Expanded toy, baby offerings on Amazon

Amazon debuts expanded toy, baby store > Expanded toy, baby offerings on Amazon The online retailer for the first time will extend its shipping promotions to shoppers who buy toys and baby products on its site, including its long-standing free shipping promotion on orders of $25 or more.

Amazon spokesman Patty Smith said the company would continue to add selection in anticipation of the holiday shopping season. "We've got a ways to go," she said.

Google Trends offers look at search patterns

Google Trends offers look at search patterns: The Internet Knows What You'll Do Next

Google Trends, a new feature that allows any Web user to track the popularity of search terms, could change the business of marketing by giving companies immediate feedback on the popularity of products and services, according this analysis.

The diary as resume

The diary as resume >

The Diary of a somebody for recruiters, blogs offer a unique window into job candidates: Successful, enterprising bloggers who have already monetized their sites can be an attractive catch for employers, but bloggers who wade in the seamier side of the blogosphere can damage their prospects.

Mobile Web may be far from reality in U.S.

Mobile Web may be far from reality in U.S. in Real Time

For all of the Internet's benefits, the medium's major crutch in the U.S. is that it's not mobile, says Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Fry. The problem, Fry says, is that wireless carriers wield too much control over what software customers can download.

Model citizen

A legendary marching band director has been inspired by a passion for model soldiers: He is a Model citizen fanatic.

Toy soldiers have an ancient history. Toy soldiers seem to have been around for as long as there have been toys. Ancient Chinese and Egyptian rulers had collections that have been unearthed by archaeologists, the Greeks and Romans had tiny bronze soldiers, Kings of medieval Europe had tiny armies of wood and pottery, and monarchs of the 19th century had glittering collections sculpted of gold and silver.

Mobile phone driving as bad as being drunk

The researchers used a driving simulation device for their study, published in the summer 2006 issue of Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

Is a Mobile phone driving as bad as being drunk? Just like many people who have been drinking, the mobile phone users did not believe themselves to be affected, the researchers found.

Superb update humanizes comic-book mythology

This facet to Superman’s personality may not have been purposefully glossed over in Richard Donner’s 1978 and 1980 versions, but those movies merely supplied the requisite details to decipher the mythical origins of earth’s mightiest superhero.

In Superb update humanizes comic-book mythology shows a confident, convincing and charismatic as Superman and endearingly geeky as Clark, the chiseled Routh is perfectly cast as the god-like superhero, whose lonely quest for identity and elusive love eventually leads him to a stark realization that turns impatience into prudence and wisdom.

US website sued over cheat 'slur'

The creator of a US website that lets women complain about men they say have wronged them is facing legal action from a featured man.

Read all about it at > US website sued over cheat 'slur'

CBS goes mobile with Weathernews

CBS goes mobile with Weathernews: CBS Broadens Mobile Video Push

CBS has inked a deal with Weathernews Inc. to supply weather and sports content from 10 of its owned-and-operated CBS stations to Sprint mobile subscribers.

The CBS video will appear in Weathernews' "LiveLocal" package, which costs subscribers $4.99 per month.

Google to test online payment system

Google to test online payment system: Google Gets Ready to Test GBuy, A New Online-Payment Option

Reports indicate that Google is set to test GBuy, an online payment system that will challenge eBay-owned PayPal. Merchants who agree to use GBuy will have a special symbol next to their text ads and listings on the Google search engine.

EU members attempt to cut costs of environmental laws

A survey by the European Commission has produced a list of 11 methods EU member states are using to dramatically ease the costs and administrative burden of following the bloc’s environmental and pollution regulations.

Read more > EU members attempt to cut costs of environmental laws The moves by national governments to ease the red tape associated with the rules are signs that calls by industry associations for less, rather than more, are not going unheeded.

The Confederation of the Food and Drink Industries of the European Union (CIAA) has consistently said environmental and anti-pollution rules would harm the competitiveness of its members.

Google Tool for Crisis Management

The Internet is at the center of many of the crises that prompt clients to call me these days, specifically the ease by which negative information proliferates online and how challenging it can be to both track and counter the negative.

However, Google Tool for Crisis Management is apossible remedy.

When you look at a broader term, e.g., "crisis management," once again the results aren't what one might expect.The top three languages in which the term is searched the most often are Greek, Tagalog and Finnish. English is fourth.

When you look at the top 10 cities, the first U.S. city is ranked 8th (Washington, D.C.), with the top ranked being Athens, Greece.And when you look at the regional rankings, the U.S. doesn't even make the top 10, which starts with Pakistan and ends with Indonesia.

Google explains the ranking system as follows. Read more, click the link provided above.

This is Britain

England's crowded capital has always been home to the rich, quietly leading a life that is far removed from the hurly-burly of the masses. What has changed is the number.

Buoyed by the strength of the City - which some say is becoming the powerhouse of world finance - and an influx of foreign tycoons reassured by the safety of British life, the ranks of the super-wealthy are swelling.

It's a rich man's world (in the UK): The rise and rise of the super wealthy It has an 18-carat gold point, and is set with 5,072 diamonds and 96 rubies. Greek shipping tycoons are fond of London. ... Read more, click the link!

European trademarks vs. Google

Google, Vuitton battle over trademark, open Net: European trademarks vs. Google.

A French appeals court ruling on whether Google violated the trademark of Louis Vuitton Malletier, a unit of LVMH, by allowing online ads for competitors and knockoffs to appear when the luxury leather goods maker's name is searched, demonstrates the conflict between protecting marketing images and maintaining an open Internet.

A lower court last year ruled in favor of Vuitton's claims of trademark counterfeiting, unfair competition and misleading advertising, ordering Google to pay $250,000 in damages.

Young viewers clicking on YouTube, not reaching for clicker

Young viewers clicking on YouTube, not reaching for clicker, but For young, checking YouTube becomes a habit.

YouTube.com, which now has 12.5 million visitors each month and ranks among the top 50 most visited Web sites, is symbolic of a shift in TV habits among mostly younger viewers away from the traditional small screen to digital counterparts on their computer desktops, laptops and iPods.

Marketers reach out to gay customers

Marketers reach out to gay customers: Hey, Gay Spender, Marketers Spending Time With You

Film festivals and gay television networks are offering consumer products companies new venues through which to reach gay consumers.

Pernod Ricard USA, for example, funded a gay lifestyle documentary, while companies such as Anheuser-Busch Cos., Bacardi, and Johnson & Johnson have advertised on Logo, the gay television network launched a year ago by Viacom.

Nintendo hopes 40- and 50-somethings still got game

Nintendo hopes 40 and 50-somethings still got game.

Titles under ‘Touch Generations’ are ‘pick-up-and-play games’ Nintendo's new brand targets aging gamers Through its brand Touch Generations, Nintendo is aiming to appeal to gamers ages 40 and up with a line of user-friendly titles, including the new Sudoku Gridmaster, an electronic version of the popular number puzzle, and True Swing Golf.

I want my Game Boy back!

'Millennials' Big for Media Biz

"Millennials" outnumber baby boomers.

The so-called Millennial generation, the 79 million Americans aged 9 to 28, regularly consume 20 hours of media per day, all of which is crammed into seven hours of actual clock time.

That means they are surfing the Web, watching TV, listening to music and playing video games simultaneously, making it difficult for marketers to reach them amid the general clutter.

Are you one of them? Find out here > 'Millennials' Big for Media Biz

Gruff justice as Billy is demoted

British Army Demotes Mascot Goat > According to BBC Gruff justice as Billy is demoted

The regimental goat of the 1st Battalion Royal Welch has been demoted - after refusing to keep in step at a parade to mark the Queen's birthday.

The parade on 16 June was held in the presence of a number of invited dignitaries including the ambassadors of Spain, Netherlands and Sweden and the Argentine commander of UN forces on Cyprus. His handler Lance Corporal Dai Davies, 22, from Neath, South Wales, dubbed the goat major, found he was unable to keep him in line.

What is the future of mobile video?

What is the future of mobile video?

Well, here is the full report > Analysts Predict Small, Successful Niche For Mobile Video

Two studies examining the future penetration of video services among mobile device users come to very different conclusions. While ABI Research predicts mobile video will attract 500 million users worldwide by 2011, a Jupiter Research study estimates that video will reach only 12 million U.S. mobile subscribers by 2010.