Archive for April 2008

GAO: Stolen U.S. military gear sold on eBay, Craigslist

admin • April 15th, 2008 • Business affairs

The GAO said there are few safeguards to prevent the sale of sensitive or stolen U.S. military equipment on eBay and Craigslist.



Report: Microsoft still planning to pursue Yahoo on its own

admin • April 14th, 2008 • Business affairs

Despite reported talks with News Corp. about putting in a joint bid for Yahoo, Microsoft is planning to go after the Internet company alone.



Google aims to penetrate the Deep Web with HTML forms crawling

admin • April 12th, 2008 • Business affairs

Google today disclosed that it conducting experiments to find ways to index Web sites whose HTML forms have long made them inaccessible to search engines.



Opinion: What’s a blogger, anyway?

admin • April 11th, 2008 • Business affairs

The media should stop stereotyping bloggers. Every kind of person blogs. Some of them reflect insightfully on media reports, and some don’t. And some die of heart attacks.



McCain queries users on LinkedIn

admin • April 10th, 2008 • Business affairs

The presumptive Republican nominee uses the professional networking site to query users about the nation’s biggest challenge.



Cisco unveils two low-end wireless routers

admin • April 10th, 2008 • Business affairs

Cisco’s popular Integrated Services Router line grew today with the announcement of two new routers for use by teleworkers and small offices, as well a device designed to virtualize applications in wide-area networks.



Flickr moves video to site via ‘long photos’

admin • April 10th, 2008 • Business affairs

Flickr today added support for videos on it photo-sharing site, allowing its members to share short videos taken via cell phone.



Yahoo to acquire Web analytics business

admin • April 9th, 2008 • Business affairs

Yahoo has signed an agreement to buy a Web analytics software business in order to extend its online marketing efforts for clients.



Google yanks App Engine demo after blogosphere brouhaha

admin • April 9th, 2008 • Business affairs

Google pulled a demo app for its new App Engine development platform after bloggers charged that it is an exact copy of Campfire from 37Signals.



Opinion: A new kind of Web — don’t miss these 11 sites

admin • April 9th, 2008 • Business affairs

Check out these examples of how the Web is evolving to present information in new ways to help you get organized, boost productivity or just have some fun.