Jun 5

Consumer groups asked Google Inc. to make its privacy policy more visible Tuesday, arguing that California law requires the company to place a link to the document on its home page.
Making the information more conspicuous, the groups said, would help users learn about the kind of data the Mountain View Internet titan collects about them, [...]

Jun 5

May 20

RISMEDIA, May 20, 2008-When you invest in real estate, if you do it at the right time, in the right market, You may make as much as 10-20% per year from appreciation: then you need to deduct from that your time, fees, expenses, discounts, insurances, finance charges, the cost of the money…what you have left [...]

May 17

Carnegie Mellon University researchers hope Web surfers will spend their free time playing Internet-based games to help other people’s and businesses’ computers get smarter.
On Wednesday, the researchers launched http://www.gwap.com with five games designed to help computers with tasks they can’t automatically do.
“There are a lot of things that computers cannot do, but we’d somehow like [...]

May 15

Carnegie Mellon University researchers hope Web surfers will spend their free time playing Internet-based games to help other people’s and businesses’ computers get smarter.
On Wednesday, the researchers launched http://www.gwap.com with five games designed to help computers with tasks they can’t automatically do.
“There are a lot of things that computers cannot do, but we’d somehow like [...]

May 12

That was the pronouncement on Thursday from Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, who was hired in 2001 to provide mature, traditional business savvy to the internet search company founded by whiz kids Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
“The boys have grown up,” Schmidt told a news conference ahead of the wildly successful company’s annual meeting.
Now billionaires, [...]

May 6

Samsung’s BlackJack, available from Cingular Wireless, is the latest of a recent glut of smart phones costing around US$200. Others include Nokia’s E62, Research In Motion’s BlackBerry Pearl and the LG enV. This particular device is quite attractive. In fact, one of its most attractive features leads to an unusual question: Can a mobile device [...]

Apr 27

SAN FRANCISCO — Brushing aside the threat of a disruptive takeover battle that could batter its shaky stock, Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc. on Monday reiterated its refusal to sell to Microsoft Corp. for less than $45 billion.Yahoo’s defiance, spelled out in a letter to Microsoft Chief [...]

Apr 27

SAN FRANCISCO — Brushing aside the threat of a disruptive takeover battle that could batter its shaky stock, Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc. on Monday reiterated its refusal to sell to Microsoft Corp. for less than $45 billion.Yahoo’s defiance, spelled out in a letter to Microsoft Chief [...]

Apr 27

SAN FRANCISCO — Brushing aside the threat of a disruptive takeover battle that could batter its shaky stock, Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc. on Monday reiterated its refusal to sell to Microsoft Corp. for less than $45 billion.Yahoo’s defiance, spelled out in a letter to Microsoft Chief [...]