From the monthly archives: December 2006
For those unfamiliar, RSS is generally thought to stand for “Really Simple Syndication,” a name that’s almost as useless as the acronym in explaining what it is. In short, it’s a technology that allows users to read headlines/articles from news websites, blogs, and other sources all in one place.
It’s [...]
The FCC approved AT&T’s .8 billion takeover of BellSouth. Not surprisingly, the deal is the largest ever in U.S. telecommunications history. The newly formed company now has a market capitalization of over $220 billion which makes it more than double in size compared to its biggest competitor Verizon.
Blake Ross, cofounder of Firefox, spent part of his Christmas explaining his dissatisfaction with Google due to its latest move: displaying “tips” (allegedly not ads, you decide; see screenshot below) right above search results that point searchers to Google Calendar, Blogger and Picasa for any search phrase that includes calendar, blog, and [...]
It looks as if China wants to be taken seriously in its ability to
enforce intellectual property rights. Sohu.com, the very popular
Chinese Internet portal, was offering a subscription service which
allowed customers to download over 100 American movies. But now the
Beijing First Intermediate People’s Court has [...]
Here it is the day after Christmas and major publications plus the blogosphere are already making predications as to the state of online advertising in 2007. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) discusses Microsoft’s Adcenter and how it is way ahead of its time, the New York Times explains how online ad [...]
A cellphone that doesn’t yet exist has never been so popular. For the
past few months, rumors have been flying about Apple’s entrance into
the multi-billion dollar cellphone market with a feature-rich iPod
cellphone. Apple has been called "hypersecretive" and has refused to
comment on the speculation which, of [...]
So the latest Economist article (subscription required) discusses how Arizona State University made the switch to using Google Apps for Your Domain. As the article puts it, "with one flick of the proverbial switch 65,000 students had new e-mail accounts." Now all emails are stored on Google servers rather than on university [...]
Looks like rumors are afloat that Amazon is planning on a late first quarter 2007 launch of a new music download store. In an already crowded music download market, Amazon hopes to differentiate itself in two major ways:
The company is apparently telling labels (politely, I’m sure) that it is only interested [...]
Our favorite social news site, Digg, today released a whole slew of new features while silently removing at least one. I say silently because no one seems to have picked up on it. For extensive coverage, check out the official Digg blog, TechCrunch, Read/WriteWeb, Download Squad, or NewTeeVee. [...]
The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) and the Financial Times report that Sony may introduce a video download service as soon as the first part of 2007. The idea is to target those consumers that are purchasing movies online through iTunes and other services. The downloads will, of course, work nicely with [...]
