Is Mozilla becoming too much like Microsoft?
In a strange bit of irony, Mozilla, the foundation behind the popular open-source Firefox browser, increasingly relies on Microsoft’s playbook to promote Firefox adoption. No, Mozilla executives aren’t secretly plotting an open-source monopoly to replace Microsoft’s, and, indeed, are focusing precisely on doing the opposite.
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Google, the number one search engine, said Wednesday it plans to test ultra high speed broadband in an experiment that could bring gigabit Internet to as many as half-a-million people, including home businesses.
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“We’re planning to build and test ultra [...]
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Six music blogs hosted by Google’s blogging services have been accused of violating the company’s terms of service by allegedly posting unauthorized copyright material and have been booted from the sites.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt sits between Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris (left) and Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, CEO of Sony Music Entertainment, at the Vevo launch [...]
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My colleague Molly Wood called it a privacy nightmare, but to many, Google’s new social-networking tool Buzz is at its root an unwanted, unasked for pest. We didn’t opt in to some newfangled Twitter system and we don’t particularly want to see updates from contacts we never asked to follow creep up in our Buzz [...]
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“Ask an Expert” is an occasional feature where we ask ecommerce experts questions from online merchants. For this installment, we address a question about ranking on search engines for major keywords. It comes from Jeramie Westbay, owner operator for Crazy Ed’s Roadkill, an online store that sells beef jerky.
For the answer, we turn to Andrew [...]
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Keyword research is one of the pillars of both natural and paid search campaigns. By following the keyword choices used by consumers in the search engines, websites can focus on those terms to capture traffic.
This tenet of online marketing and search engine optimization is fairly well established, but the tools used in keyword research are [...]
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Acer may be the first manufacturer out of the gate with a Google Chrome OS netbook in the second half of next year, according to the latest Internet rumors. JT Wang, the computer manufacturer’s chairman recently told DigiTimes that he was confident his company would be “the first vendor to launch [a] Chrome-based netbook” [...]
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In a bid to appease publishers, Google has updated its search programs, allowing publishers who charge for their content to limit users to only five free page views per day.
Many publishers impose this type of limits on free page views for Web surfers who visit their sites directly. If you browse the WSJ site directly, [...]
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In a big concession to users’ privacy rights, Google launched what it calls Google Dashboard – a tool which gives Google account holders a single view of all of the data associated with their Google accounts.
The Google Dashboard is being touted as a way for users to, at a glance, see information about their Web [...]
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Google took an important step on Monday in the development of Google Wave, opening its servers up to outsiders who want their own waves to communicate with the outside world.
A “wave” is a stream of messages that blends traditional e-mail, instant messaging, file sharing, and workplace collaboration tools. There have been plenty of supporters and [...]
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