ReadWriteWeb:
In what appears to us to be a new addition to many Google search results pages, queries about birth dates, family connections and other information are now being responded to with explicitly semantic structured information. Who is Bill Clinton's wife? What's the capital city of Oregon? What is Britney Spears' mother's na (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Interest in troubled Internet giant Yahoo has not waned, it just took a break for the holidays. A group of well known Silicon Valley executives and top investment bankers are putting together a Yahoo takeover deal that would be financed largely from debt supplied by Microsoft, we’ve learned from sources with knowledge (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Opera plans to unveil a new version of its SDK today that will allow Opera's partners to create a more uniform browsing experience across multiple devices and platforms. The new version of the Opera Devices SDK now gives developers access to Opera Link, the company's bookmark synchronization service. Once device manufacture (Read More)
paidContent.org:
In past years, it was almost impossible to fly in to McCarran International Airport without landing in the middle of a Consumer Electronics Show (CES) marketing fest. When I arrived Tuesday even the diminished consumer electronics efforts from last year were AWOL, reflecting a show that is still huge but smaller in scale an (Read More)
GoMo News:
European mobile advertisers MADS today revealed that its platform is being used by more than 150 of Europe’s largest new media publishing houses. Over 60 million mobile owners are now being targeted with ads through the MADS network, across 15 European countries.From the release:“The world’s leading brands trust and utilize (Read More)
Gizmodo:
As our warriors move from the beachheads of SF to the trenches of LV, here's today's recap, and reminder that the war week is far from over: It's been the easiest thing for everybody in the universe to say that Apple's Macworld 2009 keynote lacked not just Jobs but luster. We did feel a distinct absence of a Jobsian ZOMG ho (Read More)
Gizmodo:
We knew Asus is looking into an Android-based cellphone but now CEO Johnny Shih has said at CES that they are thinking about doing an Android-based Eee PC, all while praising Apple for the iPhone. Maybe Asus was inspired by this hack, but the idea of a simplified, cell-enabled netbook computer—tablet please—is very appealin (Read More)