Bing launched just over a month ago, to great fanfare and moderately good reviews. Now, it’s time to see if Microsoft has gotten anything for its massive ad budget and R&D costs. Too bad for Redmond, Bing is a lot of splash, but… Read More »
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I’m a political junkie in my spare time, so I have the Sotomayor confirmation hearings playing on C-SPAN as I write today. But while I heard some of Lindsey Graham’s surprisingly honest and heartfelt opening statement, I missed a chunk of it. Alas, I don’t… Read More »
Facebook employees, have you been eyeing your friends at Google with disdain and jealousy as they cash out their options to buy houses and cars and the like (at least the ones who joined the company early on)? Have no fear, now you,… Read More »
Enough is enough. It’s time for Eric Schmidt to resign from Apple’s board. Sure, Apple and Google have a common enemy in Microsoft, so at one time it made sense for Google CEO Eric Schmidt to have a seat on Apple’s board of directors. But… Read More »
If your server crashes at 3 a.m., will you know about it? If you only get alerts via SMS or email, you might not wake up and your server could be down for hours. Husband-and-wife team Roger and Jessica Stewart wanted to fix that, so they… Read More »
Video chatting startup TokBox, which we’ve covered extensively, let go six of its 23 employees this week to help the company “realize [its] vision” and is “actively recruiting for talent” to fill the open spots. What does that mean? Tokbox didn’t say,… Read More »
Without realizing it, you are a guinea pig for Google’s engineers. Gmail uses a slightly different shade of blue for its links — this one, #2A5DB0 — than the main Google search page, which uses #2200CC. Google’s engineers wondered if the difference in link color… Read More »
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Want to know what’s going on right this second? Real-time search engine OneRiot is launching (right now!) an API that widget and app makers can use to tap into its stream of real-time content. The search engine, which is focusing heavily on real-time content —… Read More »
There sure are a lot of people writing about the Google Chrome OS. The pair of Googlers who wrote the blog post that kicked off the media frenzy included all the right buzzwords: “open source,” “lightweight operating system,” “netbooks,” and “community.” So exciting! I… Read More »
Google AdSense is serving up ads from the Church of Scientology, the cult/religion founded by science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard — and Seth Weintraub, for one, can’t seem to ban them from his site. Weintraub’s Macintosh rumors page, 9to5Mac, might seem an odd place… Read More »
Clearwire is launching its Clear WiMAX service in Las Vegas on July 21. That’s great news for conventioneers (especially the numerous tech-focused shows in the area every year) and casino attendees, never mind the locals, who will get to play with the new 4G technology.… Read More »
Search engine results pages — known as SERPs in the search engine optimization (SEO) world — have gotten increasingly complex over the past few years as search providers look for new ways to help users reach their destination in fewer clicks. Google is leading this… Read More »
In an attempt to educate the public about just how “private” its private data is, Canadian coder Holden Karau built Web2.0collage. The project, an online-art-installation-cum-privacy-busting app, illustrates how easy it is for nefarious web sites to sniff your browser history and see which sites you’ve… Read More »
Former Joost CEO Mike Volpi won’t be waiting in line at the unemployment office. He’s landed at Index Ventures — which invested in Joost two years ago. It seems they still believe in Volpi, even if his company did implode. Volpi will work out… Read More »
If you use self-described “web site traffic and promotion company” uSocial.net to buy votes on Digg and StumbleUpon, you’ll be thrilled to know it’s expanded its service to Twitter. For just $87, uSocial will generate an additional 1,000 Twitter followers to the account of your… Read More »
As a longtime Kayak user, I was shocked when I first saw Microsoft’s new Bing travel site. The pages of search results for airline flights on Bing are so eerily similar to Kayak’s, I thought Microsoft had partnered with the startup. Of course, there… Read More »
Only 19 percent of iPhone/iPod Touch applications in the AdMob network had more than 10,000 users in May, and a mere 5 percent had more than 100,000 users, according to the mobile ad network’s latest Mobile Metrics report. With more than 50,000 apps available on… Read More »
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