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Google buys Internet news delivery firm FeedBurner

business — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 06:43:53 +0000

Google announced Friday that it bought FeedBurner, a firm specializing in delivering podcasts, weblogs, news and advertising to Internet browsers. Chicago-based FeedBurner is a “web feed” firm that lets online publishers constantly send updated news, commentary and other content directly to readers with tools such as Really Simple Syndication (RSS). “We are thrilled with this acquisition,” Google [...]

Sanyo Unveils World’s First Waterproof Video Camera, Xacti

business — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:51:47 +0000

Just in time for the Japanese summer Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. will launch in June a waterproof version of its Xacti digital video camera. The DMX-CA65 can be fully submerged to a depth of 1.5 meters and still keep on recording, the company said Thursday. That’s significantly better than a model launched last year that was [...]

Sony develops film-thin display

business — Sat, 26 May 2007 23:52:41 +0000

TOKYO – In the race for ever thinner displays for TVs, cell phones and other gadgets, Sony may have developed one to beat them all – a razor-thin display that bends like paper while showing full-color video. Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE – news). posted video of the new display on its Web page Friday. The display [...]

McCartney’s “Memory” goes digital

business — Sat, 12 May 2007 03:04:57 +0000

Paul McCartney’s new album, “Memory Almost Full,” will be his first solo release available for download and streaming on PCs and mobile phones. McCartney also has told Billboard that a deal to finally make the Beatles catalog available for sale online is “virtually settled.” McCartney added, “I don’t want to pre-empt anything, but we’re well on the [...]

Microsoft pursuing Yahoo

business — Fri, 04 May 2007 17:30:12 +0000

Microsoft Corp. is resuming its pursuit of search engine operator Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO – news) that could help it better compete with Web search leader Google Inc., published reports said Friday. Yahoo shares surged more than 15 percent in midday trading. The New York Post reported Friday that Microsoft has asked Yahoo to enter formal negotiations for [...]

MySpace to Expand Into Television

business — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:52:57 +0000

Last summer, Rick Haskins, executive VP of marketing and brand strategy for The CW, was looking to generate fast, mass awareness for the fledgling network. He realized that the heavily trafficked MySpace.com had buzz worth tapping into—a notion that led to a deal giving The CW near blanket coverage of the MySpace home page for [...]

PHOTOlinko,new image hosting provider

business — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:34:32 +0000

PHOTOlinko.com is a new image hosting provider with a fresh web 2.0 look. Being in beta for the majority of February, it is finally ready for it’s release. Upload your photos and get instant html linking codes making it easy to share them on blogs, forums, social networking sites like MySpace and more. PHOTOlinko’s free [...]

Female Gamers Have More Sex

business — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:21:59 +0000

According to a survey conducted by Gametart, a game rental service in the UK, chicks who game get more lovin’ than those who don’t. Out of a sample of 200 ladies (or should that be “laid-ees”?), the ones who gamed got, erm, fragged 1.1 more times a week than those who didn’t. So what I’m saying [...]

Engineer: GPS shoes make people findable

business — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 19:57:25 +0000

Isaac Daniel calls the tiny Global Positioning System chip he’s embedded into a line of sneakers “peace of mind.” He wishes his 8-year-old son had been wearing them when he got a call from his school in 2002 saying the boy was missing. The worried father hopped a flight to Atlanta from New York where [...]

Google and YouTube remain separate

business — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:13:42 +0000

Google and YouTube remain separate Google says its YouTube viral video-sharing site, acquired last year for $1.65 billion in stock, will remain an independent subsidiary of Google and continue to operate separately. Most of the user-generated and premium, licensed content from the likes of CBS for example, will be hosted on YouTube, the company says. YouTube, [...]