Google IO kicked off this past week, and among their many announcements are a few for developers, designers and publishers. There will be much more news to come, but for now here are five items of interest, currently in development. Google App Engine for Business:…

For the first time in internet history, non-Latin characters are being used for top-level domains. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced The first IDN country-code top-level domains were inserted in the DNS root zone on May 5. So far, ICANN has…

SalesForce.com, a Cloud-based CRM has made a $3 billion entry into the crowd-sourced and cloud-based data services industry with an agreement to acquire Jigsaw. This means Jigsaw data will be available to all SalesForce users. “Salesforce.com is excited to bring the data services industry into…

Video is the fastest-growing online advertising format, with estimates of about a 40-percent growth in 2010. Marketers that have taken part in its growth are extremly satisfied, according to a recent study from advertising network BrightRoll (video ads). Over 50 percent of the agency executives…

Text imaging solution provider MonoType Imaging Holidings launched the public beta of Fonts.com A cloud-based service, the solution downloads fonts dynamically to Internet browsers, resulting in fonts that are displayed on connected client machines. The service complies with W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) specifications for…