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Windows Vulnerability Was For Sale

How much is a Windows vulnerability worth to you?

Calendaring Heats Up

Steven Sinofsky, check this out! (Steven is the guy who runs the Microsoft Office team and I believe is the highest ranking blogger currently at Microsoft).

Google’s Plan for Private Alternative to the Internet

Does Google want to have it all?? It sure seems that way at times.

Google Tax Issue Needs Another Look

Executives from the search advertising company blamed a higher than anticipated tax rate for most of the gap between its actual earnings and annual estimates, but some now claim taxes were only responsible for half of that difference.

Google Jobs Post Leads To GoogleNet Rumors

Google has stated before it has no interest in becoming a provider of network services, but a job posting on its site solicits applications for Strategic Negotiators with “negotiation of dark fiber contracts” listed as part of the desired candidates’ experience.

A Lesson How to Get Blog Links

If you want to build links to your blog, take a look at Jackwhisper’s latest post, titled “5 Things Steve Jobs Has Misled Us About In The Last 30 Years.

SAP enters SaaS market

Yesterday, the German enterprise software vendor SAP announced it is entering the hosted software-as-a-service (SaaS) market with the expansion of its mySAP CRM offering to include a hosted option.

Nokia 2015

This week I participated in forward looking internal seminar at Nokia hosted by CTO Yrj Neuvo.

Who’s Bob Garfield?

The critic for Ad Age has covered Super Bowl advertising for 24 years, and in a recent interview huffed over the Rolling Stones’ participation in the big game as halftime entertainment.

China Blocking Google China

Despite acceding to Beijing’s censorship requirements, which yielded Google access to the Chinese market, users of Google.cn in China found the site blocked at the government backbone server.

BlogPulse Live Launches

BlogPulse Live is a graphical real-time view of the most popular topics bloggers are posting about across several broad categories -

Gonzales V Google Delayed Two Weeks

Instead of the February 27th showdown between the Department of Justice and Google over federal subpoenas taking place, the sitting judge has moved the date back two weeks.

Google Reminds Super Bowl Advertisers…

Google’s Inside Adwords blog makes the excellent point that advertisers paying millions for a Super Bowl ad need to cover their bases on the online front, too.

Electronic Discovery Market On The Rise

In the United States, companies worth over $1 billion are handling about 147 lawsuits. That’s more good news for lawyers, but it’s also good news for the data storage and electronic discovery industry that manages and scrounges up data among petabytes of information.

AdWords Suggests A Super Sunday For Ads

Though the vast majority of AdWords advertisers will not have commercials running during Super Bowl XL on Sunday, they can still learn a lesson about ad targeting for on- and off-line media.

Pricey Freedom of the Press

BBC News: Danish-Swedish dairy giant Arla Foods says the ongoing boycott of Danish products in the Middle East had so far cost it between 40m and 50m.

Don Interviews Memeorandum Founder

Don Dodge, former executive with AltaVista (the search engine Google basically killed off), interviews Gabe Rivera, founder of Memeorandum.

The Smokescreen of Google.cn

In a political climate of exceptional partisanship, conservatives and liberals, Republicans and Democrats, have found common ground in the strangest of places – the Internet.

TV/Magazine Ads Are So Last Season

Teenagers are big on researching their fashion, but not big on buying clothing and apparel online, according to a survey sponsored by Yahoo!.

Online Calendar Could be Big

From Scoble’s blog I followed a link to Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection and an entry about 30 Boxes, which enters public beta on Sunday.

Flinging Flickrs, Hindu Temples, And Spam Maps

It’s Mashup Friday again at WebProNews, where we take a quick look at what’s making the rounds of the mashup world.

Watch the Super Bowl Ads as a Video Podcast

According to Podcasting News DevLib has created this feed for the ads that will air during Super Bowl XL.

BS Book Spikes Smoking Gun Traffic

Want to drive more traffic to your site? Figure out a way to bust a lying snake of a famous best-selling author right in front of Oprah Winfrey. Okay, I know that’s probably harder than it sounds, but it worked for TheSmokingGun.com, whose traffic has been heavier than James Frey’s fat head on Jupiter.

Valleywag Debuts From Gawker Media

After Nick Denton enticed Nick Douglas away from Blogebrity, it was learned that Douglas would be the scribe behind the then-unnamed Silicon Valley outpost of Denton’s Gawker empire.