The Google AdSense Blog reports: “In an effort to provide you with more transparency and control over the ads appearing on your pages, we’ve developed the Ad Review Center.
Facebook Apps Market Develops
It’s interesting to see that a market for Facebook applications — or widgets — is developing, although the prices are still small. In one of the latest transactions, Inside Facebook notes that Slide.com (run by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin) has bought the app Favorite Peeps for a reported $60,000. Another site, FaceWatch, has also written about the purchase.
Google Develops Fleet Of Fuel-Efficient Cars
Want to improve your car’s efficiency? Maybe you should hand the keys over to Google; in conjunction with Hymotion/A123Systems, the search engine giant has developed “a small fleet of plug-in hybrids,” and the vehicles have demonstrated a striking ability to slurp less gas.
Google Develops Plans To Profile Gamers
Imagine that you’re playing a computer game, and because you slowly sneak up behind an enemy, you’re shown an advertisement for a bank. Run at the same enemy while wielding a rocket launcher, and you’ll see an ad for a death metal CD. This is Google’s dream.
Yahoo Mail Develops An Open API
Web developers will have the ability to leverage the 250 million users of Yahoo Mail as they create innovative and interesting applications based on the product; Yahoo Mail vice president John Kremer can’t wait to see what they do.
MySpace Develops Parental Monitoring Software
In recent times, MySpace and sexual predators have become closely associated terms in the minds of parents and lawmakers across the nation. The social networking site is currently developing software designed to allow parents to more closely monitor their children’s MySpace activities.
Tokyo U Develops 512-Core Processor
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a processor that uses 512 cores to achieve up to 512 billion floating point operations per second.
Wall Develops Firefox SEO Extension
Search engine optimization hall-of-famer Aaron Wall has developed an intensive SEO extension for Mozilla’s Firefox browser. The tool pulls data from a number of sources to offer search engine marketers “a more holistic view of the competitive landscape.”
Novell Develops Linux Graphics, Video
Novell announced on Tuesday significant enhancements to the Xgl (X over OpenGL) graphics subsystem. Xgl is new core rendering technology for the Linux desktop that takes advantage of widely available accelerated 3D rendering hardware.
Intel Develops Chip Technology to Take Wi-Fi Support To the Next Level
Yesterday Intel announced that it has developed chip technology made for supporting current and future Wi-Fi standards.