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Google is making a commendable effort to show it is a friend of the newspaper industry following a series of attacks in recent months from Rupert Murdoch, head of News Corp. and Robert Thomson, the chief editor of the Wall Street Journal. Earlier this week Google amended the way it indexes news ...
Green Living
Despite Intel's recent settlement of a legal dispute with AMD, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is continuing its investigation of the world's largest chipmaker, reports Arik Hesseldahl in BusinessWeek. AMD agreed to withdraw its complaint against Intel with FTC as part of a settlement which ...
Green Living
Intel
Nvidia
George Will
AMD
A reader writes: It took me about 2 hrs, but I finally disentangled it from using ANY Google services. I disentangled it after I saw what they are doing. It comes preconfigured to send your mail through Gmail, report your GPS position to "Google Latitude", broadcast that to friends, index your ...
Green Living
Brother
Intel this morning announced it had made about 100 "futuristic" microprocessors containing 48 processor cores. Each chip has about 1.3 billion transistors and offers "a single-chip cloud computer." The chips will be distributed to universities and research labs to help test a variety of ...
Green Living
Intel
Congratulations to Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media based n New York city, for record breaking traffic to his network of media sites. The former Financial Times reporter has 9 media sites, such as the gadget oriented gizmodo, media focused gawker, and science fiction site io9. Mr Denton ...
Green Living
New York
John Byrne, the former editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek, has launched his own company C-Change Media. He writes that this is a good time to launch a new media company because there are significant advantages. Most of traditional media remains in a complete meltdown, dragged down by high costs, ...
Environment
AOL has an uncanny knack for making all wrong decisions at critical times. There was a time when America Online, as it was known back in the early 1990s could have become the Internet if it had opened up its platform. It was the largest online network and had incredible momentum under the ...
Green Living
AOL
Josh Cohen, senior business product manager in charge of Google News, this morning said that the search engine has implemented new processes for dealing with paid content. - Publishers using Google's "First Click Free" program can now allow non-subscribers to view up to 5 pages of content for ...
Green Living
Rupert Murdoch
Do we really live in an open web or is it only open until some companies say it's not? Is the web truly open when companies such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc, can close the door to their data, or prop it slightly ajar? With so many social networks and Web 2.0 applications it helps if ...
Green Living
I'm heading to Paris for the Le Web conference next week then spending the rest of December in London. I'll be attending Le Web as part of the " Traveling Geeks " [misspelling deliberate], organized by Renee Blodgett . Also on the trip: Eliane Fiolet , Tom Foremski , Robin Wauters , Kim-Mai ...
Other
I was fascinated by this Reuters article from the WorldBulletin : Turkish engineers are working on developing an internet search engine and aiming to launch it in 2010, the head of the country's telecommunications watchdog said on Saturday. Existing search engines cannot meet Turkey's needs ...
Green Living
Turkey
"I'm not sure if we think about society, or that society thinks us," that's what I heard Malcolm Muggeridge say, when I was about 10 years old. Malcolm Muggeridge was a British journalist and philosopher and I often saw him on British TV when I was growing up, talking about serious subjects. ...
Energy/Transportation
Energy Crisis
Huffington Post
Irving Wladawsky-Berger, one of IBM's top strategists, has an interesting post about a panel he moderated: Social Media Implications for Business . Panelists included Marc Cooper , Jonathan Taplin and David Westphal from the Annenberg School, and Melissa Cefkin and Steve Canepa from IBM. I'm ...
Green Living
The US government has awarded Benetech $100,000 to create the first versions of open content school books that can be more easily accessed by disabled people. The math and science textbooks are freely distributable under a Creative Commons license. The textbooks, which have been approved for ...
Other
California
By Hugh Burnham, Co-CEO, Gutenberg Communications
The Internet has become overrun with trends, tips, and how-tos for social media marketing. If one were to spend a lifetime absorbed in social media marketing content, one would emerge a mindless zombie repeating buzzwords like engagement, ...
Other
Huffington Post
Yesterday I argued that a single search index administered by a non-profit could address issues around de-listing and indexing out-of-print books. Google's founders supported the idea when they were at Stanford university. A single index would allow Google and others to apply their analysis ...
Green Living
Larry Page
I love the Pandora's Box that Mike Arrington from Techcrunch opened a few weeks back drawing attention to the mobile scams related to online social gaming. It's difficult to assess how large that particular scam is but it must be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Over on ZDNet, Andrew ...
Other
Adify , the ad network management firm, released its latest quarterly report and found that food CPMs are up 91% in Q3 compared with Q2 and that brand advertising is showing continued recovery from lows early this year. The report states : - Food CPMs are up 91% from the previous quarter, ...
Other
All the recent debate about the Google index and newspapers, and Google's interest (and problems) in indexing out-of-print books, would all be a much different discussion if the Google index were run as a non-profit. And it is rather ironic to note that Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders ...
Green Living
Larry Page
I had a fascinating conversation on Saturday with Joe Ward, CEO of Groovy , which has a unique real-time transactional data technology. He was complaining that the term "real-time" is being applied too broadly by many companies to describe their services and technologies. "There are a lot of ...
