Barnes & Noble Offering Free Wi-Fi

Barnes & Noble said today it would offer free wireless Internet access at all its bookstores nationwide. Barnes & Noble has offered Wi-Fi access via AT&T since 2005, but that was a subscription-based service.  Customers shopping in the bookstore will now be able to preview over 700,000 eBook titles along with thousands of public domain titles available from Google, on their Wi-Fi enabled devices.  The…

Majority Find Online Health Information Reliable

The number of people looking for health information online has reached 154 million, representing 67 percent of the U.S. adult population, according to a new poll from Harris Interactive. The majority (83%) of people looking for health information online indicate their search was successful and almost half (45%) say it was "very successful." An even larger majority (87%) believes that this information was reliable, but…

Google Provides Tool for Speeding Up Web Pages

Last month Google spoke about an initiative it was kicking off to call upon webmasters to help make the web faster. Larry Page once said he envisioned a web that could be surfed as easily as flipping through the pages of a magazine. This initiative is kind of an extension of that way of thinking.