October 2010 News

Former Google Employee: Flying Easier Than Using Sony Google TV Remote
It’s no secret that Google TV is having a rougher launch then some might have envisioned. (Some users have even...
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WWF Launches Gift Catalog On Facebook
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has launched what it calls the first, nonprofit gift catalog on Facebook today.  WWF's Gift Center on Facebook allows users to...
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Walmart, Best Buy To Begin Selling Facebook Credits
It's perhaps not too much of a stretch to describe either Best Buy or Walmart as omnipresent, and together, the two retail chains are definitely hard to avoid.  So it looks...
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Google Names Susan Wojcicki SVP
Susan Wojcicki is an important figure in Google's history for all sorts of reasons, which we'll run through in a moment.  But it looks like she'll play an important role in...
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Amazon Launches Windowshop App For iPad
Amazon.com has introduced a free app for iPad called Amazon Windowshop, which the company describes as a complete “rewrite” of its website for iPad. A...
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Rumor: Apple Vying to Acquire Sony
Sony shares took an upswing as rumors began to swirl that Apple was vying to acquire the company. Reuters reported, from a...
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Travel Firms Band Together Against Google-ITA Deal
Google's $700 million acquisition of ITA Software has just hit another obstacle.  Several high-profile travel companies have banded together to form "the FairSearch.or...
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PayPal Names New CFO
The service that provides eBay with a good chunk of its revenue now has a new chief financial officer.  eBay announced today that Patrick Dupuis, formerly of contact center...
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Select Droid Devices Now Getting Google Instant Beta
It appears as though a beta version of Google Instant has been spotted in the wild, according to Droid Life...
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Time Warner Puts ESPN Channels Online
Time Warner Cable customers who have ESPN and have Internet service with the cable company will now be able to watch ESPN and ESPN3.com online starting tonight with “Monda...
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Digg CEO Announces Big Layoffs
Six weeks after becoming Digg's CEO, Matt Williams has made a tough call.  Williams announced today that he intends to lay off 37 percent of the organization's employees in...
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Google Likened To World’s Second-Biggest ISP
Earlier this year, Arbor Networks took a moment to consider the idea of Google as an ISP, and determined that the search giant would actually be the third-largest carrier in the...
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Amazon Says New Kindle Sales Better Than Last Year
Amazon.com today said its latest Kindle eReader is the bestselling product on its U.S. and U.K. Websites. Without giving specific numbers, Amazon said sales of i...
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Android Market Reaches 100,000 Apps
So far, Google hasn't celebrated with any public parties or press conferences.  Not even with a short press release or tiny blog post.  This morning, Google just used...
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Half Of Americans Say Social Network Users Share Too Much
Half of Americans who use social networking sites have seen people share to much personal information, yet more than a quarter (28%) rarely think about what could happened if th...
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