June 28th, 2008 at 12:03pm Under Technology
Starting July 1, users who have registered domains with Yahoo’s small-business site will see their annual fee for the service jump from $9.95 to $34.95.
The news came in form of e-mail for anyone who has registered a domain with Yahoo Small Business, and a Yahoo representative …
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June 28th, 2008 at 12:03pm Under Technology
It will cost you north of the border.(Credit: Apple)
If you think AT&T’s iPhone 3G service plans are expensive, just consider what Rogers is forcing on our Canadian friends.
Friday, the carrier announced its service plans for the iPhone 3G, none of which include unlimited data use. …
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June 28th, 2008 at 12:03pm Under Technology
Here’s a roundup of recent juicy Google tidbits:
• Amid general praise for Steve McQueen’s car famed chase in the 1968 movie Bullitt, there are jeers about the recurring green VW Beetle and the geographic hash it makes of San Francisco. You might be amused to see …
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June 28th, 2008 at 12:05am Under Technology
The Google Media Server gadget can send audio and video from a Windows PC to another device.(Credit: Google)
Google has released a software module that can turn Windows PCs into devices that streams media files to other devices.
The Google Media Server is a gadget that works on the …
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June 28th, 2008 at 12:05am Under Technology
Google users are starting to see an updated interface to the iGoogle home page, according to the Google Operating System blog.
iGoogle lets users select various modules such as mail, photos, games, or a to-do list; it competes chiefly with My Yahoo but also with sites from rivals including Netvibes …
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June 28th, 2008 at 12:05am Under Technology
In a case that spotlights the growing importance of search engines to commerce, NameSafe has sued a competitor, LifeLock, for trademark infringement involving ads placed next to search results.
NameSafe, which like LifeLock sells services designed to protect customers against identity theft, alleged its rival used NameSafe’s name in …
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June 28th, 2008 at 12:05am Under Technology
Google now supports the open OAuth standard for sharing data through its Google Data interface, a move that could make it easier to tap into information stored at Google property.
Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.(Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET News.com)
The Google Data API (application programming interface)–GData for short…
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June 28th, 2008 at 12:05am Under Technology
On earth, people are beginning to use the sun’s light to power their houses, office buildings, and even gadgets. Now, outside of our planet, the sun’s energy is going to be utilized for something else–space travel.
If NASA can successfully implement solar sails, which have been referenced in …
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June 27th, 2008 at 04:02pm Under Technology
Apple is working on an application aimed at letting people remotely control iTunes in the home via their iPod Touch or iPhone, according to a report on MacRumors.com.
The application is described in information included with the iTunes 7.7 pre-release version that was made available to developers on …
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June 27th, 2008 at 04:02pm Under Technology
digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/business_finance/Harvard_study_trashes_long_tail_theory’;Remember the long tail? It was the omnipresent theory that suggested there were oodles of cash to be made by monetizing a market’s disparate tastes via the Web.
Why sell a million copies of Led Zeppelin’s Coda, when you can make a thriving business of selling two to three copies of your neighbor’s garage band to Rick, two copies of a Nigerian band’s tunes to Susan, and so on?
As new research highlighted in Harvard Business Review suggests, the answer may well be that the real money is in the blockbuster, not the long tail, after all:
Meanwhile, our research also showed that success is concentrated in ever fewer best-selling titles at the head of the distribution curve. From 2000 to 2005 the number of titles in the top 10 percent of weekly sales dropped by more than 50 percent–an increase in concentration that is common in winner-take-all markets. The importance of individual best sellers is not diminishing over time. It is growing….
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