Starbucks has finally begun to offer free wifi. The no-charge, limitation-free and no-registration wifi initiative will take place in both the US and in Canada. Starbucks has been working on it’s own network, called Starbucks Digital Network, in partnership with Yahoo!. The idea of the network will be to offer a seamless entertainment service for [...]

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Facebook’s 2009 revenue was almost 800 million, according to a report by Reuters. Facebook also turned part of that revenue into solid net profit. This revenue is higher than previous estimates of 500 million. “They are downplaying their performance…” stated one Reuters source. If Facebook is heading towards an IPO, than they would be better [...]

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Google is now going to allow third party web developers to build apps that work within their Gmail service. This new plan will allow Google Apps customers add various third-party applications. Yahoo mail already has a few limited third party applications that integrate with it’s web mail application from PayPal and Facebook. The goal in [...]

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The popular online classified ad service, Craigslist, has been subpoenaed by Connecticut’s attorney general over sex ads that appear in it’s listings. The attorney general says that Craigslist is not doing enough to stop prostitution online, and that the company is even profiting from the sex ads. Currently, there are 39 states looking into the [...]

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Google is expanding the business opportunities for local search by offering a suggestion technology for Google Local. For users in Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Spain, United States, and United Kingdom–and in eight languages will see suggested search results highlighted below the search input above just above the interactive mapping view in [...]

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The iPhone prototype that was lost in a Redwood City, Calif bar by a mid-level Apple developer was later purchased by a tech blog, Gizmodo.com ( part of Gawker Media’s blog network ). Silicon Valley police are investigating the transaction, which may have violated criminal laws. The investigation is being conducted supposedly by a computer [...]

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An executive vice president of digital for Interscop, Geffen, a music label owned by Universal Music Group, stated in a press conference that Lady Gaga accounts for about one quarter of the website traffic for Vevo–a web service created by three of the largest record companies. Comscore reported that Vevo had 35 million unique visitors [...]

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A new service called Business Productivity Online Suite Federal was implemented for the Federal Government by Microsoft. The goal of the project was to achieve better security than the traditional cloud infrastructure by Microsoft such as fingerprinting as part of background checks and biometric access control. This cloud service by Microsoft is becoming an attractive [...]

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Google founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, have filed plans with the SEC to sell a portion of their stock, which would reduce their combined share to just below majority. After the deal, their ownership total would fall below 48%. Many are not worried however about the loss of majority control by the founders, since [...]

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Only cable companies are distributing set-top boxes that can access all of the digital cable and video on-demand services available through their networks. Consumers can access the internet through many possible devices, yet MVPD’s services are only available through the set-top boxes distributed by cable companies. The FCC may potentially rule against the cable companies [...]

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