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Things aren’t looking good for Yahoo right now.  Google has pulled out of the advertising deal that looked so promising for both companies citing potential antitrust issues.  Now, CEO Jerry Yang is saying that the Microsoft buyout was probably the best thing that could have happened.  This coming even after… Continue Reading »

Ring back tones, that music you can opt to hear instead of a ring phone when you place a call is getting more intelligent.  Ring Plus, a US company, has been offering free calls (even international) to its subscribers in exchange for listening to an advertisement while waiting for your… Continue Reading »

Since the advent of television news, newspapers have been struggling.  Sales have been slowing, circulation and staffs shrinking, with more and more small town papers dying out.  Some would call print news a dying business. The Internet boom since the 1990’s threatened to be the death sentence for newspapers, but… Continue Reading »

It is very easy to get caught up in all the Android excitement and possibilities this T-Mobile device offers.  The gloss of this press event seems to dulling faster than a App store download.  Our man Iyaz got in Google’s grill and demand answers to questions Gadgetell has over the… Continue Reading »

In an attempt to lock into some kind of deal before their board re-election August 1st, Yahoo! is trying to resume talks with Time Warner about a possible merger with their internet arm AOL in a deal worth up to $10 billion.  These talks have come to the forefront after… Continue Reading »

While we have all come to expect that majority of these ultra-portable notebooks are very similar not only feature wise, but also in the way they look on the outside. However some new promo images from Asus and MSI are now offering (almost) the same image. Well, the image is… Continue Reading »

Google has finally gotten what it has long wanted as the European Commission has cleared Google’s $3.1 billion buyout proposal to online advertising company DoubleClick. The EU has been deliberating on Google’s proposal since November 2007 after it has passed through the U.S. Anti-Trust Authorities. In its in-depth investigation of… Continue Reading »

Radio and TV network CBS will be running an experiment about cellphone advertising based on a person’s location or what it commonly known as location-based advertising. However, CBS did not specify the exact date and duration of this trial. The network giant hopes this will help arrest the aversion of… Continue Reading »

The new Microsoft shopping cart promises turn your next mundane shopping trip into an adventure! Four years in the making, collaborating with Texas-based MediaCart Holdings Inc, Bill Gates has launched a grocery cart-mounted console that does everything but remove money from wallets to pay for items! It helps shoppers find… Continue Reading »

This has got to be one of the coolest Wii ads I have seen so far. If I were the owner of Nintendo, I’d asked my PR department to checkout on Super 78 and track down the person who had come up with the idea for this ad. To make… Continue Reading »