Comscore: Traffic jumps at TheStreet.com Nov 21, 2009
The top five Internet properties, as ranked by unique visitors remain Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL and Facebook ... Yahoo outranks Google in ad penetration, reaching 88 percent of the population ... Google Ad Network has an 87 percent reach. (Washington Business Journal, DC)
Search site aims to rival Google Nov 21, 2009
The Cuil homepage is even more sparse than Google's. Former workers at the web giant Google have launched a rival search engine ... But analysts believe the new search engine, like many others, will struggle to match and defeat Google. (Yahoo News -- Internet and WWW)
How Venture Capital Lost Its Way Nov 21, 2009
True enough, the venture capital ecosystem has nurtured startups that became household names among them Apple (), Cisco (), Google (), Microsoft (), and Starbucks (). For much of the 1990s and thereafter, venture capital was seen as the "secret sauce" of American entrepreneurship and an engine of job growth. (BusinessWeek)
Google unveils Chrome OS Nov 21, 2009
Google Inc. painted a bright picture of the personal computing future on Thursday: an always-connected netbook that boots up in 7 seconds, never has to install software, stores all data online and efficiently fends off attack ... The company demonstrated Google Chrome OS, based on the browser of the same name, during a news conference at its Mountain View offices ... "The model of computing we're trying to advance is pretty fundamentally different," said Sundar Pichai, vice president of product... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Fewer flights, more fees await holiday travelers Nov 21, 2009
Virgin America, partnering with Google, is offering free access to Wi-Fi on all its flights from Nov. 10-Jan. 15. (AZCentral -- Business)
New software to start PC in less than 7sec Nov 21, 2009
MOUNTAIN VIEW (CALIFORNIA): New Google Inc software will start up a computer as fast as a television can be turned on, the search company said as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for PCs that do their work on the Web. Google gave the first public look at its Chrome OS four months after declaring its intention of developing the PCs main software, a move that pits it directly against Microsoft Corp and Apple Inc. True to Googles internet-pedigree, the Chrome OS resembles a... (India Times, India)
Apple overhauls entire iPod line Nov 21, 2009
Dedicated icons on the touch screen give access to YouTube or the Google and Yahoo search engines. The touch screen iPod comes in two versions that have 8 or 16 gigabytes of memory. (Yahoo News -- Apple Computer)
Infotainment Nov 21, 2009
Google on Thursday provided a peek beneath the hood of its new Chrome operating system, making the software public and promising it will run netbooks by the end of next year. Google-crafted Chrome OS will be tailored exclusively for applications hosted as services in the Internet cloud and debut. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
Automatic captions on YouTube Nov 21, 2009
Google Inc. said Thursday it is introducing automatic, machine-generated captions for videos on its YouTube site ... Hundreds of thousands of videos on Google sites already contain caption tracks that users have created and added manually with Google s existing captioning service ... Google is tapping into the speech-recognition technology that it uses for its Google Voice call management service. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Business)
Get to know your competition Nov 21, 2009
Use programs like Google Alerts to track what's said about them online. If possible and practical, shop them secretly on a regular basis to observe their operations firsthand. (MSNBC -- Business)
Yahoo to Allow Users to Opt Out of Custom Ads Nov 21, 2009
The move comes a week after , a Massachusetts Democrat and chairman of the House Energy and Commerce's Internet subcommittee, wrote a letter to 33 companies including , ATe Warner, Comcast, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google and asked that they answer 11 questions relating to their data collection processes ... Google said it does not employ DPI. For routine searches on Google ... com, the search engine giant stores server log information like location, IP address, time and date, operating system,... (Yahoo News -- Internet and WWW)
Tips for smart, healthy holiday travel Nov 21, 2009
Google a rental place near where you'll be staying or check out or. They can deliver diapers. (CNN)
Google open-sources operating system Nov 21, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO Google Inc. announced Thursday (Nov ... Sundar Pichai, Google's vice president of product management, said Google is open-sourcing Chrome OS one year before it is targeted to be ready for users in order to engage with partners, the open source community and developers ... Pichai spoke at a press event at Google's headquarter in Mountain View, Calif. (EETimes)
Teen heartthrobs for a 'New' generation Nov 21, 2009
She'll also Google him from time to time, and until recently, kept a "very hot, shirtless picture" of him as her computer screen-saver. But she's not as obsessive as some of her friends, who check YouTube for him daily and follow various "Twilight" fan sites. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Electric car maker Tesla seen going public Nov 21, 2009
Tesla's investors include Google Inc founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Other investors include Daimler AG; Abu Dhabi-based Aabar Investments, which owns a stake in Daimler; and venture capital funds Valor Equity Partners, Technology Partners, The Westly Group and Compass Venture Partners. (MSNBC -- Business)
Yahoo Adds Twitter to News Results Nov 21, 2009
The news comes on the heels of recent announcements from Microsoft's Bing search engine and from Google, each of which has plans to integrate Twitter feeds on their own search results. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) now already offers a separate search results page of relevant Twitter feeds while Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) said it plans to integrate Twitter into its results this year. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Google Shows Off Chrome OS, Releases Source Nov 21, 2009
Google ties Chrome OS to solid-state netbooks and systems available for 2010 holiday system ... -- Google today released surprising new details about the Chrome operating system it's been developing ... During a presentation here at the company's headquarters, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) executives also said the plan is to tie Chrome to systems using solid-state drives that support fast booting and performance. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Google shows off OS Nov 21, 2009
A sign outside the offices of Google ... Google on Thursday provided a peek beneath the hood of its new Chrome operating system, making the software public and promising it will run netbooks by the end of next year ... Google-crafted Chrome OS will be tailored exclusively for applications hosted as services in the internet "cloud" and debut on low-cost bare-bones netbooks that have been a booming segment of the laptop computer market. (iAfrica.com)
Google: the world's frenemy Nov 21, 2009
Google co-founders Sergey Brin, left, and Larry Page ... Sergey Brin wanted to test a job applicant, so he gave her a snap assignment, writes Ken Auletta in his new book, Googled ... "I need you to draw me a contract," the Google co- founder told the Harvard Law graduate. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
140 letters = $130M Nov 21, 2009
Currently, Twitter collects fees from hundreds of entities that use its network to distribute information, ranging from US Department of Justice press releases to trendy talking points on Google and Microsoft search engines ... Currently, Twitter collects fees from hundreds of entities that use its network to distribute information, ranging from US Department of Justice press releases to trendy talking points on Google and Microsoft search engines. (New York Post -- Business)
Video: Al Gore stumps for smart grid Nov 21, 2009
Indeed at Greenbeat, Ed Lu, special project director for Google. org, talked about the company's PowerMeter software being used in a wide range of home devices to let customers access data about their energy use. (EETimes)
Suit over search-engine keywords tries new angle Nov 21, 2009
A lawsuit in Wisconsin is bringing a fresh challenge to the practice of paying for keywords on Google and other search engines to boost one company's link over a rival's ... An American Airlines lawsuit targeted not a rival but Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., and alleged not a privacy violation but that the search giants infringed on its trademarks ... Google compared its policy to magazines that publish a Ford ad on the page opposite a story about Chevrolets. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Tips on Saving Money - Buy Cheap Vi... Nov 21, 2009
For quick price comparisons, the Google Shopping search (found by visiting Google and clicking the "Shopping" tab) immediately cruises the internet and searches for the best deals. Temporary Discount Video Games and Cheap Games Sales Events. (Suite101.com)
Google books hearing set for February 18 Nov 21, 2009
A picture taken on September 24 shows the screen of a computer featuring a search of the word "edition" on the home page of Internet giant Google's website. A US judge set February 18 for a hearing on the revised legal settlement between Google and US authors and publishers that would allow the Internet giant to scan and sell millions of books online ... WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US judge set February 18 for a hearing on the revised legal settlement between Google and US authors and publishers that... (Yahoo! Asia News)
Google's Chrome OS to be ready for 2010 holidays Nov 21, 2009
Consumers will have to wait until next year's holiday shopping season to find out if Google Inc.'s new operating system can deliver on its promise to make low-cost computers run faster. Google set the late 2010 target date Thursday during its first preview of a much-anticipated operating system that eventually may mount a challenge to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows the foundation for most personal computers since the 1990s ... At the time, Google said Chrome OS would be ready during the second half... (Yahoo News -- Technology)
YouTube gets automatic subtitles Nov 21, 2009
YouTube's parent company Google has announced on its blog that automatic captions are to begin to roll out across the site ... These include National Geographic, Columbia, as well as most Google and YouTube channels ... "The majority of user-generated video content online is still inaccessible to people like me," Mr Harrenstien wrote in the Google blog. (BBC News -- Technology)
"Jena Six" Teen Gets Second Chance Nov 21, 2009
NEW YORK, Nov. 20, 2009. The American Spirit: Lawyer Takes in Client and Helps Him Get on the Right Track. (CBS News)
Google phone strategy takes off Nov 21, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO: Google Inc has won a seat at the smartphone table. Two years after the Web search leader announced its plan to barge into the market, a dozen phones are using Google's Android mobile operating software, including Motorola Inc's heavily promoted Droid phone ... "This is a platform that a lot of people were very sceptical about and it's just exploded," Brigantine Advisors analyst Colin Gillis said about Google's Android. (India Times)
Chrome OS Lands on BitTorrent Sites Nov 21, 2009
Not surprisingly, developers have already snapped up the code to Google Chrome OS, compiled it, and put it on the Web for users to download ... Google's Chrome OS will not be publicly available until Google releases Chrome OS-branded netbooks in late 2010 ... Google during a Thursday technical preview at its Mountain View headquarters. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz Nov 21, 2009
Vapor was in the air this week as rumors swirled around two products that exist only as pixels, not molecules: the Google Phone and the Apple Tablet ... Google announced a number of cool new things this week ... a. Google-branded phoneb. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Google Chrome OS: A Simple FAQ Nov 21, 2009
Everyone's all a-twitter over Google's newly announced operating system ... What is Google Chrome OS ... Google Chrome OS is a lightweight, cloud-based operating system for the first time this week. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Report slams Google Apps' enterprise prospects, Google says: just you wait Nov 21, 2009
A new report by the Burton Group suggests that IT managers that are looking to save money by switching from traditional enterprise software to Google Apps have another thing coming. Google Apps should be seen as supplementary, the report says, not a replacement for enterprise software ... Google Apps may not be the be-all, end-all that some analysts believe it will be, according to a new by the Burton Group. (Yahoo News -- Internet Portals & Search Engines)
Just cuz its on Twitter, it (still) isnt true Nov 21, 2009
Which is why Im using Google news alerts even as we speak to find the latest on dead Paul McCartneys evil doppelganger, and when his next record drops. Follow Helen A.S. Popkin on and/or friend her on where her banal bon mots are at worst a lame viral campaign and/or attempt to get a book deal. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Microsoft attacks Google on books Nov 21, 2009
Microsoft has launched a scathing attack on Google, saying the search giant's rival book-scanning service "systematically violates copyright" ... However, Google allows snippets of copyrighted works to be seen on the web on its Google Books Search ... A Microsoft lawyer has accused Google of cutting into authors' profits. (Yahoo News -- Microsoft)
St. Louis Cardinals announce season ticket pricing Nov 21, 2009
Web Search powered by YAHOO. Published Fri, Nov 20, 2009 05:43 PMModified Fri, Nov 20, 2009 05:44 PM. (News & Observer -- Sports)
No hospital savings seen with electronic records Nov 21, 2009
The push for wider electronic medical records affects companies like Microsoft Corp and Google Inc to others such as McKesson Corp and Allscripts Misys Healthcare Solutions Inc.. National government standards for many health IT products are due next month. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Tech Awards recognize innovation Nov 21, 2009
Silicon Valley, the launch pad of technology dynamos like the iPhone and Google's search engine, recognized innovations of a less flashy sort that may still prove to be game-changers ... ENGINEER Company Google, Inc. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
Life-Logging and the Generation Gap over Privacy Nov 21, 2009
But if the host and guests can explain, you know, the contribution that Google and Wikipedia made to this movement ... I think Google and Wikipedia are huge, huge things online ... I mean in different ways they've radicalized things, especially Google and anything involving search engines. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
Should Web Search Data Be Stored? Nov 21, 2009
The Wall Street Journal Online invited Kevin Bankston, a lawyer at the , a privacy rights group, to debate the issue with Markham Erickson, executive director of , a lobby group for Internet firms including Google and Yahoo ... Markham C. Erickson is executive director and general counsel to , a lobbying group for Internet companies including Google and Yahoo ... Average Internet users probably don't even realize that AOL, Google, etc. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
Bang, bang, buck, buck Nov 21, 2009
" In its first 24 hours, the game sold a 4.7 million copies, and within five days it had made US$550 million in sales. With these impressive figures the epic shooter has already broken the record set by "Grand Theft Auto IV" last year and is on its way to blasting itself into entertainment history. Industry Microsoft used its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this week to announce the next iteration of its web browser, Internet Explorer. Company spokesman Steven Sinofsky took to... (Asia Times Online)
Whose Internet is it, anyway? Nov 21, 2009
Among them are citizen groups, such as the Consumer Federation of America and the AARP, as well as the stars of the 21st-century Internet-based economy: Google, Microsoft, eBay, TiVo, and Yahoo ... Google surely has the cash to pay extra for premium service ... But could Google, a tiny startup only a few years ago, have sprung up in an environment where the established search engines of the day could pay more to buy premium service. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
Google, Yahoo call for expanded online drug ads Nov 21, 2009
Google, Yahoo and other Web companies joined the pharmaceutical industry Thursday in urging federal regulators to make it easier to pitch drugs in online advertisements ... The industry's limited online marketing presence represents a lost opportunity for search engines like Google and Yahoo, given strong demand for online medical information ... Rival Google is proposing a similar design that would list a short summary of drugs risks, followed by a link to full prescribing information. (Yahoo News -- Pharmaceutical Industry News)
Citizen Webitor Nov 21, 2009
Citizen_Webitor wrote on Jan 22, 2009 10:04 AM:" Google Street View has visited Auburn.It looks like sometime last summer, and they were just passing through, but Google street view has visited Auburn. Personally, I am excited about this new development. Your city just aint cool unless it's been street-viewed! ". Citizen_Webitor wrote on Jan 14, 2009 3:06 PM:" Ah yes.While there always has been a button where the current weather button is now, you are correct about there being an additional... (Auburn Citizen, NY)
When the law chases the Internet Nov 21, 2009
The latest example: a court order against Web giant Google. Google Inc. hasn't committed a crime, but it did argue before a federal judge in recent days that it should not be ordered to turn over some general information about personal search logs to the Department of Justice ... Google has warned that, despite its huge database of information on users, it cannot go down "the slippery slope" of letting government mine that data for possible crimes, both for the sake of customer privacy and to... (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
Google unveils Chrome OS Nov 21, 2009
Google Inc. painted a bright picture of the personal computing future on Thursday: an always-connected netbook that boots up in 7 seconds, never has to install software, stores all data online and efficiently fends off attack ... The company demonstrated Google Chrome OS, based on the browser of the same name, during a news conference at its Mountain View offices ... "The model of computing we're trying to advance is pretty fundamentally different," said Sundar Pichai, vice president of product... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
YouTube to add automatic captions to aid deaf Nov 21, 2009
Google Inc. announced Thursday that it is using speech recognition technology to create automatic captions for certain videos on YouTube, helping the deaf and hearing impaired to access a rapidly growing form of online content ... The Mountain View search company is employing the same technology that allows it to transcribe voice messages into text on its Google Voice service. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
This Email Will Self-Destruct Nov 21, 2009
For discussion about the major Internet companies, including Google, Yahoo and their competitors. Answers allows you to tap the knowledge of Community members. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
Google must stop snooping on us Nov 21, 2009
ONCE upon a time, back in the almost unimaginable days before Google was a household name and a search engine clicked by almost every computer user on the planet, three geeks were sitting in the company s modest office in California preparing to meet some possible new recruits ... Google, it said, was not an ugly, monopolistic profit machine crushing all in its path, but a company devoted to the good of mankind ... Could Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page now be regretting it. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
Low-Cost Tools to Kickstart Your New Business Nov 20, 2009
Sage even offers mobile versions of the Billing Boss Web UI optimized for viewing on an iPhone, Google G1 smartphone and BlackBerry Bold. Not to be outdone, financial-software expert (of QuickBooks fame) offers , a free service that lets you manage your invoicing online. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Google Chrome operating system to arrive for the 2010 holidays Nov 20, 2009
Google Thursday gave a sneak peek of its new PC operating system, unveiling the specs for developers and announcing that it would be available for the 2010 holidays ... In describing the OS, Google says there will be no conventional desktop apps -- everything will be web based ... "This means users do not have to deal with installing, managing and updating programs," says Google in a. (USA Today -- Tech)
Netflix Imitators Are Everywhere Nov 20, 2009
Sills was pleased enough with the service that when he did a search on Google for "Netflix and video games" and found GameFly -- a similar service that rents games for the major consoles -- he signed up immediately ... Google's video-game rental directory lists nearly a dozen competitors to GameFly. (Yahoo News -- Electronic Commerce)
Yahoo jumps on Twitter bandwagon to improve search Nov 20, 2009
The company, based in , is bogged down in a three-year financial slump partly because it has losing ground in the lucrative Internet search market to Google and, to a lesser extent, Microsoft ... Google, the Internet's search leader, also plans to include Twitter's chatter in its search results, but has yet to say when that change will occur or how it will do it ... Microsoft and Google haven't said how much they are paying Twitter in their respective deals. (USA Today -- Tech)
Android's growth worries some Nov 20, 2009
Google says it provides emulators to let developers test whether their apps work ... () -- A year after its release, Google's open source Android operating system has become a sensation ... Google says it has emulators available that allows developers to test their application running on simulated devices so they can see how it behaves. (CNN -- International)
New software will make YouTube videos accessible for hearing-impaired viewers Nov 20, 2009
With an assist from Boston public TV station WGBH, Google Inc. has developed technology that will automatically add on-screen captions to video streams on its popular YouTube website. Ken Harrenstien, Google s lead software engineer on the project, said the new technology will make many YouTube videos accessible to hearing-impaired people for the first time ... Google already uses this technology in Google Voice, the company s new telephone service. (Boston Globe)
New Source of Online Ad Revenue Nov 20, 2009
That is a big question for Internet companies like Google and Yahoo , as well as Yellow Pages publishers like Verizon and SBC, which are stepping up their efforts to sell online ads to plumbers, dry cleaners and other small businesses, most of which do not have Web sites ... Type the phrase "plumbers and 10036" into a Google search box, for example, and the search results yield not a single listing or text advertisement for plumbers in Midtown Manhattan ... Google, which according to comScore... (Yahoo News -- Electronic Commerce)
'Twilight' fans tricked into downloading scareware Nov 20, 2009
For example, when fans searched for "Stephenie Meyer" yesterday on Google, they may have encountered a search result that read "Stephenie Meyer at 365Multimedia.com." But instead of seeing a legitimate interview, the fake security scan appeared; hitting the cancel button only ensured that the subsequent pitch for worthless protection would follow. The last time an attack of this scale and sophistication swamped the Internet was during the run up to the last Harry Potter movie, says Greene. (USA Today -- Tech)
Drug industry presses FDA to allow more online ads Nov 20, 2009
As federal regulators take their first tentative steps toward policing the wild west of medical information online, pharmaceutical companies are pressing their case to market drugs via Google, Twitter and other Web sites ... When drug companies have tried to adapt such ads to the abbreviated language of Google and Yahoo, they've run into trouble ... The ads called sponsored links appear on the screen margins of sites like Google when users search for certain key words. (Yahoo News -- Pharmaceutical Industry News)
Microsoft attacks Google on books Nov 20, 2009
Microsoft has launched a scathing attack on Google, saying the search giant's rival book-scanning service "systematically violates copyright" ... However, Google allows snippets of copyrighted works to be seen on the web on its Google Books Search ... A Microsoft lawyer has accused Google of cutting into authors' profits. (Yahoo News -- Microsoft)
Google, Yahoo call for expanded online drug ads Nov 20, 2009
Google, Yahoo and other Web companies joined the pharmaceutical industry Thursday in urging federal regulators to make it easier to pitch drugs in online advertisements ... The industry's limited online marketing presence represents a lost opportunity for search engines like Google and Yahoo, given strong demand for online medical information ... Rival Google is proposing a similar design that would list a short summary of drugs risks, followed by a link to full prescribing information. (Yahoo News -- Pharmaceutical Industry News)
Leak fuels fears over India's ID project Nov 20, 2009
Google, IBM, Yahoo, Microsoft and India's own Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys are lobbying the government for slices of the pie. On November 12, Yahoo chief executive officer Carol Bartz met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, fishing for her company's involvement in the project. (Asia Times Online)
Dell Closer to Selling a Mini Smartphone in U.S. Nov 20, 2009
Dell said its phones are based on software called Android that is developed by Google Inc. (GOOG). Earlier this year, Dell sought permission from the Federal Communications Commission to sell its Mini 3iX smartphone in the U.S., according to documents filed with the FCC, which approved the application on Nov. 6. (SmartMoney)
Google rides Chrome OS onto Microsoft turf Nov 20, 2009
(11-19) 14:52 PST -- With Google Inc. working on its upcoming browser-based Chrome operating system, the company is intensifying its grudge match with rival Microsoft Corp. ... If , which is expected to be on the market in about a year, catches some momentum, it won't just propel the company into a new market, it also will give Google Apps a boost against Microsoft's ubiquitous Office software ... It will also give Google one more avenue into the enterprise, which has always been Microsoft's... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
Google's Chrome OS: A Web appliance, not a PC Nov 20, 2009
(11-19) 16:19 PST -- Google unveiled more details about its much-anticipated Chrome OS at a press event at its Mountain View, Calif ... Effective immediately, Google is releasing the Chrome OS code to the public under an open source license, along with the associated design documents ... "As of today, the code will be fully open," said Chrome OS director of engineering Matt Papakipos, "which means Google developers will be working on the same tree as external developers.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
Redwood City startup wins green contest Nov 20, 2009
Founded in 2005, the competition already boasts such major corporate sponsors as Autodesk, Google and PGvron, based in San Ramon, joined that list on Tuesday. The oil company, America's second largest, has its own venture capital operation, managing $240 million in investments in young companies. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
Citizen Webitor Nov 20, 2009
Citizen_Webitor wrote on Jan 22, 2009 10:04 AM:" Google Street View has visited Auburn.It looks like sometime last summer, and they were just passing through, but Google street view has visited Auburn. Personally, I am excited about this new development. Your city just aint cool unless it's been street-viewed! ". Citizen_Webitor wrote on Jan 14, 2009 3:06 PM:" Ah yes.While there always has been a button where the current weather button is now, you are correct about there being an additional... (Auburn Citizen, NY)
