Shortly after releasing it’s great Gmail service into the wild for any and all to register it seems that Google found the domain Gmail.pl taken. The polish domain name was taken by a group of Polish Poets. GMAIL stands for Grupa MÅ‚odych Artystów i Literatów (GMAiL) or Group of Young Artists and Writers.

Google has decided to seek action through Poland’s IT and telecommunications tribunal and have gmail.pl because the name is very close to gmail.com (the very famous email service). The owners of gmail.pl are not trying to make money of any potential sale of the name. They want to keep it.

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How would you feel if you found out your little website made the Cool Site of The Day on coolsiteoftheday.com and you didn’t even know it till days later? Yup, you’d probably feel like an idiot.

I feel like a complete idiot. After working hard this past week in college and working on a second project (must keep lips sealed. I will tell you when I complete it). I was checking my inbox today which was filled with so much spam.

So I’m deleting my spam and come across this e-mail from Greg Smith with the subject line: Gazotto is Cool Site of the Day! Horray, but then I realize this is dated on February 12 and the site was cool site on the day on the 15th.

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Fox was not too happy when it found out that unaired episodes of The Simpsons and 24 were placed on YouTube. The complete 4 episode season premiere and 12 episodes of the Simpsons were uploaded to YouTube by “ECOtotal” - a member of the site.

Fox quickly contacted Google (YouTube’s owner) and they quickly took down [...]

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Paypal, the highly popular money service which allows users to create accounts through them and buy safely without divulging personal information over the Net has created a new layer of security for their users.
Paypal works great (I have an account with them), but the only risk you have with them is when you [...]

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As technology gets cheaper and more and more people use the Internet a trend has come out and its projected uses have been asking some serious questions. Now we all know that storing files online is nothing new. After all many of us use sites like Photobucket.com to store images.
There are literally thousands of [...]

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Retrevo.com is a website that acts as a search engine that solely focuses on gadgets. With a simple search it allows for a good amount of various information on a gadget. This could be useful for looking up specs, or reading reviews before going out and getting that gadget of your dreams.
The search can be [...]

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Google has now officially released a news report that they have indeed agreed to buy YouTube for 1.65 billion dollars in a stock-for-stock transaction. Google has agreed to allow YouTube to run independently (i.e. no name change.)
YouTube has become the fastest growing video etertainment community and after Google Video became a flop it was a [...]

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Well, it seems this story is not going away any time soon. As it picks up steam it also seems to have picked up a lot of credibility. The NY Times is reporting that Google and YouTube! are both holding seperate shareholder meetings today to approve the deal. The announcement could come as early as [...]

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Asus Computers has released the first wireless Skype phone. Skype, for those wondering, is a free service that allows you to speak to anyone over the internet for free (even long distance).
Asus has created the AiGuru S1. The AiGuru S1 uses a Wireless LAN connection instead of a Bluetooth connection common in other Skype [...]

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The majority of people on the internet today use Google, Yahoo!, or MSN to search on the Internet (yes other search engines are used but unfortunately they are in the minority). Google has kind of become the Microsoft of search - it has basically monopolized the search sector.
Many startups don’t have a chance at competing [...]

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Pepper Computers and Hanbit Electronics have collaborated together to release the Pepper Pad 3 Web player. Pepper Pad Web players provide a device that seamlessly access to media, entertainment, and communications that comes out from the Web.
The new Pepper Pad 3 Web player will be able to surf the web three times faster and will [...]

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Sony and Longs Drugs (store in the US) have joined together to create a simple place where one can upload digital images they took and have them printed at their local Longs Drugs store within one hour.
Here in Canada Shopper’s Drugs Mart has a similar kind of service. Anyway, Sony has has called the [...]

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Well, a couple posts ago I discussed how MySpace could be a dangerous place for children because predators may be lurking. However, in recent news it seems that now the National Security Agency (NSA) will be allowed to collect vital information about you from social networking sites such as MySpace.

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Scandoo is a website that has appeared that reportedly is able to tell weather a site is safe to download from. Many internet searches lead to a site where we might be looking for a download, and sometimes we forget about safety before we hit the “Download” button. It also indicates weather a website is [...]

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Before I begin talking about the dangers that MySpace can possess, I want to clear up that this is not a MySpace bashing article, nor do I believe that MySpace is bad or has done anything wrong.
This article is to alert parents to the dangers their children may be unknowingly putting themselves in.
What is [...]

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