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Google Getting Aggressive with Advertising
Google is trying to get advertising agencies to warm up to it after years of not being their favorite entity. After all,…
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Online Vampire Novel Leak Sucks For Author
Best selling author Stephenie Meyer, writer of the popular vampire romance series known as "The Twilight Saga" has put her fifth and final installment on hold after a partial manuscript was leaked online.
Apple Trying to Kill Off CDs
The push toward making CDs obsolete has taken another step as Apple is going to begin offering album art applications. This is one aspect of physical products like CDs and Vinyl that music enthusiasts have been reluctant to part with in favor of the digital age, but when that aspect becomes available as part of said age, will they still have something to cling to?
eBay Goes Green With Launch Of New Site
eBay has launched a new ecommerce marketplace called WorldofGood.com, which offers environmentally friendly products.eBay says the site will offer products made from recycled or natural materials and that all the products will carry environmental or fair trade certifications from the company's partners. All product makers are required to have certification before they are allowed to sell on the site.
Google: You’re Not Saving the Rain Forests That Way!
Forestle is a search engine built on Google Custom Search, with the goal of saving the Rain Forests. That seems like a noble enough cause. Their methods of going about this, however, have gotten the site's search functionality revoked by Google. When you try to perform a search on Forestle, you get a big pink box with a message from the Forestle team. The message…
Google Shines Up Chrome Web Browser
As America returns to work after the Labor Day holiday weekend, crusty eyes are abuzz about Google Chrome, the company’s own surprise open source Web browser in beta. Bloggers on the scene—European ones and those who apparently don’t take holidays—let the Chrome cat out of the bag a day early.
