Online auctioneer eBay Inc. has pulled its advertising from search company Google Inc.'s AdWords network in the United States, an eBay spokesperson said Wednesday.
"This is part of an ongoing experiment to look at how we market across all media channels," said eBay spokesperson Hani Durzy.
Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google is exploring innovative technologies that promises to
reduce the collective impact on the environment. This type of contribution to the society is what is needed rather just delivering products and softwares.
Google and Intel recently announced they have launched a program to help save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by offering energy-efficient PCs and servers. The "Climate Savers Computing Initiative" will help create new guidelines and efficiency goals for computers that control power consumption. The coalition also hopes to save up to $5.5 billion in energy costs per year.
"Let's create a more efficient IT industry by driving up the efficiency of computers," said Pat Gelsinger, Intel Digital Enterprise Group vice president.
"Today, the average desktop PC wastes nearly half of its power, and the average server wastes one-third of its power," said Urs Holzle, Google vice president of operations.
Dell, IBM, Lenovo Group, the U.S. Environment Protection Agency and at least 25 other companies, organizations and universities are participants in the coalition. Each company and university will promote the program in different manners — for example, Google will send users to participating company web sites. An additional 15 or so companies — including Sun Microsystems, Yahoo and the World Wildlife Fund — openly support the Climate Savers Computing Initiative.
According to a study released by the group, carbon dioxide emissions could be limited by as much as 54 tons per year — the equivalent of 11 million cars. To limit that level of carbon dioxide emissions, however, PC power supplies need 90% efficiency. The group also hopes to raise energy efficiency by 50% within three years.
Samsung, the official Worldwide Partner of the Olympic Games in wireless communications equipment has started its campaign for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games with the launch of its new, high-profile mobile phones designed especially for the event.
At the campaign launch, Samsung unveiled its E848 mobile phone that has been designed especially for the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG).
The company also unveiled the Samsung P318 and the U308 mobile phones for joint marketing campaigns with China Mobile.
For Samsung’s Olympic Torch Relay Plan, the company will launch a series of public events around its wireless products to drive its brand value in all major cities in the Relay Mainland China Sector (along the torch route).
[ samsung ]
Six new security patches will be released by Microsoft, which will include four "critical" updates affecting Windows, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, and Windows Mail for Vista.
The company said that four out of the six bulletins that are scheduled for June 12, 2007, will be ranked “critical”, while one each will be labeled “important” and “moderate”.
Also, according to Microsoft, half of the batch of security updates affects Windows Vista, or one of its components, such as Internet Explorer 7 or the Windows Mail email client. Out of the three Vista patches, two have been termed as “critical”.
Windows will have three updates, Internet Explorer just one, Outlook Express and Windows Mail will also have one each and Visio 2002 and Visio 2003 will also have one patch.
Tuesday's updates will be available for manual download from the Microsoft Web site about 1 p.m. PDT. ( …… How come Micro$oft became so active in releasing patches…)
Yahoo has issued a critical security patch for Messenger to address zero-day exploits that
take advantage of vulnerabilities in its Webcam ActiveX controls.
Problem :
Messenger users' computers could be at risk if they visit malicious Web sites or view other malicious HTML code. The attackers could then exploit security flaws in the Yahoo Webcam ActiveX control, a software package that is downloaded with Messenger.
So how fast is Yahoo in patching this problem ?
eEye Digital Security discovered the flaw and reported it to Yahoo earlier this week. eEye gave the problem its highest risk rating; fellow security company Secunia did the same, labeling it "extremely critical." Yahoo issued the patch in an update on Thursday.
Download Security patch:
Yahoo's advisory on the problem states that anyone using a version of Messenger obtained before Friday should download the update.
[ zdnet ]
Six Apart announced the beta release of Movable Type 4, a much anticipated upgrade to a blog
platform that has two distinct user bases - consumer base and Enterprise. Movable Type Open Source, or MTOS, is the open source project that will consist of a GPL-licensed version of Movable Type 4.0, to be released in Q3 2007, and resources for the already large community of Movable Type developers.
Its already late but never too late..to stay in the competition of these blogging platforms, they had to open source it..anyway..better late than never …
The MTOS distribution will be available for download / checkout later this summer at www.movabletype.org
To learn more about the open source project, visit its website http://www.movabletype.org/opensource/.
Does watching a YouTube video on another site leave you hungering for more like it? Youtube has recently added another new feature for the embedded player with a scroll-through feature that shows related videos to your embeds.
It's fun to play with and lets you discover new, related videos without leaving your site. Just hover over the video after pressing "play" and watch the magic unfold…
You can see related videos at the bottom of the player and also a right,left clickable linked videos list on the left and right, so that you can goto the previous and next videos right on the site which you currently viewing.
Suppose if you dont want this new feature of related videos , then use this:
If for any reason you don't want this option turned on, you can modify the video URL by attaching a rel=0 parameter to the video. i.e. http://www.youtube.com/v/&rel=0
Example :
This is totally surprising to see that Microsoft is going to offer music for FREE on Xbox Live.
Yesterday, Microsoft announced the launch of a new initiative that will give artists an exclusive chance to reach out to as many people as possible through a new and free program called Ignition.
You can access Maximo Park’s content on Zune Marketplace and Zune.net:
Xbox LIVE Marketplace
MSN Entertainment
[via pcworld ]
Jointly developed by Intel and Asustek, the Eee PC will hit the market during the third quarter, most likely in August or September. The notebook will be aimed at education users
Measuring 9 inches wide by 6.6 inches deep, the Eee PC 701 is about 1.5 inches thick with the screen closed and weighs just 31 ounces. Other specifications include a 7-inch monitor, a 300,000-pixel camera, 512MB of DDR2 memory, and Wi-Fi. Next year, Asustek plans to introduce a second Eee PC model, the 1001, which will have a 10-inch screen.
Rearrange or remove menuitems from the main context menu (right-click menu) and main menubar (File Edit View etc.). So when you install a fresh Firefox installation or add lots of addons or extensions like we do, then the right click on Firefox is in a mess. So to arrange the items in this right click menu, use Menu Editor.
This will help you re-arrange all the items in the right click menu. This is the perfect add-on for slimming down menus, especially when you start to get loads of add-ons. Its a must have for people who have lots of extensions. Like we have Google Toolbar, Clipmarks, Scrapbook,BlueOrganizer, Internet Download Manager addon..
It should be in the Recommended Add-Ons list on Mozilla Extensions site.
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