All the stories tagged with: Web
Google Web Store Announced
12/07/2010, Google has just announced its Web Store, initially, it will be limited to apps running in Chrome and it will later be open to other browsers. Users will be able to buy apps with Google Check Out. As usual, when an [...]
Microsoft to Build Anti-Tracking Privacy Option Into IE9
12/07/2010, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 Web browser will be equipped with a feature called Tracking Protection when it will be released next year in beta. The browser will \ allow users greater control over what widgets and scripts are displayed and [...]
Verizon Wireless Offering Free 3G Mobile Broadband on Chrome OS Netbook
12/07/2010, Verizon Wireless has announced that it is joining Google on its Chrome OS roll out my offering customers who want to use Chrome netbooks 100 MB of free mobile broadband data on the carrier’s 3G network per month for 24 [...]
Google Launches eBookstore with Over 3 million eBooks
12/06/2010, Google eBookstore application for iPod There have been many rumors about Google launching its new eBook venture by the end of the year, and today, it is official, the new Google eBookstore is born, offering over 3 millions eBooks. The [...]
New Facebook Profile Introduced
12/05/2010, Facebook has just announced that it is introducing a new profile page design that, Facebook hopes, will provide a better overview of who you are – at first glance. You can look at the screenshot of my own profile to get [...]
Netflix Bidding to Bring Current Season TV Shows to Instant Watch Streaming
12/02/2010, In an effort to ramp up its online streaming business, Netflix is said to be offering between $70,000 and $100,000 per television episode of current season shows to its Watch Instantly offering. Current problems surrounding the deal is due to [...]
LimeWire Closes Online Store, Stops Pursuing Legal Music Service
12/02/2010, Although the bulk of LimeWire’s peer-to-peer file sharing network had shut down in late October following a court ruling, parts of the company had remained in operation. Now, it seems, from a letter sent to partners, that LimeWire will shut [...]
Proposed Law Will Require Parental Consent for Online Tracking of Minors
12/02/2010, We had reported of the FTC’s Do Not Track proposal yesterday, and now Massachusetts Rep. Edward Markey is taking Internet privacy step further by proposing legislation in 2011 that will make it a federal law for websites geared at children [...]
FTC Suggests ‘Do Not Track’ Option for Websites, Browsers
12/01/2010, In a draft on privacy regulation, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says that companies are slow to adopt privacy rules and that self-regulation may not be enough. Taking that a step further, the agency is recommending that companies add [...]
YouTube Lets Viewers Skip Over Ads
12/01/2010, YouTube is launching its TrueView ad platform, which advertisers approve of, that will allow users to skip over ads that they are not interested in. The format is new to YouTube, which in the past have embedded banner ads that [...]
Mougg Stores Your Music in the Cloud for Streaming
11/30/2010, While users are waiting for Apple to come out with a digital locker and stream purchased content from the cloud, Mougg is filling in the blank with its cloud-based music storage solution that will stream your legally owned music. Simply [...]
Google Calendar Now Lets You Schedule Optional Attendees in Meetings
11/29/2010, Bringing its features up to more closely match Microsoft’s enterprise-focused Exchange and Outlook environments, Google is bringing a new feature to Google Calendar that will allow users to schedule meetings, appointments, and events for optional attendees. Rather than scheduling a [...]
Web 2.0 Summit – Day 2
11/21/2010, Photo: Carol Bartz, CEO, Yahoo! and John Battelle, co-founder, Web 2.0 Summit [Web 2.0 Summit 2010] – Nov, 16 – The day started with a bunch of announcements from Yahoo! which was launching its Local Offers Program with 20 partners, [...]
