Wal-Mart To Offer Skype Hardware

Retail giant Wal-Mart has teamed with Skype and will start selling Skype Certified hardware in their 1,800 locations throughout the U.S. In addition consumers will have access to headsets, webcams and handsets that are compatible with Skype along with pre-paid cards.

Social Media Growth Apparently Driven from Asia

Social media and blogging is soaring with Asia a key growth market, according to research conducted by Universal McCann as reported by Brand Republic on May 11. While I have some concerns about this story (see below), some of the reported stats are quite interesting:

ISP Wiretap Day Arrives

May 14th signals the deadline for Internet service providers to be compliant with the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA).

Paid Video Faces Extinction

The paid video download market will not survive long term and will reach a peak in 2007, according to a new report by Forrester Research.

MyBlogLog Name Change, Redesign Imminent

When the Five Hundred sedan didn’t sell well, Ford renamed it after a much older model, the Taurus.  Ford didn’t change the car in any substantial way, but name recognition is everything, right?  Now Yahoo may be attempting to apply that theory to MyBlogLog; a name change is in the works, and other, more substantial, alterations should also take place.