Amazon.com Drops Search Engine Features
Amazon.com's A9 Search Engine Drops Highly Touted Features — SEATTLE (AP) — Amazon.com Inc.'s A9 search engine has dropped some of its most widely touted features, including the ability to remember ...
100 Leading Media Companies Report; Revenue Hits $268 Billion
Also: Download the 2006 Media Family Trees Poster — CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — Internet and cable were the growth locomotives behind the 6.6% increase in 2005 U.S. media revenue, reaching $268.48 billion...
Google's Chief Looks Ahead
In an interview with TIME, CEO Eric Schmidt explains what's behind the company's new push for partnerships — Google wants new friends. After signing a series of new partners, CEO Eric Schmidt says ...
GOOGLE RUNNING SEARCHMASH
Google is running an alternate search engine called SearchMash, which includes some useful and "out there" features that might not be right for Google.com, but could make a really interesting search e...
Day 17 - WPM Tray
Tonights application is a Words Per Minute meter in your systray. The algorithm used to determine a word is VERY simple (a space, tab, or return separated by anything else). — It's a green box for ...
More info on PageRank
Every few months we update the PageRank data that we show in the toolbar, and every few months I see a few repeated questions, so let me take a pass at some of them. Note: I wrote this kinda quickly,...
5 Things You Shouldn't Spend Money On When Starting a Business
Some things are worth spending your money on. Others aren't. — Worth it: — Not worth it: — When starting a business, here's 5 things you shouldn't spend a lot of money on: — Fancy shmancy mark...
One Small Step for the Blogosphere...
Exclusive: Here Comes Windows Vista RC2
Microsoft this Friday will ship the final pre-release version of Windows Vista and, unexpectedly, will name the release as Release Candidate 2 (RC2). Previously, Microsoft had publicly asserted that ...
New Conductors Speed Global Flows of Money
Cellphones Make Transfers Faster, Cheaper — MANILA — It was 10:33 p.m. when Dulce Amor Bandoy's cellphone beeped with her favorite kind of message. — "You have received 1,321.00 of G-Cash," read t...
GPS Fails, Police Give Away a Car
Police in Dallas, TX are kicking themselves in the ass after the GPS functionality of a "bait car" has failed and their baited criminal has gotten away, scott-free, with a new car. Bait cars are cars...
To Protect Our Ports, We've Now Banned Online Gambling
from the say-what? dept — A bunch of politicians have been pushing for this for quite some time, but this weekend, it surprised many people when the Senate was able to squeeze in an anti-gambling b...
Hidden Labels in Gmail
If you enable saving your chat history in Gmail, your conversations from Google Talk are saved as standard emails. To make them stand out from the rest of messages, Gmail adds two labels: chat and ch...
YouTube and Orphaned Art
So we here at Medialoper have a friend named Joe. It's not that Joe is a Luddite, but he's maintained for years that this whole Internet thing is a fad. He's warned us — oh, has he warned us! — not ...
Pentax X-Change interchangeable lens concept
DSLRs get all the photog credit, what with those snazzy interchangeable lenses and decent image quality, but point and shooters get most of the work done for most consumers, thanks the the size and co...
Video games have 'role in school'
Video games could have a serious role to play in the classroom, a survey of teachers and students suggests. — The Teaching with Games report was commissioned by games giant Electronic Arts (EA) and ...
Court puts stop on online check firm
A federal judge has ordered online payment processor Qchex to cease its current method of online payment processing, which U.S. regulators say facilitated fraud. — Qchex let people create and send c...