Nearly Everyone Uses The Internet
Shopping, working, and pursuing personal interests have improved greatly as experiences for the typical Internet user continue to benefit from faster access and new interface technologies. Read More → ^ TOPHP To Offer MySQL Services
An extension of Hewlett-Packard's existing open source support initiatives will provide services to support customers using MySQL database software. Read More → ^ TOPMicrosoft Takes a Wallop at MySpace
Microsoft is entering the social networking market currently led by News Corp.’s MySpace.com and Friendster with its own entry, Wallop Read More → ^ TOPMicrosoft to unveil new Internet Explorer
Microsoft Corp. is releasing a new test version of Internet Explorer, the market-leading Web browser that is facing competition from smaller players.Read More → ^ TOP
AOL, MS join forces to combat child abuse
AOL and Microsoft have joined together to back a new centre dedicated to tackling child abuse online.They are just two of the companies behind the UK's Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre unveiled today, which is drawing together law enforcement officers, specialists from children's charities, and industry to help track down paedophiles. Read More → ^ TOP
Google up 60 %
Google Inc.'s (Nasdaq:GOOG) first-quarter profit rose 60 per cent, soaring past analyst estimates as the company's Internet-leading search engine solidified its position as the web's most popular advertising vehicle.Read More → ^ TOP
EBay Seeking A Google Protector
Either Microsoft or Yahoo could emerge as a partner to the online auction site in facing down the potent threat posed by Google. The stunning financial numbers released yesterday by Google probably exacerbated the distress felt in eBay's C-level offices.Read More → ^ TOP
Online sales still strong
Online sales recorded their fourth consecutive year of strong double-digit growth in 2005, but e-commerce still accounted for just over one per cent of total operating revenues for private firms.Read More → ^ TOP
Yahoo Helped Jail Third Chinese Journalist
Internet search behemoth Yahoo helped to jail Chinese journalist Jiang Lijun, 40, in 2003 by assisting law-enforcement authorities within the country to identify him, Reporters Without Borders reports. Read More → ^ TOPYahoo Scales Heights On Earnings Report
A strong quarter for Yahoo returned revenue of $1.08 billion driven by the company's strength in brand-name advertising, which offset softer returns on the paid search side of the business.Read More → ^ TOP
Search Engine Optimization for Corporate Websites
Although your corporate website does not allow customers to purchase products or services online, your company can benefit greatly from optimizing your website for the search engines. Ranking well in the search engine results will not only increase your businesses’ brand awareness, it will bring increased sales leads, which will lead to increased ROI from your corporate website.There are several things that can be done that will make a corporate website more search engine friendly—and making sure that the search engines like your website will help it get indexed properly. It will also increase the number of targeted visitors to the site, increasing it’s overall ROI. Most corporate websites use high-end web designers who charge a lot of money. If that sounds like your website, then you know that your corporate website is a major investment. By paying attention to the little details that make a big difference when it comes to search engine rankings, you’ll be able to allow your site to ‘earn its keep’ so to speak, and it might even become a part of your full-time sales staff.
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Microsoft subpoenaed by AMD in Intel suit
Microsoft is the latest company to be subpoenaed by chip maker Advanced Micro Devices for its antitrust lawsuit against rival Intel Corp.AMD filed the suit Monday with the U.S. District Court in Delaware which instructs the PC company to produce unlimited documents necessary for its claim that Intel has bullied companies as part of its business practices. Read More → ^ TOP
Go Daddy To Go Public
What do buxom twisty models with malfunctioning wardrobes during the Super Bowl earn you? For GoDaddy.com, which handled fewer than 2 million domains in 2002, she rockets the number of registered domain names to over 9 million, providing the momentum needed to release an initial public offering.Read More → ^ TOP
Apple, Bloggers Fight In Court
A battle that could determine whether bloggers may enjoy conventional journalistic protection behind the First Amendment has a court date coming up on April 20th.Read More → ^ TOP
62% Of Users Click On First Page Results
A new whitepaper by the search marketing firm, iProspect shows that 62% of search users click on links found on the first page of search results.Read More → ^ TOP
Alleged Pentagon hacker fears Guantanamo
Lawyers for a Briton fighting extradition to the US on charges that he perpetrated the biggest ever hack against US government systems fear their client could end up in Guantanamo. Gary McKinnon, 40, might be tried under US anti-terror laws over alleged attacks on military and NASA systems between 2001 and 2002. Read More → ^ TOPGoogle Calendar Makes an Impressive Debut
Google has released its long-rumored calendar service, offering an appealing set of features that makes it easy to keep track of your own schedule and share calendars with others.It's an impressive new service, though not without rough edges. It should appeal to anyone who's been frustrated by the current generation of calendar applications that all seem to be lacking in one crucial aspect or another.
"We wanted to address the challenges that we found in other calendaring products," said Carl Sjogreen, product manager, Google calendar.
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62% Of Users Click On First Page Results
A new whitepaper by the search marketing firm, iProspect shows that 62% of search users click on links found on the first page of search results.Read More → ^ TOP
Google debuts Chinese-language brand name
BEIJING (AP) - Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt defended the search engine's co-operation with Chinese censorship as he announced Wednesday the creation of a Beijing research centre and unveiled a Chinese-language brand name.Read More → ^ TOP
Wiretapping, Google subpoena earn Muzzle Awards
The Bush Administration and the Justice Department earned awards of dubious distinction by Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression who each year around April 13, bestow the annual Muzzle Award to violators of free speech. Read More → ^ TOPYahoo Sees Imagery In Maps
It has taken a while, but Yahoo has finally matched Google and Microsoft in offering satellite maps for its Maps service.Read More → ^ TOP
Airlines Want ITunes To Take Flight
Instead of hoarding frequent flyer miles for the possibility of getting a free ticket to a holiday hot spot someday, airlines would like to see those travelers use those miles on something far more attainable.Read More → ^ TOP
Red Hat buys JBoss
Linux distributor Red Hat has bought open source middleware firm JBoss for $350m. Read More → ^ TOPIs Google Forsaking The Webmaster?
Google may be tired of Webmasters taking advantage of its sensitive algorithms through link abuse and repeated keyword digs. With no one else to turn to, the engine that launched a million splogs, might turn its back on Webmasters, trusting visitors and Web directories with less scarlet reputations instead.Read More → ^ TOP
MSN search down for hours
Microsoft MSN search engine, the third most popular in the U.S., suffered an hours-long outage on Thursday as queries returned an error message instead of Web page results.Read More → ^ TOP
Microsoft Open Port 25 To Hackers
For once, the correct definition of hackers applies here; the new Port 25 website from Microsoft offers communications from the company's Open Source Software Lab.Read More → ^ TOP
Firefox Gets Personal With Google Toolbar
New features made available with version 2 of the Google Toolbar for Firefox provide users with the ability to easily integrate newly discovered feeds into the Google Personalized Homepage or other feed readers.Read More → ^ TOP
Google Mashes Up Real Estate
Hunting down "homes for sale" through a typical Google search returns extra search boxes for location and listing type; using those search boxes brings up a mashup of Google Base and Maps with listings for available properties.Read More → ^ TOP
“Add To Google” Buttons Up Personal Areas
In response to syndicated content owners' requests for new ways to drive adoption of their feeds and modules, Google has supplied an "Add to Google" button that can be added to websites.Read More → ^ TOP
Trust Eric, He Can Stop Click Fraud
Despite a recent $90 million settlement in a click fraud case, Google CEO Eric Schmidt claims his company sees fake clicks before the advertisers do.Read More → ^ TOP
Yahoo Implicated In Spyware Click Fraud
Advertisers who expect their Overture ad campaigns to run with certain Yahoo Searches may be surprised to find their ads running in syndicated spyware applications that render each impression as an ad click the advertiser must pay.Read More → ^ TOP
Ask.com's First To Serve Up April Fools Joke with RhymeRank
Leading off with a blog entry at the Ask.com blog, named What Should We Do? Ask.com asked the blog readers about launching something around April 1, does it make sense to do it, if it may be perceived as a joke. Of course, they released it, "due to popular demand." Ask.com releases for the first time, a full press release via its blog, with the title Ask.com Introduces RhymeRank™. Read More → ^ TOPYahoo May Face Penalty Over Jailed Chinese Journalist
Yahoo Holdings (Hong Kong) could face a fine, a civil lawsuit or both if it is found to have illegally divulged personal data used to put a Chinese journalist in jail for 10 years.Read More → ^ TOP
Google Seduces Users With Romance
The latest product debut from Google will utilize Contextual Dating Technology to help people find a contextually suitable soulmate.Read More → ^ TOP
