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YouTube ads for viral videos: 'buzz targeting'
Google has added a new option called buzz targeting to its attempts to convert YouTube's popularity into actual revenue.
EA tops expectations, looks ahead
Video game giant posts fourth-quarter revenues that beat analyst expectations, looks ahead to fiscal 2009, when it expects to release 15 new games.
Hackers going after restaurants, supermarkets
Men indicted for installing software at cash register terminals that captured credit and debit card data, after supermarket shoppers in California have their data stolen.
GM keeps building cars on XP
The automaker tells BusinessWeek that it is considering skipping Windows Vista entirely and waiting for Windows 7.
GIS exec works to unlock hidden geo data
The dominant maker of geographic information system software is making it easier for governments to share their own detailed mapping information.
JavaOne '08: Sun starts delivering
At San Francisco conference, company touts a rich Internet application environment and a new cloud computing service. Plus, Neil Young sings Sun.
New Office 2007 add-on makes commands easier to find
Office Labs' Search Commands makes navigating Office 2007's ribbon as easy as type and click.
Online advertising showing signs of economic wear?
Research from data analysis firm PubMatic says that between March and April, online ad monetization rates dropped 23 percent across the Web.
Podcast: HP's big buy
Grand Theft Auto sets a world record; Apple and HBO taking their rumored relationship public; and why Microsoft loves the Mac.
EarthLink ditches Philly Wi-Fi network
Company says it will turn off service in 30 days after it was unable to negotiate a deal with the city and a nonprofit group interested in taking over the network.
'Wuthering Heights,' Wikipedia in 5-minute chunks
Free service lets you learn about world religions, wine, famous poets and Greek mythology from Wikipedia in five minutes via e-mail and RSS installments.
A reminder of why Microsoft wanted Yahoo
The mega-merger plan may have gone away, but the threat from Google it was supposed to address hasn't.
Craigslist files lawsuit against eBay, claims unfair competition
Weeks after eBay accuses Craigslist of trying to dilute its ownership stake, Craigslist managers accuse eBay of trying to harm the Web's No.1 classified site.
Microsoft's big bid for Yahoo
What Yahoo has, Microsoft wants. But talks break down, and the software giant says a proxy battle isn't worth it. Tune in here for the latest.
Yahoo releases Delicious plug-in for IE
Yahoo's Delicious plug-in has been a Firefox phenomenon, but now a beta version is available for Internet Explorer, too.
Google opens geographic search interface
By opening its Geo Search API, Google now lets outside Web sites display the full set of geographically tagged features that Google Maps can show.
Facebook pulls 'stalker list' tool after Gawker exposes it
Some users of the popular social-networking site panicked when the media gossip blog claimed it would show a list of the five people who visited a given member's profile most frequently.
Creative introduces superslim Flip competitor
Creative Labs has just released a new $99 budget video camera that's designed to compete with the very popular Flip video camera.
In a crowded market, Wetpaint's colors look solid
One blogger theorizes that the small wiki-building start-up could be positioning itself to take on niche social site creators like Ning.
MacBook Air connected via EVDO: 1; need for CD: 0
By quickly downloading some driver software over an open Wi-Fi network, I was able to get the super-thin Mac connected to the Internet via EVDO.
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