Newspaper Scans
Posted on September 9, 2008 - Filed Under General, Google, Newspapers | Leave a Comment
Google has started another ambitious effort. They’ve been busy digitizing the world’s books, and now they are starting to do the same for historical newspapers, of course making the archives available for searching online.
Zune Tunes
Posted on September 8, 2008 - Filed Under Microsoft, Zune | Leave a Comment
Starting next week, Microsoft’s Zune portable media player will allow owners to download wirelessly or stream millions of songs on the go from WiFi hot spots around the country. Free software and firmware updates will give the ability
Google is 10
Posted on September 6, 2008 - Filed Under Google | Leave a Comment
Happy 10th birthday to Google. It’s hard to believe it’s been that long, yet at the same time it seems they’ve always been the search dominators.
When Page and Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, who ‘coulda thunk’
Comcast Data Throttling
Posted on September 5, 2008 - Filed Under Comcast, Internet, Television | Leave a Comment
We wrote back in June that Comcast was considering throttling bandwidth and putting quotas on its customers’ downloads and either charging for excess bandwidth used or canceling accounts of offenders.
Online TV
Posted on September 5, 2008 - Filed Under Amazon, Internet, Television, YouTube | Leave a Comment
Online TV viewing has been growing in popularity. Nearly 20% of US households who use the Internet watch TV online, twice the number from 2006. The top destinations for online broadcasts are the TV channel homepage and YouTube.
Google Browser
Posted on September 2, 2008 - Filed Under Google Chrome, Internet | Leave a Comment
Google has just released their new web browser called Chrome. As with most other Google apps, this one is thin and minimal in complexity.
While it may be lacking at this point in some of the bells and whistles of the competition,
eBay Affiliates Banned
Posted on September 2, 2008 - Filed Under Advertising, General, eBay | Leave a Comment
There has been a tremendous uproar in the last couple of weeks because of the actions of eBay toward their affiliates, resulting in the dismissal of who knows how many thousands of affiliates from their program.