http://www.tj.com/index.php Google-backed Youtube has acquired movie interaction service Omnisio. Omnisio is an impressive Web2.0 product that lets its users make videos more interactive. It used to be incubated at Y Combinator and recently launched to the public in March. en-us frice_jenzen@yahoo.com (phillip cabales) frice_jenzen@yahoo.com (phillip cabales) PHP RSS Feed Generator Google has finally on their way to create their own market for cloud based applications. The online search giant has announced that it is opening up the Google Apps Marketplace. No, it will not be doing some direct competition with the Apple App Store. It will instead make third party apps from partners to be integrated into Google Apps, a bunch of Google Web-based applications that users can access from the cloud. http://www.tj.com/google-/google-announces-its-own-cloud-based-app-store 2010-03-10 06:40:31 http://www.tj.com/google-/google-announces-its-own-cloud-based-app-store Facebook, with their recently inked partnership with online payment system giant PayPal, may be on their way to bigger things. The popular online social networking site made the partnership in order to make it easier for online users to purchase Facebook Credits, a virtual currency that the social networking site members use to buy virtual gifts and services. http://www.tj.com/social-media/facebook-credits-their-commercial-potential 2010-03-05 04:52:21 http://www.tj.com/social-media/facebook-credits-their-commercial-potential It is actually not surprising that Google has recently stepped up on its acquisitions. After all the online search giant has announced some months back that this year would be a year where the company might be aiming for at least one small acquisition a month. That is why most analysts were not surprised with the recent news that Google has acquired online photo utility site Picnik. http://www.tj.com/google-/google-acquires-picnik 2010-03-03 06:28:05 http://www.tj.com/google-/google-acquires-picnik Google Person Finder allows people to either search for people by name or leave information about them as a means to provide a kind of database where people may get the information they need about the loved ones and friends who may be affected by the recent Chile earthquake. The information at Google Person Finder is available in both Spanish and English. http://www.tj.com/google-/google-launches-person-finder 2010-03-01 05:01:40 http://www.tj.com/google-/google-launches-person-finder Yahoo is also going the same path in terms better real-time search by forging its own partnership with Twitter to feature contents on not only its online search results but also on Yahoo profiles. This has become a direct partnership with the micro-blogging giant that involved Yahoo purchasing the rights for access to Twitter content. http://www.tj.com/yahoo/yahoo-search-now-to-feature-twitter-content 2010-02-24 05:49:20 http://www.tj.com/yahoo/yahoo-search-now-to-feature-twitter-content After the European Commission forced Microsoft to let the people choose their web browser instead of putting Internet Explorer by default, all Windows-based computers in Europe will be alerted about an important decision. The PC screens would display a decision making assistant featuring 12 web browsers, first displaying at random the top five browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera, and IE. Each choice provides more information about the browser, just in case users still need to weigh in the pros and cons of each decision. http://www.tj.com/microsoft-windows-/microsofts-choose-your-browser-screen-unveiled 2010-02-19 19:24:46 http://www.tj.com/microsoft-windows-/microsofts-choose-your-browser-screen-unveiled Facebook is slowly going into e-commerce territory. Aside from being the most popular social networking site today, it hasn't been yet able to fully monetize its advantage. They are looking towards increasing the means to create income through the site. Although they may not yet be announcing their plans to do this, they have been slowly moving toward this path for some time now. http://www.tj.com/social-media/facebook-paypal-forge-online-payment-partnership 2010-02-19 05:35:25 http://www.tj.com/social-media/facebook-paypal-forge-online-payment-partnership Android handsets are being shipped at around 60,000 units daily around the world that would translate to a considerable statistic that may just be enough to threaten Apple's dominance in the market with its ever popular iPhone. But then, this fact may provide more questions than answers. http://www.tj.com/mobile/android-phones-being-shipped-at-60000-units-daily 2010-02-17 05:32:35 http://www.tj.com/mobile/android-phones-being-shipped-at-60000-units-daily It was only about a week since Google has launched Google Buzz. And yet, in this short span of time, it already has received a considerable number of complaints. Most of those complained mentioned the Google Buzz auto following feature. http://www.tj.com/google-/google-buzz-gets-some-heat-over-features 2010-02-15 06:27:03 http://www.tj.com/google-/google-buzz-gets-some-heat-over-features Veoh, a social media site that is similar to Google's YouTube, may be on the way of filing for bankruptcy. It has recently laid off the remainder of its workforce and may be filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection any time now. It seems a sad ending to something that has been known as one of the well-funded start-up online companies out there. http://www.tj.com/social-media/veoh-filing-for-bankruptcy-soon 2010-02-12 05:42:21 http://www.tj.com/social-media/veoh-filing-for-bankruptcy-soon Google Buzz is a new feature added to Gmail. It offers social media users who also have Gmail to have access through social media via their accounts. Through Google Buzz, Gmail users may be able to send and share photos, videos and other social data to either their Gmail friends or other people with their own Gmail. It may also allow users to provide status updates as well as message contacts via their Gmail accounts. http://www.tj.com/google-/google-buzz-googles-own-social-media 2010-02-10 06:38:47 http://www.tj.com/google-/google-buzz-googles-own-social-media In the recent weeks, there was some conflict brewing over at Amazon.com. It involved major publisher Macmillan and a dispute over e-book pricing. Amazon wants to remain with its standard pricing of $9.99 per e-book while Macmillan wants it higher at a $14.99 price tag. Both parties were in total disagreement for some time that it led to Amazon pulling out Macmillan book titles from its online store. http://www.tj.com/ecommerce/publisher-macmillan-returns-to-amazon 2010-02-08 06:19:16 http://www.tj.com/ecommerce/publisher-macmillan-returns-to-amazon With the release of the iPad, there is then this sudden interest of making similar tablet devices coming from other companies. One such company may be the Japanese electronics giant Sony. According to reports, Sony is planning to also get into the market for tablet devices. In a recent press conference held by Sony to announce their quarterly financial results, the company is hinting that it might also be interested in the same market that the Apple iPad has just put into the limelight recently. http://www.tj.com/companies/sony-planning-to-put-up-a-challenger-for-the-apple-ipad 2010-02-05 05:46:40 http://www.tj.com/companies/sony-planning-to-put-up-a-challenger-for-the-apple-ipad The shape of social media has been constantly changing over the past years. What we thought as a trendy social medium today could be so five minutes ago after a few years. A recent report shows how today's teens and young adults utilize social media. http://www.tj.com/social-media/teenagers-use-facebook-more-than-blogging-twitter 2010-02-04 04:30:52 http://www.tj.com/social-media/teenagers-use-facebook-more-than-blogging-twitter YouTube is venturing out into online movie rentals. YouTube has started on this business model by renting out digital movies on the site. As announced on the YouTube blog, the site went on to make five independent films associated with the Sundance Film Festival available for rent. Using their Google Checkout accounts, YouTube users in the US were given the opportunity to watch the five independent films for US$3.99 per rental. http://www.tj.com/music-video-/youtube-forays-into-online-movie-rentals 2010-02-03 06:20:19 http://www.tj.com/music-video-/youtube-forays-into-online-movie-rentals The Apple iPad has quickly become the recent favorite as a subject for tech jokes. It might be the norm for new gadgets and devices coming out nowadays. http://www.tj.com/apple-macintosh-/ipad-jokes-apple-ipad-versus-a-rock 2010-02-01 05:39:39 http://www.tj.com/apple-macintosh-/ipad-jokes-apple-ipad-versus-a-rock The new Apple iPad have a lot of people either praising it or poking fun at its name. In just about a couple of days, there have already been quite a lot of iPad jokes roaming around making fun at its name. To some, the name "iPad" seems to connote something connected to that familiar female hygienic item. The jokes have increased so much so that it may be behind the reason why the "iTampon" just recently reached third place on Tweeting trends on Twitter. http://www.tj.com/apple-macintosh-/ipad-whats-in-a-name 2010-01-29 05:37:31 http://www.tj.com/apple-macintosh-/ipad-whats-in-a-name Google has recently announced that it has developed a run around for using Google Voice on the iPhone by making it a Web application. It is said to work with iPhones with the 3.0 software installed and can be run through the mobile browser. iPhone users no longer have to wait anymore for the App Store to approve Google Voice as a native app since the Web app is now available. http://www.tj.com/google-/google-voice-now-on-iphone-as-web-app 2010-01-27 05:31:57 http://www.tj.com/google-/google-voice-now-on-iphone-as-web-app Google has recently released an updated stable version of Google Chrome for Windows which is available aside from the developer and beta versions of the browser. This update provides support for Chrome Extensions, which was included on both developer and beta releases since late last year. http://www.tj.com/google-/google-chrome-browser-gets-new-extensions-apps 2010-01-26 04:04:54 http://www.tj.com/google-/google-chrome-browser-gets-new-extensions-apps China has recently also issued statements denying that it has any involvement on the recent cyber attacks on Google. The said statements were issued by Beijing on the state news agency Xinhua. The statements included its strong stand of defending online censorship in the country. It adds that those companies that do business in China should respect and adhere to its laws. The said statement came in light after the US made its stance on the issue clear that it does not agree to online censorship. http://www.tj.com/google-/china-denies-attacking-google-defends-censorship 2010-01-25 05:51:56 http://www.tj.com/google-/china-denies-attacking-google-defends-censorship