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EU Launches (Another) Antitrust Probe into Google
The word juggernaut still does an excellent job of encompassing Google’s capability in the information and search markets. They have been a powerful force in the Internet industry and for all appearances will continue to be into the future. As a result, every year someone somewhere takes umbrage at their size and momentum and an ...
Is Facebook About to Integrate With Skype?
An app developer has discovered some API hooks in the Facebook code that would allow for Skype integration. Since this has been spoken about before—i.e., Facebook looking into video teleconference back in 2009—it seems a likely team up. The Next Web is running a story about the discovery and the developer who pointed it out, ...
MIT Hacks Kinect for Gesture-based Browser Navigation Chrome Extension
The Xbox Kinect camera-interface has been the center of a lot of amusing controversy lately and it’s also been the center of a groundswell of amazing innovations. The newest invention to leap out of this little-developed device produced by Microsoft has been a gesture-based navigation extension for the open source Chrome browser. ReadWriteWeb brings us ...
Rumors of Google Acquisition of Groupon Suggest 2.5 Billion Dollar Deal
We have known for a few weeks now that Groupon and Google have been in talks, but not exactly what they’ve been talking about. Now rumors are surfacing of a possible acquisition of Groupon by Google for quite a hefty sum. The critical-mass coupon service which takes advantage of crowd interest to allow businesses to ...
Microsoft Pondering Xbox Streaming Internet-TV Service
Both Google and Apple are working out how they might offer TV subscription services via Internet-based systems and set-top boxes. Not to be left out, Microsoft has been poking around the industry, looking at how they might offer something similar through their Xbox game console—a device that a lot of households already have attached to ...
Play World of Warcraft on the iPad With everyAir
MMO zealots can rejoice, it’s possible to play video games from your desktop on your iPad—although you do have to stream them. And there’s even some suggestion of an app being developed for the iPhone to do the same thing (although that’s still in its nascent stages.) While not everyone plays World of Warcraft, it ...
Policy Lags Behind Technology, the Vanguard of Cyberwarfare
Cyberwarfare. The stuff of spy novels and giddily spiraling cyberpunk stories by the likes of William Gibson—while we don’t have vat grown ninjas yet, we do have the Information Age and the Internet and that means that information is key. As our lives become increasingly digitized and networked, though, it leaves us vulnerable to outside ...
Nokia Appoints Jerri DeVard to Chief Marketing Officer
With Thanksgiving almost upon us, Nokia has a lot to be thankful about—they’ve just announced the appointment of Jerri DeVard to as its new Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President. As a marketing mogul herself, DeVard should bring a lot of experience to her role. “With Jerri at the helm,” says Niklas Savander, head ...
Xbox 360 Kinect “Hackers” Need Not Fear Prosecution
English can be a very dangerous language to speak in if you happen to be a politician—or a major corporation. Earlier this month, Microsoft came out fulminating against computer programmers, DIYers, and others who wanted to modify and reuse the hardware and software of their newly released Kinect motion-capture system for the Xbox 360. The ...
Cable-TV Time Warner Seeks Respite from Poor Economy
As the economy continues to flounder and the rift between poor and well-off becomes wider, people have begun to cut back on their luxury expenses. One of those expenses happens to be how much they pay for cable-TV and the industry is feeling the bite. To draw back some of the subscribers it’s beginning to ...