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2008

Google Earth Maps Walt Disney Theme Park In 3-D

June 7, 2008 0
Google Earth Maps Walt Disney Theme Park In 3-D Tourists planning their trip around Disney World can now take a 3D tour of the extensive Walt Disney World theme park in Orlando Florida before they set out for Florida, thanks to a new service from Google Earth. Google Earth already permits users to explore 3D […]
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2008

Google Signs 40-Year Lease To Roost Near NASA

June 7, 2008 0
Google Signs 40-Year Lease To Roost Near NASA “Google has acquired 42.2 acres of space from NASA as part of an accord that will stand for a minimum of 40 years.” Mountain View, Calif., – In the most recent mark of its ambitious growth plans, Google Inc. has struck a 40-year lease deal to expand […]
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2008

Yahoo Signs Newspapers To Online Ad Consortium

June 7, 2008 0
Yahoo Signs Newspapers To Online Ad Consortium New York – Yahoo! Inc. on Wednesday announced that 94 more newspapers have entered into the fold of its industry-leading partnership with U.S. local newspapers, adding the total number of newspapers in the Newspaper Consortium to 779 representing about 41% of total Sunday circulation. “Ever since it commenced […]
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2008

Yahoo Snags Ad Serving Deals With CBS, Wal-Mart And Havas

June 5, 2008 0
Yahoo Snags Ad Serving Deals With CBS, Wal-Mart And Havas New York – Perfectly tuned to suit President Sue Decker’s keynote at the Advertising 2.0 conference in New York, and despite talks were still on with Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc. on Wednesday trumpeted three new major advertising deals, but it failed to appease critic Carl […]
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Google Trapped Over Privacy Policy Visibility Location
2008

Google Trapped Over Privacy Policy Visibility Location

June 5, 2008 0
In the latest sign of growing apprehension in some quarters, as Google Inc. is facing the wrath of privacy advocates once again over concerns that it is not posting its privacy policy “noticeably” enough on its home page to comply with California law. An alliance of 14 privacy and consumer groups sent a strongly phrased […]
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2008

YouTube Head of Monetization Exits, Joins Cooliris

June 4, 2008 0
YouTube’s Head of Monetization Exits, Joins Cooliris “Exodus of senior executive from Google continues.” San Francisco – The executive supervising Google’s effort to generate ad revenue from its YouTube video-sharing service has now left the company to become the chief revenue officer of Menlo Park, Calif.-based startup Cooliris, the company said Tuesday.
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Google Unveils Android — The iPhone Killer
2008

Google Unveils Android — The iPhone Killer

June 4, 2008 0
“Innovative features include touch-screen; user interface features and compass capabilities show Google’s mobile platform is making progress.” New York — Google last week unveiled new features for its much-anticipated version of the Android operating system; including touch-screen technology, compass capabilities and games. Last week, at the Google I/O developers conference here in San Francisco, Google […]
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2008

Google Search Upgraded With Custom Indexing

June 4, 2008 0
San Francisco — Internet search leader Google Inc.’s “Custom Search Business Edition” is undergoing a metamorphosis — by introducing Google Site Search, a most up-to-date solution that lets businesses customize the search results that visitors see when they search for information within their own sites. “The Site Search service, like its less elegantly named predecessor, […]
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2008

Yahoo Turns Social With Updated Messenger 9 Beta

June 3, 2008 0
Yahoo Turns Social With Updated Messenger 9 Beta Having tried out with a special Vista version last December, which apparently did not go over well, but with a new beta version of Yahoo Messenger 9.0 beta software released last Thursday, adopts a customizable user’s option for reconstructing networks of friends and contacts they have built […]
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2008

Adobe Acrobat Steps On Google, Microsoft Turf

June 3, 2008 0
“Adobe’s free online collaboration suite aims at making inroads against Google Apps and Microsoft Office Live Workspace.” In a move to tap the growing segment of online office suites, Adobe joined the fight in the online office space Monday with the launch of an online document editing and sharing beta site, Acrobat.com, which will challenge […]
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