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Google has been accused of stealing the thunder of others on numerous occasions. The most recent example cited in a post from…
The Hallmark Channel reaches roughly 86 million homes, which, whether or not you dash to the couch every night to watch it, is impressive. And starting today, Google TV Ads is allowing users to reach the same audience.
Google has released the Public Location Badge, which allows users to publish geographic information to their blog automatically whenever they go somewhere. The badge is powered by Google Latitude. If you're unfamiliar with Google Latitude, it is a feature of Google Maps that when enabled, shows your friends your current location wherever you are if you have given it permission to do so.
YouTube is telling some of its content producers that they are in violation of the site's terms of services by including product placement and commercials within their videos. The reason for this is that YouTube is trying to make money with its own advertising, and advertisers typically don't want to have to compete with other ones, particularly when they are paying and the others aren't.
An aggressive "buy-one-get-one" campaign by Verizon Wireless helped RIM's BlackBerry Curve overtake Apple's iPhone to become the best-selling consumer smartphone in the first quarter of 2009, according to a report by The NPD Group. RIM's consumer smartphone market share increased 15 percent to nearly 50 percent of the smartphone market in Q1 2009 versus the previous quarter, as Apple's and Palm's share both fell 10…
In about five months' time, the current agreement between ICANN and the U.S. government will expire. At that point, Viviane Reding, the European Union's Commissioner for Information Society and Media, is hoping ICANN will become a fully independent organization with a more international support network.
