Yahoo Goes the Display Ad Route

Yahoo has launched a new self-serve display advertising solution called Yahoo My Display Ads. The company says the solution is designed to help small and medium-sized businesses easily reach their target audience via Yahoo and its network of partner sites.

New gPhone (myTouch 3G) Coming in Early August

T-Mobile has announced that the sucessor to it's semi-popular G1, the myTouch 3G, will become available in early August. The myTouch 3G will be extremely customizable, unlike Apple's iPhone. Users will be able to choose menus, wallpapers, icons, themes and skins. Will being customizable be enough to lure iPhone users away?

Survey: 62% Prefer iPods to the Environment

The Shelton Group has released some interesting survey results showing that the majority of Americans would like to "go green," but not at the expense of their own convenience. It's not that the results are particularly surprising, but they are interesting in that they are broken down into what percentage of participants would be willing to give up what devices if they could help the…

Eight Percent Have Downloaded Video Illegally

Eight percent of consumers in the UK, France, Germany and the U.S. have admitted to downloading content illegally from file sharing websites, according to a new study by Futuresource Consulting. When looking only at the downloader segment, the study found that 15 percent of all downloaders admitted to obtaining video content illegally, with France taking the lead at 25 percent.

Google Makes Progress in Image Recognition

Today at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) conference in Miami, Google released a new research paper that looks at building a web-scale landmark-recognition engine. This could lay the groundwork for some interesting advancements in image search. "To be clear up front, this is a research paper, not a new Google product, but we still think it's cool," says Jay Yagnik, Head of Computer…