Google Looks To Space
As reported by Ionut Alex. Chitu, Google is partnering with scientists who are building a giant sky-scanning telescope, hoping to give the public access to digital photos of space, including asteroids, supernovas and distant galaxies.
Interim Management: Increasingly Delivering Strategic Change
With a requirement for greater delivery in ever shorter timescales, under increased shareholder pressure and the continual impact of new technology, the life of the Chief Executive isn’t an easy one.
Opera Goes Yahoo For Mobile Search
A year ago, Opera announced Google would be the default search provider on its mobile browser. That has changed to Yahoo, a fundamental shift that seems surprising on the surface.
ICANN Reconsiders Virtual Red Light District
Nearly seven years after its initial proposal, the controversial .XXX domain, intended as an online “red light district” for pornographic websites, is soon to be reconsidered by the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which voted not to approve (but did not reject) the proposal in May of 2006.
Simple Tool for Website Monitoring
For quite a while now, I have needed a simple website monitoring tool that would check the uptime of my websites.
Is Google Going to Start Listening to Its Customers?
As Karen Wickre of the Google Blog team says it’s been quite A year in Google blogging.
Managing the Workforce of Tomorrow
If you are in a leadership position today, here are ten ideas to help you successfully lead the newest generation of workers-Millennials or Gen X. They are different and here is why.
Google, Samsung Get Moving
Yahoo was quick with a blitzkrieg of press releases this morning and Samsung is for sure double dipping. Included among a host of major mobile phone manufacturers in bed with Yahoo, Samsung later was seen leaving the Googleplex a little extra smiley. Whadda hound.
ChaCha Receives $6 Million To Keep Dancing
Google may own well over 50% of the search market, but there are still those who are willing to support other engines. A group of companies and individuals recently proved this by giving $6 million in funding to ChaCha, a “smart search engine powered by human intelligence.”
Google Foes Shifting Tactics
Topix.net’s Rich Skrenta said that Google is the environment and not the competition in search; Yahoo, Ask, and Microsoft have been working to define a new environment where the top of the search results delivers what a person wants to know.