It’s been a busy week for acquisitions already.

In New York, the 2,000 employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation won’t all have dot-gov email addresses until the end of 2006.

Are you still nonchalent when it comes to tracking negative consumer-generated media?

The search advertising company launched its financial news site last night, with an interesting take on meshing stock charts and news related to a company.

The honeymoon’s over when you have to plant somebody in D.C. on your behalf. As dewy-eyed and dreamy as Google seemed in the beginning, the search giant learned how to play hardball real quick, hiring a lobbying firm with a direct line to the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

I had missed this earlier, but Yahoo recently rolled out a great new moblogging application called ZoneTag.

New Orleans has inadvertently become a test case for the efficacy of WiFi and VoIP. Still trying to rebuild itself in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans businesses are left with little else than the wireless mesh network for communication. Landlines and cellular networks were destroyed by the hurricane.

I like the idea that Gary Price has replaced Jeeves as the go-to guy for information from Ask.com.

Lawmakers in France characterize the passage of an online copyright draft bill by the National Assembly as one that will permit customers to download songs from other music stores to iPods and make it even more appealing to Apple’s hardware customers.

Is having a mailing list really all that important?

Sometimes you want to use the date of a file somewhere else. For this example, we’ll use the case where a file shouldn’t be overwritten if it was created or changed today.

Users of the popular Facebook college and high school networking site may not create accounts under fake names, and a reporter with the University of Delaware Review caught one school administration staffer doing just that.

Is it me, or is everyone podcasting these days?

Do you remember the last time you bought a product and you were unhappy with the quality of the product?

Charlene Li reviews Google Finance, the latest from the big G. The most notable feature?

My last post on Dell has piqued my curiosity. Who else is using RSS feeds? Here’s a big one I found: the President of Russia and the Kremlin have feeds.

I’m a heavy user of Yahoo Finance, in part because whenever you search for a ticker at Google, the first result is always a summary from Yahoo.

For the complex sale you need enthusiastic referrals to help you build your reputation, differentiate yourself, demonstrate your value proposition, shorten your sales cycle, and drive revenue.

Lifehacker offers a good tip for those using systems where they can’t install Adobe Reader (or those who just don’t want the bloated piece of crap): Use Gmail.

People really enjoyed yesterday’s post on Steve 2.0. Unfortunately, in Seth’s case, he picked up a very strange link to the post (that particular link was not supposed to be live yet), which caught Corante by surprise. At least they fixed it but but I digress.

As previously noted, I’m at Microsoft’s MIX06 conference right now. Sadly, I can only be here for the day due to scheduling problems.

A recent update to the Keyword Tool in AdWords allows advertisers to view additional information about keywords the client may wish to select for a campaign.

Blogger Buzz has posted that the story from late last week, where a BlogSpot user said he was told to remove the MSN Search box from his blog, never happened.

Google just (and I mean just launched Google Finance. Finance is barely a search engine, focusing far more on content, namely stock market stats and aggregated information.