Digesting Google's New PPA Advertising Product
Google announced the testing of a new pay-per-action, or PPA, advertising product today. It's important for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that Google controls so much of the...
Oodle Raises $11 Million in Funding From JAFCO, Greylock Partners and Redpoint Ventures
SAN MATEO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Oodle, the new way to shop with classifieds, announced today that it has raised $11 million in funding from new investor JAFCO Ventures as well as from Greylock Partn...
New Line nabs 'Gears of War'
Studio wins rights to videogame — New Line has won feature rights to Microsoft and Epic Games' hugely popular vidgame "Gears of War," with Stuart Beattie penning the adaptation and Marty Bowen and W...
Tool turns unsuspecting surfers into hacking help
A security researcher has found a way hackers can make PCs of unsuspecting Web surfers do their dirty work, without having to actually commandeer the systems. — That's possible with a new security t...
MMOGs Worth More Than $1 Billion In The West
A report by Screen Digest has found that massively multiplayer online games generated more than $1 billion in 2006 in the West (North America and Europe), notes the BBC. The report claims 87 percent ...
Google quashes mobile phone talk
Google has poured cold water on claims it is developing a mobile phone. — The search giant said it was more logical to form partnerships with existing handset makers instead. — Google's South-East...
Mobiles set to play the game
For years now senior games industry figures and media analysts have predicted that mobile phone games will revolutionise the industry. — The former head of Sony Europe Chris Deering has described mo...
Oops! Technician's error wipes out data for state fund
Perhaps you've experienced that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disk drive containing an account worth $38 billion.
Google yet to decide on blurring key Indian sites
NEW DELHI: Even as the high-resolution images of vital Indian installations on Google Earth have irked security agencies, Google Inc on Tuesday said it has not yet taken a decision on blurring ariel i...
Google snubs Net Neutrality debate
Research library - All papers free to download. — The first significant Net Neutrality debate to take place in the UK was held today at Westminster. Chaired by former trade minister Alun Michael an...