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The Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday to look at the policy issues raised by advertising that is targeted to the online behavior of Internet users. Some of the participants are trying to bolster their positions in advance.
Full disclosure: Alex Iskold runs a browser add-on company called AdaptiveBlue. Also Fred Wilson, who is cited in this article, is a partner in Union Square Ventures - an investor in Alex's company.VC Fred Wilson asked recently on his blog if there is a business in browser add-ons?
Launching a major revamp of its MyYahoo personalized start page, Yahoo has laid the foundation for building a social networking empire. With a more open platform and third-party apps on the way, Yahoo could both cement its lead in the start page space and give MySpace and Facebook reason to stay awake at night.
This phenomenon, where products and technologies start out in the hands of consumers before making their way into the enterprise, has recently accelerated to the point that it has gotten its own (somewhat unwieldy) buzzword: "IT consumerization."
The Iranian parliament is set to debate a draft bill that would add a number of crimes to the list of those that can result in execution, among them "establishing weblogs and sites promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy."
After some speculation last week, Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed that it will acquire San-Francisco based search company Powerset. The software giant will integrate Powerset technology into Live Search, though Powerset will remain a separate company in the Bay Area.
[PHOTOS] Check out this collection of unforgettable advertisements from around the world.
Sometimes, when you’re trying to immerse yourself in a movie or television show on an iPod’s diminutive screen, you just need to go bigger. Here’s how to turn your Classic or Nano into a home theater with a simple, unpowered DIY projector.
The online-auction giant said that the ruling goes beyond the sale of counterfeit products and represents an attempt by manufacturers of high-end goods to exert greater control over the market -- especially over the secondary sale of authentic products that take place outside the normal distribution channels.
With a few exceptions, Windows XP will be unavailable to computer makers and retail shoppers after Monday -- a fact that will force many Microsoft PC users to migrate to the widely maligned Vista operating system or wait until the arrival of Windows 7 in 2010 to upgrade their systems.
Souvenir blue t-shirts made to commemorate the opening of Apple's new flagship store in the heart of the Sydney CBD are already attracting bids of up to $150 on eBay.
RSS feeds are the all the latest craze. It's one of the best and most popular way of staying up to date quickly. However, with services web feed readers like Google Reader and even desktop readers such as FeedDemon, those updates may not always come as quickly as you'd like them too. Or maybe you just don't live in your feed reader like I do.
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