World’s Best Corporate Reputations: Apple #22, Google #4, & Microsoft #1
The results are here of the eight-annual Harris Interactive/The Wall Street Journal ranking of the world’s best and worst corporate reputations. HelRead More…
Month: December 2006
Cingular, Priceline, and Travelocity Admit Improper Use of Adware
Cingular, Priceline, and Travelocity agreed to pay fines of $30,000-$35,000 and investigate their method of delivery for online advertisements. While Read More…
A Closer Look at Ozmozr
Ozmozr (a microformat-aware aggregator / resource sharing / social site) has been getting a fair amount of press since it’s alpha release last weekRead More…
The iStock Intellectual Property Double Standard
iStock, a site that hooks up people who take pictures with people who are looking for pictures, has hit a rough patch. It appears a contributor to iRead More…
Dell Taking Orders for Vista PCs TONIGHT!
The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has some unidentified sources claiming that Dell will begin selling personal computers with Vista toRead More…
Scandal 2.0: Is Microsoft the only company paying for Wikipedia edits?
Microsoft is getting some bad press for offering to pay a blogger to change a supposedly inaccurate article on Wikipedia. The blogger let it out in thRead More…
Death of DRM Roundup: The World Wants Unrestricted Music
Wow. We’re not even through January and DRM is knocking at heaven’s (hell’s?) door. The latest news comes today with Norway proclaiming that AppRead More…
What’s Your Google / Microsoft / Yahoo Usage Breakdown?
So Yahoo released earnings info today, which was followed by mildly negative even if hopeful commentary. Google, of course, being cited as the major oRead More…
Why Netflix Will Make Online Movie Watching a Reality
If you missed the Netflix news last week, the company announced that it will offer existing subscribers the option of watching movies and TV shows onlRead More…
Help This Woman Catch Her Cheating Husband Using a Cellphone
I get all sorts of interesting emails being part of a site like TechConsumer, but I’ve never gotten a request like this. A woman contacted me — weRead More…