Suppose, for Father’s Day, you got dear old Dad some new power tools, and he then had trouble adjusting to them. One way of speeding up the acclimation process could involve trashing the old ones, right? Now, Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook seems to have created a similar situation.
StumbleUpon Breaks Away from eBay
StumbleUpon is no longer part of eBay. Many have wondered why it was even part of it to begin with, but that pondering can now be put aside. The company has now been returned to its creators for an undisclosed amount.
Google Breaks Data Center Silence
Google’s never been too chatty about its data centers; the search giant is slow to even confirm the centers’ physical locations, never mind discuss what’s going on inside. But at the Data Center Efficiency Summit, Google spilled a few secrets, and there’s definitely some impressive technology in place.
Silobreaker Breaks Out Online
Through relentless work on relational analysis, and an investment in a spot at the DEMO conference, Silobreaker CEO Kristoffer Mansson may be the next big newsbreaker on the Internet.
Carolina’s Google Tax Breaks Irk Locals
The North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law (NCICL) has called the $165 million in tax incentives for Google “unusual” and challenged the deal in court.
Google Welcomes New Year, Breaks Calculator
2006 was a good year for Google, but 2007 didn’t start off too well. The primary search engine apparently forgot how to do math, as both its calculator and currency conversion functions stopped working. The proverbial hangover has passed, however, and things are back to normal now.
Google Breaks Out Custom Search
Site publishers can use the Google Custom Search Engine to build the search engine of their dreams, drawing from specific sites and blogs, dressing it up to match the look and feel of the webmaster’s site, and making money with AdSense through its search results.
Widgetbox Breaks Out of Beta
Widgetbox, an online directory for syndicated web “widgets,” or small interactive services that can be embedded onto a webpage or blog, formally announced its launch on Monday, after completing a private and public beta.
W3C Breaks Out The Red Pen
The World Wide Web Consortium released a new edition of Core XML Standards late last week.
YouTube Breaks Down, Breaks Out
A service outage of several hours represented some growing pains for the YouTube video sharing service, which has become so popular that it is now part of the comScore Media Metrix Top 50.