This morning at Microsoft, it seems that someone sighed, "Let’s get it over with." The company has released a fourth quarter financial report that wasn’t supposed to turn up until after trading hours, and the numbers in it aren’t pretty.
Google Sites, Analytics Get Cozy
Even though people can accomplish great things while working as a team, not being able to measure the results is something of a limiting factor. To fix this problem with Google Sites, then, an integration with Google Analytics has been announced.
Yahoo Not Doing Too Bad in Newspapers
Google recently announced that it would be shutting down its print advertising business after announcing the pulling of the plug on a number of other services last week.
Twestivals: Twitter Communities Meeting In Real Life
If you’re a Twitter user, you like the idea of extending your virtual community into the real world, and you’d be keen to help a worthy cause, Twestival is right up your street.
Ahead Of Earnings Call, Google Faces Tough Climate
Google is set to release its Q4 2008 earnings report tomorrow, and the company will likely set the tone for the entire search marketing industry and the online economy going into 2009. According to a recent market report, Google’s got a tough sell on Thursday.
BBB Warns Of Facebook Scams
The Better Business Bureau is warning users of social networking sites about a number of common scams that hackers are using to gain access to personal information.
Mozilla Collects User Data for Usability Testing
Mozilla has a new project called Test Pilot, which it uses to test usability of its products. It collects data from users on a strictly voluntary basis, and shares that data with the public anonymously so others can use it too. In fact, the testing platform itself will be available to the public as well.
Forestle Dropped by Google, Embraced by Yahoo
Forestle is a search engine with the goal of saving the Rain Forests. It was built on Google Custom Search, but Google revoked the site’s search functionality claiming that Forestle offered "incentives to click artificially on sponsored links," which is not compliant with Google’s policies.
Kentucky Overturns Gambling Domain Seizure
The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled late Tuesday that the state could not seize 141 online gambling domains because they do not constitute a gambling device under Kentucky law.The ruling overturns a controversial decision made by Franklin County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Wingate in October that said online gambling domains could be seized by the state because the domains were illegal gambling devices that violated Kentucky law.
Akamai Sees Record Traffic During Inauguration
Akamai Technologies said today it saw a record spike in online traffic during the Inauguration of President Barack Obama.As the largest day ever for the delivery of concurrent live streaming over the Akamai network, the company reported it reached a peak of over 7 million active simultaneous streams (the majority live streams) at around 12:15 p.m. today.Total traffic on the network surpassed a rate of more than 2 terabits per second and the company also delivered over 12,000,000 requests per second at the same time.