I took advantage of a summer vacation to read Vernor Vinge’s Rainbow’s End. Rainbow’s End recently won the Hugo Award for science fiction literature. Like any good hard SciFi book, this one portrays a not-too-distant future where technology has…

For those who want to take Internet privacy matters into their own hands, there is a new service called Bynamite that aggregates information advertisers have collected about you in an easily managed personal profile. In addition, the site allows…

Recently, the Chinese government renewed Google’s license to operate its search engine business in China. Although uncertainties over Google’s future prospects in the Chinese internet market still remain, Google has expanded its presence in the emerging Chinese…

This month, along with the announcement of our retail alliance with AOL, Mediabrands unveiled of a new shopper market agency called Shopper Sciences. Retail veteran and Mediabrands EVP, John Ross will head the agency which will focus on the key influence factors in shoppers’…

After 48 days of courting teens with a device built for social networking, Microsoft killed the Kin mobile phone this week due to poor sales. Â The product included an innovative feature which aggregates content from various social networks in one hub, but received complaints from some users…