Ask.com not planning to scrap search: source
February 29, 2008
Reuters - Online search site Ask.com is not
getting rid of its specialized search technology, a source
familiar with the matter said on Friday, saying a blog report
to that effect was incorrect.
Ask.com not planning to scrap search: source
February 29, 2008
Reuters - Online search site Ask.com is not
getting rid of its specialized search technology, a source
familiar with the matter said on Friday, saying a blog report
to that effect was incorrect.
EBay sees growing risks to business in coming year
February 29, 2008
Reuters - Online auction leader eBay Inc
warned in an annual report on Friday that it faces difficulty
getting former customers to return, adding to the normal
challenge of attracting new users to its sites.
eBay Settles Patent Dispute With MercExchange
February 29, 2008
TechWeb - The online auction site said it will pay for three patents MercExchange claimed.
Accessories Start Plugging Into Asus’ Eee PC
February 29, 2008
PC World - Asus’ compact laptop debuted in October, but accessories aimed at the ultraportable have just started to ship.
Accessories Start Plugging Into Asus’ Eee PC
February 29, 2008
PC World - Asus’ compact laptop debuted in October, but accessories aimed at the ultraportable have just started to ship.
Task Force Will Seek Tools to Protect Children Online
February 29, 2008
NewsFactor - A new Internet Safety Technical Task Force will be led by the Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. The task force includes Internet businesses, identity-authentication experts, nonprofit organizations, academics and technology companies. Among the members are AOL, AT&T, Comcast, Facebook, Google, the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI), Second Life’s Linden Lab, Microsoft, Symantec, Verizon and Yahoo.
Civil rights groups: FCC should allow network management
February 29, 2008
InfoWorld - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should allow broadband providers to manage their networks and slow “bandwidth hogs,” despite concerns that such practices arbitrarily target some customers, said a coalition of seven civil rights groups.
Bureaucracy swamps ISO meeting on Microsoft format
February 29, 2008
Reuters - A meeting to hammer out a
consensus on whether a Microsoft document format
should become an international standard descended into near
chaos this week, people close to the meeting told Reuters.
Tellme’s tale as Microsoft subsidiary
February 29, 2008
AP - Mike McCue hasn’t talked to Yahoo Inc. co-founder Jerry Yang since Microsoft Corp. ambushed the Internet pioneer with an unsolicited takeover bid a month ago.
