According to research that appears in June's Journal of Consumer Research repeated exposure to a product via banner ads generates a positive feeling towards that product. The good news for consumers is that a critical reevaluation of the product can make these positive feelings vanish.
Read MoreMicrosoft has announced the alpha version launch of a new product called Popfly. Popfly is a web-based tool designed to help non-programmers in creating, sharing, and embedding mashups of content, feeds, web pages and gadgets.
It is also an online community of creators where you can host, share, rate, comment and even remix creations from other Popfly users.
Read MoreFreeHand hasn’t been upgraded for 4 years now. Adobe does not plan to develop and deliver any new feature-based releases of FreeHand, or deliver patches or updates for new operating systems or hardware.
Though a special upgrade to Illustrator CS3 is available to all registered owners of FreeHand.
Read MoreYahoo! has just added a chat tool in Yahoo! Mail. You now have the option to type a conversation with your friends directly instead of sending an email and waiting for an answer.
Read MoreSimply Google is a roundup of every Google search and service out there on one convenient page. For those people who don't have time to learn the shortcuts or creating smart keywords, this page puts everything Google has to offer on one page.
Read MoreYahoo launched two new sites to help people figure out what they can do to have less impact on the environment. The sites are also part of a contest to help the greenest city in the U.S. get greener. The winning city even gets their own hybrid taxi cabs.
Read MoreMicrosoft blames free software like Linux of violating 235 of its patents. The company wants royalties from distributors and users.
Read MoreOnline video sites that sell shows and movies such as Apple Inc.'s iTunes will likely peak this year, but after that growth is expected to slow down as more content is made available on free resource sites supported by advertising.
"Free is going to win," said Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey, the author of the study.
Read MoreGoogle has big plans for offering services to corporations according to Stephen Arnold, author of The Google Legacy and a Google patent scrutinizer. Arnold figures out possible tech company strategies by analyzing their patents.
Read MoreThe Web 2.0 hype causes web firms to neglect the basics of good design, web usability guru Jakob Nielsen said.
"Most people just want to get in, get it and get out," he said.
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