Posts Tagged with ‘online’

Unlike many retail giants of mostly brick-and-mortar, chain-linked proportions headquartered in the US, Amazon has shown a nice finish to 2007. The company, one of the largest of all online retail outlets, displayed a record number of sales this month – 5.4 million for the day of December 10th alone - effectively pushing the marketplace to a 13-year high, reported the London Times yesterday.
And there’s more. The mega-success, in tandem with the Warner Music Group, also revealed earlier this [...]

Over the weekend, Om Malik (of GigaOM fame) laid bare some information that most any avid gamer might enjoy. He spoke of a brief encounter with Shawn Fanning (of Napster fame) at a holiday party, at which point he learned of the imminent public release of Rupture, a startup more than a year in the making.
A startup whose purpose is to connect “game fiends in a social sort of way.”
Which got me thinking. And not about Rupture, actually. [...]

The presidential race taking place on the ground today in the US in the lead up to the big day in November 2008 – more specifically, the start of the caucus season - is mostly focused one place and one place only: Iowa. Four years back, New Hampshire fought the Midwestern state for media coverage tooth and nail. Now? Not so much. It still gets traffic, but it’s not where the great majority of sound bytes are now being tossed [...]

Happen to be a fan of free open source software? How ‘bout Open Office? Pretty useful suite of software, right? Indeed.
But what if you’re equally enthralled by things Web-based? You like what Zoho’s got. You may admire what Google has done thus far. Wouldn’t it be nice to have the best of both worlds? Open source software for use online?
Enter, Ulteo. A company that adheres strongly to the basic mantra stipulated by Torvalds and Tux, Ulteo has exercised its [...]

Profy’s Michael Garrett wrote in late October of an expected update to Flickr in the way of an image editor. Yesterday, the company delivered on its promise.
As mentioned in the previous piece by Michael G. noting the impending release, Flickr teamed up with Picnik to provide its users a set of tools – ranging from Auto-Fix to Rotate to Red-Eye – streamlined into its hosting service, effectively cutting out any need for Flickr users to maintain a [...]

Zoho, a company responsible for the creation of one of the finest Web-based software suites in existence, today unveiled a much-anticipated update to its word processor.
While a previous iteration of the utility enabled the user the option to read documents while not connected to a broadband service, courtesy of Google’s Gears plug-in, Zoho’s new release of Writer allows for total offline access.
That means reading and editing is now possible with the new Zoho-plus-Google Gears combo. Which is something [...]

In an article published this week, BusinessWeek covered a topic that is likely to strike a particular nerve in the minds of a great many Web users today. A topic that has to do with something so small, yet so unbelievably annoying, that it indeed triggers individuals reading material online to level curses at their LCDs and hurl exasperated insults at invisible webmasters and Internet marketing companies the world over.
What is this infuriating item we speak of? It is invention [...]

The Associated Press reported this week that Sony BMG “inked a licensing deal with Yahoo! Inc. that clears the way for people to upload files with music or video content by the record company’s artists” to Yahoo!-owned sites.
The terms of the agreement stipulate that Yahoo! share revenue amassed through advertising associated with its current and future user-generated-media channel(s), as well as the distribution of strictly copyrighted material on the Internet giant’s pages as well as those of third [...]

It’s getting to be a relatively quiet week in the tech world. Sure, servers are serving and screens are…you know…screening, but a good portion of the newsmakers and newsbreakers are taking a bit of a rest, a siesta if you will. Why? Well, here in the US in particular, we’re coming up on a national holiday, and while Americans typically take most every chance they get to practice their overtime-honored workaholicism, we also know how to abide by our calendars [...]