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YouTube: Ads and Captions

August 31st, 2008

YouTube is making some decent money from monetizing pirated content. They offer choices, now, for large media companies whose copyrighted content is being shown on the video site; remove it, leave it, or leave it and monetize it.
90 % are going for door number three, and YouTube is splitting the take with them (the uploaders, [...]

 
 

GoogleHoo Moves Forward

August 30th, 2008

Those expecting Google and Yahoo to anxiously await the out come of a federal anti-trust investigation into their partnership may be surprised.
The two search engines are planning to integrate Google ads on the Yahoo network as early as October, which is in line with an earlier statement by Google back in June, when they indicated [...]

 
 

Microsoft – Greenfield Deal Finalized

August 30th, 2008

In an effort to combat with Google Microsoft continues to look for new ways to gather allies. After Microsoft failed dismally in its attempt to buy Yahoo, it has turned its eye on Greenfield Online Inc. The price negotiation that was underway is frozen now at $486 million. Micrpsoft plans to add websites that will [...]

 
 

Comcast Goes Ahead With Cap on Internet Usage

August 29th, 2008

Comcast has been the focus of a lot of controversy this year! They were slapped by the FCC for illegal filtering, deliberately slowed down high use subscribers, and in general ticked a lot of internet users off.
Following the lead of major phone companies, Comcast has announced that unlimited doesn’t mean unlimited. ATT customers learned [...]

 
 

Is Android Market Clone of App Store?

August 29th, 2008

At last Google has shared with the world about how it was going to distribute applications, mobile phones using its Android OS in its Android Blog. It is not difficult for one to see a lot of similarities between Google’s Android Market and Apple’s App Store. Even the name, “Android Market” was released only today. [...]