The Financial Times (ft.com) reports that Google is negotiating with major Hollywood studios to bring streaming movie rentals to YouTube. It can happen as soon as by the end of the year. According to the source the new YouTube service will offer movies, simultaneous with the DVD release, for about $5
Monthly Archives: August 2010
Starting next month (September 15) Facebook’s chat will no longer be supported on Internet Explorer 6. Facebook will improve chat performance and add new functionalities which are not supported on older browsers like IE6. According to the newest data from netmarketshare.com, IE6 is the second most popular browser, with 16.97 percent of global market share.
According to Alexa Rankings, YouTube has just passed Yahoo! for the third spot of the most visited websites. Numbers one belong to Google, number two belongs to Facebook. While Alexa is known as a indicator of worldwide website popularity, we recommend to read our post why Alexa Ranking is useless.
On March 19, 2009 Gmail introduced an option Undo Send which held your message for five seconds so you have a chance to hit the button which stops process of sending an email and takes you right back to compose. Google constantly adds new periods: 10 seconds, 20 seconds and now 30 seconds.
Intel announced that the company had agreed to buy McAfee, it is the computer antivirus software maker. Intel seeks to expand its presence in security services and the company will spend $7.7 billion in cash buying McAfee. McAfee, Inc. is an antivirus software and computer security company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. McAfee markets McAfee
Yahoo and Microsoft start the public phase of their huge search deal from last year. Starting this week, Yahoo searches will be “Powered by Bing.” Under that deal between those two companies, Microsoft provides the back-end crawling, listing, and ranking technologies that generate search results, while Yahoo is responsible for presenting those results on search
This week (12-13 Aug) in Johannesburg (Africa) took place Tech4Africa , the first major social web conference in South Africa. It is a very important event for this part of the world. The newest data shows that the majority of people in Africa live on less than $2 a day, and struggle with getting electricity.
Google added a free Gmail feature to make calls to telephones anywhere in the world from microphone-equipped computers. As a trial, all calls in the U.S. and Canada are free through the end of the year. Google plans to make money on this PC-to-phone service by charging 2 cents and up per minute for international
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