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Jeff LaPorte, co-founder and chief architect at EQO Communications, has come-up with an IM Map of the world using his company’s IM interconnect capability, showing each country seems to have a preference for a different IM network.
For instance, 77.18 percent of Argentineans love MSN, followed by 9.99 percent who love GTalk. Mexicans (83.72 percent), Brazilians [...]

For any of us who recognize that personal privacy on the web is an illusion, the response to a Congressional inquiry asking how various ISPs and online portals target advertising and collect data will come as no surprise. Aside from the use of deep-packet inspection technology used by ISPs to insert advertising based on surfing [...]

In a SEC filing, Google acknowledged that it might come out on the losing side of its $1 billion investment in AOL.
Based on our review, we believe our investment in AOL may be impaired… We will continue to review this investment for impairment in the future. There can be no assurance that impairment charges [...]

Time Warner Cable reported positive second-quarter earnings (PDF) this morning that fell 26 percent but excluding onetime charges, beat Wall Street’s expectations, and said it would split AOL’s dial-up Internet and advertising businesses into two divisions in 2009. Its earnings beat expectations largely because of gains in its film and its cable and networks [...]

Summer is generally a slower time for news and this summer is no exception. But the kind folks at Microsoft, Yahoo and Carl Icahn’s investment firm are charitably offering up a form of entertainment with their ongoing Let’s Make a Deal saga.
The latest installment is a letter to shareholders from Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang that [...]

With the economic slowdown and faltering housing sales, the US broadband growth has hit a speed bump. And that’s not good news for broadband providers, who hope to overcome the odds by offering speed boosts. Even that might not be enough. Continue Reading.