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Google Knows You Skipped A Commercial
Technology from Google submitted to the US Patent Office shows how they can tell when someone viewing a video skipped an ad.
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Google’s Earnings Cause Trouble For comScore
Overjoyed investors have made Google's stock go up by about 20 percent since the company reported its earnings. comScore, on the other hand, temporarily lost eight or so percent of its value.
Baron Pulls Twitter Auction
Knowing the value of a web-celeb's Twitter account will have to be on hold. Andrew Baron, founder of the well-known video podcast Rocketboom, placed his name-brand account up for sale on eBay last week, but has since deleted the auction listing.
Google Video Gets Updated Again
Google Video's existence continues to be a bit of a mystery; after Google paid $1.65 billion for YouTube, you'd think the company would be able to concentrate on just it. Still, users of Google Video are likely to be happy about a new redesign.
250 Million Europeans Are Online
More than half of Europeans are now regular Internet users, 80 percent of them have broadband connections and 60 percent of public services are online according to a new report from the European Commission.In 2007, the Internet attracted close to 40 million new regular users in the EU (now 250 million in total). More than 96 percent of European schools are now connected to the…
Ballmer: Vista A Work In Progress
Microsoft's CEO admits what thousands of techies have thought of the company for years: they toss stuff into the user community and need a couple of additional releases to make it work.
