GOOGLE TEXT LINK ADS

Google announced a new advertising program last week and the reports focused on a new Google policy that doesn’t affect us directly. (Briefly: Google sends money to advertisers when a web surfer clicks on a Google advertising link on a web page; the new program...

NSL GAG ORDERS

On March 9 the Justice Department’s inspector general revealed that the FBI has been systematically abusing its expanded power to issue “national security letters” and obtain private information about US citizens and residents from telephone...

GOODBYE PALM OS

The venerable Palm operating system is no more. It wasn’t long ago that the term “Palm” was the very definition of a handheld PDA, and the Palm operating system was inseparable in our minds from the device running it. Literally decades of marketing...

AMAZON’S SECRET PRICE GUARANTEE

I can’t vouch for this, but Timothy Noah at Slate writes that Amazon has a 30-day price guarantee – if the Amazon price drops on any item within thirty days after you purchase it from Amazon, you can get a refund of the difference just by asking....

SHIFTING LANDSCAPE FOR ONLINE & OFFLINE GIANTS

The landscape is changing for new and old players. It’s interesting to watch the ground shift and wonder where our world of information is going.MySpace and Facebook have reached plateaus. The Wall Street Journal reports that MySpace is facing a backlash from...

FREE AOL

If you’re an AOL subscriber, you must have a masochistic streak. Or perhaps a very long memory and nostalgia for the years when AOL software made things easier to do online, instead of the buggy, bloated, advertising-laden mess that it’s become. In a bold...