David Miller

DoubleClick has snapped up rival Falk eSolutions, an online ad delivery and marketing management solutions firm based in Germany, for an undisclosed sum. Analysts say the deal helps DoubleClick, a global provider of digital advertising technology and services, expand its presence in Europe and reach a growing market there for rich media advertising. Under the […]

Google is free to cache whatever material it wants unless content owners specifically forbid the search site from copying and archiving online content, a federal judge ruled last Friday. The judge dismissed a lawsuit claiming Google had violated an author’s copyright by archiving his Usenet posts and providing excerpts from his Web site in Google’s […]

Amazon is now offering low-cost online data storage to users, Microsoft wants to be the search site of choice, Yahoo is involved with VoIP services, and Google seems to want to break into retail. On Thursday, Google rolled out a limited trial of its new online payment processing service. The company is also rumored to […]

U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales announced on Wednesday that an international investigation has lead to more than two dozen arrests of people participating in an online child pornography ring. “Kiddypics & Kiddyvids,” a Web-based chat room, was the subject of a months-long investigation by undercover agents, who said that the Web site featured real-time […]

UPDATED: U.S. District Judge James Ware said today he would rule in a matter of days on the Department of Justice’s (DoJ) demand that Google turn over search records to the government. Ware presided over a hearing in San Jose in which the DoJ is seeking to force Google to comply with its subpoena request. […]

Worried about missing even one episode of your favorite phony news show? Fret not. With the Apple iTunes store’s new “Multi-Pass,” users can buy monthly subscriptions to TV shows and have them delivered right to their desktops. The service was launched on Wednesday in partnership with Viacom’s Comedy Central Network. Fans of the snarky comedy […]

People using Siemens’s Gigaset cordless telephones will soon be able to make free phone calls using Yahoo Messenger with Voice, the companies announced Wednesday. Siemens is planning to release its Gigaset M34 USB adapter in the third quarter, which will allow its Gigaset cordless telephones to make and receive free PC-to-PC voice calls using Voice […]

Offer the masses unlimited storage for their data and you can get away with almost anything. When Google inadvertently posted a presentation last Thursday with vague information about new services the search company may be developing, bloggers and the media launched into a frenzy of speculation about Google’s new offerings. But what no one but […]

Business networking service LinkedIn is making it easier for users to connect with everyone they ever knew — or ever wanted to know. LinkedIn is a civilized spot in the world of online networking services. Users of LinkedIn connect only with people they know and trust, expanding their professional networking circle via discreet introductions to […]

The 900-pound gorilla in the search space is apparently developing a service that will allow users to store every scrap of data from their computers’ hard drives on Google’s servers. This information was contained in the speaker’s notes section of a PowerPoint presentation posted on Google’s Web site by the company after its Analysts Presentation […]

Salesforce.com is expanding its horizons. The company’s new “Unlimited Edition” is no longer centered on customer relationship management applications for the mobile sales representative. Now users can run all of their business apps over the Web. The company also promises that it’s working hard to address the service outages that plagued users over the past […]

Amazon’s unexpected acquisition of a Midwestern clothing retailer has left some analysts wondering how the purchase might fit into Amazon’s overall scheme for world domination. Others felt it was exactly the right move at exactly the right time. Amazon has morphed from a bookseller into a vast online mall over the past decade, now offering […]