 3-D graphics support into several of its workstation models.
(News) The French National Assembly has adopted a law criminalizing file-sharing and now it awaits the signature of President Nicolas Sarkozy.
(News) Facebook, Nielsen to Ask Users About Display Ads
(News) A senior European judge said Google hasn't infringed trademark rights by allowing advertisers to buy keywords featuring brands
(News) Google's market share in China has slipped this year and will continue falling because new local Web users prefer Baidu, a Chinese government report said.
(News) Facebook confirmed Monday that its site has been having problems, with some users unable to log on or post content.
(News) Among the many features added to iTunes 9 is a tweak to the way you can create smart playlists. Using this new feature, you can create nested conditional smart...
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(News) Opposition Mounting Against Google Books Settlement
(News) Microsoft Offers a Sneak Peek at Office Web Apps
(News) Google rolls out DoubleClick Ad Exchange to boost its share of the display ad market.
(News) A new, sophisticated botnet is causing a sharp spike in click fraud, Click Forensics is warning.
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(News) Microsoft and Yahoo are in talks with European regulators about their planned search tie-up to establish whether the deal needs a formal probe.
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(News) Provided you aren't involved in the controversy over the search giant's massive book scanning program, with is bolstered by the purchase.
(News) Many young Chinese are making full-time jobs out of selling makeup or other wares on Taobao.com, known as "China's eBay," as e-commerce booms in the country.
(News) Google has acquired ReCAPTCHA to improve its spam-detection services and also boost its book scanning project.
(News) Google Beats Microsoft to New Federal Cloud Project
(News) Adobe Pays Premium to Acquire Omniture
(News) AIM 7, which can also bring users into Facebook and other social-networking services, will come out next Tuesday.
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(News) Google Fast Flip Bridges Digital and Print Media
(News) Microsoft is finally showing us that it can do a search engine that people will actually use and is doing so with differentiation, not mere brute force.
(News) Some people will like Google's news-er interface. Others find it gets in the way. And there is no actual flipping involved.
(News) Microsoft Bing Goes Visual with Image Searches
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(News) Tag! You're It. Facebook Deploys a Twitter-Style '@' Tag
(News) Bing Encourages Visual Search
(News) Ask.com has launched a special version of its search engine to raise funds and awareness for the Susan G. Komen breast cancer non-profit organization.
(News) NBA star Kobe Bryant, who is hugely popular in China, shared motivational words with Chinese tech start-ups and other small businesses at a forum.
(News) Taobao.com, an Alibaba Group company dubbed "China's eBay," will aim to expand abroad after first boosting sales of foreign products on its platform in China.
(News) Skype is shutting down the Extras portion of its program for outside developers.
(News) New Twitter TOS Opens Door For Twitter Pro
(News) Top Chinese e-commerce site Alibaba.com aims to announce an Indian joint venture this year as the company expands its global footprint.
(News) Google is making it as easy as possible for people to quit its Web services in a bid to increase trust in cloud computing.
(News) DOJ Scrutiny of Microsoft Deal Could Be Bad News For Yahoo
(News) The U.S. DOJ will review a search agreement between Microsoft and Yahoo.
(News) Alibaba Group, which controls Yahoo China, has not decided how to change updates to the search engine's algorithm after the Yahoo-Bing deal, which excludes it.
(News) Twitter: Your 'Tweets' Belong to You
(News) Ning is now offering applications for users' sites that add new capabilities in areas such as communcation, e-commerce and collaboration.
(News) IBM revealed details of work it is doing with European partners to develop a better way to search for images online.
(News) Microsoft employees, who attended the company meeting today, said that a new version of Bing and some very thin laptops are on the way.
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(News) Google is pushing a payments system to the newspaper industry that would let Web surfers pay a small amount for individual news stories.
(News) US President Barack Obama warned school children on Wednesday to be careful what they post online while young.
(News) Wednesday's It's Only Rock & Roll event saw the return of Steve Jobs to the stage, a new version of iTunes with a boatload of features, more-colorful iPod...
(News) The changes are subtle enough that you might not notice except for the before-and-after graphic Google has thoughtfully provided.
(News) Apple's iTunes Store sports a bold new look with Wednesday's release of iTunes 9. Apple emphasizes the new release's navigational improvements and a richer media...
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(News) Google has made concessions to address European publishers' concerns about its book digitization project
(News) China approved of Google's efforts to filter porn from search results on its China portal following state-led criticism of the links this year.
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(News) Before the graphic British anti-texting video exploded ontothe Internet, there was another graphic video intended to sell safety to teens."No Seatbelt, No Excuse" is very similar, only better, than the controversial anti-texting film now making the rounds.
(News) The Italian antitrust authority has enlarged its investigation of Google Italy's business practices to encompass those of its U.S. parent company.
(News) YouTube is in talks with Hollywood movie studios to offer streaming movie rentals, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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(News) A worldwide Gmail outage was caused by a traffic jam on Google servers.
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(News) Gmail is having a widespread outage on Tuesday afternoon.
(News) WalMart has started letting other retailers sell their products from its Web site.
(News) EBay has reached an agreement to sell a majority stake in its Skype Internet telephony unit.
(News) Google stretched its lead in search query market share globally in July.
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(News) Privacy experts and librarians say Google needs to spell out the privacy protections it will provide with Google Books.
(News) Amazon Boosts Cloud Security
(News) Microsoft on Thursday released an SDK that lets developers easily incorporate Bing in iPhone applications.
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(News) Yahoo has agreed to buy Maktoob.com, an Arabian portal combining news, business and sports information with mail and chat services.
(News) China's Alibaba Group, which controls Yahoo China, will drop the Yahoo brand on one of its Web sites and integrate it with booming auction platform Taobao.com.
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(News) A U.S. district court shuts down Web sites promising free government grants but not delivering, the FTC says.
(News) A debit card business has settled an FTC complaint that it worked with a payday loan company to charge people for cards when they applied for loans.
(How To) FlightCaster predicts if your flight will be on time even before the airlines know if there's a delay.
(News) iLike helps people, music, and musicians find one another. Why a high-concept site like iLike wants to hitch its wagon to MySpace's falling star is hard to explain.
(News) MySpace has agreed to acquire social music service iLike.
(News) Trade group NetChoice released a new list of 'awful' Internet laws and proposals.
(News) Google leads the pack, with an 86 percent satisfaction ranking, the same as it scored last year. Ranked number 2 is "all others" with 78 percent, up 2.6 percent from a year ago.
(News) Twitter says the most recent technical problems affecting its application platform have been resolved.
(News) EBay is opening up its new Selling Manager applications repository to merchants.
(News) As eBay came to dominate auctions, and Amazon dominates books, Facebook is about to become the dominant social networking platform.
(News) Facebook Aims to Become the Next Google Instead of the Next MySpace
(News) Twitter Down on Saturday, External Apps to Be Affected
(News) The founder of BetOnSports pleads guilty to three charges connected to the Internet- and telephone-based gambling operation.
(News) The latest rumor banging around the Mac Web is that Apple will be introducing a new version of iTunes next month. Given Apple's track record with iTunes versions...
(News) Sun Is Setting For Yahoo Search
(News) Does the Twitter Attack Give the Cloud a Black Eye?
(News) Google has added social-networking capabilities to its iGoogle personalized home page service.
(News) Google Steals Spotlight With Caffeine Boost
(News) Google's book settlement doesn't violate U.S. antitrust laws or keep other vendors from offering digital books, a former antitrust enforcer says.
(News) Merely buying four former top Google engineers when acquiring FriendFeed does not a new search engine make. And it's a bad idea, besides.
(News) FriendFeed Buy Helps Facebook Compete With Google and Twitter
(News) Online retail spending in the U.S. fell 1 percent in the second quarter, compared with 2008's second quarter.
(News) Not all great ideas result in great products, even if a people like the result.
(News) The tr.im link shortening service was shutdown by operator Nambu Network on Sunday after the company failed to find a buyer for the service.
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(News) DDoS Attackers Continue Hitting Twitter, Facebook, Google
(News) Digg Voting Platform Lets Users Vote on Ads
(How To) Shipwire manages your physical goods in many warehouses, saving shipping costs and speeding up order delivery.
(News) In this week's video, I cover the process and tools I use to create Macworld Videos. Yes, it's a video about making the very video you'll be watching.
(News) Alibaba.com, China's top e-commerce Web site, will step up efforts to expand abroad by launching its first large advertising campaign in the U.S. next week.
(News) Microsoft plans to pull its Azure services out of a data center in Washington for tax reasons.
(News) Why This Twitter Outage Matters
(News) A Canadian man is indicted for processing illegal Internet gambling payments in the U.S.
(News) On2 Purchase Spreads Google Even Thinner
(News) Comcast subscribers will now be directed to a page with advertising if they try to reach a Web site that doesn't exist.
(News) Google's share of the Chinese online search market dipped slightly in the second quarter, with rival Baidu outpacing its growth in search volume.
(News) Twitter has been sued by a company that alleges the micro-blogging company infringes on several of its patents for mass emergency notifications.
(News) TransMedia on Wednesday announced the launch of Glide Engage, a new social networking and micro-blogging service designed to integrate with the rest of...
(News) Microsoft profits by selling online ads on its search engine to criminal gangs running pharmaceutical Web sites that offer medication to people without a proper...
(News) On2 Won't Cure Google's Video Headache
(News) The worldwide market dropped by 5 percent during the second quarter compared to the same time last year, according to IDC.
(News) If you've spent every spare musical minute within the confines of the iTunes window you might believe there are only five audio formats--MP3, AAC, WAV, AIFF, and...
(News) More than six years after the launch of the iTunes Store here in the U.S., Apple has finally rolled out the world's most popular media store in our great...
(News) Most of the time, I just don't mind that the iPhone doesn't permit any non-Apple apps to run in the background. Switching between apps in the iPhone by hitting...
(News) China's Alibaba Group has started mixing social-networking functions into its leading e-commerce platforms, hoping users will spend more time and money on them.
(News) Look, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a Google billboard! But, for Google Apps? What's that? Well, let me tell you about them.
(News) Google has released a gadget for creating online stores in minutes, but the product is still an early-stage prototype.
(News) Software developer VoloMedia has been awarded a U.S. patent that the company says covers the basic elements of podcasting
(News) With Yahoo signed up for a mind-meld with Microsoft, what will happen to the geeks who might have saved the company?
(News) How Google Gains from Microsoft-Yahoo Deal
(News) Twitter Lawsuit, What Should Business Learn?
(News) The Microsoft-Yahoo search deal does not affect Yahoo China, which is controlled by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, Alibaba said.
(News) Combining Microsoft and Yahoo's online ad efforts may serve to improve, not hinder, competition, some observers said.
(News) Yahoo's widely used search APIs and search programs for external developers may be discontinued if its search deal with Microsoft advances.
(News) Civil rights leaders call for a U.S. court to approve Google's settlement with book authors and publishers.
(News) Microsoft Signs Search Deal With Yahoo
(News) Microsoft and Yahoo Are Said to Have Reached a Deal
(News) If a Chicago woman can be sued for complaining about her landlord, is anybody safe? Probably not, but no one is safe online, remember?
(News) As part of the Pan African e-Network project, Mauritius is hosting a Super Speciality Regional Hospital, which will link to other hospitals in the region.
(News) Chinese video sharing Web site Youku.com, like rivals including YouTube, expects its ad-driven model to become profitable, but that has yet to happen.
(News) Will Apple's rumored tablet be merely an entertainment device or a whole new applications platform? Nobody knows, but rumored hardware offers clues.
(News) Google sold its stake in AOL to Time Warner for $283 million, according to a regulatory filing.
(News) Road Warriors: TripIt, TripIt Pro Keep Tabs on Your Every Move
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(News) Crippled Google Latitude Web App Spotlights iPhone Fault
(News) Arqiva has bought the assets of what was to be a paid on-demand video service with content from major U.K. broadcasters BBC, ITV and Channel 4.
(News) PayPal on Thursday opened its online payments system to third-party developers so they can invent new payment mechanisms.
(News) EFF urges its members to pressure Google to build privacy protections into its Book Search service.
(News) Xoopit Buyout Is Bad For Google Users, Worse for Yahoo?
(News) Yahoo has acquired Xoopit, the creator of a photo management service for Web mail services originally developed for Gmail.
(News) Amazon.com has struck a deal to buy shoe and clothing retailer Zappos.com.
(News) Changes to Yahoo's home page are not very exciting or useful. It's the Internet on training wheels, circa 1998, all over again.
(News) iTunes and AmazonMP3 are terrific music resources, but in some ways they're simply the digital equivalent of big-box record stores of the past. They tell you...
(News) Mauritius will be the second African country to host Google Cache Servers.
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(News) China has started restoring some Internet access to a province where it was blocked after deadly ethnic riots, but the two-week outage has hurt e-businesses.
(How To) Online video tutorials from Lynda.com can pay you back by boosting employee efficiency.
(News) If you're a photographer, the photo-sharing site Flickr offers a great way to get your work seen and to elicit feedback. But it's unlikely that others will find...
(News) Reports: Microsoft and Yahoo Close to Search Ad Deal
(News) Crossing the streams a bit today, I have a Mac 911 kind of question that deals with a Playlist kind of subject. Nick Hyde's tale of woe goes something like this:...
(News) Microsoft Sacrifices Office to Save Windows
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(News) If you're like most creative professionals, you rely on advice and inspiration from peers to stay on the top of your game. Mainstream social networking sites...
(News) Nokia readies its Indian music store, but may not allow online payments immediately
(News) New rules by India's central bank to tighten security of online card transactions are criticized by e-commerce industry
(News) What Microsoft Azure Means To SMBs: Not Much, Yet
(How To) Microsoft Office 2010 will include browser-based apps, but you can tap into Zoho's suite today
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(Reviews) By now you're surely aware that the Internet is a popular way to listen to radio--terrestrial and, of course, Internet-based. You may also be aware that in...
(News) With both online and standalone versions, plus a solution to security issues, Microsoft is poised to make Google Docs a memory.
(How To) Instead of buying into a full Exchange Server system, InfoStreet's hosted alternatives give similar functionality with a monthly fee.
(News) Boxee, the media center application that gathers together multiple streaming sources into a single interface, received a lot of attention a few months ago. And...
(News) We read a lot about the delivery, and popularity, of SMS services such as market prices, health advice and job alerts in developing countries, information there...
(News) PayPal will soon open up its platform to third-party developers, allowing them to build applications with a range of money transfer options.
(News) Google is likely to continue gaining market share in China despite a recent row with the government over pornographic search results.
(News) Andreessen Has It Backwards on Facebook vs. Twitter
(News) Yahoo will broaden access to its search engine's new Search Pad tool, which has been in limited testing since February.
(How To) 8KMiles connects businesses with its network of workers, saving money over employee costs.
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(News) As was foretold many moons ago, television content from the ABC family of networks has begun to make its way to video-streaming site Hulu. In a blog post on the...
(News) Internet, Twitter Blocked in China City After Ethnic Riot
(News) BT will not deploy a controversial behavioral advertising system but said it is still interested in the technology.
(News) Dell ran into a second online pricing snafu in Taiwan, prompting the government's consumer protection agency to lash out at the company.
(How To) CloudLayer per-minute billing can avoid waste if you only need cloud services on occasion.
(How To) Techinline lets you troubleshoot remote PCs, trimming the cost of just walking down a hall to flying across the country.
(News) Google updated some Gmail and Docs features for some Apps customers.
(News) The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed it began a formal antitrust investigation of a settlement involving Google Book Search.
(News) Performance Issues Plague Cloud-Based Applications
(News) Advertising trade groups release principles for online data collection when delivering targeted ads.
(News) Ask.com is counting on semantic search and other enhancements to increase the popularity of its search engine.
(News) The latest rewrite of the Web's mother tongue won't recommend the use of specific audio and video encoding formats.
(News) Bing Adds Twitter Search, Overload
(News) The owners of Extreme Associates were sentenced to a year in prison on obscenity charges.
(News) New Facebook Privacy Controls Take On Twitter
(News) Microsoft has started indexing some individual Twitter messages in its Bing search engine.
(News) Facebook Simplifies Privacy Settings, Calls Them Too Complex
(News) Pirate Bay Sale Signals the Death of an Era
(News) Joost Unplugs Web TV Service, Concentrates on Selling Tech
(News) The creators of a new job-hunting Web site say they've built a search engine that digs around the Web looking for jobs that may not be advertised elsewhere.
(How To) Online website creator helps build complicated sites through modular steps, saving development costs.
(News) Cisco Systems won't try to compete with pay-as-you-go cloud computing providers such as Amazon.
(News) What's Pirate Bay Without The Piracy? Not Much
(News) Unisys is offering services targeted at meeting the security concerns of its cloud computing customers.
(News) Microsoft is planning to sell Avenue A Razorfish, its interactive ad agency, according to a report in Monday's Financial Times.
(News) Real CEOs Don't Twitter -- Do They?
(News) News Sites Falter as Traffic Spikes After Jackson's Death
(How To) Remote access-style software lets you participate in presentations without jet-setting costs.
(News) Michael Jackson's death caused a spike in traffic to news sites, causing some of the biggest ones to experience availability problems.
(News) Any Web site owner can now put up a stream of Facebook status updates, using a Live Stream Box feature introduced on Wednesday.
(News) Microsoft on Wednesday announced online tools that could help consumers reduce energy consumption costs.
(News) Facebook is testing a new posting tool for member profiles.
(News) Google opens a beta offering of AdSense for Mobile Applications.
(News) Comcast and Time Warner are teaming up on an initiative to make more video programming available online, free of charge, for subscribers to pay TV services.
(News) Twitter is working to solve a problem that is causing delays in key account-management actions.
(News) China Appears to Block Google Sites
(News) Google put several measures in place on its China search page, Google.cn, to filter pornographic material out of search results.
(News) A bug in Blogger is costing publishers traffic by making it hard or impossible for visitors to get properly redirected.
(News) Twitter had staggering year-on-year growth in users in May.
(News) Google has enhanced its search engine's ability to index Flash content.
(News) China Orders Google to Suspend Foreign Site Searches
(News) Google promised to step up control of "vulgar" search results in China after a government-backed arbiter warned its filtering of pornography was too weak.
(News) As the Internet becomes a more important path for information between Iran and the rest of the world, Google has added support for Persian to Google Translate.
(News) Yahoo is adding two features to its SearchMonkey development platform to help site owners enrich the results their pages generate on Yahoo Search.
(News) Google was tight-lipped about co-founder Larry Page's meeting with EC's Viviane Reding Wednesday, but was very forthcoming about his holiday and lunch plans.
(News) Acrobat.com Application Suite Undercooked
(News) Microsoft's search engine had a major drop in usage in May, right before the rollout of Bing.
(News) Universal Music and Virgin Media will launch an unlimited music download service in the U.K. later this year.
(News) Cloud Computing: We've Been Here Before
(News) Dell is offering Microsoft Office products for download, making it the first vendor other than Microsoft to do so.
(News) Salesforce.com Offering No-Charge Access to Force.com
(News) Small Business Still Don't See the Clouds
(News) Microsoft Silverlight Challenges Adobe AIR
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(News) Fujitsu has released a browser plug-in that displays suggestions for refining search queries on the fly.
(News) Google Antitrust Case Misses the Point
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(News) Small Web publishers say U.S. lawmakers should be careful with new regulations on targeted advertising.
(News) Yahoo will release its Hadoop implementation, hoping it will help boost adoption of this technology.
(News) Reports: DOJ Turns up the Heat on Google's Book Deal
(News) Motorola plans to shut its online music stores in Singapore and India.
(News) It was Obama's message, not his use of the Internet, that swung the election, said head of Obama campaign's social media efforts.
(News) Making Customer Connections and Getting Twitter Right
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(News) With all the hoopla surrounding Twitter these days, I thought it might be useful to devote a Bugs & Fixes column to this social networking site. Here's a...
(News) U.S. online advertising fell 5 percent in Q1 2009, the first such decrease since late 2002.
(News) Yahoo is increasing the third-party applications integrated with its sites and services.
(News) YouTube continues as the most popular video site in the U.S., according to comScore.
(News) Study Shows Twitter Is a Broadcast Medium
(News) eMusic's new deal with Sony once again proves the old adage: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
(News) Google Squared Struggles To Make Search More Helpful
(News) Social news site Digg will serve advertisements that users can vote on as part of its main news flow
(News) Google Squared, a new search tool for presenting information in an organized fashion, is now up and running.
(News) Yahoo doesn't need to do a deal with Microsoft to succeed, Yahoo's CEO said Wednesday.
(News) Tibco is prepping a new platform for creating and running composite applications in the cloud.
(News) Microsoft's Bing warns Indians of sexually explicit content when they search for the term "sex," but allows searches relating to selecting a child's gender.
(News) The Unbearable Lightness of Bing
(News) Five years ago, using Web mail meant putting up with flashing banner ads, spam, minuscule inboxes, and embarrassing addresses like ninjapirate73@hotmail.com.
(News) Microsoft Bing: So What?
(News) Google is considering taking the free music download search it offers in China to other countries as well, though it has no specific plans yet, it said.
(News) Adobe Aligns Software Branding to Shine Light on Flash
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(News) Bing, Wave, and Other Painful Attempts to Change Culture
(News) Google Book Service Faces European Probe
(News) Yahoo will close its Yahoo 360 social-networking site in July.
(News) Some months ago, Hulu.com shut out Boxee (or, at least, attempted to) from playing its content within the Boxee media center application--an application that...
(News) What the Bing is Microsoft Thinking?
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(News) Time Warner will spin off AOL as a publicly-traded company, a move that had been widely expected.
(News) HTML5 Could Be the OS Killer
(News) E.U. government ministers are expected to call for an investigation into the way Google Books handles copyright.
(News) Google is testing a new scripting capability that will let customers customize its Google Docs suite.
(News) Google may be getting ready to strip the 'beta' tag from some online applications, officials suggested Wednesday.
(News) Code for the Web, Google Tells Developers
(News) Cash In on Internet Memes
(How To) Adobe's Acrobat.com online apps store and create text documents, presentations, and other files from any 'net-connected computer.
(News) Will Another $200 Million Buy Facebook a Flush Future?
(News) Google's I/O event for developers opens Wednesday amidst great expectations from developers and observers.
(News) Jason Snell recently explained how to use Applescript to automate the popular Twitter client Twitterific. But, with the help of some simple shell scripting, you...
(News) Avid readers may recall last year's September roundtable in Brussels on the subject of breaking down the barriers for online competition in the European Union...
(News) A Chinese rival of Wikipedia that also lets users join groups and chat like they would on Facebook has drawn on social elements to beat its competition.
(News) Yahoo launched its Buzz news site in India on Thursday, the first time the social news site has been introduced outside the U.S.
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(News) Wikipedia and its sister sites will now license their content under a Creative Commons license, as opposed to GNU's FDL.
(News) This week I've written and talked a bit about subscription music services--sparked by Napster offering a new pricing plan that allows unlimited streaming and...
(News) Microsoft's Kumo Just Another Search Imitator
(News) Yahoo has announced Placemaker, a geo-parsing Web service for automating the use of location aware data.
(News) Beware the Social Media Charlatans
(News) Yahoo has built a global research and development base in Beijing it will formally announce next month, the company said Wednesday.
(News) Yahoo Vows Death to the '10 Blue Links'
(News) Google has added an automatic translation feature to Gmail.
(News) EBay and other groups ask Congress to end retail price-fixing.
(News) The IAB has issued guidelines for social ads involving consumers, but it's unclear whether enough people will participate in them.
(News) EMC Launches Atmos OnLine Storage as a Service
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(News) Twitter plans to introduce a paid service by year's end cofounder Biz Stone said Monday.
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(News) Facebook is supporting OpenID to simplify how people register and log in to its social networking site.
(News) Should Your Business Be on Facebook?
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(News) Craigslist drops "erotic services" category from its U.S. sites; after objections from enforcement agencies.
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(News) I was watching the season finale of Fringe (Did you see it? It was very cool indeed) when out of nowhere a new Get a Mac ad plays. I rushed to Apple's Web site...
(News) It's a good time to be a fan of Star Trek. You can't go anywhere without seeing a marketing tie-in for J.J. Abrams's much-lauded reboot of the Star
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(News) The Interactive Advertising Bureau has released guidelines for determining the validity of clicks on pay-per-click ads.
(News) Apple Is Hip, but its Cloud Offering Is Horrid
(News) IT departments must find ways to stretch their shrinking e-commerce budgets without compromising quality and services.
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(News) Twitter: Better than Sex?
(News) Recently Macworld's Jason Snell offered some advice on how businesses can use the popular "microblogging" service Twitter to promote themselves. Here's a look at...
(News) FTP publishing in Blogger has become increasingly problematic, for which Google is apologizing.
(News) Craigslist's Erotic Ads Make The Internet an Even Vaster Wasteland
(News) Top Chinese search engine Baidu is working with record labels on an ad revenue sharing or other model for its music search, long a source of piracy concerns.
(News) Which Collaboration Tool is for you?
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(News) Sometimes I talk to myself. Take my recent experience with the online backup service, Mozy.
(News) Twitter is so red-hot right now that it's united Shaq and Oprah. It's also so good at attracting buzzwords that I can't decide whether to call it a microblogging...
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(News) Google Apps Gains LDAP Support
(News) Rejoice, rejoice, for the future is now. Confirming rumors that appeared last month, Disney and Hulu announced on Thursday...
(News) Twitter Quitters Just Don't Get It
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(News) Government Concerned Over Possible Google Books Monopoly
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(How To) Prepare for the May 11 postage rate increase by taking advantage of USPS web tools.
(News) Swine Flu Demonstrates Twitter's Achilles Heel
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(News) Jeeves Rejoins Search Fray With a New Look
(News) Craigslist Faces Scrutiny After Crimes
(News) The company calls for consumer disclosure, but has used targeted advertising vendors
(News) Facebook Moves Ahead With New Terms of Use
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(News) The popularity of the social-networking site has cooled off significantly in the past year
(News) Deal will boost encyclopedia project via revenue sharing
(News) Incidence of this search advertising scam had hit a record high in Q4
(How To) For just a few hundred dollars, LogoTournament's community of designers can offer hundreds of quality logo choices.
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(News) Soonr on Wednesday announced the release of Soonr 3.0, a new version of its online workspace software for Mac OS X, Windows...
(News) Linden Lab Will Rate Parts of Second Life Adults Only
(How To) Reign in labor costs and maintain flexibility to scale up or down with online outsourcing services.
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(News) Amazon on Tuesday began offering high-definition movie rentals and HD TV show purchases through its Amazon Video on Demand...
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(News) The applications mine online data to map human relationships and help with translation.
(News) New Twitter App Helps with Job Search
(News) By asking visitors to find the top of a randomly rotated image, it hopes to keep bots out of Web services such as Gmail
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(News) Achtung, baby! Apple announced on Thursday that Germany has become the sixth country to boast films available from iTunes and...
(News) Several hundred employees could be laid off
(News) Customer demands his purchasing history is kept out of the BT-run system
(News) Skype should be spun off because it lacks "synergies" with eBay and PayPal, says eBay CEO
(News) The company will in some cases issue refunds to buyers at its own expense
(News) Both companies say there were no synergies between the companies following eBay's $75 million buyout in 2007
(News) Amazon Says Listing Problem Was an Error, Not a Hack
(News) Billboard reports that there's already evidence that the recent change to song pricing in iTunes may have hurt sales of...
(News) Twitter Tips: Be Both Professional and Conversational
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(News) The company enhances the capabilities of its search-engine-building service and works with schools on the future of the cloud
(News) Candid updates and comments about technical issues with the Web video service are gone
(News) Variable Pricing Hits Amazon MP3, Walmart, Others
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(News) Major League Baseball acknowledges a variety of issues affecting its MLB.TV streaming service
(News) The industry has giant potential in a country with 640 million mobile users
(News) Members will be able to vote between April 16 and April 23
(News) Who Can Really Raise Twitter Right?
(News) Not content with all those new features that came with iTunes 8 and iTunes 8.1? Have no fear: iTunes 8.1.1 is here to save the...
(News) Comcast E-mail Outage Sparks Twitter Updates Galore
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(News) Payment providers have soared as they have offered new payment options in a country where credit cards are rare
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(News) As software and Internet companies think about how to make their Web applications more interactive and able to work across...
(News) Jonathan Miller will be in charge of the Internet division, which includes MySpace and Photobucket
(News) Selling Manager is now open to all developers, with a release to merchants slated for the summer
(News) YouTube owner Google will let companies sell their own inventory and experiment with new advertising formats
(News) Have you ever listened to music? I mean, really listened. The subtle sounds of melody, harmony and, arguably just as...
(News) It was the brainchild of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales
(News) Members will be able to rate and review businesses
(News) Facebook and Adobe will deliver a Flash client library for the Facebook Platform at the event
(News) The online encyclopedia service will be terminated in October, Microsoft said
(News) Its role includes holding social-networking vendors' feet to the fire regarding data portability
(News) Spending grew almost 11 percent compared with 2007
(News) Expansion of the email tools worldwide coincides with Gmail's fifth anniversary
(News) Pirate Bay Adds Feature to Share Torrents on Facebook
(News) Google Expands Free Music Downloads in China
(News) Consumer affairs commissioner won't accept a "world wild west" when it comes to people's online data
(News) More Cash for Cloud Computing in 2009
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(News) The company's Web-based e-mail service, still in beta testing five years after its launch, is due for an upgrade
(News) First patch didn't cut it.
(News) While consumer social networks like Facebook and Twitter continue to garner significant attention from Web consumers and the...
(News) Salesforce and Twitter Could Power Dirty Tricks
(News) The site aims to get information to users "where and how they want it"
(News) The new service will at first target the fashion industry, linking photos to online stores
(News) If you've been holed up in darkness for the past couple weeks since the release of iTunes 8.1, you can finally come out: the...
(News) Semantic Search Could Secure Google's Future
(News) Automated systems are shutting down fake profiles as well as stopping spam
(News) Google Rolls out Semantic Search Capabilities
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(News) They try to influence a review of EC rules governing whether manufacturers can forbid channels from selling their wares
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(News) Eight YouTube videos offer more detail on the incident and a glimpse into the thoughts and emotions of the Impeccable's crew.
(News) Here's a simple-yet-geeky Friday hint concerning iTunes and the sort of device information it provides for a connected iPhone...
(News) Project Entropia wins approval from Swedish banking authorities
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(News) Google Apps administrators also get more control over name formats for their Gmail users
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(News) A Texas lawyer is indicted in an alleged stock pump-and-dump scheme.
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(News) Yahoo has created an application for Facebook members to share their geographic location with their friends.
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(News) EBay's CEO said the company's marketplace will be transformed in the coming years to be more attuned to the needs of buyers...
(News) Privacy groups don't like Google's new behavorial advertising plans.
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(News) Gmail is having an outage on Tuesday that may not be fully fixed until late Wednesday.
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(News) The Norwegian state broadcaster NRK has decided to set up their own BitTorrent tracker.
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(News) European Union citizens are taking to e-commerce, but are still reluctant to make cross-border purchases online.
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(News) Facebook wants to make its personal profiles and promotional marketing Pages more like each other, and is starting the process...
(News) Amazon.com released a free Kindle application for the iPhone and iPod Touch on Wednesday.
(News) Google's CEO says trials of the company's enterprise products have accelerated recently.
(News) Yahoo's CEO Carol Bartz said Yahoo may acquired "distressed" Internet companies, and admitted she prefers Google Maps.
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(News) Facebook will announce a major upgrade to its Pages advertising service on Wednesday.
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(News) Alibaba is looking for partners to help bring its online payment and auction sites to the U.S.
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(News) U.S. online ad spending will shrink year-on-year in the first quarter for the first time since 2001, according to IDC.
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(News) Apple unveiled iTunes Pass, a new pre-order system that lets fans of particular bands purchase future content. The first...
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(News) Amazon.com's product search engine appeared to malfunction on Tuesday evening.
(News) A U.S. District Court orders seven Internet lending operations to cease some of their practices.
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(News) AOL will lay off 10 percent of its staff this year due to a drop in ad revenue.
(News) The UK Film Council launches a search engine to help people find legal copies of movies as a way to curb piracy.
(News) Yahoo posted a loss in the fourth quarter, and its revenue dropped slightly.
(News) The Vatican, reaching out to a growing Web 2.0 audience, has launched its own channel on YouTube .
(News) Microsoft on Friday said that it may discontinue its free Popfly service that lets non-programmers build Web 2.0 apps.
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(News) Microsoft announces it will launch a wide range of online Office and Office apps -- some (including Word and Excel) available for free.
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(News) Salesforce.com announced Monday that it is connecting its Force.com development platform with Google's App Engine.
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(News) The U.S. FTC settles deceptive advertising charges from a company promising mystery shopping jobs.
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(News) Online retail spending grew at a disproportionate pace during Cyber Monday.
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(News) Microsoft may be set to offer some of its hosted business-productivity services earlier than the company expected.
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(News) YouTube is expected to announce Monday that it will host full-length films and television shows from MGM.
(News) Intel launches a home health care device aimed at tracking conditions of patients, including those who are elderly.
(News) Video conferencing markets are expected to grow, especially on the desktop, research shows.
(News) Wikis and social networks are finding a home in the workplace, a Forrester study reports.
(News) Officials from Google, Microsoft, Facebook and MySpace talked about application platforms at the Web 2.0 Summit.
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(News) Y!Live, one of the projects from Yahoo's Brickhouse, has been killed, according to an announcement on the Y!Live blog...
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(News) Salesforce is launching a new service for customers to host their Web sites on its cloud platform.
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(News) Apple has published an update on its work on improving its MobileMe service.
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(News) A U.S. military intelligence report has determined that the Twitter microblogging tool could be used by terrorists to...
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(News) Microsoft is stripping the OS of built-in apps, instead sending users to Windows Live -- a la Google Docs.
(News) Analysis: A military intelligence report voices concern over the increasing use of Twitter by political and religious groups.
(News) Students from four Singapore universities won prizes for their widget development.
(News) Google teams with election education groups to offer maps to help voters find polling places.
(News) IBM is working on a Web-conferencing platform called OpusUna, which supports multimedia collaboration.
(News) Google Gears Geolocation API adds Wi-Fi to help developers build location-based Web apps.
(News) CIO embraces Facebook and LinkedIn as well as internal "communities of interest."
(News) Opera has added support for widgets to the latest beta release of its Mobile 9.5 browser.
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(News) Computers and applications stubbornly remain hard to use. Developers, from solo code jockeys to huge corporations, promise us...
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(News) By this time next week, Mozilla will have unveiled the alpha release of its mobile Firefox browser, codenamed Fennec.
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(News) Mozilla Corp. will use a several-week delay it recently added to the Firefox 3.1 schedule to build a private browsing mode and...
(News) You've signed up for LinkedIn, because everyone says it's the primary business social network. But to whom should you connect? According to a few power users, there are a few common approaches, most of which are different than what you'd do on Facebook.
(News) When Matthew Schultz started at iCrossing in February, a digital marketing firm, he realized his company had a knowledge...
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(News) There aren't many robust business applications powered by Adobe's new rich Internet application platform yet, but we found a few gems you can download right now.
(News) A Vietnamese security company has found a critical vulnerability in Google's new browser Chrome, but Google has already...
(News) The road map for the newly renamed BizTalk Server 2009 includes regular major updates, starting next year.
(News) NetSuite tweaks its hosted business applications for CRM, e-commerce, accounting and services automation to take advantage of Chrome's fast handling of Ajax elements.
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(News) From storage to payment, Amazon is dangling an array of low-cost services -- but will customers bite?
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(News) Use of search engines increases steadily, while 60% of us check e-mail daily, Pew study shows.
(News) Gadget lovers were dealt a blow on Wednesday when two researchers outlined what they called a "hole" during a Black Hat...
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(Reviews) Filtrbox's intelligent agent searches the Web for information relevant to you--at prices that won't break the bank, starting with a free version.
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(News) New service launched last night provides a one-stop-shop for building and hosting an online application.
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(News) Adoption of hosted applications among large companies jumped last year, but many CIOs and IT managers will not consider these software-as-a-service (SAAS) products due to concerns about security, cost and integration, according to a Forrester Research study.
(News) IBM has upgraded its high-end enterprise search product with an improved user interface, and will announce next week the availability of a business intelligence tool that can be used with it to analyze call center data.
(News) Microsoft's announcement on Monday that it would host SharePoint for businesses of any size left some third-party software providers surprised -- and even annoyed.
(News) Smaller businesses can now sign onto the subscription-based apps offered in Microsoft Online Services.
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(News) Microsoft said on Tuesday that its Visual Studio 2008 IDE (integrated development environment) is now widely available.
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(News) IBM said Wednesday it is expanding its broad SOA (service-oriented architecture) portfolio with the acquisition of AptSoft, a maker of business event processing software.
(News) Mainframe systems are playing a key role in many SOA (service-oriented architecture) projects, according to a study released this week by IBM user group SHARE.
(News) A top official with the U.S. White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) gave her strongest endorsement yet to software as a service, saying Wednesday it can help federal agencies cut development costs.
(News) Perimeter eSecurity is buying SECCAS, which sells e-mail management products to financial institutions.
(News) Startup unveils today its Virtual Essentials, tools to track, tag, and monitor virtual machines in the enterprise.
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(News) Enterprise search companies and analysts say Microsoft's deal to buy FASTshows the market has arrived.
(News) NetSuite on Wednesday set the initial price of its stock at US$26, greatly exceeding its original estimate.
(News) NetSuite has raised the estimated price range for its IPO (initial public offering) to US$16 to $19, from the original $13 to $16.
(Reviews) Use FAQMasterFlex to easily create and maintain your site's FAQ.
(News) As interest grows in the open source suite, Sun decides to offer back-line support for firms that distribute OpenOffice.org.
(News) Cisco is running on all cylinders selling its Telepresence high-definition conferencing system, according to a top executive.
(News) Developers can now build apps for the professional networking site, which sports a jazzier look and new features.
(News) New data-integration service for the enterprise is expected to debut today.
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(News) Three-quarters of all software as a service (SAAS) has been bought by business unit managers rather than IT managers, Gartner research vice-president Ben Pring has warned.
(News) As employees struggle to read an increasing amount of work-related material, some companies have turned to RSS (Really Simple Syndication) technology to improve productivity.
(News) Businesses promoting products and services through Webinars must carefully tailor sessions to suit specific audiences in order to maximize the technology's potentials.
(News) Google Inc. will upgrade its Search Appliance with native support for enterprise content management (ECM) systems like EMC's Documentum, IBM's FileNet, Open Text's LiveLink and Microsoft's SharePoint.
(News) Salesforce.com Inc. is preparing a new service that will allow customers to share sales leads and other data directly with other companies that use its on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) software.
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