Posts Tagged with ‘Wired’

If you haven't heard of eBaum's World, a viral online video portal, now you will. HandHeld Entertainment, has purchased the popular web destination for $15 million in cash and another $2.5 million in stock. Current estimates suggest a possible total of $50 million in cash and stock over the next three years.
Today's press release revealed that the site generated approximately $5.2 million in revenue and $1.6 million in net income last year. It also mentions that the video service [...]

If you like to blog, visit your social network, or send personal emails at work, you may want to re-evaluate what you are doing. A new report now claims that almost 19% of companies have disciplined an employee for violating corporate policies that involve blogging and online forums. What's even worse is that 10% of companies have fired employees. These statistics have come from a recent survey by Forrester Consulting for Proofpoint, a messaging security company.
The report goes on further [...]

Google has put together a set of new layers for its Earth utility, a group that everyone should familiarize themselves with. The collection is called Crisis in Darfur. The title alone aptly explains what it’s about.
I’ll give you a brief synopsis anyhow. Essentially, Google’s Crisis in Darfur project, created in partnership with BrightEarth, is an assembly of “high-res satellite images of Darfur…[and text of] first-hand accounts of the genocide currently underway in the region.”
The inhumanity of what is being [...]

VoIP has thus far only become a serious player in the wired telecommunications industry. When it comes to things wireless, VoIP has yet to gain much ground.
That may soon change, however. Deutsche Telekom AG, a German corporation, is now leading a group of investors of Jajah, a startup (which went live in early 2006) that promises to save users a good amount of coin, particularly in instances of international spread, by routing calls via inexpensive VoIP connections. The latest round [...]

Is Wikipedia a little too liberal, a tad too ungodly for you? Try Conservapedia on for size.
Mocked by folks Left and Right (but mostly Left), the Wiki-based destination is marketed as an encyclopedia God would be proud of. It is devoid of inaccuracies. There’s no bias there. (Guess where we’ve gone satirical in the last few lines.) And you vandals need not enter, because there’s really no place for your lot. The project’s leader, Andrew Schlafly, a conservative (no way) [...]