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Archive for October, 2009
Facebook’s Gift Shop Sings A New Tune
Oct 30th
Following Google’s announcement of its music product this morning, Facebook is officiallyenhancing its Gift Shop with a redesign and new categories of gifts and additional gifts for charity, music and sports from developers. The changes will be rolled out to users in the coming weeks. On Facebook’s Gift Shop, you More >
Microsoft To Announce Bing Deals With Facebook And Twitter
Oct 26th
Microsoft will announce the integration of real time status updates from both Twitter and Facebook into Bing at the Web 2.0 Summit today, we’ve heard from a source with knowledge of the deals. The announcement will be made by Qi Lu , President of Microsoft’s Online Services Group, later this More >
Google Maps Markers Are Making Real World Appearances
Oct 22nd
You know the Google Maps upside-down teardrop shaped markers? It looks like they’re starting to appear in the real world, at various locations around the globe. You can see the locations that have them on this Google Maps Favorite Places page. For example, there are apparently a bunch of these More >
IBM Upgrades Software To Manage Data Centers And Virtualization
Oct 18th
IBM is enhancing its VMControl software for managing data centers to give enterprise users a single point of control across multiple types of IT systems and virtualization technologies. Combined with IBM’s Tivoli software, VMControl allows for combinations of physical and virtual IBM servers to be managed as a single entity, More >
Apple On iPhone Competitors: They’re Still Catching Up To The First iPhone
Oct 14th
During Apple’s Q4 earnings call today, a question was asked about how Apple viewed its increased competition for the iPhone in the coming holiday season. In particular, it was asked how Apple views all the new Android phones coming out. Apple COO Tim Cook made Apple’s stance very clear: They’re More >
Microsoft Moves Visual Studio Towards The Cloud
Oct 10th
Microsoft is making a significant announcement for developers today, upgrading and adding functionality to Visual Studio 2010 to make the product more cloud-friendly in anticipation of Microsoft’s release of its commercial cloud platform Azure. Visual Studio is Microsoft’s a development environment that can be used to develop web applications, sites More >
Free WiFi On Virgin America Flights, A Holiday Gift By Google
Oct 6th
Google is going to make a lot of frequent flyers, and Virgin America, happy this holiday season. As a gift to people who fly on Virgin America’s WiFi-equipped planes, Google will be footing the bill for everybody on board between November 10, 2009, and January 15, 2010. For Google, this More >
YouTube Monetizing Over A Billion Video Views Per Week
Oct 2nd
YouTube is on the path to profitability in the “not-too-distant future,” Google reiterated today during its third quarter earnings call. And while that may sounds all well and good, they actually had some more specific impressive numbers to back it up. One is that YouTube is now monetizing over a More >
