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Amazon.com announced Monday an initiative to reduce the amount of packaging materials some of its products are shipped in with the idea…
At 4:00 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, October 30th Sprint (A Tier 1 Internet backbone provider) severed their peering connections with fellow Tier 1 Internet backbone provider Cogent Communications. This depeering was due to a contract dispute that Cogent claimed was already in litigation. Webproworld broke this story within hours of the depeering.
TechCrunch today has no treats—and no joy, no, not even Almond Joy—for Facebook in reporting about its projected financial woes. For a company once valued at $15 billion, things are looking grim as the cash supplies may dwindle long before Facebook is ready or willing to go to IPO.
Yesterday Google guaranteed 99.9% reliability for Google Apps like Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites, and Google Talk. This stemmed from a similar guarantee the company made for Gmail.
For those of you sitting around this evening either avoiding trick-or-treaters, or just simply looking for some ghostly entertainment to celebrate All Hallow's Eve, Google has some special content set aside for you. Not only are they featuring some Halloween Books on the front page of Google Book Search:
It's not April Fools' Day, and some sort of mathematical miscalculation doesn't seem to have occurred. Instead, surprising as the situation may be, Yahoo's video property appears to have become more popular than the ones owned by Fox, Microsoft, and Nickelodeon.
