Nicholas Carlson

MySpace parent-company Fox Interactive Media (FIM) has until Monday to respond to demands from New Jersey’s new chief law enforcement officer to provide more details on convicted sex offenders who have profiles on the social networking site . Attorney General Anne Milgram, who took office June 29th, recently disclosed that more than half of the […]

Ebay’s Craigslist clone is open for business in the United States. The site was launched in 220 cities and 50 states on June 29th. Named Kijiji.com after the Swahili word for “village,” the free, local, community-based classifieds site has operated since its 2005 founding in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, China, Japan, Taiwan, Austria, Switzerland, and […]

NEW YORK — Rebecca Boosma joined the line outside the Apple store here in midtown Manhattan Tuesday at 9 p.m. It was her boyfriend’s idea, she told internetnews.com. She said the plan was to take shifts waiting morning and night and that whoever was in line when the Apple store opened tonight at 6 p.m. […]

Analysis: Check your calendars. Today is the day when pilgrims line the streets. No, it’s not Easter, Shavuot or Eid ul-Fitr. The faithful are not waiting for manna. They wait for another gadget from Jobs. The iPhone is here (or soon to be, later today). There’s a whole shipment of the miraculous devices in their […]

Google is good at a lot of things: Search, Web applications, online advertising, for example. But distributing hardware to the small-to- medium business, small and medium enterprise, as well as government and education channels is not considered among its stronger suits. That’s why Google selected Ingram Micro  to distribute Google Mini and the Google Search […]

Google Earth, an application for viewing 3-D maps and satellite images of streetscapes and landscapes, has always been good for a quick Superman-esque zip around the globe. Now its creators are trying to make it good for the world it virtually represents. Google  today announced Google Earth Outreach, a program to help the world’s nonprofit […]

As the technology press breathlessly anticipates the rise of the iPhone this Friday at an Apple  store near you, potential customers remain wary of the product’s $500 to $600 cost. But according to at least one analyst closely watching the situation, the pricing plans AT&T  and Apple announced today should ease some of those concerns. […]

Video search engine Blinkx today announced AdHoc, a platform that helps its partners monetize their video content with relevant advertising. The product is similar to Google AdSense. And it’s not the first time blinkx has followed the Google path. CEO Suranga Chandratillake said the search engine giant serves as a model for his company. Blinkx’s […]

EBay resumed its Google AdWords advertising today, but not at its former levels. “We are now slowly turning AdWords back on, in a much more limited way than before,” eBay spokeswoman Catherine England told internetnews.com in an email. Last week, eBay spokesman Hani Durzy said the company was “experimenting” with other methods to optimize traffic […]

Nuance Communications today announced the purchase of AOL LLC subsidiary Tegic, the developers behind the T9 predictive text input software already installed on more than 2.5 billion devices. The plan is to integrate the T9 software with Nuance’s voice-recognition capabilities to create a new mobile user interface that combines voice, text and touch. Time Warner […]

Google today expanded its pay-per-action (PPA) advertising beta to include all advertisers with more than 500 conversions from their pay- per-click and pay-per-impression based campaigns in the past 30 days. The search company said it would only show the pay-per-action ads on publisher sites in the Google content network, also known as Google AdSense for […]

Everyone wants to know who’s going to buy Yahoo , but at least for now, Yahoo’s doing the buying. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company this week announced it bought Rivals.com, a network of over 150 sports sites dedicated to college and high school sports, primarily football and basketball. Financial terms were not disclosed. The news is […]