Panasonic’s 152-inch TV just hit and it’s got 4k by 2k resolution, 3D support and several technologies that speed up display and optimize it for displaying 3D by reducing cross talk. Not that you’ll be able to afford one.

It’ll be about the size of the 150-incher above, plus two inches.

The quad luminous tech brings plasma pictures to full brightness in 1/4th the time, so fast refreshes don’t compromise picture intensity and they’ve managed to refresh pictures frame at a time instead of line at a time, so that alternating right/left images presented for 3D don’t suffer from the double effect that some displays show. All in theory. (more…)

Google is apparently in the early stages of a research project that appears to aim as high as perhaps replacing the HTTP protocol, the fundamental technology that essentially makes the World Wide Web possible.

In a somewhat obscure post on the Chromium blog, the development branch of their ChromeChromeChrome browser, GoogleGoogleGoogle reveals they’ve been working on a new protocol dubbed SPDY for “SPeeDY� for its goal of making the web faster.
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Location is quickly becoming all the rage. Twitter has started to attach location to tweets (and a host of applications are expected to soon support the functionality), Foursquare has quickly expanded to new cities, and Loopt continues to expand to new platforms and carriers.

Now, WordPress (WordPress) is getting into the game, by letting bloggers automatically attach their location to individual blog posts. Doing so will also make your post searchable by location, so other users of WordPress.com can find blog posts from specific places.

Source: Mashable

Want to advertise to the friends of the people who are already fans of your company on Facebook? Now you can, thanks to the “friends of connections� targeting feature that was just rolled out by the social networking site.

According to a note posted to the Facebook Ads Page, the functionality allows you to “expand your audience reach by delivering your ads to the friends of people already connected with your Page, Application, Group or Event.� When those people see the ad, they’ll see that their friends are fans.

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Technology powerhouse Hewlett Packard (HP) has just announced that it has struck a deal to acquire 3Com, one of the world’s leading networking hardware and software companies, for a giant $2.7 billion price tag.

The deal, if it goes through, will bring HP into direct competition with Cisco and its networking business. 3com builds WiFi access points, networking switches, routers, and IP voice systems that countless businesses rely on every day. It also comes two years after a failed acquisition by Bain Capital.

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During meetings with my clients, a common misconception regarding Google Adwords advertising is that, “the more I bid for my keywords, the high my ad’s position will be.� This is only half of the truth, as quality score plays a crucial part as well.

Google recently added a Quality Score Guide to their Adwords, which is a beginners guide to inform advertisers about what is quality score. Check out this informative video here!

5 Things to take away from this video:

1) You are NOT buying clicks, you are bidding for them.

2) Quality Score = Keyword’s CTR + Relevancy of Ad’s relevance to keyword + Landing Page Quality

3) Your Ad Rank = Maximum CPC Bid x Quality Score

4) Your Ad’s Position is determined by your Ad Rank vs your competitors’ Ad Rank.

5) Your Actual CPC Cost = Ad Rank of Next lower Competitor / Your Quality Score

Basically, quality score is all about relevance between your keyword, the ad text that appears, and the landing page that you end up at when you click. When the user’s experience from searching a keyword to landing on your webpage makes sense to the web user, you are on the right track.

Do check out the Search Ads Quality Guide to gain a better understanding about Quality Score!

It’s Google’s 11th birthday on Sunday, September 27th: to celebrate, the company has changed its logo to a version that turns the letter “L� into the number 11. The logo is already viewable in Europe.

What’s interesting about the logo change is that Google’sGoogleGoogle official birthday is somewhat disputed: some often declare the company was born on September 15th 1997, the day the Google.com domain was registered. Meanwhile, Google filed for incorporation in September 1998: the papers were filed on September 4th, but Google has been known to celebrate on both September 7th and September 27th. (more…)

With millions of Google searches performed every day, it makes sense that what people are searching for can be a good indicator of what has captured the interest of the U.S. and the world.

That’s exactly what Google Trends does: it tells you what’s currently popular on the search engine via its Hot Trends feature, which displays how popular the search is and graphs out the volume of searches over time. (more…)

Over the last few weeks, Facebook (Facebook) has been removing regional networks. Silicon Valley? New York City? Peoria, IL? They have been slowly stripped from Facebook, to the dismay of many. The biggest complaint from users? They want to find their friends by location when they travel.

Facebook’s heard the complaints and they understand the value of finding friends by region. So Facebook has decided to address that complaint by adding a filter to find friends by their hometown. This was announced via a Facebook wall post. (more…)

If you’re the type that knows which date and time it is (I’m not, so I haven’t), you might have noticed that yesterday’s date was somewhat interesting: September 9th, 2009, or 09/09/09.

Furthermore, if you’d looked at Google’s Google homepage at exactly 09:09:09, you’d notice another new Google logo, which appeared only briefly; it was the same as the regular Google logo, but with inscription 09/09/09 09:09:09 added below.

Google’s logos have become quite interesting lately; recently, Google has displayed an odd logo that, together with a cryptic Twitter() message, formed a puzzle that proved quite a tough nut to crack. This latest numerological Google logo probably doesn’t have anything to do with the last one, but it’ll fit nicely into the “Google is run by a bunch of aliens� conspiracy theories.

Source: Mashable