Archive for February 22nd, 2008

Gates Sees Diminished Role for Keyboards

People will increasingly interact with computers using speech or touch screens rather than keyboards, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said.
“It’s one of the big bets we’re making,” he said during the final stop of a farewell tour before he withdraws from the company’s daily operations in July.
In five years, Microsoft expects more Internet searches to […]

Facebook suffers first drop in British users

Facebook, the Internet social networking site, has suffered its first drop in British users in 17 months, according to data from web monitoring firm Nielsen Online.
The study said that since July 2006, Facebook had 17 successive monthly increases in Britain but while 8.9 million people here used the site in December 2007, 8.5 million visited […]

Google to sell display ads in videos

Web search leader Google plans to start selling ads to appear in web videos and has signed up 20 customers, as it aims to do for videos what it has done for text.
Partners include YuMe, an online video advertising network, Brightcove, an Internet TV platform, and comedy site MyDamnChannel.
Brightcove, whose customers include CBS Corp, Time […]