“Assassin’s Creed 2″ hits stores on Tuesday
on Nov 16, 2009 in Gaming acrobatics Altair artistry Assassin Auditore awaited game Blockbuster character confidant courtesans decoys descendent everything Firenze France France-based franchise game players holiday holiday season Italy leonardo da vinci machine mercenaries nobleman offering option potential Renaissance renaissance italy role six million ways treachery Tuesday Ubisoft Video videogame “Assassin’s Creed 2,” the videogame from Ubisoft, will reach the stores on Tuesday. The hot and much awaited game has everything in it - swordplay, treachery, history, and artistry, all set in scenic Renaissance Italy. According to...

Skip The Hand Shake Now Has A Wristband
on Nov 15, 2009 in Crisis Fraud and Problems Bessemer bessemer venture partners blue wristband Boston boston globe brad feld canadians Cartoon cnn dalai lama effort german city Globe hand hand shake handshake Movement New new yorker official OpenCandy Yorker The no-hand shake movement now has an official blue wristband for people who want to show that they support the effort. You can get a ten pack of them for $20. Some of the people, organizations who have pledged their support for the No Handshake caus...

Swiss privacy watchdog to sue Google Street View
on Nov 14, 2009 in Crisis Fraud and Problems administrative tribunal car plates cities around the world data protection commissioner european countries fences Internet Users matthias meyer personal privacy prisons privacy watchdog private lives private streets street view vehicle number plates walled gardens Google is facing a problem here with its drive to map and photograph the world. It is facing a hard time from Switzerland’s strict tradition of personal privacy. According to the announcement by Switzerland’s privacy watchdog, it is going...

How Murdoch Can Really Hurt Google And Shift The Balance Of Power In Search
on Nov 14, 2009 in Crisis Fraud and Problems action balance of power bidding bidding war Bing CEO CEO Jason Calacanis content Corp De-indexing Google Hurt index jason calacanis Journal mainstream Microsoft Murdoch Can MySpace new york times news News Corp. news sites point reason renegotiation right rupert murdoch search search deal search users self destruction shift situation some good reasons suggestion Times traditional journalism traffic Video wall street wall street journal wsjonline year Recently, Rupert Murdoch was reported to have decided de-indexing his news sites from Google. De-indexing means a great loss of traffic, which accounts to 25% of traffic to wsjonline. But I think his action has some good reasons. Probably it is more...

Personera Connects With Facebook To Make Custom Print Calendars
on Nov 12, 2009 in Uncategorized Personera wants to combine old print calendars with new web users and bring the print calendar to the Web Age.  It is offering the world’s first print calendar personalized with the birthdays of your Facebook friends, upcoming events, and phot...

Full Streams Ahead: Clicker’s TV Search Engine Is Now Open To The Public
on Nov 12, 2009 in Uncategorized Clicker is available to the public. It is a startup that seems to be a comprehensive video search engine for television content on the web.  The site has been in private beta over the last couple months. Clicker now has 33% more content in its datab...

Online Advertising Stops Falling
on Nov 11, 2009 in online advertising advertising revenues AOL Below declines dismal performance display advertising Falling Google google yahoo growth indicator industry industry search internet large portion Microsoft news online quarters Recession recovery revenue search search advertising sequential sequential basis sequential growth slump state table time World yahoo year The third quarter has brought good news for the advertising world. After two quarters of dismal performance (annual declines), online advertising revenue seems to have stabilized in the third quarter. During this period, the online advertising revenu...

Google Has Acquired Gizmo5
on Nov 11, 2009 in Startup Deals 30 million April backup backup plan bind binder case ceo michael robertson competitor Computer date deal end endpoint founder Google identity infrastructure litigation month outbound phone phone users problem service sip Skype startup takenGizmo talk unspecified amount value voice calls voice phone number VoIP Skype was talking to VoIP startup Gizmo5 last month. Gizmo5 was seemed as a perfect backup plan in case the Skype IP litigation didn’t work out. - Gizmo5′ has a SIP infrastructure that could theoretically replace Skype’s proprietary...

When It Comes To iPhone In-App Purchases, Games, Social Networking, And Books Rule
on Nov 10, 2009 in Applications Mobile gadgets app Apple book boxcar category comics content Distimo download enhancements Finance finance categories free apps free version free versions iphone iRose Mafia mafia wars money much games Music networking news ngmoco popular games Purchases purchasing purchasing titles RJDJ rule Social Social Networking store TweetPush iTunes App Store has been offering the in-app purchasing for free apps for the last few weeks. In in-app purchases, apps offer a free version to the users who have to pay money for additional features or content. Apple is now drinking the top grossin...

Google’s Go: A New Programming Language That’s Python Meets C++
on Nov 10, 2009 in Applications New Launches New Product/Services attempts blog C. Go cool date development speed dynamic language fmt Golang Google Gordon gordon the gopher hello world mascot Meets new programming language object oriented design package performance post Printf python reflection rendition security benefits Support systems programming take World Google has just released a new, open sourced programming language called Go. Google says that Go is experimental. Go combines the performance and security benefits of both using a compiled language like C++ with the speed of a dynamic language like P...