SVR News Blog
March 21, 2005
HP Buys Snapfish Photo ServicePalo Alto-based HP hopes to boost sales of its popular photo printers and ink by targeting the San Francisco-based company's 13 million members. Snapfish's Web site contains roughly 350 million photos, which users can organize into digital albums, share with other members, turn into calendars or mouse pads, and have printed for as little as 15 cents per photo.
Diller Buys Jeeves for $1.85 billion
March 16, 2005
Flickr Partners with EZPrintMicrosoft Joins Paid Search Battle
March 14, 2005
[Reuters] Hands Off, Bloggers, Lawmakers SayMarch 12, 2005
MSFT RSS ReaderMarch 09, 2005
eBay running classified services in 6 countriesMarch 08, 2005
Google nabs MS OS architectWindRiver Donates Code to Open Source
ThinkSecret Seeks Dismissal of Apple Case
March 07, 2005
Yahoo taking on iTunes, Apple Music StoreBBC: Google enforces trademarks in keyword ads
Three top travel operators have taken action to ensure internet users are driven to their websites first when searching through Google. Companies pay to have their websites linked to particular terms on Google - one of the world's top search engines. Thomson, Thomas Cook and First Choice were said to have acted after rival companies linked their websites to the names of the market leaders.
Judge's preliminary ruling in Apple suit: Blogs are not the media
A California judge said in a preliminary ruling that bloggers should not have the same protection afforded to journalists under US law. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), representing the sites, said it was disappointed with the ruling. [BBC]
Google desktop goes 1.0
Security plays a bigger part in the full version. Because the tool had been able to index privacy-sensitive documents--against users' wishes--the final product avoids indexing those Word and Excel files that are password-protected, Bhatla said. It also allows people to block indexing of secure Web sites. Google previously had to update the software because of the potential for malicious hackers to capture some personal data.
Wists Launches
Bookmarklet technology somewhere between Flickr and Del.icio.us
Kanoodle, Moreover Push RSS Ads
Next big move in RSS ads
