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Google Finance to add more data to fight Yahoo, AOL

Google plans to expand its finance Web site by adding more historical data and company filings as it tries to gain ground on more-popular services from Yahoo and AOL. The company will also seek to improve its 2-year-old finance site by offering real-time stock prices from the New York Stock Exchange on a permanent basis after a four-month pilot started this week, said R.J. Pittman, director of product management. Google's finance pages had 2.07 million U.S. visitors last month, ranking 13th on researcher ComScore's list of top financial sites. The company plans to use its search technology to help users find data more efficiently, rather than adding editorial content to lure more users, Pittman said. Adding features such as up-to-the-minute stock quotes will help Google lure more visitors that may then visit the company's other sites, sai

Apple says iTunes has sold more than 5 billion songs

Apple, maker of the iPod media player, said its iTunes online store has sold more than 5 billion songs since its debut five years ago as more fans abandon record shops for the Web. The site is the most popular in the United States for legal music downloads, with more than 8 million songs. ITunes customers also are renting or buying more than 50,000 movies a day, Apple said Thursday in a statement. Sales of CDs and music DVDs fell 13 percent to $15.9 billion last year, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry said yesterday. Sales of downloaded songs and mobile-phone ring tones rose 34 percent to $2.9 billion.

New Report: 80% of Online Consumers Would Buy More With Safer and More Convenient Pay Options

SAN JOSE, CA -- 05/08/08 -- The results of the 2008 Annual Javelin Consumer Payment Poll indicate that the majority of online consumers would buy more if safer and more convenient payment options were offered. The Payment Poll responders would each..

More, more, more& City of Heroes

On the ‘Midnight Hour’, babe! City of Heroes Issue 12 is rocking up the subscribers to the long-running NCsoft MMORPG.

More Than Five Top, Free Tools for Web Developers

"More and more, open source projects are either integrating with the web or are developed entirely for on-demand use. This requires strong web development skills--or at least good enough tools to rescue you if any of your web development skills are weak. The good news is that there are many free open source tools to help you with your web project, and given the costs of web development environments and the like, they can save you a lot of money. Here are more than five good examples.

More of the same for Activision, but different&

Activision has just detailed the highlights of its year ahead, as part of an investor conference following the presentation of their impressive financial results. And guess what – it’s more Guitar Hero, more Tony Hawk and more Call of Duty. But this is no bad thing, right?

iPhone: More Powerful than the iMac

I never thought of it this way, but Dan Frommer over at Silicon Alley Insider has done an interesting comparison between the decade-old iMac and the iPhone. The short version? The iPhone wins on most metrics. It has a faster processor, more memory, and even more storage capacity, and far outdistances the specs of the original 1984 Mac. Send it back in time and an iPhone, would have more than enough power to guide the moon landing, provided NASA had a copy of the SDK.

Web design is more than just slapping images and text on a page

Design used to be managed by professionals who had studied graphic design, but as budgets get tighter, speed becomes more and more important, and Web pages are critical for businesses, designers are more likely to be an afterthought. But knowing some graphic design rules can help your designs even if you\'ve never taken any courses in design.

Scientist Says Texting is More Expensive Than Downloading From Hubble

Does your cell phone bill ever reach astronomical proportions? Maybe you're doing too much texting. One space scientist has worked out that sending texts via mobile phones works out to be far more expensive than downloading data from the Hubble Space Telescope. Dr. Nigel Bannister from the University of Leicester looked at the cost of obtaining a megabyte of data from Hubble and compared it with the cost of sending a text. His calculations? “The bottom line is texting is at least 4 times more expensive than transmitting data from Hubble, and is likely to be substantially more than that."

EDN on Consumer Electronics: Solid-state drives, low-power serial DRAM interface, more...

While the tit-for-tat over the relative merits of and prospects for traditional hard-disk drives versus flash-memory-based SSDs (solid-state drives) continues, our expert weighs in with a more pragmatic assessment. Economic and technical factors mean the two storage formats are more likely to coexist and thrive in specific niches. Read more >>

Working with XML Data Using LINQ, a TreeView, and a ListView :: Displaying Data

With more and more data being stored in XML, web applications today commonly need some way to view and edit the data stored in an XML file from a web page interface. If the XML data is relatively "flat" and tabular in nature, we can use data Web controls like the DataGrid, GridView, and Repeater. (See Quickly Editing XML Data for an example of editing XML data through a DataGrid control.) But what if the XML data is more hierarchical and in a less tabular format? Consider a company-wide phone book, which is recursively structured into branches and departments, subdepartments, and so forth. How can this XML data, which can have any number of nodes and any level of children, be displayed and edited through a web page? More...

THERE's more to being a portrait painter than just capturing the beautiful things in life. It is about appreciating the little things we so often take for granted, 30-year-old Jonathan Appleby (pictured) reckons. more...

THERE's more to being a portrait painter than just capturing the beautiful things in life. It is about appreciating the little things we so often take for granted, 30-year-old Jonathan Appleby (pictured) reckons.

Visit Alliance Francaise and see more of the unique work of two artists Jason Chute and Frenchman Laurent Lange. more...

Visit Alliance Francaise and see more of the unique work of two artists Jason Chute and Frenchman Laurent Lange.

Google joins effort to make more Web sites more sociable

Google, following similar moves by the two biggest online hangouts, is introducing tools that are supposed to make any Web site more sociable. The service, which was expected to be available on a limited basis Monday evening, provides a framework that enables people to interact with their friends and use favorite applications they have accumulated on social networks like Facebook and Plaxo even when they aren't visiting those sites. Google's initiative, called "Friend Connect," follows pledges by MySpace and Facebook last week to allow their users to transport their personal profiles and applications to other Web sites. MySpace and Facebook - the Internet's two largest social hubs - announced their plans for wider accessibility late last week.

Google joins effort to make more Web sites more sociable

Following similar moves by the two biggest online hangouts, Internet search leader Google Inc. is introducing tools that are supposed to make any Web site more sociable.

Google joins effort to make more Web sites more sociable

The effort to make it easier for Web surfers to connect with their friends is attracting a crowd. Following similar moves by the two biggest online hangouts, Internet search leader Google Inc. is introducing tools that are supposed to make any Web site more sociable.

Google joins effort to make more Web sites more sociable

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-The effort to make it easier for Web surfers to connect with their friends is attracting a crowd. Following similar moves by the two biggest online hangouts, Internet search leader Google Inc. is introducing tools that are supposed to make any Web site more sociable.

DAMNSmallLinux Review

IconIt seems that I am in some sort of retro-mode. As Linux on the desktop is getting bigger and better, with more apps, more sleek looks (Galaxy, Keramik and Blue Curve for example) and more idiot proof, I am going onto simpler, more condensed stuff. The big distributions are nice, but I really do not need all the applications that come with them all the time.

Xbox 360 controller modded for hardcore first-person-shooter gamers

First-person shooter fans generally prefer the controls of a PC, using a mouse to aim and the keyboard to move around. You get more buttons for access to hotkeys and you can fire while looking around more easily. Console controllers are a little more awkward for such purposes and take more getting used to. Some people don't think that has to be the case, however.

Ubuntu 8.04 In the Wild!

The latest Ubuntu release brings the best of open source together on a platform that is here to stay with 3 years of free updates. With hundreds of improvements and the addition of the latest version of Firefox amongst other outstanding applications, more and more users are assessing why Ubuntu wins more and more converts with every release.

Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1

Firefox 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 33 months. Building on the previous release, Gecko 1.9 has more than 14,000 updates including some major re-architecting to provide improved performance, stability, rendering correctness, and code simplification and sustainability. Firefox 3 has been built on top of this new platform resulting in a more secure, easier to use, more personal product with a lot more under the hood to offer website and Firefox add-on developers.

Google Gets Serious About Open Source Mac Projects

mjasay sends us a link to a CNet story, which begins: "In the '20 percent time' that Google employees have to work on projects of personal interest, it turns out that an increasing number are spending time writing open-source projects for their Macs. Google has long had a fondness for the Mac, with upwards of 6,000 of its 20,000 current employees opting to use the Mac over Windows. It is in the 20 percent employee development time, however, where this statistic becomes interesting. At Google, development time translates into products. The more Mac-friendly employees, the more Mac-related development. The more Mac-related development, the more Google-sponsored Mac-based open-source code. As Google's Mac Developer Playground demonstrates, some of this code is quite interesting.

More China quake survivors pulled from rubble as toll rises

CHENGDU, China (AP) — Rescuers freed a 60-year-old woman Tuesday who was trapped for more than 195 hours after last week's earthquake and had survived by drinking rainwater, while the confirmed death toll rose to more than 40,000.

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