China Tells Internet Caf

How would you feel if every time you used a public telephone (do those still exist?) or checked into a hotel, your photo was taken and sent to the government? To better crack down on undesirable Internet users, that’s exactly what’s happening in China.

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Google Seeking Arabic-Speaking Engineers

Yesterday afternoon, Patrick Pichette, Google's chief financial officer, said something elegant about investing in the company's core business both in and out of the U.S.  It seems the man's far from a liar, as a manager has now followed up with a call for Arabic-speaking engineers.

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Man in UK Sentenced for Facebook Slaughter

Back in February a man named Wayne Forrester murdered his wife Emma in cold blood (and a cocaine and alcohol-fueled daze) by stabbing her in the head and neck with a kitchen knife and meat cleaver. The reason he did this he said, was because she changed her Facebook profile to "single" shortly after he moved out of their home. Today, Forrester was sentenced to…

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Circuit City Promotes What Should Have Been Already

Circuit City stock was perhaps rather attractive to some at around a dollar per share; in a weird twist it’s somehow less attractive at 39 cents—maybe it’s the stink of death all around it, maybe that’s what Blockbuster smelled when they pulled out of an acquisition deal.

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Yahoo’s Openness To Search

Yahoo announced that they have integrated a couple of applications from their SearchMonkey project into everyday search results for users of the Yahoo search engine. The two integrated apps are from Citysearch and Zagat, which Yahoo intends to use for improved local search results along with Yelp and its own Yahoo Local results.

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