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The introduction of the online customer review system on Amazon.com more than seven years ago marked the ascension of the consumer as purchase influencer. This trend has continued, with social media and Web 2.0 tools enabling more buyers to speak out and be heard. Today it can be argued that a consu...
Skype and the mobile network carrier 3 announced on Monday they have launched a mobile handset model to be sold in Europe. The new service will allow Skype users to make free Skype-to-Skype calls as well as send free instant messages from a mobile phone to other Skype users "no matter where they are...
Vinton Cerf, known by many as one of the founding fathers of the Internet, will be stepping down at the end of this week as chairman of the board of ICANN. Cerf, who is also Google's vice president and chief Internet evangelist, has served for three consecutive terms as chairman of ICANN, which is t...
Google has upgraded its Gmail offering by augmenting it with IMAP, or Internet Message Access Protocol. Essentially, this level of connectivity allows users to access e-mail from multiple devices while keeping that information simultaneously synced no matter which device or desktop was used to acces...
Who's always there for you, has the power to make you laugh or cry, and wants to keep you entertained and engrossed around the clock? Forget your significant other -- for one out of four Americans, the Internet is just as good. That's one conclusion of a new poll released Wednesday, which found that...
Facebook members can now access the social networking site on the go -- as long as they have a BlackBerry smartphone. Facebook Cofounder Dustin Moskovitz and Research In Motion President and Founder Mike Lazaridis demonstrated the new service Wednesday during the CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment...
A new FiOS from Verizon features upload and download speeds of up to 20 megabits per second, the company announced Tuesday. Using a 20Mb/s upstream broadband connection, the symmetrical service could enable a consumer to upload a 250 MB file of 200 photos in about 90 seconds, Verizon said, compared ...
MySpacers who want a little more drama in their lives will be able to get their fill from a new Web series launched on MySpace TV Monday. Sponsored by Ford Motor, "Roommates," an original scripted series, will roll out over the next nine weeks with daily weekday updates on the world's most popular s...
SanDisk has renamed and launched its USBTV flash memory-based gadget, introduced in January, and says the Sansa TakeTV video player is an easy way for people to watch on the televisions video content downloaded on their computers. Described by the company as a "smart, simple and seamless way to easi...
In a move echoing one made by rival Facebook earlier this year, MySpace plans to open its platform to third-party application developers. The wildly popular social networking company owned by News Corp. plans to formalize its relationships with developers and will release a MySpace application progr...
MySpace users will soon be able to chat by phone thanks to a new partnership between Skype and the popular social networking site, the companies announced Wednesday. MySpaceIM with Skype is a new product that integrates MySpace's instant messaging client with Skype's free voice-calling capability us...
Don't look now, but social search is pervasive. It's taking hold in large part because the Web itself is changing. What is social search? Broadly speaking, social search enables the masses to have greater influence on the results of a search, and in so doing, enables better, more interesting and mor...
Google has launched a beta version of video identification technology designed to flag unauthorized content on YouTube. The move follows its implementation of audio fingerprinting software from Audible Magic earlier this year. By filtering out pirated videos, Google aims to further cement YouTube's ...
Within just three days of issuing its global, online appeal for public help in identifying a suspected pedophile last week, Interpol had already determined the suspect's name, nationality, date of birth, passport number, and current and previous places of work, the agency announced Monday. Images of...
Microsoft has added a new feature to its Windows Live platform that lets users take advantage of the Web to send invitations to parties, business meetings or other happenings. Similar to Evite, Windows Live Events provides an array of graphical templates and other tools, such as maps and calendars, ...
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