Today is a welcome good news day for stressed Yahoo boss Jerry Wang, as he is going to launch the new APT advertising platform of the search engine.

This web-based system has been developed to make the process of buying, selling, displaying online ads simple. It has also got two of Silicon Valley newspapers on board including San Jose Mercury News and San Francisco Chronicle.

There is no word about Yahoo’s controversial advertising deal with Google in which Google ads will appear beside Yahoo!’ s search results with the help of new technology unveiled by the Mad Men star Jon Hamm. Read the rest of this entry »

The US President George W Bush urges Americans to support a massive bail-out of financial markets for easing financial crisis.

He said in a live TV speech that the entire US economy was in danger if the steps weren’t taken now, it would be much difficult to handle it afterward.

President Bush has invited John McCain and Barack Obama to the White House to discuss the $700bn rescue package. The two presidential rivals are not agreed on delaying a TV debate over the economic crisis.

According to McCain, he will suspend his election campaign to help with the crisis, while Mr. Obama believes that at that time the need to hear from the candidates is more than ever for the voters. Read the rest of this entry »

Facebook is considering taking a big leap into the bigger cyberspace as its Connect service will allow you to log in other websites and go live with your Facebook account.

If you have already logged on to Facebook, you can also log in to online celebrity rag of CBS just with a single click.

Now you can invite your friends to join you browsing stories about fabulous parenting skills of Jada Pinkett Smith or a real scary-looking Gary Colemans’ driving problems. The fun never ends here as you can also easily post any bitchy comments you make on other sites. Read the rest of this entry »

Six new HD web channels with full of interesting content have been recently launched by the largest independent producer Entertainment Studios.

With the suffix of .tv that has become the major source of income for the Pacific Island of Tuvalu, the six  HD TV and web channels include Cars.TV, Comedy.TV, Pets.TV, ES.TV, Recipe.TV and Comedy.TV.

There is no need to explain all these channels one by one as they are quite self-explanatory .However, at Comedy.TV you can also see live performances. The web pages provide myriad HD video content about their allocated genre. Read the rest of this entry »

According to Comscore monthly figures, in the US search market, Google’s market share has climbed up by a percentage point in the records of the past month and it’s getting even closer to two-thirds mark.

The Comscore released figures for August doesn’t give a nice reading for Google’s major search rivals including Yahoo and Microsoft.

In the US, almost sixty-three percent web searches are made via Google while Yahoo with its 19.6 per cent searches is languishing far behind. In Yahoo searches, there is a fall of almost 1% on data from July. Read the rest of this entry »

The risk of developing asthma is higher in the babies who were frequently given paracetamol in the first 12 months of their life, a new study, which involved more than 200,000 children, suggests.

According the Lancet report, babies who were given paracetamol for fever during the first year of their life had a 46% higher risk of developing asthma five years later.

However, the researchers couldn’t find whether the drug directly increased the risk of asthma or there was some other factor involved.

According to experts, parents can still use the drug for high fever.

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You may get fed up using words for your internet searches, you may or may not but Google is as it has announced a new audio search service named “Gaudi”.

The new service has been trialed for two months on iGoogle and now its running for video provided to YouTube’s political channel.

Gaudi would use video content on the web straight from Google Labs and apply speech recognition when you mutter your search term.

Let’s if you type Google, it will bring forward all videos where ever Google is mentioned in the political circuit. Read the rest of this entry »

The increasing manifestation of gang and gun culture on TV and Internet has become a real headache for several countries around the world and now the think tanks of these countries are trying to curb it by implementing new media rules and regulations. In such a bid, YouTube has also banned all those submissions that show guns and knives in a positive way.

The new rule has been implemented because of an investigative report from The Times’ that noticed some failings in YouTube’s monitoring system.

A spokesperson for Google, who owns the website said about the new ruling: “The particular concern is over those videos that show weapons to threat or bullying the people and this area is really needed to be addressed. Read the rest of this entry »