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Online retailer Amazon.com has purchased Brilliance Audio, the largest independent publisher of audiobooks in the U.S. Amazon says the acquisition will expand…
At this point you start to wonder why bother: Google reins supreme in the realm of search, Yahoo doesn't, neither does Microsoft, and everybody else might as well hang it up. MGoogle Grows, Others Slow
Google digitizes books on a fairly regular basis, but it’s not every day that manuscripts made of palm leaves join the “to-do” pile. That’s the case, however, at the University of Mysore in India, where over 800,000 documents are set to be brought into the twenty-first century.
Looks like Google’s out to save the world again; the search engine company, which claims it won’t bid in an upcoming radio spectrum auction, is nonetheless proposing a new way for the FCC to conduct the affair. According to Google, its method would increase competition among telecom companies (and thus benefit consumers).
This story reads like the plot line of the type of film the main subject is known to perform in (not known by me, mind you, it's the first I've heard of her). But here goes anyway: Cop pulls over porn star; porn star "talks" him out of citing her; porn star posts pics of the "conversation" on her blog; cop is in deep, deep…
Blinkx is a top-of-the-line video search engine, but the people who run it might want to consider a new line of work. After all, following Blinkx’s launch on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM), the company raked in exactly what they predicted: 25 million pounds. Yes, those guys (and gals) would do quite well on the stock market.
