The race to be the #1 mobile content player is definitely getting hot in 2006.
On January 6th Yahoo launched its Yahoo Go service - basically, their tailor-made mobile service to integrate their online content with 3G phones. So do you reckon Google wasted any time with a counter-attack? No chance. In typical Google fashion, they

For search engine afficianandos this is old news. But for those who hadn’t already heard, Google has now formally partnered with Chicago’s Sun-Times newspaper to trial a new print advertising scheme.
Under the deal, Google is currently filling what’s known as “unsold inventory” in the Sun-Times — essentially ad spots in the newspaper that the

Recruitment head-hunters, read this rumour and weep: according to some well-connected blog-o-sphere sources, Bill Clinton has been interviewing for a job at Microsoft. And not just any job - the word is, he’s potentially going to fill a top position on the company’s board.
For a man with experience running the world’s biggest superpower, it’ll

Ever received spam? Hate it? Then you are going to love this article. A Florida-based email spammer has just received a $11 billion judgement against him.
Now if only someone could extend this to virus creators & Nigerian con artists.

Apparently, it’s a tough world for US internet service providers right now. Competition is fierce, margins are wafer thin, capital expenditure requirements are as high as ever, and potential new ISP options (such as offered by Google) may soon open up to the wider public.
Two of the USA’s biggest ISPs, Bell South and AT&T, have

Can someone please tell me: is this Google or is this Dell? The answer confounds me.

It’s been coming for quite some time but now it’s official: Google has opened an online video store which will allow owners of premium video, movie and TV content to sell their libraries via a Google search interface. The beta Google Video program has been live for around 18 months now and by my reckoning,

The Google rumour mill is almost mirroring the paparazzi. Today’s latest bit of speculation? That Google is upping the ante in online classifieds with a potential takeover of giant US employment website Monster.com. Personally, I don’t see it happening soon - but I’ve been wrong before.

Since the calendar rolled into 2006 there has been a tidal wave of speculation about Google’s plans for the upcoming 12 months.
Considering Google’s value (US $140 billion) is still based almost entirely on the Google Adwords system, Wall Street analysts and business/technology journalists are postulation what new paid products and services will be rolled out

In this Wired article, author Charles C. Mann investigates the potential rise of cost-per-action search engines ad systems, in response to click fraud problems on pay-per-click systems such as on Google and Overture. One such CPA search engine already exists - Snap.com.
Although these CPA advertising models have been talked about for quite some time, there