Affiliate Programs and Affiliate Reviews
Cablevision broadcast the first high-def 3-D television program in the U.S. Wednesday night, a hockey game from Madison Square Garden. The broadcast was largely symbolic — almost no one is watching TV in 3-D in their homes yet as television sets equipped to decode the signals are just beginning to move through production.
Google is trumpeting victory in a European court ruling over its practice of selling trademarks to competing firms for use in the search giant’s paid results program. However, the EU court also set a new standard for national courts that could ultimately reshape how the company’s $23 billion advertising business operates.
Facebook, thanks to its 400 million status-updating, link-sharing, asparagus-farming, party picture-posting denizens, has risen to the top of the Internet heap once again, surpassing — at least according to one ranking — search giant Google in total U.S. visitors for the third time this year.
You’ve got apps for your phone. You’ll soon have apps for your digital video recorder. Now, you can have apps for your Apps, as in Google Apps. Google has launched its new Apps Marketplace for its Google Apps line of cloud-based productivity services. Initial participants include about 50 companies selling applications that hook into various Google services.
Google and Dish Network reportedly are testing a service that allows television users to search for television programming and Web content from set-top boxes. Google software installed in the boxes allows users to create a personalized programming lineup, anonymous sources told The Wall Street Journal.
A federal grand jury has indicted four owners and key employees of a company that prosecutors said for years illegally cornered the market on the best concert and sporting event seats. The 60-page indictment accuses the men of directing an international conspiracy to defeat security schemes at Ticketmaster, Tickets.com and other online ticketing sites.
Document-sharing site Scribd.com launched a new feature Wednesday allowing users to easily transfer many of the site’s 10 million books, magazines and documents to mobile devices, including Amazon’s Kindle, the Nook e-reader and the Apple iPhone. The feature works differently for each device.
Credit card issuers must follow new rules of the road as of Monday, but consumers should not view the new protections as a cure-all for their frustrations with plastic. Instead, they should be ever more vigilant as credit issuers roll out new card agreements. They could result in new financial pain if card users aren’t careful.
When stumbling around the Web in search of a new toaster or a great deal on a new pair of sneakers, it’s not unusual for consumers to come across ominous policy dialogs warning of mismatched or expired SSL certificates. In fact, recent surveys have shown nearly 20 percent, or even more, of popular Web sites may have certificate problems that would lead to errors.
Xerox said Monday that it will buy Affiliated Computer Services for $6.4 billion in cash and stock. Best known for its copying and printing business, Xerox said the move answers a growing need to better link document management to the processes that produce them — including finance, human resources, transaction processing and customer support.
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