How to get bought by Google
April 30, 2007
InfoWorld - May is a month of rebirth and new beginnings. It's a time when flowers are blooming, trees are flowering, and young bucks lock horns in battle over the privilege of choosing a mate.
Yahoo signs up Comcast for Web ads deal
April 30, 2007
Reuters - U.S. cable television leader Comcast
Corp. and Internet media company Yahoo Inc. said on Monday they
had agreed to a multi-year partnership for Yahoo to supply Web
advertising to Comcast.
An Open Source Hardware Development Tool
April 30, 2007
LuxuryYacht writes “The PLAICE is an open source hardware and software project developing a powerful in-circuit development tool that combines in one device the features of a FLASH Programmer, Memory Emulator, and High Speed Multi-Channel Logic Analyzer. It runs uClinux. The logic analyzer features up to 200MHz sampling rates and up to 32 input channels. The logic analyzer Java client supports up to 200MHz sampling rates, user-controlled filtering operations, time line in diagrams, transfer rates, and user configurable drawing modes. The Java client supports access via almost any PC with a serial port and uses the RXTX serial library with support for 34 platforms including Linux, Windows, and Solaris. Java client plugins include an SPI and I2C bus protocol analyzer, conversion of timing analysis to state analysis, and post-processing functions.”
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iGoogle: Google’s newest brand
April 30, 2007
Google Blogoscoped has some excellent coverage of Google's Personalization Workshop that took place today at the Googleplex. The big news was about the Google Personalized Homepage — which was hit with some serious server trouble last week. The service will be rebranded as "iGoogle" as of 9:00PM tonight.
There were several announcements today — all of […]
Google gives custom home pages more character
April 30, 2007
AFP - Google on Tuesday will add a bit of style to home pages customized by users of its globally popular Internet search engine.
Yahoo CEO gets $80M in 2006 compensation
April 30, 2007
AP - Yahoo Inc. Chairman Terry Semel agreed to lower his annual salary to $1 last year, but the Internet icon eased the pain by awarding him an $80 million compensation package consisting mostly of stock options, according to an analysis of a regulatory filing Monday.
Google says Viacom lawsuit threat to Internet use
April 30, 2007
Reuters - Viacom Inc.'s
(VIAb.N) copyright infringement suit against Google Inc.
and its YouTube video-sharing unit strikes at the
heart of how the Internet works, Google argued on Monday in a
U.S. federal court filing.
Microsoft eyes more Web infrastructure services
April 30, 2007
Reuters - Microsoft Corp. plans to
roll out a "very, very large" number of services to allow
smaller Web developers to tap into its well-financed data
centers, the backbone for its online strategy, the company's
top software executive said on Monday.
Microsoft adds .Net to give Silverlight a shine
April 30, 2007
InfoWorld - Microsoft is integrating the .Net framework into its new Silverlight browser technology for running multimedia applications on the Web, the company revealed Monday. The move is part of an expanded effort to build a significant developer base so Microsoft can catch up to Adobe in providing a revenue-generating business in the RIA (rich Internet application) market.
Astoria: Another piece of Microsoft’s cloud programming model revealed
April 30, 2007
On Monday at Mix ‘07, Microsoft revealed yet another piece of its puzzling cloud-programming puzzle: “Astoria.”
