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Cozi

Cozi is an American startup company, specializing in family software and online services. The company had 37 employees as of April 4, 2008, and is based in Seattle, WA. Cozi’s tag line is "Family Life. Simplified." Cozi was co-founded by Robbie Cape and Jan Miksovsky after the two of them left Microsoft. Most of the company’s employees worked previously at Amazon.com, Expedia, or Microsoft. T read more...

Microsoft May Rename Live Search 'Bing': Massive Ad Campaign Planned

Microsoft’s new search engine is reportedly dumping its codename, Kumo, in favor of the brand name Bing. To get the word out, Microsoft is planning a massive advertising campaign to launch its new search brand. Bing’s debut will feature a $80 to $100 million online, TV, print, and radio advertising campaign, according to AdvertisingAge. To put that number in perspective, Google’s entire advertisi read more...

Google puts flu tracker to work on swine flu

Using a new tracking tool, search engine giant Google said on Wednesday it saw a spike in searches for information about flu among people in Mexico last week even before news of the outbreak became widely known. Google said it has put together a flu trends tracking system for Mexico based on the U.S. Google Flu tool launched last fall that is used by U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention to figure out whe read more...

Google's Book Search Deal

The Department of Justice is now looking into Google’s proposed settlement over its Book Search service, sources tell both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal . The inquiry is said to be focused on antitrust concerns surrounding the online book deal. The Book Search settlement, announced in October, followed a three-year battle over Google’s right to display copyrighted books on its Web site. read more...

The end for GeoCities?

Yahoo Inc. announced recently that it will be shutting down it’s GeoCities Free Web Hosting services this year. Yahoo acquired GeoCities for $3 billion in 1999. GeoCities no longer accept new accounts, and recommended it’s users to Yahoo Paid hosting services. This is a meesage from GeoCities Website. Read more… read more...

Pirate Bay demands retrial

irate Bay owners were found guilty on being accessories to violating the copyright law by a Swedish Court. They were sentenced to one year in jail and a fine of $3.6 million dollars. But recent findings reveals that the judge who ruled against The Pirate Bay defendants on Friday is a member of two copyright organizations, an alleged conflict of interest that could require the case to be tried again. Read moreR read more...

Yahoo to lay off 675 after profit slides 78%

Yahoo Inc. confirmed Tuesday that it will cut 675 jobs, 5 percent of its workforce, as its online advertising business continued to erode in the first quarter amid economic gloom. The Sunnyvale Web portal said it would carry out the layoffs, the third round in just over a year, in the next two weeks in hopes of saving money and freeing resources to hire elsewhere in the company. Executives said the cuts will be foc read more...

The Pirate Bay Verdict

The men behind Pirate Bay were found guilty on being accessories to violating the copyright law by a Swedish Court. They were sentenced to one year in jail and a fine of $3.6 million dollars. Unlike the case of Napster, The Pirate bay doesn’t actually host the copyrighted files, it simply allows users to posts links to copyrighted files on third party servers.  That’s why the they were charged of "as read more...

Globe’s New Website

Check out the new look and feel of Globe Telecom’s redesigned website, aside from the stunning colors, and more web 2.0 look, what caught my attention is the carousel display of Globe’s Phone Offerings. Another interesting feature is the GO! Magazine, get the latest news, gossips, fashion trends and more.. Globe’s New Website read more...

Could the Internet run out of space?

When a small group of university scientists began linking computers on different campus sites at the very end of the 1960s, they had no idea that their work would one day spiral into a globally-accessible network in which the total number of pages is measured in the tens of billions. Such has been the Internet’s phenomenal and dizzying growth that much of the technology which supports it has grown organically read more...

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