Mozilla To Build Social Networking Into Firefox: Bad News For Flock
Mozilla has released details on The Coop, a new product that will incorporate social networking features directly into the Firefox browser. This is not good news for the privately-backed social brows...
Google Desktop for the Mac 1.0
Today Google announced the availability of Google Desktop for the Mac (this link will work shortly, I am sure!). What's Google Desktop, you ask? It is an application from Google, which indexes the c...
DoubleClick to Set Up an Exchange for Buying and Selling Digital Ads
DOUBLECLICK, which delivers marketing messages to Web sites and monitors how many clicks they get, plans to announce today that it is setting up a Nasdaq-like exchange for the buying and selling of di...
FCC says no to mobile calls on airplanes
San Francisco (IDGNS) - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has ended a proceeding that would have allowed mobile phone calls on airplanes, for now ending the possibility of phone conversations...
Marketing in Second Life doesn't work... here is why!
Last week, the Hamburg-based research firm Komjuniti published the first extensive survey of Resident attitudes toward real world marketing in Second Life. It's been a long time in coming: a British ...
HYPE-OFF: Twitter versus Justin.tv
NICK DOUGLAS — OMG it's all the rage, I can't stop checking, I might miss something I used to dismiss as mundane! It's Twitter! And it's Justin.tv! I can't decide which is hype-ier, the one-line bl...
SAMSUNG Launches Silent and Speedy SpinPoint S166 Hard Disk Drive Series
Seoul, Korea - April 4, 2007 : Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a worldwide leader in digital consumer electronics and information technology, today announced its new SpinPoint S166 Series of ultra sile...
Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies
by Jill E. Grogg, Electronic Resources Librarian, The University of Alabama Libraries and Beth Ashmore, Cataloging Librarian, Samford University — Few things in the past decade, other than the PATRI...
Microsoft sees DRM-free music in Zune's future
Microsoft plans to follow Apple in selling unprotected songs from EMI, though the company won't say just when such tracks will appear on the Zune Marketplace store. — When CEO Steve Jobs issued his ...
Sony confirms PSP price cut for US
But no word on plans for Europe — A spokesperson for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has confirmed to GamesIndustry.biz that the price of the PSP has been cut in the US. — Until this week, the ...
Google Unwraps Multi-Variate Site Testing, Anoints Partners
Google has released a site optimization product it's calling the "third leg" in a stool that includes its flagship AdWords product as well as Google Analytics. — Previously available in limited beta...
FBI checks out gambling in 'Second Life'
FBI investigators have visited Second Life's Internet casinos at the invitation of the virtual world's creator Linden Lab, but the U.S. government has not decided on the legality of virtual gambling. ...
Two Episodes Into Prom Queen And I'm Completely Hooked
Two days and two episodes into the new 80-segment, Internet-only show Prom Queen and I'm completely hooked. — Ok, not really. High school dramas aren't really my thing, and I'm betting I spend a lo...
Windows cursor patch causing trouble
Installing Microsoft's Tuesday patch for a "critical" Windows vulnerability is causing trouble for some users. — Microsoft broke with its monthly patch cycle Tuesday to repair a bug in the way Windo...
Intel Serves Up 'Pro' To Go
Intel® Centrino® Pro Gives IT Managers Wireless Management and Security Capabilities — Under a new brand called Intel® Centrino® Pro processor technology, Intel Corporation today announced it will e...
A Quick, Possibly Incomplete Guide to What Gets Installed by the Google Desktop Installer
Mac software is usually distributed in a way that encourages simple drag-and-drop installation. A disk image or zip archive that the user opens, then a single file (or bundle) …