by Mike Krumboltz Hollywood has a reputation for releasing its worst films in January. Sadly, if critics are to be believed, that reputation is well deserved. Hitting theaters this weekend are three major releases, but only two were shown to critics. Read on for a roundup of the mediocre, the bad, and the unseen... Extraordinary Measures Harrison Ford has many great movies to his credit. His latest, " Extraordinary Measures ," doesn't appear to be one of them.

I just found this excellent video by Google's Matt Cutts that has excellent information about the state of Google's search index. The video is about 25 minutes long,

We have all witnessed how a natural disaster can devastate a country and how paralyzing it has been to the beautiful people and country of Haiti. However, we have also witnessed the agility and compassion of aid workers from around the world, as well as the philanthropy of everyday world citizens who have already given to the relief efforts.

Facebook will be launching the Games Dashboard and the Applications Dashboard in the coming weeks. The company says these will make it easier for users to interact with their apps, and will provide new communication channels from the home page. "Once launched to users, the dashboards will serve as a personalized destination on Facebook for users to interact with their favorite applications, discover news ones and receive application updates related to recent activity,

Retail sites, shipping sites, and greeting cards sites all saw surges in traffic in December due to the holiday season, according to a new report from comScore. "December proved to be a strong month for the retail category with Tuesday, Dec. 15 ranking as the heaviest online spending day of the year - and of all time - at $913 million," said Jack Flanagan, executive vice president of comScore Media Metrix. "Holiday seasonality also fueled visitation to Shipping sites,

Google's latest earnings report is out, and the search giant did well during the fourth quarter of 2009, beating analysts' expectations. The unfortunate thing (at least for shareholders) is that a lot of people must have wanted it to do better still, because the stock has taken a bit of a plunge in after-hours trading. Let's start with the good news. Google generated $4.95 billion in net revenue, topping a consensus estimate of $4.92 billion.

Google just released its Fourth Quarter 2009  Earnings Report and never mind if it didn't expections of the Wall Street Journal, it's still quite an achievement for the Internet's biggest player. Total earnings for Q4 2009 was at $6.7 billion, and with that Google's Eric Schmidt couldn't be much happier. "Given that the global economy is still in the early days of recovery, this was an extraordinary end to the year.

Google has released its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2009 and the news is positive. Revenue for the Mountain View, CA -based company was up 17% compared to the fourth quarter of 2009, coming in at $6.67 billion. "Given that the global economy is still in the early days of recovery, this was an extraordinary end to the year," said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. "Our performance in 2009 underscored the strength of our management team,

When we added the ability to mark messages as unread last month, one of the maintenance problems that became apparent was a need to be able to find those unread messages once they fell off the first page, never to be seen again. So, we added an unread tab to the inbox page. Priming that listing required a little bit of db churn (enough to postpone this announcement for a couple of days actually), and we think we got everyone, but let us know if your unread tab looks sub-par.

One of the coolest things the WebProNews crew saw at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas was the proof of concept display set up by tech company ASUS . On display was what is being referred to as Waveface technology. In a pamphlet handed out at the show, ASUS says it believes that the future of information technology will be rooted strongly in mobility and the cloud lies at the heart.