- Google’s e-mail gets social in Facebook face-off
(AP)
AP – Google is making it easier to socialize on its e-mail service. It’s unveiling a new “Google Buzz” feature that sets up a face-off with Facebook.
- Online ad improvement seen in IAC’s 4Q loss
(AP)
AP – Internet company IAC/InterActiveCorp lost $1 billion in the fourth quarter because it wrote down the value of its search business, but the results beat expectations and offered the latest indication that the online advertising market is improving.
- Electronic Arts shares dive on weak outlook
(AP)
AP – A disappointing outlook from Electronic Arts Inc. sent shares of the video game publisher sharply lower Monday, a sign that significant cost-cuts and layoffs have not ended the company’s slump.
- Security chip that does encryption in PCs hacked
(AP)
AP – Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans. Now a former U.S. Army computer-security specialist has devised a way to break those locks.
- MySpace Music experiments with audio ads
(AP)
AP – Hoping to boost revenue, MySpace Music has begun experimenting with audio advertisements that users must hear if they want to listen to music for free online.
- Google reduces fee to break Nexus One contract
(AP)
AP – Google Inc. is shaving $200 off the fee that it charges customers of its new Nexus One phone to break a service contract with T-Mobile, as federal regulators continue to probe such fees and the rationale for them.
- Perez Hilton, Black Eyed Peas manager settle suit
(AP)
AP – A judge is dismissing a civil lawsuit filed against a Black Eyed Peas manager who punched blogger Perez Hilton in a nightclub last year.
- Macworld Focuses on Mobile Apps as Apple Stays Away
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor – Macworld 2010 kicked off in San Francisco on Tuesday. The annual five-day event will showcase hundreds of Mac products and services, expert advice, and demonstrations — but this year mobile apps may steal the show.
- Microsoft E-health Research Taps Xbox, Mobile Phones
(PC World)
PC World – Microsoft is researching how gadgets like the company’s Xbox game machine, surface computers and accelerometers in mobile phones could be used to improve health care.
- 5 Hopes for a More Social Gmail
(PC World)
PC World – Google on Tuesday is reportedly going to unveil a new social service that will incorporate a stream of “media and status updates” into Gmail. These streams would not be public, but would require you to connect with your fellow Google users and may eventually incorporate other Google services like YouTube and Picasa, according to The Wall Street Journal.
