Today’s Google homepage doodle features a pair of oranges, representing the man who discovered Vitamin C aka ascorbic acid. Albert Szent-Györgyi was a Hungarian physiologist who won the Nobel prize in 1937.
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Yahoo fired its CEO, Carol Bartz, and also put itself up for sale. Sort of ironic given that it expended so much energy in fighting off a bid by Microsoft to buy the company for $44 billion. Also don’t forget the chance Yahoo had to buy Google. Yahoo was the first big place to search [...]
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EBay is going to buy Magento, a PHP-based E-commerce package. It had previously bought 49% of it for $22.5 million.
Will this combine the best strengths of each, or the worst?
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It’s the end of the road for 10 perpetual-beta Google products: Aardvark, Desktop, Fast Flip, Maps API for Flash, Google Pack, Google Web Security, Image Labeler, Notebook, Sidewiki, and Subscriber Links.
Were you using any of these? And was it a good idea to kill them when they could have just shunted them off to a less-accesible corner of the Google website?
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You’ve probably seen Google’s homepage today (July 20) with the logo spelt with pea pods. That’s a reference to the birthday of Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics, who experimented with plant hybridization.
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A number of sources are reporting Facebook has surpassed Google as the most visited site in the US.
Read on to find out why I think this is a loss for the open Internet.
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If you’ve been planning to buy a new LCD panel or TV, you might want to factor in the effect of the earthquake in Taiwan on LCD prices.
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Google has bought Picnik, a free online image editing website.
Picnik has grown to become one of the most popular web-based photo editing sites.
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Google Chrome’s been out for Mac since December, but now they’ve released a new beta version with extensions and other features.
Click through to see a video of the new features.
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Tweets on Twitter are reporting that the photo accompanying New York Fashion Critic Kathy Horyn’s article on the Golden Globes, which actress Christina Hendricks, was called “a big girl”, was resized and widened to help support the notion that Hendricks is fat. That’s pretty amazing, given that the New York Times claims to be the [...]
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