(AFP) – 5 hours ago NEW YORK — AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo! are proposing to offer space on each other’s sites to advertisers in a bid to take on Google, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The newspaper said the system would launch later this year or early next year and would allow advertisers...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO–Intel hauled out its first Android tablet running on “Medfield,” an upcoming Atom chip for smartphones and tablets, while two executives also chatted about their relationship with Google at the company’s developer conference today. The Medfield Atom chip is one of Intel’s most power-efficient chip designs–a strict requirement for tablets and smartphones. It contains...Read More
Like us on Facebook The restaurant review company was founded by Tim and Nina Zagat more than 32 years ago, and has since established itself as a trusted brand all over the world over. It operates in 13 categories and more than 100 cities. The Zagats confirmed the acquisition on their company’s Web site and...Read More
Every time a person runs a Google search, watches a YouTube video or sends a message through Gmail, the company’s data centers full of computers use electricity. Those data centers around the world continuously draw almost 260 million watts — about a quarter of the output of a nuclear power plant. Up to now, the...Read More
By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO | Wed Sep 7, 2011 8:19pm EDT SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook’s revenue doubled to $1.6 billion in 2011’s first half, a source with knowledge of its financials told Reuters, underscoring its appeal to advertisers while it grapples with intensifying competition from the likes of Google Inc. Net income in...Read More
South Korean antitrust authorities raided Google’s offices in Seoul on Tuesday, according to media reports. Officials from the Korean Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) also plan another visit to Google’s South Korean headquarters on Wednesday, according to Reuters. South Korea’s NHN and Daum Communications, two Internet companies providing such services as search, email, and news, filed...Read More
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Attackers who hacked into a Dutch Web security firm have issued hundreds of fraudulent security certificates for intelligence agency Web sites, including the C.I.A., as well as for Internet giants like Google, Microsoft and Twitter, the Dutch government said Monday. Experts say they suspect the hacker — or hackers — operated with...Read More
Fox News and Google will team up later this month to host a Republican presidential debate featuring video and text questions submitted by the public via YouTube. The use of YouTube-generated questions for a presidential debate was first attempted in 2007, when YouTube and CNN joined to produce Republican and Democratic debates. But the format...Read More
One of the things that made Google apps the web-based productivity suite to beat was the ability to access your information offline using Gears. When that experiment was killed, many of us let loose a single tear as we contemplated returning to our desktop apps. Well, as promised, HTML5 is finally returning Gmail to its...Read More
OpenDNS CEO David Ulevitch (Credit: OpenDNS) OpenDNS, Google, and a few others have built a new technology into their Internet operations that’s designed to speed up the delivery of data around the globe. The technology augments the Domain Name System that provides the numeric Internet Protocol (IP) address needed to get data to an Internet...Read More
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