eBay has announced that is acquiring Shopping.com in an all-cash transaction.

As I sat at my PC at gone midnight last night, doing email catchup, reviewing comments to various blog posts and RSS feed scanning, I thought – this is ridiculous.

The two technology companies have collaborated on joining their respective e-mail authentication solutions.

It’s well known Google likes to go after the best and the brightest when it comes to staffing considerations. To ensure they do get bright applicants, Google’s talent recruitment has used a number of innovative methods to attract what is considered a promising prospect.

The company recently launched MSN Spaces, one of many blogging sites on the Internet today.

Engineers at NASA in Florida have been working on exchanging the shuttle’s external tank for a new one.

B.L. Ochman has a good piece on Seth Godin which is worth a read with a few interesting observations about the way Seth goes about his business…

Sun Microsystems is buying Storage Technology Corporation or StorageTek for $37 per share in cash, adding up to about $4.1 billion. The acquisition has been approved by the boards of both companies.

Cisco certification candidates, particularly CCNA candidates, must master binary math. This includes basic conversions, such as binary-to-decimal and decimal-to-binary, as well as more advanced scenarios involving subnetting and VLSM.

The Dutch electronics firm will provide the wireless chips needed to produce smart passports in Germany.

It sounds like something out of a science fiction movie but it’s real. NASA lined up the Tempel-1 comet in its sights aka Spitzer and Hubble telescopes and gets ready to grab the proverbial snake by the tail, all in a project called Deep Impact.

Office 12 improves data interoperability for its customers by adopting a new default file format.

Web copy that’s intended to sell or generate leads needs to quickly reach out and grab attention and build rapport with a target audience. You can connect with your audience more effectively if you understand something about how people process information, and how they think.

We know the power of Word of Mouth already, many os us, but this is a great example.
From WOMMA: “…only five customer evangelists were responsible for generating $200,000 in sales (35-40% of its total revenue) for one liquor store in Chicago…

A new age in computing or at least the scale of computing and a whole host of other technologies could be coming very quickly based on the research published in today’s issue of the science journal, Nature.

John Hart, a former Hollywood executive, is trying to produce a “blogumentary” film about 59 bloggers who, in his view, represent the blogosphere.

The makers of the iconic iPod media player chose to think different about customers experiencing battery problems with their iPods.

Porn websites with sexually explicit material will claim their own top level domain (TLD) on the Internet as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) begins to review a plan to change the suffix designation .xxx. The primary reason the domain designation is to help people filter out adult oriented content.

Weblog Empire is the latest blog network on the block and today it’s officially going live with it’s first new blog – the Gadget Blog – a blog about – you guessed it – gadgets.

Look for more of EA’s games to begin appearing on cellphones as the company announces a partnership with Qualcomm.

Conversagent, a developer of online customer service software solutions, recently announced the launch of an Automated Service Agent (ASA) for Harrisdirect.

The online auction site has acquired the comparison-shopping site in an all cash deal announced yesterday.