NEW YORK (AP) — Match.com, an old standby of online dating, wants to make some new connections among the fast-growing number of Facebook users worldwide. Dating Web site Match.com, owned by media mogul Barry Diller’s InterActiveCorp conglomerate, plans to launch two new features this week that bring greater social networking capabilities to its more than [...]
NBC and News Corp.’s new internet video site, Hulu, is finally seeing the light of day. Today, Hulu finally launched the private beta of their site, which includes almost a hundred different TV series and movies. After a number of delays, Hulu has their site out the door in October, as promised. Hulu is a [...]
Microsoft and Dassault Systemes have released a 3D building application for the Virtual Earth mapping program, the companies said Friday. Virtual Earth-3DVIA will let people create 3D structures with textures and colors and share them with one other online. The models can also be tagged with real-life addresses or town information so that they can [...]
For a few months Comcast has been the subject of scattered reports that say it throttles BitTorrent traffic. TorrentFreak said in August that Comcast was surreptitiously interfering with file transfers by posing as one party and then, essentially, hanging up the phone. But when we contacted Comcast at the time, it flatly denied doing it. [...]
Google powered more than half of all search requests carried out around the world in August, according to a report. A global study by analysts comScore revealed that more than 61 billion searches were performed by more than 750 million users in the month. Users performed more than 37 billion searches via Google, more than [...]
Social networking site Bebo announced on Thursday that it has struck a deal with AIM, AOL’s instant-messaging arm. Through this partnership, users of either service can now easily invite friends to the other. More specifically, Bebo users who have provided the site with their AIM usernames will now see an AIM icon displayed on their [...]
NEW YORK – Sample addresses in nearly a dozen languages will be added to the Internet’s central directories as early as next week, paving the way for Web surfers around the world to get online without knowing any English. At this point, the 11 domain names are meant primarily for software developers and Web site [...]
Microsoft Corp.’s quest to be a player in health-information services faces a broader challenge already rankling the health-care industry: how to collect information that many consumers don’t even share with their families. [MSHEALTH] Yesterday, Microsoft announced a Web site called HealthVault designed as a central place for consumers to store their health-related data and share [...]
The UK’s wireless net credentials have been boosted with the launch of a wi-fi sharing community by BT. BT has backed a global wireless sharing service called Fon, billing it as the “world’s largest wi-fi community”. The firm’s three million broadband customers will be able to share their wi-fi with others in the Fon community. [...]
Sprint Nextel is picking a fight with the country’s largest phone companies over the price it pays for access to their fastest networks. The industry skirmish has swelled into a political battle that will find an audience in front of members of Congress today. Sprint, of Reston, along with some competitors, says it has hundreds [...]
