The Google Internet Bus has traversed ten states in India and arrived in Patna, the capital of Bihar, on Tuesday. Speaking at the launch event, Peeyush Ranjan, Google India’s managing director of RD, said that more than 1.5 million people had gone online for the first time after visiting the bus, according to a report...
Daily Archives: September 7, 2011
Report: Nintendo 3DS Gets “Slide Pad” Add-On (First Pic)
This week’s issue of the Famitsu, Japan’s biggest video game magazine, is due out tomorrow, but gaming geek @south1996 appears to have made an early and pretty interesting snapshot: it’s the first picture showing the 3DS joystick add-on the gaming world has been speculating over for weeks. As you can see, the so-called “slide...
10 Things You Need To Know This Morning (YHOO, GRPN, MSFT, AOL)
Good morning! The big news this morning is Yahoo: Carol Bartz got fired as CEO of Yahoo. Just like that. It wasn’t pleasant: Chairman Roy Bostock canned her over the phone, and she sent a nasty goodbye email. Here’s what Yahoo needs to do now → Bartz had checked out, becoming less involved day-to-day, and...
Media Analysts Begin To Slash Ad Spending Forecasts As Economy Craters…
See the dip in 2009? (Fortunately, online kept growing!) When the economy weakens, one of the first expenses that companies cut is advertising spending. Especially advertising spending on old, dying media in which performance is unmeasurable–e.g., newspapers. The global economy has now been weakening for a couple of months. So it’s no surprise that...
Three Big Geeks Leave Microsoft in One Day, Including Barney Pell
Barney Pell of Powerset, ZundHD business development lead Dave McLauchlan and Windows 7 gaming project manager Ruchit Garg all announced today that they are leaving Microsoft. Pell, a super-geek and the best known of the three, leaves three years and one month after his semantic startup Powerset was acquired by Microsoft before it even...
Social Media Case Study: ArtBabble Shows How Video is Done
This week we’re looking at how social media is being deployed in museums. The idea with our Social Media Case Studies series is to analyze how social media is actually being used by organizations, which we hope will provide inspiration or assistance to others. We started with Brooklyn Museum yesterday. Despite being impressed by...
Former Microsoft accountant sentenced to two years imprisonment for stealing $1.1m
Former Microsoft accounts analyst Randal Ray Seal was found guilty of stealing over a million dollars from the company’s coffers and sentenced to two years in jail, according to a report by Seattle P-I. The 54-year-old Shoreline, WA resident was indicted in December 2010 and pleaded guilty in May this year. According to federal...