Now when you really really want to tell someone - Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn! - the memorable line from the movie Gone with the Wind (1939), you can show them exactly what you mean. Literally show them in the clip from that movie!
The innovative idea of bringing movie and music clips [...]

Facebook has announced that Marc Andreessen has joined its board of directors. Currently co-founder and chairman at Ning, Andreessen is an investor in several Internet startups.
“Marc is an industry leader, and we’re fortunate to have him join our board,” said Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “He has experience that is relevant to Facebook in [...]

Sports enthusiasts have news from Yahoo to cheer about. Yahoo! Inc. has announced that the Bejing summer Olympics 2008 will be coverted through a new site from Yahoo! Sports - http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics. The site will provide up-to-the minute coverage from Yahoo! Sports’ editorial team and include videos and photos.
The online tools for sports enthusiasts include

Beijing torch [...]

Oracle maintained its lead in relational database management systems with 44.3 percent of the market share with IBM at 2nd position with 21 percent for the year 2007, according to IDC. Worldwide database market highlights for the 2007:

Relational database systems market growth - 12.6 percent, to $18.8 billion
Oracle - market leader with revenue growth 13.3 [...]

Virgin Mobile USA, Inc. today announced that it has acquired Helio, a joint venture between SK Telecom and EarthLink, Inc. As part of the deal, Virgin Mobile USA will acquire Helio from SK Telecom and EarthLink for limited partnership units equivalent to 13 million shares of Virgin Mobile USA class A common stock, with a [...]

BlogTalkRadio, the online social talk radio broadcasting network, has raised $4.6 million in Series A financing. The Kraft Group, which is headed by New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, was the lead investor, along with former hedge-fund manager Scott Sipprelle and other private investors.
The company plans to use the money for product enhancements: integrating video [...]

The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum has announced today that its activities and membership will be folded into LiMo Foundation as of July, 2008. This pooling of efforts and resources reflects the industry-wide trend [...]

The Nokia N78 is now available in the US. The compact and sleek phone packs an impressive array of features: integrated A-GPS, a 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and high-speed HSDPA connectivity on North American 850/1900 MHz networks, 3.5G and WLAN internet access. Supported services include Nokia Maps and Share on Ovi.
Price: A [...]

AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced the launch of the first teraFLOPS graphics card, the ATI Radeon™ HD 4850, and the launch of the first graphics card featuring ultra high bandwidth GDDR5 memory, the ATI Radeon HD 4870. The cards feature DirectX® 10.1 [...]

Voice over Internet protocol company Jaxtr has raised a $10 million Series B round and announced a paid service that the fast-growing company said would allow it to reach break-even next year. Valuation for the new round, which was led by Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, was not disclosed.
The paid service, will allow users of Jaxtr [...]

TechCrunch is reporting that Microsoft and Yahoo are talking again for some kind of deal pushing Yahoo stocks as high as 23.71. There are conflicting reports of deal being a complete buyout or a search-only deal. It is not clear either if Yahoo would be willing to settle for a price lower than Microsoft’s earlier [...]

Parascale, a cloud storage company for web 2.0 rich media content, has announced that it has closed an $11.37 million Series A financing round led by venture capital firms Charles River Ventures and Menlo Ventures.
Parascale plans to use the funding for product development and marketing initiatives in preparation for the launch of Parascale Cloud [...]

According to WSJ, Google’s Android plateform for mobile phones won’t have a working handset until the 4th quarter. According to the report “some cellular carriers and makers of programs that work with Android are struggling to meet that schedule, people familiar with the situation say. T-Mobile USA expects to deliver an Android-powered phone in the [...]

Seesmic, the online video conversation platform has secured a $6 million second round of funding co-led by Omidyar Network and Wellington Partners. Pierre Omidyar, eBay founder, will join the company board. The new round brings the total funding amount raised by Seesmic to $12 million.
Seesmic enables users to share experiences on blogs, social networks and [...]

RedHat has now entered the virtualization market with its own stand alone hypervisor and a new virtualization management platform, oVirt. The new technology offerings have been built out of the Red Hat sponsored oVirt open source project.
Red Hat’s oVirt management platform is a cross-platform management solution for customers to centrally manage their entire virtual infrastructure, [...]

Internet advertising impressions grew by 14.7% in the first quarter of 2008 when compared to the same period in 2007. Sponsored search link advertising and rich media led drove overall growth. This is good news for Google, the online search industry leader which leads the competition in sponsored search. Yahoo is a distant second with [...]

comScore has released video viewership numbers for US internet users for the month of April. 11 billion videos were viewed in April down from 11.5 billion views for March. Google sites topped the list with 38% market share. YouTube accounted for 98% viewership among Google sites and remains the undisputed leading online video destination.
Other notable [...]

For the month of May, Google, Yahoo and Ask reported a green while Microsoft slipped further in red. Google search queries grew to 61.8 percent compared to 61.6 percentage for the month of May, according to search Internet monitoring research firm comScore.
Numbers for May:

Search Queries went up by 2 percent to 10.77 billion for the [...]