Number Of Older (Online) Shoppers Surges

As the holiday season draws nearer, you’ll see them at malls and retail stores in increasing numbers: older people with long shopping lists.  But people at or over the age of 55 are increasingly likely to spend money online, too.

Rapper Teaches Lizz-ink Building 101

You're about to reach the end of the Internet. Please keep hands and feet inside the web browser at all times. Final destination: A YouTube video featuring a link-building rap. And it's not half-bad, either.

Yahoo, Carnegie Mellon Switch On Supercomputer

The M45 supercomputer provided by Yahoo opened its ports to its partners at Carnegie Mellon University, where the initiative should help boost research that benefits the broader Internet community.

Michelin Guide Ratings Leaked Online

The Michelin guide ratings for restaurants in Los Angeles and Las Vegas were mistakenly posted on its Web site before Monday's scheduled announcement.

Google & the Future of TV

There’s a story in the Guardian today that says Google is working with American Idol creator and producer Simon Fuller — who also gave the world the Spice Girls — on some sort of top-secret TV project that will apparently revolutionize the medium as we know it. Is Google going to get into the creation of content?