The Houston Association of Realtors?® has reached an agreement with Google to provide the listings for their multiple listing service. This is big considering the U.S. Justice Department is suing the National Association of Realtors?® for possible antirust violations.
Faster chips are here and so is the EPA with EnergyStar Regulations
Intel has released their newest and fastest quad-core chips ahead of delivery expectations at the request of pc makers. Don’t expect a jump in quality video editing on YouTube as a result. CNET reports on a bill recently passed by…
Napster is to RIAA What YouTube is to Television Broadcasters
There’s been a lot of talk about YouTube.com. Let me try and summarize. First, television broadcasters like CBS are partnering with YouTube because they recently figured out that online advertising attracts viewers of their tv shows. By partnering, they agree…
News Roundup, Expression Web, SES, Yahoo!, One Laptop Per Child
There’s been a lot going on today. Here’s what you need to know. Microsoft released their Expression Web, a new design tool. Cnet has some great screen grabs. They also have a photo of the 100 dollar laptop from the…
Three easy steps to sitemap protocol heaven.
Google’s? Sitemap Protocol is now being used by the major search engines. Now there’s finally a way to have more control over the indexing and reporting of the bots that crawl your website to index your pages. You need one of…
Exchange Server RTM, Yahoo!, Corel, Adobe, Mozilla, IBM, Google
Exchange Server 2007 will be released to manufacturing in December. Yahoo! is integrating chat onto their email pages and Corel like Adobe, is partnering with Mozilla.
Adobe Flash Video Emmy Palm sued by NTP
Adobe Flash Video has? won an Emmy. For some reason this is getting more press from Adobe than the fact that YouTube was essentially a Flash Powered website when it sold for 1.65 billion dollars. Sorry, I just like saying, “billion.”…
Novell and Microsoft Front Calm or Calmly Fronting?
The Novell Microsoft deal could have some pretty interesting affects on Open Source Software. TheRegister.com is reporting that, “Under the Microsoft-Novell deal, Novell agrees to recognize Microsoft’s intellectual property claims. Novell in return receives a “Covenant Not To Sue”. This…
PayPal Bombing and Microsoft sets release date for Vista and Office 2007
A bomb exploded outside PayPal headquarters Tuesday night. Only about 26 employees were in the building and the offices remain closed until things get sorted out. No real details out yet but PayPal commented that is appears to be an…
Video Sharing Payouts and Google News
Ever wonder what a video on a popular video sharing website is really worth? WebProNews has pulled some numbers you might want to check out -especially if you’re a jumpcut user.? Jason at WebPronews writes, “For a MetaCafe.com user, a video…