The long awaited Google ‘Apple iPod Killer’ Tablet powered by Android is set to launch soon; Verizon will be the launching pad so to speak and the tablet is exopected to compete heavily with the Apple iPad and the carriers who worked out a deal with Apple for their products. According to AndroidGuys, Archos released [...]
Google Android Tablet to be Promoted by Verizon
May 20th, 2010Yahoo Moves Away from Search, Plunges Into the Content Mill Realm
May 19th, 2010Yet another major move away from search for former competitor Yahoo – the now primarily news portal with Search powered by former rival Microsoft, Yahoo just bought content mill Associated Content for a reported cool hundred million. According to Beacon Equity: The purchase of AC, the freelance-writers Web site that resells content on a wide [...]
Facebook, Zuckerberg, Privacy and Hollywood
May 17th, 2010Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is having his own privacy invaded in a manner of speaking as a new film is set to release this October that paints the Harvard dropout in a less than flattering light. Critics say that ‘The Social Network’ portrays Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as a “borderline-autistic conniver” and a “ruthless and [...]
Wikipedia Revamp Promises Better Days to Come
May 14th, 2010Wikipedia was started in 2001, according to the online reference source’s own article on themselves: Wikipedia was created as a complement and “feeder” to Nupedia, an expert-written online encyclopedia project, in order to provide an additional source of draft articles and ideas. It quickly overtook Nupedia, growing to become a large global project in multiple [...]
Google VS Yahoo – Skirmishing Continues?
May 13th, 2010Yahoo is spending money hand over fist. The recent reports of their adspend budget surprised followers of the search engine industry – of course, Yahoo isn’t really a search engine any more. Now, according to Search Engine Land, Yahoo is building a huge set of buildings only a few miles from Google’s own headquarters: Tuesday [...]