Searches On Google For Black Friday Deals Were Up 50 Percent From Last Year

December 1st, 2009 admin

GoogleAs online retailers are witnessed strong Black Friday results, Google is reporting that there was a surge in online shopping searches with “Black Friday” on Thanksgiving day and the Friday after the holiday. Searches with the term “Black Friday” were up by more than 20%, year over year, according to Google. Searches for “black friday sales” and “black friday ads” were both up by more than 50%, year over year.

This data indicates that consumers match deals around this time of the year with Black Friday and that these deals are increasingly displayed online versus on TV or in newspapers.

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Blogging Vs. Microblogging: Twitter’s Global Growth Flattens, While WordPress’ Picks Up

November 27th, 2009 admin

WPvsTwitteroct09Only a year ago, the conventional wisdom was that blogs were dead and microblogging would soon replace them. Twitter was supposed to kill blogs because it’s so much simpler to publish one sentence fragment at a time rather than whole thoughts bunched together into what is known in the trade as “paragraphs.”

Today, blogs are doing fine, while Twitter is struggling with flattening growth, at least to its Website Twitter.com (clients like Seesmic and TweetDeck have seen no slowdown). The weakness Twitter has been experiencing in the U.S. since last summer is now finally hitting its worldwide visitor growth as well. (more…)

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Aviary’s Chrome Extension Proves That These Add-Ons Are Going To Be Awesome

November 27th, 2009 admin

13I have something to admit: I’ve never been a big extension guy. When I was still using Firefox, I liked them, but the downside, browser bloat, turned me away. But now that we’re starting to see the first steps of true extension support in Chrome, I think I could be swayed.

While people have been developing extensions for Chrome for a little while now, none were officially supported. But now that Google is reaching out to developers to start making these for real, we’re already hearing about some good ones. One such one was sent to us tonight by Aviary, makers of browser-based creativity tools. (more…)

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More emerges on Microsoft’s dance with newspapers

November 27th, 2009 admin

aaWe’ve been doing some more digging on the definitive moves by Microsoft to woo newspapers over to Bing and away from Google, a story we broke two weeks ago.

Since then there have been some follow-up by various media outlets, notably the Financial Times this week which confirmed that Microsoft had had discussions with News Corp to “de-index” its news websites from Google.

Who approached who first? The FT said the impetus came from News Corp, although our information is that Microsoft is also talking to a range of newspaper publishers in Europe as well, such as German publishers like Axel Springer. (more…)

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2008 forecast: creating a dynamic IT infrastructure with grid storage

November 25th, 2009 admin

Today’s IT organization is getting squeezed from all directions. To support more data, storage environments continue to grow and become more complex to manage. Tighter controls on data access and management, increased compliance regulations, e-discovery, and corporate governance add to the complexity. Businesses are demanding improved services like higher availability levels. IT is also being asked to contain their spending while data continues to grow at alarming rates.

These challenges have taken their toll–IT today is bogged down with mundane, tactical tasks and has little time to focus on providing a dynamic, responsive IT service that creates strategic advantages and propels a business forward. (more…)

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Technology News – Powered by Reuters

November 25th, 2009 admin
  • Chinese group files complaint over "faulty" HP laptops
    SHANGHAI (Reuters) – More than 100 Chinese consumers have filed an official complaint against Hewlett-Packard Co over faulty laptop computers, leaving the door open for a lawsuit against the U.S. tech …

  • MySpace readies site overhaul to rekindle growth
    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – With shrinking audiences, deep layoffs and two management shake-ups, MySpace, the one-time leader in Internet social networking, has had a rocky year.

  • U.S. weighing China Internet censorship case
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is studying whether it can legally challenge Chinese Internet restrictions that hurt Google and other U.S. companies operating in China, but direct talks with …

  • "Logorama" duo take aim at "Ghost Recon" videogame
    LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – The directors behind the Oscar-winning animated short "Logorama," are moving into the live-action world — but they aren't going Hollywood just yet. …

  • Cable group wants U.S. FCC to end fee disputes
    NEW YORK (Reuters) – A coalition of cable and satellite companies will this week call on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to create a new process to resolve increasingly bitter disputes over …

  • Sony, Samsung detail 3D TV plans
    TOKYO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sony and Samsung announced plans to introduce 3D televisions in coming months, betting they will become the next hot products in an increasingly crowded electronics industry …

  • LG Elec launches Android-based smartphone
    SEOUL (Reuters) – LG Electronics Inc, the world's No. 3 mobile phone maker, on Wednesday launched a smartphone based on Google's Android operating system in South Korea, as it seeks to boost …

  • Cisco leapfrogs rivals with faster router
    NEW YORK (Reuters) – Cisco Systems Inc introduced its first major new routers in six years and said they can be configured to handle Internet traffic up to 12 times faster than rival products.

  • Cyber-bullying cases put heat on Google, Facebook
    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Internet was built on freedom of expression. Society wants someone held accountable when that freedom is abused. And major Internet companies like Google and Facebook are f …

  • NFL signs mobile phone deal with Verizon Wireless
    MIAMI (Reuters) – The NFL has signed a four-year agreement with Verizon Wireless to show live games and highlights on mobile phones in a deal U.S. media reported was worth $720 million.

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Barnes & Noble says Nook sold out before holidays

November 21st, 2009 admin

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Barnes & Noble Inc said on Friday it had sold out of its newly-launched Nook electronic readers due to high demand — a pre-holiday miscalculation that analysts said could boost sales of rival Amazon.com Inc’s market leading Kindle.

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Google says PC will start in seven seconds or less

November 21st, 2009 admin

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) – New Google Inc software will start up a computer as fast as a television can be turned on, the search company said on Thursday as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for PCs that do their work on the Web.

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Gameloft says it, others reining in Android plans

November 20th, 2009 admin

BARCELONA (Reuters) – French mobile phone games company Gameloft said it and other software developers were cutting back investment in developing games and other applications for Google’s Android platform.

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Chinese cyber-spying seen growing against U.S.

November 20th, 2009 admin

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China’s government appears increasingly to be piercing U.S. government and defense industry computer networks to gather useful data for its military, a congressional advisory panel said on Thursday.

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