Bing’s Wack New Jingle
by Markus Robinson
As responsible consumers of the web, there’s no way we should have allowed Bing’s new jingle contest to infect with web without at least attempting to inject a little flavor into it. Announced in July, the contest employed video and music hobbits to create a jingle for Microsoft’s newest search engine. The contest lasted approximately [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 7-31-09
by rahsheen
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs mentioned to CNN that Twitter is banned on most Whitehouse computers. This is normal for many companies to do, but with the way this admininstration has been using social media as a powerful to reach the people, it seems pretty silly. Later reports showed that there are some computers authorized for Twitter and that group may be expanded. I’m not sure any of this matters as those who intend to use Twitter will just access it via their mobile phones.
Read MoreGoogle No. 1 Website In June, But Watch Out For Bing
by Barry Cooper
Who’s No. 1 in website traffic? No surprise — its that 800-pound gorilla, Google, according to Compete.com. Google, with nearly 146 million unique visits, ranked No. 1 in June in the Compete 250, the company’s monthly ranking of the top 250 websites. Yahoo! was second with 142 million visits and Facebook was third with 122 million.
Read MoreTech Week in Review 7/17/09
by rahsheen
The primary motivation for many Firefox users to stick with Firefox is the add-ons. Ubiquity, Feedly, and Firebug just to name a few. Seems that Mozilla realizes how important those developers are. Especially since they’ve been pretty much working for free. So, they have instituted a method for add-on developers to get paid for their work.
Read MoreMicrosoft Socks Google by Offering Free Web-based Software
by Robin Caldwell
Microsoft Corp will release a free version of Web-based Office software that users can access online. It looks like the ruler of paid software is competing head-on with rival Google for users and profit.
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