Monthly Archives: November 2006
Verizon Phones to Play YouTube Videos
Internet video service provider YouTube announced Nov. 28 that it will be bringing its video entertainment services to Verizon Wireless cell phones starting in...
Data Thieves Are One Big MasterCard Commercial
Traditional credit card companies are fighting for their lives against a plethora of new alternatives, ranging from debit cards, non-credit-card contactless payment, cell phones,...
Newspapers may use Yahoo for search, too
Yahoo's new newspaper partners are discussing ways to integrate Yahoo as their primary search provider.Yahoo CFO Sue Decker said today that they are currently...
Schlock and Awe: Valleywag Admonishes Google, Battelle, Is Generally Boring
Bring Nick Douglas back, please.Sure, the kid looked like a tiny version of Egon Spengler, but in Silicon Valley that's practically centerfold material. And...
Google Stock Tops $500, Offers Checkout Rebates for Holiday Season
How's that for a holiday bonus. Google's stock price topped $500 for the first time today, breaking an anticipated high water mark. The stock...
Google’s Newly Independent Sitemaps Standard is Boon to Publishers
The world's three largest search engines agreed this week to support the same protocol for submitting Web pages to their crawlers.Google created the protocol,...
Yahoo Search Growth Beats Google
Yahoo's share of search traffic has grown faster than Google's in the last year, according to new data from Nielsen//Netratings.Nielsen's October U.S. search share...
Post-Thanksgiving Google News Roundup
I didn't touch a computer once in four days of Thanksgiving-inspired gluttony. But the news doesn't stop when you're on holiday. Here's a quick...
Out of Africa: Google Maps Goes on Safari
Update: Man, I'm out of it. Google actually called me to say -- in its best George Burns impression -- that they issued a...
Google Expanding Mobile AdWords Trial to Eight New Countries
Google will be expanding its Mobile AdWords trial to eight new countries, a Google representative said today at the ThinkEquity Partners Media Convergence Summit.John...