
USA today is reporting that online advertising in the United States decreased by 5% in the first quarter of 2009. The decline marks the first negative quarter in Web advertising since 2002, causing some economic analysts to claim that the worldwide economic recession has finally begun to have a [...]
According to a new report on CNN.com, the Chinese government has passed a law requiring all new computers sold in China to include software to block so-called “harmful” web sites and content. The new law will go into effect on the second of July, and the blocking software is allegedly aimed at [...]
Twitter has recently suffered a rash of celebrity impostors, creating phony accounts and claiming to be actors, rappers, reality TV personalities and even cable news reporters. To combat the problem of phony celebrity accounts, Twitter has announced that they will begin offering verified Twitter [...]
The rise of Twitter is old news by now. The media, celebrities, and nearly every mover and shaker out there has been seduced by the micro-blogging social networking site. But this week, Twitter has been in the news for something other than Ashton Kutcher’s million followers; the company is [...]
Microsoft’s new Bing search engine was announced on Thursday and should be online and available to the public by the time this article is published. There’s been a lot of speculation about just what Bing is, and also about the implications of Microsoft developing a new type of search [...]