Hate Mowing Your Lawn?
RoboLabs has introduced a handy little product that could be the salvation for all the people out there who dread mowing their lawn. SmartMow Series-1 takes the work out of cutting your lawn by autonomously mowing your yard. After installing a perimeter wire in your yard, SmartMow can be activated by using a security card. It moves in a circular pattern to detect the perimeter wire and follow it back to the docking station. When it reaches the docking station, it continues mowing in a random pattern.
The Pope Goes YouTube
The Vatican has launched its own YouTube Channel. Now the site is the destination of choice for both the President of the United States of America and the Pope.
Google Offers Employee Option Exchange Program
As you’re probably aware by now, Google released its financial results for the fourth quarter yesterday, and although they managed to beat the analysts’ expectations, they also had a drop in profit.
Google Base Help Forum Rolls Out Welcome Mat
The Google Base Help Forum – or at least a person who runs it – doesn’t want you to forget that the resource is there. A "new" layout that’s more than two months old is getting a little spotlight time.
YouTube to Let Big Content Providers Sell Ads
Reports suggest that YouTube will soon begin letting big content providers sell ads on their content that appears on YouTube. This would be an interesting way to break legal tension between the hugely popular video site and the content owners who feel their copyright is being infringed upon when users upload it.
Belkin
There it is again, you hear it? That’s the sound of consumer trust clinking against the sides of the shaft as it falls, down, down, down. Belkin is just the latest company to drop trust equity down the sewer.
Washington Post Launches Political Database
The Washington Post has launched a new site called WhoRunsGov.com that consists of comprehensive profiles of people in politics and the government.Currently the site is focused on people involved in the government and politics on a national level but plans are in the works to expand it to include state officials, experts at think tanks and interest groups.
Google Beats Analysts’ Expectations Yet Again
Google was one of few successful companies on the stock market today; it provided a little bit of green within big lists of numbers that were otherwise mostly red. This trend continued as the search giant released its fourth quarter financial results.
Britannica Goes 2.0, Prez Slams Wikipedia/Google
Encyclopedia Britannica is finally giving in to user-generated crowd wisdom—to an extent but not without some harsh fightin’ words aimed toward Google and Wikipedia.
AOL Sites Saw Solid Growth In 2008
AOL has announced that its sites saw significant growth in 2008 with page views increasing to 71 billion from 48 billion, up 47 percent for the year.Unique visitors grew from a monthly average of 70.4 million to 73.4 million, and total minutes increased from 40 billion to 47 billion year-over-year, up 17 percent, according to comScore.