WebProNews is reporting some Internet Advertising Bureau numbers showing a 34% increase over? 2005 numbers bringing total online ad revenues up to 16.8 billion. Traditional big media continues to buy into the surge and they continue to build out websites with…
One user/pass for WordPress and Soon, the World
It looks like Google will be releasing a phone soon. The Xbox is getting a memory boost. WordPress users rejoice. You can now use your WordPress user name and password as an OpenID. That’s right, no more remembering usernames and…
750 Million Net Users Can’t Be Wrong
Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0 has been announced and like very other mobile application, it works on “some” phones. The Barvarian State Library in Germany is offering up it’s books to Google for indexing. Thomas Rubin – Microsoft’s associate general…
Photoshop Going Online – Fireworks Ramblings
Look for an online version of Photoshop in the near future. Adobe has confirmed their plans to release a hosted version of the best photo editing software ever created. I’m diehard Fireworks user but like so many others, Photoshop? is my…
Google Click Fraud Numbers, Paid Diggs and the RIAA Still Sucks
Google has published numbers on their click fraud rates. They reveal some details but there are some solid dissections of the data over at Search Engine Land. In unrelated news, Information Week is reporting the Recording Industry of America?€™s efforts…
Wireless Use Spreading, Literally
According to CNET, the Pew Internet Project has some interesting numbers on wireless and broadband in the home. I sense these numbers are accurate based on the number of people I see mulling around the wireless routers and broadband modems…
Storm Worm, YouTube and the NBA and Apple TV Pause
Watch out for a variant of the Storm Worm planted last month. If it has trojaned into your email it will try to appear in a post you make to a blog or forum as a link to a malicious…
Google Begins Charging for Online Google Applications
Google is now offering premium versions of their free software. They haven’t stopped giving software away and they aren’t running from their ad model but they are offering apps for money. “What,” you say, you thought Google gave everything away…
Microsoft Ordered to Pay 1.5 Billion and Spending More
Holy legal battles! I’ve been reading various perspectives concerning today’s? court order for Microsoft to Payl Alcatel-Lucent 1.5 billion for? using mp3 technology in? their operating system. Basically, Microsoft and nearly every other company in the world has been? licensing mp3 technology? from Fraunhofer. The…
Adobe’s New Offices are Greener Than Tourism in Hawai`i
After watching a ship burn and sink yesterday there off the coast of Waikiki Beach, I read another article about Adobe’s new “Green” offices in San Jose. An amazing contrast in perspectives, for sure. A recent National Geographic cover story…