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Believe It or Not, Gmail is Beta No More
On Tuesday, Google removed the “beta" tag of four high-profile Web properties, including Gmail, which had languished in beta form for over five years. Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, and Google Talk are all now official products, Matt Glotzbach, director of product management for Google Enterprise, said in an interview. Google also announced that Fairchild Semiconductor ...
Need a Scratch Pad for Search? Yahoo Has One
Most of the hubbub about search lately has centered on Bing and Google. But the one that started it all, Yahoo, will try to make its own splash in search, with a new feature called Search Pad. The service will go live Tuesday night at 9:00 PM Pacific Time. Basically, Search Pad pops up a window ...
Internet Radio Reaches Deal on Royalty Rates
After two years of debate, Internet radio stations have finally reached a deal with copyright holders regarding royalty rates. The price of the deal, however, will force Web radio station Pandora to limit the amount of free listening available each month, according to founder Tim Westergren. “The royalty crisis is over," Westergren said in a blog ...
Elderly Like to Twitter, Too
Celebrities and hip adults aren't the only people flocking to Twitter, the social-networking site. Even centenarians have learned to tweet. Three percent of U.S. centenarians questioned in a new survey said they use the service that allows users to send short text messages, or tweets, of up to 140 characters at least once a week to ...
Obama Signs Web Radio Royalty Bill
Internet radio stations got a second chance to hammer out a royalty agreement with copyright holders Tuesday when President Obama signed the Webcasters Settlement Act. The bill gives both sides 30 days to come to an agreement over how much Web radio stations should pay to stream their music. A similar bill signed by President Bush ...
Myspace Begins Redefining Its Space
Wrenching job cuts at News Corp's MySpace are only the first steps the online hangout must take to regain its cool. Outshone by newcomers Facebook and Twitter, MySpace must reverse worrying trends in user metrics and replace a lucrative $300-million-a-year advertising deal with Google Inc that expires next year, or risk lining up among Friendster, AltaVista, ...
Youtube Uploads Soar After iPhone 3g S Ships
uploads to YouTube jumped 400 percent last Friday, the day that Apple released its iPhone 3GS, which contains a video recorder function and easy sharing features. In the last six months, meanwhile, the Google-owned video site has seen mobile uploads increase by 1,700 percent, the company said in a blog post. “This growth represents three things ...
Variable MP3 Pricing Making Money for Labels
In April, soon after Apple gave labels the ability to set different prices for their songs on iTunes, every track on Pink Floyd's “Dark Side of the Moon" was raised to $1.29. Some music fans complained about these price increases, and many technology executives and bloggers proclaimed that labels were making the wrong move. But while ...
Twitter Growth Slowing Despite Huge Yearly Gains
Twitter grew 1,448 percent from this time last year, but its growth is slowing as the year goes on, according to Monday data from Nielsen. The micro-blogging site logged 18.2 million unique visitors in May 2009, up from 1.2 million in May 2008, and up 7 percent from April 2009. Those stats make Twitter the fastest ...
Google Ordered to Block Porn into China
China's Internet watchdog on Friday ordered Google to stop overseas websites with “pornographic and vulgar" content from being accessed through its Chinese-language search engine. The China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center had told Google to “make immediate changes" and clean up the content available through its search engine (www.google.cn), the official Xinhua news agency reported. The ...
