Archive for March, 2009

Yahoo Names Chief Marketing Officer (InformationWeek)

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Chief marketing officer, Branding, Marketing, Communications, Brand, Development, Yahoo, Elisa Steele, Steele, Carol Bartz, Dan Resensweig,

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Activision names Yahoo veteran to guide Guitar Hero (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Activision said it named Dan Rosensweig, Yahoo former chief operating officer, to run the unit that develops the videogame software maker’s unit popular Guitar Hero franchise.

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Google Apps Missing Enterprise Social-networking Revolution (PC World)

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Google is mum on plans to add Facebook-like features to its collaboration and communication business suite

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Google Apps Businesses Should Love Google Voice (PC World)

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Google is just entering the enterprise, yet is already out-innovating the rest of the Internet.

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Media Industry to Google: We Want a Bailout (Portfolio.com via Yahoo! Finance)

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Whoever’s at fault this week for the dismal economic state of print media — be it Arianna Huffington, Craig Newmark or someone else — publishers increasingly think they know who ought to fix it: Google, of course.

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Google StreetView ?Naked Child? Incident Reveals Anxiety About Technology (Search Engine Land)

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

There were a couple of stories over the weekend and today about the capture on Google StreetView of images of a naked toddler. Here?s the original UK newspaper report :

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Google Street View, bring back the vomiting Brit (CNET)

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

Google Street View launches in the U.K., and one of the first images to talk about was that of a man who appeared to be vacating his entrails on the sidewalk. After protests, it is removed.

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Microsoft?s Ballmer holds out hope for Yahoo talks (National Post)

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

Microsoft Corp chief executive Steve Ballmer said Thursday the only discussion he?s had with Yahoo Inc?s top executive was a single phone call, but is holding out hopes for further talks.

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Google removes street images over privacy complaints (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Friday, March 20th, 2009

US software giant Google said Friday it had removed several images from its Street View software, which allows web surfers to view parts of 25 British cities, after users raised privacy concerns.

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Google Adds Gmail Feature Undo Send (PC World via Yahoo! News)

Friday, March 20th, 2009

Google added a new experimental feature to Gmail yesterday, allowing users to recall e-mail they have sent by mistake. The feature can grab messages before they are delivered and is being rolled out to users worldwide.

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