Motorola is getting the stink-eye from Samsung after a Motorola-owned video spoof showed up on YouTube. The 15-second video showed a woman snapping a Samsung’s 6.9 millimeter-thick Ultra mobile phone in half.

Looking to consolidate its listings services while horning in a bit on Craigslist’s local classifieds business, Yahoo! has hired former Knight Ridder executive Hillary Schneider to head up the company’s new Yahoo! Marketplaces unit.

Versions 1.5.0.7 of the Firefox browser and the Thunderbird mail client have been appearing on user PCs as Mozilla tweaks a few security issues with both products.

There is an expectation in the blogosphere-and not an unreasonable one-that bloggers will check their blogs frequently and clear out their comment moderation queues quickly in order to keep the dialogue fresh and current.

Open source log-based web analytics software makes it easier to make sense of web server logs, but proprietary log-based web analytics software typically takes analytics to another level.

A 22-year-old Arizona woman is facing conspiracy to commit murder charges after trying to hire a hit man to kill her boyfriend’s new lover. The information she provided the undercover police officer was taken from her boyfriend’s MySpace page.

Usability diva, Kim Krause Berg, briefly mentions a new tool that reads the content on a web page – yes, it talks to you.

If there was ever a research report I’d like to get my hands on, it’s this one from Forrester.

If you are in the vicinity you should come…

Josh Hallett obviously took a lot of time and energy to put together his recent How to Blog a Conference – great stuff.

Yahoo has some 80 million users in the United States, and the next time they login to check their email they will be offered the opportunity to switch to the Outlook-like Yahoo Mail Beta version.

One website has collected the best of comments by Google engineer Matt Cutts into a list of 21 great tips from the best known engineer from the Googleplex who doesn’t own a jumbo jet.

Users of Intuit’s popular accounting program will have several Google services available to them in QuickBooks 2007, as Google makes an interesting play for the local search advertising market.

There is a lot of buzz going around about Virtualization. What is Virtualization, and what benefits does it provide?

Quality code is in the details, and quality details are in the coder, as a blog post about personality traits in software developers illustrates.

This article is an excerpt from the book: Murach’s ASP.NET 2.0 Web Programming with C# 2005.

After days of typing in “joe”* into the search box atop MSN.com, I finally got Windows Live Search, instead of MSN Search.

The Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (wow! spiffy name!) is now available for download. Just go to this page.

Need a guided tour about what’s going on the world? Google announced the addition of Featured Content, a collection of multimedia overlays in Google Earth. The Featured Content offering informs users about the environment, culture, history, wildlife and attractions world locations.

Word around the blogfire is that both News Corp. and Microsoft are working on their own versions of YouTube, one trying derail outbound traffic, the other doing its usual killer app copycatting.

The free option from AOL allows users to pick up a .com or .net domain and add up to 100 additional usernames to that domain.

OK, I just watched the Steve Jobs presentation yesterday where he demonstrated iTV for the first time.

On September 18 and 19, 2006–next Monday and Tuesday, ClickTracks Founder and CEO John Marshall will present a class entitled “Web Analytics Sins Exposed.”

Recently Customer Experience Management (CEM) has started to get more profile but it is still just a good idea emerging into an area of marketing thought currently dominated by Customer Relationship Management (CRM).