There’s a lot of action in the browser market these days: Google just launched its Chrome browser,
Firefox 3.1 is due in months, Apple hopes
Safari will spread across the world of Windows, and Microsoft is touting its second beta of
Internet Explorer 8.

The update means IE 6 users will get access to colored labels for messages, Gmail [...]

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CNET News.com)

The iPod came in just a couple of days–but as soon as I unwrapped it and connected it to my
Mac at home I got an ominous alert from my usually quiet antivirus software. The iPod, it informed me, contained some virus known as AdobeR.exe.

On Tuesday, he reported back to me to say that after [...]

While AT&T and Verizon haven’t responded to these pricing structures by lowering their prices, they have been trying to offer customers more services and features for the same price.
The reason is that there are relatively few markets where Verizon Wireless and Alltel are the only two carriers offering service. And in places where there are [...]

The post goes on to mention that the reason for the new ban is twofold: one, for the sake of the company’s servers which have slowed to a crawl having to transcode all of this content, as well as what community director Blake Whitman calls a lack of “creative expression” from people simply holding down [...]

Newsflashr.com doesn’t offer filtering mechanisms, except ranking sites via Alexa, which is an unrefined indication of popularity rather than relevance to the search result. “Our approach is to leave it to the user to compare between the services,” said Gal Arav, founder of Newsflashr.com.

For news junkies, Newsflashr.com is a fast and convenient site for scanning [...]

In a letter dated Feb. 1, the same day that Microsoft announced its unsolicited bid for Yahoo, the Internet pioneer sent a letter to the SEC. The letter, from Yahoo’s associate general counsel Christina Lai, asked the agency to clarify whether Yahoo had to include in its proxy a shareholder proposal, which requested that Yahoo [...]

The price difference for bidding on tail terms on Google vs. Yahoo increases as the ad’s page rank decreases. Therefore, it would be economically advantageous for Yahoo to outsource a significant amount of their tail term inventory, paying closer attention to the outsourced inventory’s rank rather than the keyword terms themselves. Acting this way, Yahoo [...]

Originally available for
Xbox 360 and
PlayStation 3, the game, which had sold more than 8.5 million copies through early June, will be available on PCs–though not Macs, apparently–on November 18 in North America and on November 21 in Europe.

Over at our sister site, Gamespot, Wednesday, the eagle-eyed Guy Cocker noticed that Rockstar Games has officially announced [...]

We all know the story about why people work at Google. Innovative technology, market power, one day in five to noodle around with your pet project, lavish benefits, blah blah blah. But why do they leave?

• The stock options aren’t looking so spiffy these days. Google’s share price has dropped significantly since 2007.

• It’s bogged down by [...]

No problem, Bush and Co. said and decided to have employees save files by hand. That’s despite the fact that doing it manually is not a reliable or even tamper-proof way of dealing with important government communications that are required by law to be carefully archived.
Subsequent efforts to retrofit the old Lotus Notes-based [...]