Over the years, there have been more than a few arguments about whether online news sites are killing newspapers.  Now, due to some almost startling comments made by the president of CNN, it looks like the next round of old media-new media disputes might concern social networks and cable news organizations.
According to the AFP, Jonathan [...]CNN President "Really Afraid Of" Social Networks

I use Google Reader a lot — not only to stay on top of the news, but also to find interesting blog posts and articles. I’m always telling my friends about Google Reader, and while some of them love it, others don’t want to take the time to set it up. For those of [...]Finding awesome stuff online with Google Reader Play

MySpace launched a new gaming experience at myspace.com/games today. The company says it empowers developers with new tools, analytics, and opportunities for driving usage and revenue.
“Gaming is core to the overall entertainment value of MySpace; we are replicating our success from MySpace Music for this next round of platform improvements,” a representative for MySpace tells [...]MySpace Launches New Games Site

Google Calendar now supports pop-up reminders just like your favorite desktop email client.
If you keep Google Calendar open all day long, you probably end up seeing quite a few reminders every day. Browser alerts are okay, but I tried to find a way for Calendar notifications to integrate smoothly with everything else.
Turn on “Gentle Reminders,” [...]Pop-up Reminders in Google Calendar

The people behind Common Craft are masters at explaining complex new media topics like Wikis, RSS, Social Media, etc. in plain English. One of their videos explaining Twitter has so far been viewed over 1.7 million times on YouTube while the one on Google Docs has been viewed over 2.7 million times.
Common Craft had an [...]Will You Pay $100 per Month to Embed a Video on your Website?

Nearly all consumers (97%) now use online media when researching products or services locally, according to a new report from BIA/Kelsey and ConStat.
Among consumers surveyed, 90 percent use search engines, 48 percent use Internet Yellow Pages, 24 percent use vertical sites, and 42 percent use comparison shopping sites.
“The Internet has indeed become an integral [...]Online Media Key For Local Consumers

Volusion, a provider of online shopping cart software for businesses recently introduced its newest credit card fraud protection service, Fraud Score.
Volusion spoke with WebProNews about Fraud Score and how it works to protect online merchants of any size from fraudulent transactions.
When an order is placed customer information is cross-checked in real-time with a large [...]New Tool Helps Protect Online Merchants From Fraud

Apple said today its much anticipated iPad device will be available in the U.S. on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi + 3G models.
All models of iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the U.K. in late April.
Beginning March 12, U.S. customers [...]Apple iPad Coming To U.S April 3

There are several ways determine a file extension using PHP. First is using the combination of strrpos() and substr() function like this :
$ext = substr($fileName, strrpos($fileName, ‘.’) + 1);
For example, if $fileName is my-new-house.jpg then strrpos($fileName, ‘.’) will return the last location a dot character in $fileName which is 15. So substr($fileName, strrpos($fileName, ‘.’) + [...]Determine a File Extension Using PHP

The Internet is now the third most-popular news platform, behind local and national television news and ahead of national print newspapers, local print newspapers and radio, according to a new survey out today.
The survey of 2,259 U.S. adults, conducted jointly by the Pew Internet & American Life Project and the Project for Excellence in Journalism, [...]Americans Favor Online News Over Newspapers

Although a few months have passed since the last big flareup, News Corp. may still be willing to go to war with Google.  A fresh report indicates that Rupert Murdoch is indeed prepared to take the search giant to court, and has been talking to Microsoft about an exclusive deal, too.
Gabriel Sherman recently published a [...]Report: Rupert Murdoch "Ready To Sue" Google

Twitter engineer Alex Payne tweeted over the weekend, "If you had some of the nifty site features that we Twitter employees have, you might not want to use a desktop client. (You will soon.)" Some took that to mean that Twitter was working on some new features for its own site, that would essentially render [...]Twitter to Get More Useful in Time for Monetization?

As we exhibit at the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) trade show this year in Atlanta, we want to share with you some of our latest thinking. Google Health has been on the market for a little over two years, and in that time we have seen a growing understanding of the value [...]Update from the Google Health Team

This is part of a regular series of posts on search experience updates that runs weekly. Look for the label This week in search and subscribe to the series. – Ed.

This week, we had a number of exciting announcements:
Refine your searches by locationLocation can tremendously aid the way you search, so we were pleased to [...]This week in search 2/28/10