PC Magazine - A thousand startups competed for the honor of launching their technology products—mostly software and web sites and applications, in the second annual TechCrunch50 event. Only one won the vote for "most likely to succeed": Yammer. -- read full article
PC Magazine - Check out the fresh new phones and gadgets we found around the show floor and at press events, including new gadgets from HTC, PCD, and more. -- read full article
AFP - The European Commission welcomed as a "good step" on Thursday the decision by Internet giant Google to halve the time for which it keeps certain private web-search data.
AP - The EU's top justice official on Thursday welcomed a recent move by Google Inc. to cut the time it keeps users' search details. -- read full article
AFP - The European Commission welcomed as a "good step" Thursday the decision by Internet giant Google to halve the time that it keeps certain private web search data.
Reuters - Amazon.com, the largest global
online retailer, plans to start selling U.S.-produced wine on
its website within the United States by early October, wine
industry insiders said on Wednesday.
Reuters - Written references could become old
hat for hiring managers with one in five saying they use social
networking sites to research job candidates -- and a third of
them dismissing the candidate after what they discover.
Reuters - Internet bookmaker bwin.com has lost a
regional court case in the aftermath of Germany's crackdown on
online betting, Germany's state lottery said on Thursday,
sending bwin shares down 7 percent. -- read full article
Reuters - Europe's top justice official welcomed
on Thursday a move by Google Inc to halve to nine months the
time it stores personal data gathered from its users' Web
surfing habits.
Reuters - Yahoo Inc plans to open
its online music site to feature information about songs and
artists from outside services such as Apple Inc iTunes or
Amazon.com, an executive said on Thursday.
PC Magazine - AOL added a feature to its Web site on Wednesday that lets users access several Web-based e-mail accounts directly from AOL.com. -- read full article
PC Magazine - Yahoo on Wednesday announced that it would open up its Blueprint mobile platform for Java, Windows Mobile and Symbian devices, as well as mobile Web sites. It also announced the launch of oneConnect, a mobile social service and messaging client, for the iPhone. -- read full article
AFP - Drug trafficking on the web has soared as Internet use has become commonplace, presenting far more challenges and dangers than traditional trafficking, experts warned at a conference in Stockholm that wrapped up Wednesday.
AP - There are plenty of places to watch online video, but still no easy way to find a particular clip without suffering through a lot of trial and error. -- read full article
AP - Tim Berners-Lee, the British-born inventor of the World Wide Web, says he doesn't like to express preferences among Web browsers. But he does have an issue with one of them: Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer. -- read full article
