For those of you who have tuned out the golf world, the most prestigious tournament in golf, The Masters, is this weekend.
To mark its 72nd year, Augusta is turning up the heat on its online presence. With partner IBM, Augusta National is offering a rich online experience for golf …
RFID-manufacturer Alien Technology announced this week it has created new software for its tag readers. The software provides information on the velocity and position of tags, and can thereby distinguish between adjacent tagged objects such as luggage.
Not being able to distinguish between two tagged objects has been a big …
It wasn’t immediately clear from Thursday’s reports, but Google will indeed share information from its Orkut social-networking site with Brazilian authorities trying to deal with suspected pedophiles.
On Wednesday, the Brazilian Senate ordered Google to share information on 3,261 suspected pedophiles, information Google had refused to share …
The Associated Press, a news cooperative owned by its print-newspaper contributors, said Friday that it and Microsoft have built a back-end platform that lets Web publishers syndicate online video to other sites across the Web. The upside: the video creator, Microsoft, AP, and the Web site publisher share in the …
A map view of Google's European data centers.
(Credit: Pingdom)
Ever wonder where Google’s data centers are? Now you can use Google Maps to get a good overview.
Pingdom put together a Google map via Wayfaring based on data center location information from Data Center Knowledge. The …
Update: This posting has been rewritten with an update on the Yahoo board status.
Waiting to hear how Yahoo’s board meeting went Friday?
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, it can be summed up in one word: “undecided.”
Yahoo’s advisers apparently came in and gave
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Updated at 4 p.m. with Yahoo comment
Microsoft on Thursday issued its response to proposed Federal Trade Commission guidelines for online ad industry self-regulation, but the company wouldn’t necessarily oppose regulation, a Microsoft representative said.
“Two years ago we were one of a handful of companies calling for …
In an attempt to improve the relevance of ads attached to search results, Yahoo plans to adjust the process advertisers use to bid for placement as soon as next week.
Today, there’s a minimum bid of 10 cents per keyword. Soon, though, Yahoo will move to a variable minimum …
The number of petitions for H-1B temporary workers filed for next year increased overall by about 20 percent this time around, U.S. immigration officials said this week.
On Tuesday, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said it had closed this year’s application window, having received more than enough …
Gizmodo got its hands on what appears to be a photo and detailed specs on Lenovo’s lineup of new ThinkPad laptops.
See the photo here.
Looks like the X300 will get some company.
(Credit: CNET Networks)
It looks as though both the T- and R-series of Lenovo laptops will …