When sitting at your computer, you can probably check the time by glancing at your taskbar, your watch, or your cell phone; gaining one more option won’t exactly be a revolutionary experience.  This option’s provided by Google, however, and the feature can determine the time in many different places.

When dealing with a powerful law firm and a social network for lawyers, you should watch your words very, very carefully.  Or so I imagine, and I’m not going to attempt any other approach.  So here’s the news in its least editorialized form: Orrick has invested in Legal OnRamp.

I considered opening this article with a yes or no question, but the idea didn’t appeal to me all that much.  Still, if you’d like to pose – or answer – such questions, North Bridge Venture Partners just contributed somewhat less than $5 million to a site that’ll allow you the opportunity: Wis.dm.

Financial news can get a little tiresome, but it’s hard to become bored when $10 million is involved; that’s the amount that Associated Content just received in a round of funding.

Cars, cars, cars – I like ‘em, and it would seem that Internet Brands does, as well.  The company, which already owned sites like Autos.com and CarsDirect, has now bought at least eight popular automotive forums.

This week has seen one eBusiness rumor after another come to light, and the latest nugget indicates that Google may be interested in buying Simply Hired.  If an acquisition occurs, this job search engine would fill in an obvious blank in Google’s arsenal.

It hasn’t been a secret in the industry that Doubleclick is working on an ad exchange that’s something along the lines of what we do at Right Media.

The Google Desktop blog announces the winners of their Google Desktop Gadget Contest.

Toshiba announced that it has developed a new high-end processor core based on its “Media embedded Processor” (MeP) architecture.

By submitting a proposal to comply with last year’s Commission ruling, the software giant earns a temporary reprieve.

With the release of dual-core processors this week, the tech world has been a-buzz. But it may be a while until the full utility of this advancement can be recognized.

“Slaves to the clock” was the cover story in the March issue of CEO magazine.

At the dawn of the Information Age came the fax-on- demand…information received instantly by using a fax machine.

One evening not too long ago I was looking through my web site traffic logs, looking for patterns that could help me improve it. I was in the section that shows the pages visitors enter and exit my site. The page addresses begin with my domain name, such as http://www.zmoon.com/webdesigntips.html. However, on this occasion there were several listed that started with some name I didn’t recognize.

Tick, tick, tick. That’s the sound of those all important 10 seconds slipping away – the average amount of time a visitor remains at a web site before clicking on.

That is, unless you give them a reason to stay.