Archive for the ‘Tech News’ Category
August 9th, 2006
Google won over MySpace with a hefty $900 million revenue-sharing deal that will allow the search engine to provide its search and advertising services to the latter's 70 million-plus users. That also means MySpace dumping its current ad provider Yahoo! who also made a bid but fell short to ...
August 7th, 2006
Techcrunch recently profiled Wablet, a Filipino Web 2.0 startup offering IM services similar to that of Meebo. Mike Abundo of the Mike Abundo Effect, claims that Wablet "will blow away Meebo". What's strange though is how its developers are wrapping this project in utter obscurity. Not even ...
August 3rd, 2006
From TechEBlog via Zipped:
Called the 'Land Walker', this behemoth stands 11 feet tall, weighs 1 ton and sports two air guns. It was created by Masaaki Nagumo of Sakakibara Kikai Co., an environment machinery manufacturer in Shinto, Japan. Fascinated by his favorite anime show 'Gundam', Nagumo wanted to create ...
August 1st, 2006
PayPerPost made quite a stir a month ago when it revealed that it will pay bloggers to write about products and services of its advertisers. The company made good with its promise recently when it began paying off its first set of bloggers.
August 1st, 2006
Google Maps for Mobile now has Real-time traffic reporting! How cool is that.
July 29th, 2006
The much-awaited Wordpress 2.0.4 is out. More than 50 bugs found in 2.0.3 smoked and some security fixes.
Upgrading my blogs went smooth as expected.
Official release notes and download page.
July 29th, 2006
Globe Telecom's G-Blogs now allows creating and updating blogs directly from cellphones with the ability to upload pictures, sound clips and video.
From the G-Blogs website:
July 29th, 2006
Google announced three new features to its instant messaging software, Google Talk:
File Transfer
'Bout time. Its absence may have been the reason why many have stayed away from it. It's reported that only 44,000 were using Google Talk, or 1% of total market share -- way behind MSN Messenger ...
July 28th, 2006
It's a done deal. Kazaa has agreed to shell out $115 million to the record industry to pay for its sins of the past. And not only that, version 3 of their once popular software has been released, but now works just like its predecessor Napster where users ...
July 26th, 2006
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