More Businesses Embracing Social Media

More employers are becoming open to allowing social media use in their organizations.In a 2007 survey from Awareness Inc, 37 percent of business allowed their employees to use social media applications during business hours. In 2008, 69 percent of businesses allow their employees to use social media for business.Currently, 75 percent of employees use social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn for business…

Google Phone Gets Release Date

It's October 20th according to CrunchGear, who received the info from a "little birdy" who also confirmed that the phone's official announcement would go down on September 23rd. It looks like Jason Miller's daughter is going to get here first.

Google Debunks CPC Inflation Study

Google’s Chief Economist Hal Varian effectively dismantled all of SearchIgnite’s study on CPC inflation resulting from Google’s ad deal with Yahoo except for one: that prices could rise. That may be irrelevant, though, since, Varian notes, Google and Yahoo don’t actually set ad prices. Advertisers do.

YouTube Co-Founder Talks About The Future Of Online Video

Online video has proliferated in the last ten years and YouTube co-founder and CEO Chad Hurley talks about the future of online video on the Official Google Blog.Hurley talks about how ten years ago online video was in its infancy and how it was used in closed settings with limited bandwidth and expensive and bulky video gear. He says it was the Internet that helped…

Gmail Labs Gets Another Pair Of Features

Considering what it is - near-instantaneous communication between potentially distant people - email's pretty easy to use.  But Gmail Labs has just introduced two new features that have the potential to save folks some time and embarrassment.