Date: 08/02/07     Keywords: technology

Pioneer in virtual world technology theorizes that people behave better in the alternate digital realm than in blogs or chat rooms.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6200287.html

Date: 08/01/07     Keywords: no keywords

During a panel with venture capitalists at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit O7, Roger McNamee, co-founder of the private equity firm Elevation Partners, gave his view on the latest Internet driving force--the era of social networking."Predicting the future is really an unproductive activity," he said. "What's going on in the...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5831

Date: 08/01/07     Keywords: no keywords

At the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit 07 the virtual worlds was under scrutiny. Virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier led a panel (below) with Philip Rosedale, CEO of Linden Labs (Second Life); Irving Wladawksy-Berger of IBM; Chris Sherman, CEO of Gaia Online and Chris Melissinos, chief gaming officer at Sun.The big question...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5825

Date: 08/01/07     Keywords: no keywords

You have to buy a membership fee, but the discounts on airfares can be big, CFares CEO says.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6200196.html

Date: 08/01/07     Keywords: yahoo

The due date for Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang's strategic plan isn't here yet, but that hasn't stopped the handicapping. Bear Stearns analyst Robert Peck has a 22 page report addresses Yahoo's options. His conclusions: Yahoo will have to address its social networking strategy since Comscore reckons that social sites (think...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5824

Date: 08/01/07     Keywords: web

Number of adults seeking health information on the Web has soared to about 160 million in 2006--a 37 percent rise over two years.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6200081.html

Date: 08/01/07     Keywords: no keywords

News Corp. has won Dow Jones and Rupert Murdoch got his big catch--The Wall Street Journal.The companies announced that 37 percent of the Bancroft family voted for the deal. Combined with other shareholders--who would possibly turn down $60 a share?--the deal is done. There was little new information in the...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5822

Date: 08/01/07     Keywords: no keywords

CBS doesn't break out the revenue of its interactive properties, but it sure does talk about them a lot. The big takeaway from CBS' earnings conference call was the importance of its Internet properties to its future. Ultimately, CBS sees its interactive business accounting for a little more than 5...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5816

Date: 08/01/07     Keywords: no keywords

Dow's board decides to accept Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion buyout offer, a source says.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6200060.html

Date: 08/01/07     Keywords: no keywords

Media companies are also included in a complaint expected to be filed with the FTC that claims warnings against 'unauthorized' copying are intended to intimidate.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6200055.html

Date: 07/31/07     Keywords: microsoft

The Microsoft-funded IT trade body issues a Microsoft-dominated list of the most influential tech products of the last 25 years.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6199876.html

Date: 07/31/07     Keywords: no keywords

Here on ZDNet, in the blogs, their comment areas, and in e-mails you have not seen, my fellow blogger George Ou and I have been debating the challenges to securing e-mail.Although many Internet users assume it to be otherwise, most e-mail traversing the Internet and even corporate networks is insecure....

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=690

Date: 07/31/07     Keywords: no keywords

Two GOP presidential candidates say they have scheduling conflicts, which CNN is trying to resolve.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6199834.html

Date: 07/31/07     Keywords: web

Jimmy Wales describes how his company's acquisition of Grub from LookSmart will help its open-source search project crawl the Web.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6199812.html

Date: 07/31/07     Keywords: google

Mobile is the next frontier for Google, but how will it straddle the line between partnering and competing with major cell phone operators?

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6199725.html

Date: 07/30/07     Keywords: no keywords

If you're a professional recruiter (particularly one that works for a recruiting/headhunting firm), then it's probably time to start thinking about a career change. The reason? Once money starts talking, the mob of Internet users-cum-recruiters will be impossible to compete against. By "money talking," I mean, once employers start...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=684

Date: 07/30/07     Keywords: no keywords

Judge won't force the auction giant to stop using the MercExchange patent, but the tiny patent-licensing firm plans to appeal.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6199585.html

Date: 07/30/07     Keywords: no keywords

Desktop virtualization as a service has gotten a big boost with Desktone Inc.'s announcement today of $17 million in venture capital funds that will allow the company to finance global sales, marketing, and development. Desktone, a Chelmsford, Mass., startup offers what it says is the industry's first unified virtual desktop...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2512

Date: 07/30/07     Keywords: no keywords

MatchMobile's e-mail contact with other Match.com subscribers, on-the-go date hunting among the mobile services due for launch this year.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6199497.html

Date: 07/27/07     Keywords: no keywords

More than 20 countries use catch-all and contradictory rules to help keep people offline and stifle feared political opposition.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6199294.html