We are not today the leading player. We are not irrelevant, but we are not the leading player. We’re committed to go do that.
For starters, the big advertising networks have been scooped up. Google paid $3.1 billion for DoubleClick, and Microsoft picked up aQuantive for $6 billion in cash. Microsoft’s lust for Yahoo is in [...]

What’s nice is that Swurl will retroactively seek out all your old posts and filter them in. Each post is set up by your day of activity, so if you didn’t add anything to any of these services there simply won’t be a post. You can also view your entire stream of activity in a [...]

StyleFeeder, which has operated until this point on seed funding, operates a “recommendation engine” for fashionistas based on which products users rate and then purchase through affiliates. Much like other recommendation sites, StyleFeeder then suggests related products and can connect users with similar taste.
The social shopping niche is crowded with start-ups like ThisNext and StyleHive, [...]

This recent dispute erupted in the form of a front-page article in Monday’s editions of The Wall Street Journal, which claimed that the Iranian government has developed “one of the world’s most sophisticated mechanisms for controlling and censoring the Internet” with the help of Nokia Siemens Networks. The headline read: “Iran’s Web Spying Aided By [...]

AMD succumbed to the classic innovator’s dilemma: once it was clear Opteron was a hit, especially in dual-core format, AMD failed to come up with a worthy successor.
Hector Ruiz accomplished many important things during his tenure as the CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, but no executive can escape the bottom line.
“A lot has [...]

Even further information about secure web pages is available with another Firefox 3 configuration change. See Firefox 3: Expand the Site Identification button on HTTPS pages to learn how to enable a feature that displays the secure website name in a blue button right next to the address bar.
If your computer is vulnerable to [...]

Rating movies is one of Netflix’s main features, and there are no doubt some confused users on the site right now. Multiple sources have confirmed the inability to rate movies. This is probably a glitch left over from the outage.

As you can see in this screenshot, there are no stars for rating anywhere to be [...]

Yahoo grabbed 24.2 percent of search-advertising dollars in March, up from 19.6 percent in December.

Before investors use these data points to hedge their bets over whether Microsoft will pay more to acquire Yahoo, keep in mind that the Internet search pioneer is slated to report its earnings April 22.

The report, released Tuesday, showed that while [...]

Among the updates, you’ll find fixes for iLife stability, an iTunes update, and a patch that lets you share the Open Computer’s CD or DVD drive with a MacBook Air. Each comes as a straightforward download, hosted directly by Psystar, which also says that it will ship all new OS X-based Open Computers with these [...]

The follow-up to the sword-slashing original, Red Steel 2 will make full use of
Wii MotionPlus, promising a 1:1 representation of your movements on screen. Developed by Ubisoft, the company plans to bundle the accessory with the game as well. While no release date has been set yet, Red Steel 2 will be available exclusively for [...]