Youngsters spend more time online than watching TV

Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:26 PM EST

A recent survey has shown that 16-24 year olds use the internet more often than they watch TV – 82% use the internet between 5 and 7 days a week while only 77% watch TV as regularly (a decrease of 5% since last year).

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technology, internet, new-online-opportunities

AOL expands Truveo's availability

Tue Nov 13, 2007 11:42 AM EST

AOL will be launching Truveo (a video search engine) in the UK, following its success in the US. This company is looking to increase its online presence by also launching the search engine in France, Spain Germany, India, Japan and Korea.

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business, aol, youtube, truveo, video-search-engine

Google maps takes a step forward

Fri Nov 9, 2007 11:26 AM EST

After the success of Google maps, Google has teamed up with Gilbarco Veeder-Root to bring Google maps to petrol stations across America.

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technology, google-maps-petrol-stations, satellite-navigation-systems

MySpace reveals their advertising plans

Tue Nov 6, 2007 12:28 PM EST

By targeting adverts trough its new system, MySpace wants to show that it is offering more to advertisers than Facebook. Indeed the first phase of its new advertising sales system called "hyper-targeting" will allow advertisers to use some personal information that users put on t …

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business, myspace, online-advertising, users-profile

Google tops advertising revenue

Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:42 PM EDT

According with the Timesonline, Google has beaten ITV in advertising revenue, the search engine giant has earned £327 million last summer compared to £317 Million by ITV.

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google, world-news, itv, search-engine, online-advertising

Web 3.0:The next Internet revolution

Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:41 AM EDT

Engineers from the Silicon valley have created a virtual picture how Web 3.0 can revolutionize the internet. According to them, in 2030 Web 3.0 will be very powerful and smart. It will be able to connect every aspect of our digital lives.

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technology, web-3-0, internet-revolution, internet-platform

Microsoft aquired Facebook share

Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:25 PM EDT

For the bargain prize of 117 millions pounds, Microsoft bought a 1.6% stake of Facebook. Other companies such as Yahoo or Google also wanted to invest in one of the most popular social networking websites but Facebook declined their offer.

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business, microsoft, facebook, advertising-revenues

Children's Safety on Facebook

Wed Oct 24, 2007 10:44 AM EDT

Facebook has recently admitted that their response rates to complaints regarding pornography and harassment are poor. The social networking site will now be changing their conduct to ensure that children are protected from inappropriate content and Paedophiles.

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business, facebook, social-networking-site, children-safety

The future of Google

Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:18 AM EDT

According to the TIMESONLINE, the search engine giant Google wants to conquer the world by holding people 's information. How is going to do that? Google has developed a three steps plan to make the impossible real.

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technology

MySpace and Facebook - outsourcing application development

Seeded on Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:25 AM EDT ()

After Facebook's annoucement to open its doors to "new and innovative" applications as previously reported (New fun features for Facebook), MySpace is set to follow its footsteps, and gets outside developers to contribute new applications to their website.

business, myspace, facebook, new-applications

MySpace and Skype: a new team

Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:12 PM EDT

MySpace users will soon be able to make phone calls to each other as the social network site made a partnership with the internet phone company Skype. This service will be available by the end of November 2007.

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business, myspace, free-internet-calls

Guardian Unlimited sees films differently

Tue Oct 16, 2007 12:35 PM EDT

Next month Guardian Unlimited is set to launch a new interactive film database as part of their See Films Differently campaign.

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business, internet, interactivity, movie-database

Google on the top of the world search

Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:09 PM EDT

Google deserve to be called "Big G" or "Search Engine Giant" or any other similar phrase out there. With 37 billion searches in August, the market leader executed half of all search request around the world .

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google, yahoo, business, msn, baidu, searches, nhn

YouTube videos on Google ads

Thu Oct 11, 2007 1:02 PM EDT

Google surely knows how to succeed. For the first time shares break the $600 mark and increase by 17% in only one month.

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technology, youtube, google-adsense, online-marketing

Search engines' piracy policies

Wed Oct 10, 2007 12:01 PM EDT

Do you love using search engines like Google, MSN or Yahoo to find information? Whenever you are using a search engine, the information about your short "stay" will be tracked: IP address, the research, profile and even your name (because so many people type their own name to kno …

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google, business, seo, privacy-policies, user-information-stored

Optimize PDFs for search engines

Mon Oct 8, 2007 12:03 PM EDT

As competitive as the online world becomes, it also is crucial that a website is noticed online.

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business, web-content, keyword, search-engine-optimisation, pdf-file

Is Yahoo catching up on Google?

Wed Oct 3, 2007 11:24 AM EDT

03. October 2007 Yahoo! has improved its search engine by creating a new " Search Assist " tool. The aim is to win market share from the search giant Google, leader of the search market and also resolve a problem of consumers called "internet search fatigue".

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google, yahoo, technology, search-engine, search-assist-tool

Wikipedia's founder explains new package

Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:37 PM EDT

Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales, denies that the new package indented to improve the site's reliability, will jeopardise the users ability to edit text, and go against its original premises of having information that could be edited by people around the world.

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business, wikipedia, citizendium, search-wikia

Update: Microsoft Live Search

Mon Sep 24, 2007 12:27 PM EDT

Microsoft decided to take action to compete with industry giant Google. On 26th of September, a new version of Live Search will be launched.

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business, google-adwords, microsoft-live-search, microsoft-adcenter

Wikipedia - 100% reliable source?

Fri Sep 21, 2007 11:53 AM EDT

Wikipedia has been facing inaccuracy claims throughout its existence, but recently the online encyclopaedia has announced that it will be taking action towards making the information displayed on their website more reliable.

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technology, inaccuracy, online-encyclopaedia, reliable-information-citizendium

Do you have the tools you need to succeed?

Fri Sep 21, 2007 11:25 AM EDT

Ever tried to undo a crosshead screw with a flat head driver... ever rounded a nut by using the wrong sized spanner... sometimes grabbing the nearest (or most familiar) tool seems like the quickest option.

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business, training, coaching, nlp-for-businesses

New fun features for Facebook

Thu Sep 20, 2007 11:27 AM EDT

The popular social networking website is in need of new and innovate applications (small programs which can be integrated in the users profiles like a music sharing service or Texas HoldEm Poker). These applications need to be constantly improved and renewed as they are part of F …

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technology, innovation, applications, software-developers, facebook-funds

Microsoft to pay a £345 million fine

Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:50 AM EDT

18. September 2007 Software giant Microsoft has lost its appeal against the European Commission at the Court of first instance and due to its anti-competitive actions it has been ordered to pay a £345 million fine.

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microsoft, european-commission, software, world-news, anti-competitive-actions

Facebook opens profile to the public: How to Hide!

Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:36 AM EDT

18.September 2007 In the previous article "Facebook opens profiles to the public" , we rang the alarm about the new search functionality of Facebook and the possibility for anyone to track down Facebook members via public search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN (Live) or Ask.

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business, profiles, facebook, online-advertising, marketeers

Do you have a successful website?

Mon Sep 17, 2007 12:01 PM EDT

17. September 2007 It is important to speak to the usability and web experts, get advice on what works best for your business online. However to really KNOW the success of a website it is necessary to work with numbers, to understand what they mean and what the consequences are.

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technology, usability, google-analytics, bounce-rate, web-analytics-software

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