Earlier this year, an anonymous Samsung executive indicated that his (or her) company might build TVs based on Android.  Now, although Samsung hasn’t exactly released a list of shipping dates, an exec has at least gone on record saying that the possibility remains. According to Jun Yang and Pavel Alpeyev, Yoon Boo Keun, President of [...]

The U.S. Department of Labor has launched a new website aimed at helping people find jobs. The site is called “mySkills myFuture” and it allows users to view local job postings, find training and education providers. The site offers job descriptions, salary information and common tasks related to a new occupation. "Americans deserve good jobs, [...]

How many times have you created a new account at a website and seen a message that said: “Thank you for creating an account. To activate your new account, please access your email and click the verification URL provided.” Even though you just want to start using the website, this lengthy process requires you to [...]

When Google unveiled Google TV at Google I/O in May, the company said it would be out for the holidays. CEO Eric Schmidt is now saying more specifically, this autumn, according to Reuters. It’s unclear whether this is ahead of the originally planned schedule or if it was always intended to be Autumn (as opposed [...]

AOL has entered into a partnership with The Ellen DeGeneres Show to promote the program and its website. AOL will promote The Ellen DeGeneres Show on its websites KitchenDaily.com and AOL Television. Ellentv.com will promote AOL content daily, providing links to other AOL sites and working on larger promotional deal with related content. “This partnership [...]

Google shareholders who have a few extra thank you notes sitting around might consider sending them to AT&T, the Apollo Group, and Expedia, along with a handful of other companies.  New data identifies these organizations as the biggest AdWords spenders in June (and pins down the dollar amounts involved). Michael Learmonth apparently obtained "an internal [...]

Oracle announced that Mark Hurd is now the Co-President of the company, and has been named to the Board of Directors. Yes, that Mark Hurd.  Hurd was recently forced to resign as CEO of HP after an internal investigation from the company around a questionable relationship with a contractor and related expense reports. It didn’t [...]

Texting on your mobile phone while driving is considered risky but the same activity when performed while walking on the street in not that safe either. There have been numerous reports in the media of pedestrians walking into traffic, tripping on steps or even running into other people just because they were busy writing a [...]

Google’s Realtime Search offers you a convenient way to search through status updates, news articles and other links that are shared on the social web, mainly Twitter and Facebook. Microsoft too has a similar search product called Bing Social and though both these tools are powered by the same data coming from Twitter and Facebook, [...]

Before you buy something on eBay, you always look at the feedback score of the seller to get an idea about his past dealings with other eBay members. A high score usually indicates a good reputation of the seller in the eBay marketplace and you can further click the member’s profile page to read all [...]