Mellisa Tolentino
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Boutiques.com Gets Mixed Up with Google Search
Let’s take a breather from all those court issues involving Google and look at their fun side. Google announced in their blog that they will be incorporating some features inspired by their recently launched Boutiques retail search portal into their Google Product Search to make it available to more people. Google launched Boutiques.com in November 2010 which ...
Schmidt Admits “Google might be a monopoly…”
Google has been busy with court appearances this week for a couple of reasons: Eric Schmidt defending Google from antitrust allegations stating that they favor certain services which greatly affects their competitors and CEO Larry Page to settle Oracle dispute. Just to clarify, they were not in the same courtroom. Page, along with Chief Legal ...
HP’s New CEO Will Stick To the Plan
This has been one chaotic week for Hewlett-Packard. Over the past few days the company has delivered both positive and negative news, which is making investors’ heads spin like crazy. They started the week announcing the next TouchPad fire sale, which will be available only to their employees then partnered that with more than 500 ...
This Is Your Life. This Is Your Life on Facebook.
I think by now, everyone who has a Facebook account noticed the changes, or at least some of them, as only some of the new features have rolled out. If you don’t know what’s happening with Facebook, you probably have a real life and interact with your friends in person. Or you live under a ...
FCC to Neutralize the Web On November 20
Later today the Federal Communications Commission will publish the new rules designed to prevent Internet providers from deliberately blocking or slowing traffic that will take effect on November 20. The net neutrality rules were approved last December but since the FCC took its time in putting them in the Federal Register, the new rules haven’t ...
Android Rules over iOS in Smartphones and Connected Devices
Millennial Media released their Mobile Mix report for August 2011. The report, for the first time, combined connected devices and smartphones with regards to OS impression share. It’s an important inclusion for Millennial Media, indicating the growing importance of devices beyond the smartphone as mobile marketing takes shape. The report features the Top 20 Mobile Phones ...
Verizon Roots For AT&T-T-Mobile Merger, Pushes for Mobile OS Diversification
Speaking at a Goldman Sachs investment conference Wednesday, Verizon Communications Chief Executive Lowell McAdams pointed out two things: his support for the AT&T-T-Mobile merger and the need for a number three mobile operating system. McAdams stated that the “match had to occur” and that the government better come up with a better plan on how ...
Samsung Galaxy S II Family Expands to AT&T
AT&T announced through their Twitter account that the Galaxy S II will be available by October 2. It’s a perk for AT&T as the Samsung Galaxy devices have been doing quite well in the market, helping to bring the manufacturer to the front and center of Android’s world of devices. This second generation of Galaxy ...
Google’s Schmidt Fighting Fires, from Oracle to FTC
After failing to settle during their first meeting in court, Google CEO Larry Page and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison were called back for a second meeting in court on Wednesday. The second attempt to come to an agreement was still unsuccessful. According to the filing in U.S. District Court in San Jose, California, a call ...
Libraries Survive the Digital Revolution through Kindle, iPad
Back in college, I had some professors who didn’t like students to use the Web for research. They would require us to go to the library and checkout tons of thick and heavy books on which to base our research. At that time, I wished there was a way to make books lighter. And ...