5.8 earthquake hits Los Angeles
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008CNN Breaking News: A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has rattled Los Angeles, California.
Update: preliminary analysis has shown no serious structural damage and no injury reports in Los Angeles.
The epicenter was 3 miles west-southwest of Chino Hills and 28 miles east-southeast of the Los Angeles Civic Center, which is in downtown Los Angeles, the USGS reports.
CNN app on Samsung phones
Saturday, April 12th, 2008CNN International and Samsung Electronics have inked a deal to offer CNN’s new mobile application as pre-loaded software on the electronics manufacturer’s handsets, beginning in June. The deal grants Samsung a six-month window of exclusivity, during which it will be the only device manufacturer to host the new Java-based service.
Top news sites: Nielsen
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008Nielsen Online released the top 30 sites in the “News” category based on February 2008 traffic. This data takes into account U.S. home and work Internet usage, and it shows both unique visitors to each brand or channel and sessions per person. Nielsen Online is providing these data sets to the Newspaper Association of America [...]
Why do people read blogs
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008Two thirds of Americans - 67% - believe traditional journalism is out of touch with what Americans want from their news, a new We Media/Zogby Interactive poll shows. The survey also found that while most Americans (70%) think journalism is important to the quality of life in their communities, two thirds (64%) are [...]
News Corp might buy Yahoo
Sunday, February 17th, 2008Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is in talks with Yahoo about a possible deal that would stave off an approach from Microsoft, The Wall Street Journal says.
The Inquirer quotes Blog4IT
Thursday, January 31st, 2008The infamous The Inquirer (spanish edition) quotes Blog4IT in it’s story about the under-$100 Linux cell phone.
How Yahoo got #1 in News
Thursday, January 31st, 2008They got number one because when you want to read the news, the sections are blank or not updated, and you have to go back an forth, hit refresh and visit alot of pages, and then you call your friends to verify if there is a story there, or it’s not
Yahoo News, first source for Internet people
Thursday, January 17th, 2008Hitwise data featured is based on US market share of visits, which is the percentage of online traffic to the domain or category, from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US Internet users. Hitwise ranks over 1 million unique websites on a daily basis, including subdomains of larger websites. Hitwise categorizes websites into industries on [...]
GInside, news about Google
Monday, January 14th, 2008The answer to the question “What is Google up to?” can now be easily answered: Simply visit Ginside. Ginside is a regularly updated space where information relating to current Google news and other hot happenings within the quickly growing Internet empire is shared. The owner of the website, Jonathan Dingman, puts his own personal spin [...]
Garmin nuvi 780: traffic, stocks, news
Friday, January 4th, 2008Garmin announced the nuvi 780, the newest addition to the popular nuvi family and the most powerful in its acclaimed 700 series. The nuvi 780 was also announced in preparation for the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
“The nuvi 780 brings vital information — through dynamic updates — to recreational and business travelers,” said [...]
