Here’s another one: search for “spaghetti,” and you’ll get a lot of results about people seeking recipes. But narrow it down to the “lifestyles” category, and you’ll see that most of the search results that Google Insights provides involve the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
For Google, this can help boost advertiser confidence and potentially [...]
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Google offers ‘Insights for Search’
‘Cutting-edge’ MacBook Air silicon getting old
Wilkison said high-volume 128GB SSDs may get “closer to the $400 range.”
Apple observers claim that a notebook refresh is coming in October, and it is anticipated that updates to the Air will include larger solid-state drives and newer Intel processors.
Whether Apple will turn away from Intel chipsets is a rumor still in play, [...]
Senate questions privacy impact of Web monitoring
But the problem for NebuAd and its ISP customers is that–as we reported in May–a collection of federal laws written back in the 1980s create a treacherous legal landscape for broadband providers that are engaging in this kind of Web monitoring. Some of those laws restrict deep packet inspection by any broadband provider; the Cable [...]
Vizio keeps pressure on Sony, Samsung
Shipments of LCD TVs were down across the board in the first quarter, reaching 5.6 million units, versus the same quarter a year ago when 7.96 million LCD TVs shipped, iSuppli said. Although the first quarter is always the weakest for the industry, it appears the second quarter may not fare much better.
iSuppli says [...]
EFF introduces Switzerland…the program
As far as usage goes, the EFF says that Switzerland is compatible with NAT firewalls, although some NAT firewalls may have to be disabled to test the ISP in front of it, because of the modifications that some firewalls make to packets.
I do wonder at the logic of the name, though. Referencing the “neutral” [...]
NYT Google’s Android coming soon on HTC handset
Yet another report that Google’s Android software is about to make its debut surfaced Friday.
In any event, it will still be nice to actually have an Android handset out in the market, almost a year after Google confirmed its mobile phone project. Google will be competing against other operating system licensers such as Symbian [...]
Intellectual property bill passes in the House
The House of Representatives on Sunday cleared the intellectual property enforcement bill that would create an “IP coordinator” position in the White House.
The legislation, formally known as the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act, or Pro-IP, passed unanimously in the Senate on Friday.
The Bush administration last week sent a letter to Congress [...]
Apple shows us how to compete with Microsoft
Apple did what few besides Google have dared to do: defy Microsoft. Apple, more than most, was dependent on Microsoft, and yet it still refused to pull any punches against its benefactor. Judging from the company’s market share gains, I’d call its strategy an unqualified success.
The media is fond of calling out the
Mac’s rising fortunes [...]




