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More Problems for Google in Selling Radio Advertising

Google Radio … not working out as planned. I wont say I TOLD YOU SO! (ops, did I just say that). The last I had heard they put this thing “on hold”, now the two brothers that founded the company and were staying on with Google to run the Google Audio thing, hit the road, […]

Comcast Customer Uses “Unlimited Service” Excessively, Gets Disconnected For A Year

On Consumerist.com today …
Comcast asked Frank to cut back his unlimited internet usage. Frank was confused. He thought unlimited meant, well, unlimited. Frank was wrong. Very wrong.
Comcast replaced Frank’s faulty cable modem in November. Frank’s wife received a warning from Comcast in December. Their excessive internet required upgrading to a business account for an additional […]

Yahoo Takes a Break on News Forums

It looks like Yahoo gave up on forums “Yahoo! News message boards allowed a small number of vocal users to dominate the discussion”
To Yahoo! News readers:
Yahoo! News is working on new ways for readers to comment on the news and participate in a discussion around it. While we work on our new community features, the […]

The Future of Newspapers?

Could this be the future of the Newspaper?
Check out this story via Telegraph.co.uk by Shane Richmond >>>
This thing is cool.

25 Tips on Hacking Skype

Released on VOIPNews is this list of 25 Tips to Improve your Skype Experience:
How versatile is your Skype? Ours can podcast, translate French, take conference calls from 15 people, and tutor calculus. Want to learn how to turn your Skype telephone into a multipurpose office machine? We’re going to tell you how.
For millions of users, […]

Indianapolis Colts: Super Bowl Champs

Congradulations to the Indianapolis Colts for the winning Super Bowl 41 after making the biggest comeback in Super Bowl history.
For Super Bowl Commercials, checkout the TV Commercial Blog.

Google Developing Presentation Tool

 
Some news slipped out today about Google currently preparing a presentation tool that will be a direct hit at Microsoft’s long reigning PowerPoint. The code-name of the new tool is “Presently” (a play on Writely, the name of the online word processor bought by Google).
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Viacom Tells YouTube: Hands Off

In a sign of the growing tension between old-line media and the new Internet behemoths, Viacom, the parent company of MTV and Comedy Central, demanded yesterday that YouTube, the video-sharing Web site owned by Google, remove more than 100,000 clips of its programming. More …
UPDATE: YouTube begining to remove Viacom TV shows and snippets!
[via: […]

Yahoo Testing Local Mashups

Just yesterday we posted about the 2007 being the Year of the Mashup or the Wiki … and here we have info via Gigaom about Yahoo testing a new local mashup in India which can be seen live in BETA testing here.
“Pretty nifty mash-ups to boot: taking bookmarks from Del.icio.us, events from Upcoming, Flickr photos, […]

Google Maps for Mobile Real World Testing

Google blogged today about a couple of their software developers taking a trip over to London to drive around and test our the Google Maps for Mobile service on a device running Windows Mobile OS. See their brief adventure here.
I use GMM on occasion and it works well; it’s not a GPS (although it does […]