Why the Sudden Interest in AOL?
Credit s decision to abandon its longtime strategy of exclusivity and unleash its rich array of offerings concerts news sports and email to the World Wide Web for free a model Yahoo drove to become the Webs top brand
They were a company waiting to die industry analyst Rob Enderle said Thursday of Theyve done some work to make the property more attractive The portal strategy is what gave them a future Its nowhere near where it needs to be but at least theyve got one...
Should Search Engines Tweak Results for Sensitive Topics?
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Should Search Engines Tweak Results for Sensitive Topics
Every now and then the debate about search engines manually removing or tweaking search results due to the topic being sensitive in nature The last one we had that I blogged on was Hate Sites Ranks 1 for Jew which Google would not do anything about besides for placing a Google Ad at the top with an explanation that is still running today...
Microsoft grapples with growing up
Microsoft Corp promises its software will make people better workers more productive more profitable more able as the company likes to say to achieve their potential
Yet some wonder why the software behemoth isnt taking more of its own medicine
As Microsoft hits 30 critics reel off a list of complaints that sounds like well a Microsoft commercial stifling bureaucracy frustrating miscommunication different units working on overlapping technology without adequate cooperation In short the very ills Microsoft promises to cure with its software...
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Tim Jarrett I want a moratorium on the word consumer both because it is disrespectful and because it builds bad thinking habits in companies that sell to consumers He adds
First where is the service offering for geeks Second how insidious is this C word that there are not even product offerings to meet the needs of real people for symmetric download47upload speeds No all home users my other favorite condescending euphemism for real people need to do is download other peoples stuff
I knew a company once that had two businesses...
Yahoo! now in pods : HindustanTimes.com
Aldous Huxley I reckon was only partly right about technology in Brave New World He thought eugenics was the key to world governance Actually it turned out to be the insidious technology of communication Take mobile phones as a case in point By making them an affordable status symbol of contemporaneity technology has made people wireless yet willing collaborators in their own surveillance Now the powers that be can know where you are and what you are up to at any precise moment And whats ironical is that you are picking up the tab for your watchers Similarly the photophone has spawned a network of unwitting spies...