There have been reports flying around Twitter and several prominent blogs that Twitter is making a move to acquire Summize, a popular Twitter search engine. In case that is the first you’re hearing about Summize, here’s a rundown of what it does. It can search Twitter for any string — most impo…

This is a story we’ve kind of been expecting to bring you since the day eBay bought PayPal. The company is thinking of requiring members to use PayPal to total transactions — in Australia besides.

Right now you can arrange payments by check, money order, PayPal, or other methods. But next mo…

A fistful of RIM documentation on Waterloo’s upcoming BlackBerry 9000 has found its way onto the interwebs courtesy of the good folks at Boy Genius Report, and while there’s nothing groundbreaking here, BlackBerry fanatics are certain to be drooling by the instance they get to the final slide in…

You know how whether you habitable in most states in the US you don’t have to pay sales tax on items purchased online? Yeah, that’s about to change for about 19 million residents of New York State. Legislators have approved a bill that requires large online stores to collect sales tax for anything…

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Small trade public don’t travel without laptops. On July 24, 2006, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided that US Customs and Border Patrol Officers …

If you like to keep track of your friendly neighborhood media conglomerates, and what smaller companies they have recently swallowed into their great, yawning maw, next you need to download Who Owns What v2.1.

Who Owns What is a printable chart (PDF) that tracks the recent acquisitions of a n…

Amazon has launched a trial of a new program called Product Ads. The program allows retailers to purchase ad space on Amazon without selling their products on the site. When a user clicks on the ad rather than being taken to a product within Amazon, the customer will instead be sent to the compa…

What a short, strange trip it has been. Dell has reportedly stopped selling AMD-based computer systems from its online store, just 21 months after they announced their intention to sell AMD-based systems to the general public.

However, opposite to first reports and the sandwich board wearing …

For bloggers or anyone who wants their own website, a natural question always is - who should I choose for a web host? There are many guides and ways to get advice on that subject. But the fact is that choosing the cheapest isn’t always the best. whether you know someone who has a site and you’r…

Online backup provider Mozy has just introduced its enterprise backup solution, aptly named MozyEnterprise. We’d like to first point out that the name “MozyEnterprise” commits not one, but two egregious web 2.0 transgressions: cute misspellings of common words and removing all spaces from the na…