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Using Google Buzz? Here's a Privacy Checklist
If you've heard of Google Buzz, chances are you've also heard about some of the privacy concerns that surround it. The social media service offers some cool ways to share photos, links, status messages, and more with fellow Google Buzz users. But if you're not careful, you may end up sharing more than you expect. Silicon ...
Mobile TV Tries to Break Into Prime Time
On Super Bowl Sunday, about 116 million viewers watched commercials touting Budweiser, Doritos and Coke as well as spots promoting Flo TV, a service that promises to let you watch TV wherever you are. It was a high-profile promotion for mobile TV, which despite years of innovation has failed to catch on outside of a few ...
Twitter Inc. Has Gone to the Dogs
Mattel taps into social media craze with Puppy Tweets. The high-tech toy will post one of 500 canned tweets to a dog's Twitter page after it's triggered by a sound and motion sensor worn on the animal's collar. Dog owners are provided with a USB receiver that they connect to their computer. They then download the ...
Myspace Chief Executive Resigns
Owen Van Natta's unexpected exit comes as the social networking website tries to reinvent itself. In the latest blow to what was once the jewel of News Corp.'s digital empire, MySpace Chief Executive Owen Van Natta unexpectedly exited Wednesday after less than 10 months on the job. Van Natta's departure comes as the media conglomerate struggles ...
RealNetworks to Spin off Rhapsody
RealNetworks said Tuesday that it intends to spin off its Rhapsody music service into a separate company at the end of the first quarter. The deal was struck in conjunction with MTV Networks, a division of Viacom, DMS Holdco, a subsidiary of Viacom, and Rhapsody, according to an 8-K filing filed Tuesday with the SEC. Real ...
9 Things You Wish Google Would Announce
Update: Google announced a new social application called Buzz. How did it match up to your wish list? Check out our in-depth breakdown of the product to find out. Virtually everyone expects Google to announce something to do with social networking today, when the company holds a press conference at 1 PM ET. Maybe it's some ...
Google Doesn't Want to be an ISP It Wants to Be a Rabble-Rouser
Google rocked my world today when it unveiled its experimental fiber network, complete with speeds of 1 gigabit per second to the home. Already the Google-as-ISP meme has pervaded the technology world, but I dont think Google is in this to be a traditional ISP. Rather, it wants to build out a fiber-to-the-home network to show ...
Google Plans to Offer Broadband Service
Google is getting into the broadband business, taking on the cable and telephone companies in an effort to make speedy Internet access available to more people. The Internet giant announced on its blog Wednesday that it planned to deploy a fiber-optic network to at least 50,000 homes and as many as 500,000. The network will deliver ...
Google Looks to Get Faster
Google plans to build experimental, ultra-fast Internet networks in a handful of communities around the country. The search company said Wednesday that its fiber-optic broadband networks will deliver speeds of 1 gigabit per second to as many as 500,000 Americans. Google Inc. says those systems will be more than 100 times faster than the networks that ...
Hands on with Google Buzz - It's a Stream in Your Inbox
Tuesday saw the debut of Google Buzz, a new service for sharing status updates, links and media with your friends. Its currently being rolled out to the public slowly you can sign up at buzz.google.com but weve had access to Buzz since shortly after it launched, and Ive had a chance to play around with it. ...
