Business 2.0 has an interesting report speculating that Google may have a secret plan to roll out free Wi-Fi access to everyone in America.
The basis for the report is the fact that Google have been buying up literally miles and miles of unused fibre optic cable at bargain-bin prices. Add some super-fast connections it has […]
The new logo for Microsoft’s long-awaited IE7 has been published on the official IEBlog.
Microsoft have darkened the famous “e”, and added a new golden ring that is meant to make the logo stand out a bit more than the one for IE 6.
The logo above will be used for Windows XP with Service Pack […]
Google have used their official blog to announce that, because of concerns by authors of copyrighted books, the company will not scan any more in-copyright books for its Google Print programme until November.
The Google Print initiative was launched late last year, its aim to make the wealth of knowledge contained in the libraries of the […]
It appears that Google have been rattled by Yahoo!’s entry into the contextual ad business and have begun upping the earnings of AdSense publishers.
Jason Calacanis, the man behind the Weblogs Inc. blog empire, has reported on a ~15% increase in his AdSense earnings since it was announced the Yahoo! Publishers Network had gone beta. The […]
Yahoo! have launched version 7 of their Yahoo! Messenger software, which includes a number of new features.
Top billing goes to a new feature that allows worldwide PC-to-PC calls, though I can’t see how this is different from the previous version, which allowed any two users who had a microphone to converse.
What is definitely new however […]
The counter seen by millions every day on the Google homepage has been suddenly overshadowed by the company’s rival, Yahoo!.
Yahoo! yesterday announced they now index over 20 billion items, comprised of 19.2 billion Web pages, 1.6 billion images and 50 million + audio and video files.
Google claims an index of 11 billion items.
The quality of […]
The AP is reporting that Google is punishing tech news site C|NET by not speaking to any of its reporters for one year.
The source of Google’s anger is a July article that pointed out how easy it is to find a person’s private details with the search engine. The big mistake however was using […]
