Incisive Media Taps Kevin Ryan
NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Incisive Media announced today that Kevin Ryan has joined Search Engine Strategies and Search Engine Watch as vice president of global content, effective immediately.
Windows Vista SP1 confirmed again by loud-mouth Microsoft Downloads
Microsoft Downloads can never keep a good secret, always spilling the beans no matter how many times you point at it (keep it up team!). After all the lies Microsoft had to endure to keep Windows Vis...
Wireless energy promise powers up
A clean-cut vision of a future freed from the rat's nest of cables needed to power today's electronic gadgets has come one step closer to reality. — US researchers have successfully tested an experi...
iTunes and Identity-Based Digital Rights Management
Over the last week, it has been become clear that Apple is embedding some identifying information in songs purchased from iTunes, including the name of the customer and his or her e-mail address. Thi...
MetroFi Reaches Over 11,000 Monthly Users of Portland Wi-Fi Network
Coverage Expansion Continues; Nearly 20,000 Registered in 6 Months — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 6 /PRNewswire/ — MetroFi — the leading provider of free wireless Internet access and municipal servic...
The Microtrix
You think everything you read about Microsoft is real, but it's not. They are all apart of a computer simulation, an illusion, called The Microtrix. This is a story about a rebellious group of Micro...
Soviet-Era Arcade Games Crawl Out of Their Cold War Graves
Alexander Stakhanov (left) and Alexander Vucman stand with the digital host of Magistral, one of the first games they repaired. — MOSCOW — If American teenagers during the Cold War ever stopped to c...
Teacher Gets New Trial on Classroom Porn
NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) - A judge granted a new trial Wednesday for a former substitute teacher convicted of allowing students to view pornography on a classroom computer. — Prosecutors did not oppos...
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for June 2007
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: June 7, 2007 — Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: June 12, 2007 — This is an advance notification of six security bulletins that Mi...
Converters Signal a New Era for TVs
At midnight on Feb. 17, 2009, the rabbit ears and the rooftop antennas that still guide television signals into nearly 1 of every 5 American homes will be rendered useless — unless they are tethered t...
FIREFOX 3 ALPHA 5 (GRAN PARADISO)
Although it's not intended for public consumption, a new build of Firefox 3 Alpha 5 (code name Gran Paradiso) is available for download from Mozilla. In this release add-ons created for Firefox 2 may...
Promoting a Thirst for Sprite in Teenage Cellphone Users
The Coca-Cola Company is hoping its new mobile site for social networking, Sprite Yard, will become the MySpace of the cellphone world. — But some marketing executives say the plan could instead bec...
Akamai gives free peek at Internet
BOSTON - What does the Internet look like? A free new Web service from Akamai Technologies Inc. offers a peek, providing a sort of Internet weather report on global traffic tie-ups, cyberattacks and ...
How Big Will the iPhone Be?
The new must-have smartphone may be a $10 billion business—and could send Apple shares even higher — Few stocks trade on emotion the way Apple Inc. does. Its rip-roaring initial public offering in ...
And now a few words from Kevin Ryan, VP, Global Content Director, Search Engine Watch and Search Engine Strategies
Greetings everyone, I'm very happy to announce that I have joined the team here at Search Engine Watch and Search Engine Strategies. Everyone has been asking what my role will be and what plans I hav...
Jobster Now Offers Pay Per Applicant Job Listings
Eyebrows were raised when Seattle-based Jobster shredded their business model and moved to free job listings in February. It was a direct assault on Monster, which charges up to $475 per job listing....
Spice up your schedule with the Google Calendar gallery
Don't you think that calendars should be more than lists of appointments and meetings? Well, we think an online calendar should be filled with what interests you most, which is why we just unveiled t...
YP Corp. Acquires LiveDeal and Goes Hyper-Local
Creates Revolutionary Integrated Online Local Yellow Pages/Classifieds Marketplaces — MESA, Ariz.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—YP Corp. (OTCBB:YPNT), a leading provider of nationwide Internet Yellow Pages and re...
Incuby: Social Networking For Inventions
San Antonio, Texas based Incuby is aiming to build a community where inventors can display their inventions to the general public, entrepreneurs and investors. — In developing the site, the team beh...
Microsoft, LG Sign Linux Pact
Microsoft and LG Electronics sign cross-licensing patent agreement that covers Linux-based embedded devices. — Recommend this story? — Microsoft Wednesday inked another cross-licensing patent agre...
Time to short Apple?
Commentary: Functionality of iPhone will be duplicated by others — BERKELEY, Calif. (MarketWatch) — If you follow the rules and sell on good news and buy on the bad, now would be time to short Apple...
Groups want limits on Google
Planned DoubleClick purchase raises concerns about invasion of privacy — A coalition of privacy groups have taken another swing at Google Inc.'s proposed acquisition of online advertising firm Doubl...
As Cellphones Multiply, Phone Books Get Slimmer
Parents have used them as booster chairs for children. Marksmen have fired at them for target practice. And musclemen have ripped them in half as a show of strength. — But the fat phone book, a fi...
Rivals Answer the iPhone
Apple Inc.'s iPhone may be the most anticipated device in the history of the wireless industry. But when it hits AT&T Inc. and Apple stores June 29, it will face plenty of competition. — Nokia Corp...
Via mobo is smaller than a business card
Computex 007 Makes for the best laptop at Computex — VIA HAS TWO interrelated items here that put the 'wow' back in computing. One is a mobo, the other is a laptop based on it, and both are really ...
Sony game unit says plans to cut jobs in U.S.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp.'s (6758.T) game unit said on Thursday it planned to cut jobs in the United States and was eyeing restructuring steps in Japan as it struggles to keep up with industry riva...
Harrison, Kaplan And Llewelyn All Departing Nintendo Of America
ow that the June deadline date for Nintendo of America staff has reared its head, the fallout from Nintendo's Sales and Marketing move has been leaked. According to our sources, approximately 90% of ...
In a Virtual Universe, the Politics Turn Real
The kingdom is in crisis. After pledging to treat its citizens equally, the government stands accused of unfairly favoring one powerful, well-connected political faction. Many citizens have taken to...
'omg my mom joined facebook!!'
I HAVE reached a curious point in life. Although I feel like the same precocious know-it-all cynic I always was, I suddenly am surrounded by younger precocious know-it-all cynics whose main purpose a...
Ecommerce 2.0 is happening now
I just spent the last two days at the Internet Retailer conference, and emerged convinced more than ever that we've just scratching the tip of the iceberg with ecommerce opportunities. There are stil...
Web 2.0 madness grips China
reporter's notebook BEIJING—Forget Silicon Valley—if you want to see a place enthralled with Web 2.0, come to China. — A rising middle class, cheap start-up costs, increasing penetration of PCs and ...
Spice up your schedule with the Google Calendar gallery
Don't you think that calendars should be more than lists of appointments and meetings? Well, we think an online calendar should be filled with what interests you most, which is why we just unveiled t...
Windows Mobile Device Center v6.1 Released!
Great news for Vista users: Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 was launched last night and is now available for download from our Windows Mobile site as well as from Windows Update. We had run into a c...
'omg my mom joined facebook!!'
I HAVE reached a curious point in life. Although I feel like the same precocious know-it-all cynic I always was, I suddenly am surrounded by younger precocious know-it-all cynics whose main purpose a...
How to hire the best people you've ever worked with
There are many aspects to hiring great people, and various people smarter than me have written extensively on the topic. — So I'm not going to try to be comprehensive. — But I am going to relay so...
PARTNERSHIP ANNOUNCED BETWEEN CIC LIBRARIES AND GOOGLE
A statement from the Director: — This partnership between our 12 member universities and Google is unprecedented. What makes this work so exciting is that we will literally open the pages of millio...