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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Making blog money, Facebook stuff and more tech news

New Services Help Bloggers Bring in Ad Revenue
If you're not making money off your blog, 2008 might be the year.

The Face Behind Facebook
Are you on Facebook yet? The site is up to 60 million users so far, with a projection of 200 million by the end of the year. Meet Mark Zuckerberg.

Verizon's New Voyager Looks Like the iPhone, But Software Is Inferior
This phone is called the Voyager, and it's made by LG and runs on the rival Verizon Wireless network.

More Than Games, a Net to Snare Social Networkers

That is the thinking of Mark Pincus, a well-known Silicon Valley entrepreneur who has built several Internet start-ups, including Support.com and the early social network Tribe.net. On Tuesday, Mr. Pincus is pulling the wraps off the Zynga Game Network, a company devoted to developing online games that work on the pages of popular sites like Facebook and MySpace.

Techs Are New Year's Flop

Tech stocks are proving to be the biggest disappointment of the new year.

When Gadget Parts Break or Get Lost
THE proliferation of iPods, cellphones and other devices in the hands of smaller children is sure to have profound social significance in the long term, but in the short term it means something else: broken gadgets and lost parts.

Who Keeps Digital Maps Going in Right Direction?
Mr. Vitale is one of the foot soldiers of digital mapmaking. He works for Netherlands-based Tele Atlas NV, one of only two companies -- the other being Chicago-based Navteq Corp. -- responsible for supplying data to all digital mapping services.

Google Sees Surge in iPhone Traffic

Of all the iPhone’s features, none had reviewers gushing more than its Internet browser. It was the first cellphone browser that promised something resembling the experience of surfing the Internet on a PC. Santa helped deliver on that promise. CONTACT: Leave me a Houston or Texas media news tip | COMMENT: Click to leave your thoughts on this post here