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YouTube clip exposes Hong Kong spectacle scam, watchdog saysHong Kong - A YouTube clip viewed by 48,000 people has exposed a scam in which Hong Kong optical salesmen steal people's spectacles and then try to sell them new ones, a consumer watchdog said Thursday. According to Hong Kong's Consumer Council, the ...
Earth Times Thursday, September 17, 2009Music publishers: iTunes not paying fair shareMusic publishers and songwriters want Apple and other Web retailers to pay performance fees for music samples and video downloads. What's right here?
CNET Thursday, September 17, 2009Seagate Unveils Filesharing Hardware For The HomeDockStar is a hardware device designed to allow sharing documents and files over a home network and the Internet.
Information Week Thursday, September 17, 2009Google Plans Private Government CloudAs the government moves to adopt cloud computing and considers limited use of free consumer services, Google is trying to address lingering concerns about security and control in the cloud.
Information Week Thursday, September 17, 2009REFILE: What's new in Windows 7 - FeatureWashington - Now less than two months from world-wide release, Microsoft's Windows 7 is bound to make the legions of existing Windows users wonder whether they should upgrade. And it wil...
Earth Times Thursday, September 17, 2009Ebay petitions EU to stop blocks on Internet tradeBRUSSELS (Reuters) - Three quarters of a million eBay Inc users have signed a petition urging European Union antitrust regulators to stop companies blocking online sales, the Internet auction house said on Thursday.
Reuters Thursday, September 17, 2009Plague death records available onlineDetails of those who died from the bubonic plague and in the Great Fire of London are among 18 million parish records now published online.
Webuser.co.uk Thursday, September 17, 2009Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Draws Antitrust ScrutinyOfficials hold informal talks with Redmond on search partnership.
Information Week Thursday, September 17, 2009Marketing on social networks: Friends for saleWhat is a Facebook friend worth?ONLINE social networks are handy not just as a means of wasting time but also as a communications tool for business. Dell, a computer-maker, has made $3m in sales from Twitter since it started “tweeting” about its outlet that sells refurbished computers in 2007. Marketers are eager to use fast-growing networks to tout their products. An Australian online-marketing company, uSocial, wants to help them—for a price. On September 16th the firm started selling Facebook friends and fans.After trawling Facebook for users by criteria like age, location and interests, uSocial then recommends potential friends to companies, who approach them directly. A firm pays $727 for each 5,000 users who agree to be its friend, or 15 cents each. “Fans”, who merely express support for a firm, are cheaper. ...
Economist Thursday, September 17, 2009Google's corporate culture: Creative tensionThe internet giant seeks new ways to foster innovationFEW companies are as creative as Google, which serves up innovations almost as fast as its popular search-engine serves up results. This week the firm unveiled a new version of its Chrome web browser and launched Fast Flip, which lets users scroll through the contents of an online newspaper in much the same way that they leaf through its pages in print. On September 30th the company will roll out another fledgling product, Google Wave, for a test involving some 100,000 people. Billed as a revolutionary way to collaborate online, Wave is also the product of a new, more structured approach to innovation within the company.For years Google has had a fairly informal product-development system. Ideas percolated upwards from Googlers without any formal process for senior managers to review them. Teams working on innovative stuff were generally kept small. Such a system worked fairly well while Google was in its infancy. But now that it is
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