INTERNET giant Google today revealed it is designing a new operating system for cheap computers in a challenge to Microsoft's world-conquering Windows.

IN A dramatic move that could transform the world home computer market, internet giant Google is launching an assault on the dominant Windows operating system run by Microsoft

eMarketer and others have brought to light the concept of view-through conversion. This is essentially when users see an online ad but do not click on it, only to search for the product, brand or service that they saw in

Commission Junction, one of the largest affiliate networks around has added "green" categories to their impressive list of offerings. Environmentally-friendly products are in high demand with consumers, a trend that has been steadily growing for years and shows no signs

It seems that everyone has a self-hosted WordPress blog these days. The problem is that few if any are able to actually generate any significant revenue from their blogging and content creation efforts. It doesn't have to be that way

Web analytics provider VisiStat released version 7.0 of their product yesterday and the solution features a number of interesting upgrades and enhancements.- AdCaM 3 (the advertising campaign management module) has a greater focus on reporting and conversion.- SEO Analyzer provides

Windows security software provider Sunbelt Software released a list of the most prevalent malware threats for the month of June 2009.Sunbelt Labs finds a surge in threat detections for the high risk threat Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.gen, a family of password-stealing Trojan programs

Microsoft has launched Hohm, its new website for managing and regulating home energy usage.Hohm allows people to better understand their energy usage, receive recommendations and ways to save money. Recommendations can vary from placing new caulking on windows to removing

An important figure at Google may be about to leave, according to a new report. Dick Costolo, the cofounder and CEO of FeedBurner, is supposed to depart the corporation sometime this week.Michael Arrington apparently confirmed the news today, and with

Maybe Microsoft won't get fined a gazillion dollars by the European Union, after all. The software giant is supposedly making an attempt to settle two antitrust probes, and according to the same report, even has a firm cut-off date in

Almost 50 percent of consumers say that online health videos are a top resource when searching for medical conditions and prescription drug information according to a new survey by Prevention, Men's Health and Women's Health magazines.Health information websites such as

shared some interesting findings from a survey of over 150 Google Analytics about website abandonment. They discussed "post session remarketing" and say it is going to grow rapidly. Post session remarketing is basically going after individual users who have abandoned

Yahoo and the NFL Players Association have reached a settlement over the use of players' statistics, images and other information in Yahoo's fantasy football games.Yahoo the NFLPA last month arguing it should not have to pay additional royalties to use

Brett Tabke was among the speakers on the 'Mega Panel' at SMX Advanced this year. This session essentially consists of a panel of established industry experts fielding questions from the crowd of conference attendees. It never takes long in these

The football player formerly known as Chad Johnson is ruffling some feathers with the National Football League. He has told the media that he plans to use Twitter during games. I haven't seen any official statement on this from the

A federal judge has dismissed some claims for damages against Google's YouTube in a class action copyright suit involving music publishers and Britain's Premier League.U.S. District Judge ruled that damages are not available for any foreign works that are not

released some interesting findings from a (pdf) on consumer trust and advertising. The most important takeaway is that consumer opinions posted online are the most trusted forms of advertising globally. Right off the bat, this tells me that:A. You need

Google has announced that it is working on an operating system based on Google Chrome (their browser). The company says the project is an attempt to "re-think what operating systems should be."The OS-in-progress is simply called Google Chrome OS, it

The Facebook movie (which is titled The Social Network at its current stage of development) may be of interest to people outside Silicon Valley, after all. A professional reviewer has gotten hold of the script and given it high marks.In

Last year, Yahoo debuted its YQL language, which lets users query, filter, and join data across web data sources or services on the web. YQL or Yahoo Query Language is based on a SQL-like language, and it helps apps run