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Google Launches Gears Location-Based API
Google on Friday announced the release of Gears Geolocation API, a platform designed to provide Web sites with location-based information without the aid of GPS. The new API has already been used by two third-party developers to create apps for Windows Mobile. European travel site lastminute.com used the platform to develop an app for locating nearby ...
Hands-off with the Intel-Yahoo HDTV Widgets
On Wednesday, Intel and Yahoo announced a surprisingly broad plan to add widgets to HDTVs. When I say “surprisingly broad," it's because of all of the support the plan received: content providers (ABC, CBS), CE makers (Sony, Samsung, Toshiba), and Yahoo, of course. Just not Microsoft, which has acknowledged but not responded to my requests for ...
Google, Verizon Reportedly in Search Deal
(Reuters) - Mobile service provider Verizon Communications Inc. is nearing an agreement with Google Inc. on a wide-ranging partnership, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the situation. The deal under discussion would make Google the default search provider on Verizon devices and give it a share of ad revenue, the paper said. The ...
Comcast Does About-Face: Declares Love for P2P
Comcast, perhaps the most aggressive opponent of file sharing after the RIAA, has seen the light. After testing P4P, an experimental file sharing architecture that reduces network costs and bandwidth usage, the company is closer to embracing file sharing on its own network. “We are active members of [the P4P working group,] and our engineers are ...
Internet Users Fear iPod Tunes Blocked in China
BEIJING - The downloading of music for iPod players has hit a mysterious glitch in China, stumping scores of users and raising fears the government has blocked Apple's iTunes site over pro-Tibet lyrics, analysts said on Thursday. Since Monday, more than 60 people have posted messages in an Apple Inc discussion forum complaining that they could ...
Judge: Copyright Owners Must Consider 'Fair Use'
A case involving the YouTube “dancing baby" video will continue after a California judge ruled that content owners must consider 'fair use' before sending Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notices. “In order for a copyright owner to proceed under the DMCA with 'a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained ...
Carol Mennie Website Launch!
Vocalist Carol Mennie is proud to announce that her new website, designed by Jack Frisch, is up and running. Please pay us a visit at carolmennie.com! About Carol Mennie Carol Mennie began singing in the First Methodist church choir when she was ten years old. By the time she was eleven years old she was a ...
American Airlines Kicks Off in-Flight Internet Service
CHICAGO - AMR Corp's American Airlines began offering Internet access on long-haul domestic flights on Wednesday, making American the first U.S. airline to offer full in-flight broadband. The world's largest airline said its passengers on Boeing 767-200 aircraft can pay $12.95 for Internet access on nonstop flights between New York and San Francisco, New York and ...
Google.org Invests $10m on Geothermal Energy
Google.org, Google's philanthropic arm, recently donated $10.25 million in investments to fund a technology called Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS). As part of Google's Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal initiative, the $10 million will be used to fund the research of a technology that could provide energy at a price cheaper than coal. EGS is an expanded ...
Yahoo Buzz Goes Public
Yahoo announced Tuesday that its Buzz story ratings service is now available to the general public. “What does this mean for you? Anything you find on the Web is now buzzable," Tapan Bhat, senior vice president of front doors, communities, and network services at Yahoo, wrote in a blog post. Any webmaster will now be able ...
