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• Google Knol, the paid Wikipedia

  Thursday, July 24th, 2008

  Writers has now a good occasion to make profit. Google launched this week Google Knol, the user-generated encyclopedia similar to Wikipedia. And every author can earn money from his work, depending on the hits of his articles
  Google official blog says that “Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people [...]

• Google to buy Digg

  Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

  It’s time for Digg. It has ad agreement with Microsoft, but Google want it. And not for ads, but for its concept and users.
  Digg has very specific community of users/members, not invaded yet by commercial reasons. It is made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by [...]

• Twitter has acquired Summize

  Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

  Twitter purchased Summize these days, in order to improve the search of the Twitter network, for relevant topics.
  Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates (otherwise known as tweets) which are text-based posts, ranging up to 140 characters long, via SMS, mobile, or Twitter’s web [...]

• Yahoo spurns Microsoft last offer

  Monday, July 14th, 2008

  Like I said in a previous post, the strategy of a big company like Microsoft to buy a big company like Yahoo!, cannot be based on a simple offer only. It takes into consideration multiple denies of the targeted company, and it can be foresee for several years, even 10 years, if [...]

• Google Health and Search Factory Tour

  Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

  Google shows the latest research in various search-related fields and announced the official debut of Google Health.
  R.J. Pittman, Director of Search Properties, showed some of the amazing advances Google made in image search, as well as how ads might work to enhance the user experience on image search. “There are over 300 [...]

• One more try for Microsoft to buy Yahoo

  Sunday, May 18th, 2008

  As I said in a previous post when everyone considered Microsoft gave up, it lost a battle, but not the war. Such a transaction is not a simple business deal, to make an offer and wait for an answer. It implies a very complex strategy over several years. So, a first [...]

• Yahoo! vs. Carl Icahn

  Saturday, May 17th, 2008

  A new move of Yahoo!’s board: a letter in response to Carl Icahn’s announcement regarding his intention to nominate a slate of ten directors to Yahoo!’s board of directors at the 2008 annual meeting of stockholders:
  Dear Mr. Icahn:
  We are in receipt of your letter with regard to your intention to seek [...]

• Astronomy live with Microsoft: WorldWide Telescope

  Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

  Microsoft researchers has been developing an interesting astronomy application, now as a public beta, allowing you to see pictures from several observatories. The service is free of charge and uses high-resolution images from the world’s best land- and space-based telescopes.
  WorldWide Telescope is a rich, Web 2.0 application allowing people to easily [...]

• You pay for domain name, Dreamhost register it for itself

  Friday, February 22nd, 2008

  I had 5 web hosting packages with Dreamhost, all of it including a free registration of a domain name. But they do not say the person that will be the registrant, and this way you will see later that it is not you the registrant, but Dreamhost, and they can whatever [...]

• Fusu, the Domain Stock Exchange for premium domain names

  Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

  I thought longtime ago for a stock exchange for domain names. As any other domainer. It is the perfect tool for the domain name market. An emerging market. Fusu did it.
  Domaining, as it is defined by Wikipedia, is the business of buying, selling, developing and monetizing Internet domain names.
  The [...]

• Dreamhost and the transfer of the domain names

  Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

  If you have domain names registered with Dreamhost ( New Dream Network LLC), take care that you can be in the same situation as me, having more domain names with Dreamhost, trying to transfer it to another registrar, and losing the domain names because they do not answer to you.
  I was [...]

• Dreamhost, no answer yet

  Saturday, February 16th, 2008

  The hope to get back my domain names registered with Dreamhost and for which I am the registrant, still a dream, after 11 days. The only answer to my request for an authorization code to transfer the domain names to another registrar, is an answer from February 7th, 2008: “Your [...]

• New Google’s version of Android SDK m5-rc14

  Thursday, February 14th, 2008

  Android SDK m5-rc14 is now available for download, with new and improved features:

  New user interface
  Layout animations
  Geo-coding
  New media codecs
  Updated Eclipse plug-in

  (Source: Android Developers Blog)

  The developers say that they are still missing the change of the telephony package. “We still cannot detect the ingoing/outgoing call number or send DTMF tones [...]

• Yahoo join the mobile market with oneConnect

  Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

  If I’d had enough money I’d invest it right now in the mobile industry. It is a real explosion, many of the biggest Internet companies are interested now in this market.
  Yahoo announced on Tuesday the launch of a new services called oneConnect that will aggregate mobile [...]

• Dreamhost and the full power of the registrars

  Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

  So, let’s see shortly the problem for the readers that did not see my previous post:
  New Dream Network, LLC is a ICANN accredited registrar and, same time, a web hosting company.
  When I bought 5 web hosting packages from them, I registered with them 5 new domain names, the registration [...]

• Xperia X1, a rival for iPhone

  Monday, February 11th, 2008

  Sony Ericcson decided to join forces with Microsoft in order to realize a smart phone powered by Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, Xperia X1.
  Xperia X1 will have a 3 inch touch screen and will include a full QWERTY keyboard within a quality metal-finish body, with a stylus and a 3.2 megapixel [...]

• Dreamhost, the nightmare web hosting and domain name registration service

  Sunday, February 10th, 2008

  Shortly: some years ago I started to use the Dreamhost web hosting service and now, after they closed my accounts without a reason, they refuse to charge back my money and to get me access to the domain names I registered with them.
  It was ok at the beginning, some years ago. [...]

• The big known surprise: Microsoft buys Yahoo!

  Friday, February 1st, 2008

  So, the decisive step is done: Microsoft Corp. has made a bid to buy Yahoo Inc. for $44.6 billion, in order to better compete with Google Inc. If Yahoo! agree, it will be the problem of the U.S. Justice Department to check if this deal complies with the antitrust [...]

• Romanian gamers complain against Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo WII

  Friday, February 1st, 2008

  The Romanian gaming community is complaining against the discrimination of the manufacturers of the game consoles Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Nintendo WII that, although Romania is member of the European Union, the Romanian gamers do not benefit by the full online services and support for which they paid. [...]

• MySpace between developers and angry users

  Thursday, January 31st, 2008

  MySpace tries to wake up and keep its leader position, by opening its doors to the developers, as did Facebook and many other social networks. Beginning with next week, on February 5, the site will become fully operational with documentation and API tools for developers to build and test applications [...]