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Posted by iNext
on 2005-11-22
Article Source : AFP
More and more Americans are googling and yahooing their way through life, according to a new survey which shows a massive increase in the use of Internet search engines over two years.
Nearly 60 million Americans every day were using such programs, which help surfers navigate the Internet, in September this year, according to research published by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
That represents a 55 percent increase in the roughly 38 million people who were using search engines |
Posted by inet
on 2005-11-22
Article Source : eWeek
In 2005, the news got out that Google Inc. had purchased a jet airplane. Jokes immediately circulated about Google becoming a commercial airliner.
Google Air? Maybe not, but a Google airfare listing and fare comparison service made its debut that year.
Behind the humor, though, is a very serious point about Google, and how it has changed the Internet experiences of hundreds of millions of people.
It's clear that Google is no longer content to dominate the Internet search business, |
Posted by inet
on 2005-11-22
Article Source : Reuters
About 8.7 million Europeans will be watching television over the Internet by 2009, or 9.4 percent of a market currently dominated by cable and satellite operators, according to a forecast issued on Monday.
A 13-fold increase in demand for Internet protocol television, or IPTV, from about 658,000 subscribers currently, will be driven primarily by telephone companies seeking to tap their large customer bases, said Daniel Schmitt, author of the study for research firm Screen Digest.
Phone companies are hoping services such |
Posted by inet
on 2005-11-22
Article Source : Reuters
Spending on Internet advertising rose 34 percent in the third quarter to $3.1 billion from a year earlier, setting a quarterly record and bolstering expectations that the market could exceed $12 billion this year, according to data released on Monday.
The quarterly report issued by the Interactive Advertising Bureau trade group and PricewaterhouseCoopers said online advertising revenue was up nearly 5 percent from the second quarter.
"The third-quarter figures are the most impressive we've seen yet," said David Silverman, |
Posted by iTech
on 2005-11-21
Article Source : USA TODAY
Executives who travel on corporate jets may soon be finding in-flight high-speed Internet a common feature.
Only Annapolis, Md.-based Arinc is on the market now with a broadband service for corporate jets. But competition is set to intensify in 2006.
• Radio equipment maker Rockwell Collins and aviation giant Boeing have teamed to introduce theirs next spring.
• Inmarsat, a British avionics maker that now has a dial-up-speed Internet service for corporate jets, will roll out a |
Posted by iMark
on 2005-11-21
Article Source : Reuters
Online movie download service Movielink on Monday said it has signed a film distribution pact with 20th Century Fox giving the Web site content from all of Hollywood's major film studios.
Movielink, a legal download service, previously offered films from six Hollywood majors, and it now adds more than 1,200 Fox titles such as computer-animated "Robots" to its library.
"Broadband connections continue to improve, and the movement to (direct film delivery) to TV continues to become more of a reality," said |
Posted by iNext
on 2005-11-21
Article Source : AFP
Newspaper editors and staff from over 60 countries met in Athens to explore ways of using the Internet and innovative tactics in their quest to lure back readers.
Daily papers worldwide face growing competition from broadcast and online media.
"These are very tough times for newspapers across the world," Mike Smith, managing director of the Media Management Center at Northwestern University, told a World Association of Newspapers (WAN) conference in Athens last week.
"We often think of Google |
Posted by inet
on 2005-11-21
Article Source : Reuters
Skype, the Internet-calling phenomenon that eBay Inc. acquired for $4.1 billion, is set to break into the U.S. consumer mainstream by selling its telephone kits in RadioShack stores.
Skype Technologies SA, which counts 66 million users of its free- and low-cost Web-based telephone services, mainly in Europe and Asia, said on Sunday that it will distribute Skype phone gear through 3,500 U.S. RadioShack Corp. stores.
The move into retail promises to raise Skype's profile with U.S. broadband users who |
Posted by iTech
on 2005-11-21
Article Source : TechWeb News
Xbox 360, Apple iPod Nanos, Star Wars action figures, American Girl items and decorative collectibles are the sizzling hot selling items this year, says a new eBay sales-tracking service that forecasts trends in online sales.
With less than a week until the official holiday shopping frenzy begins, eBay Inc. on Friday gave buyers and sellers an early glimpse into this holiday season's trends. The new eBay Marketplace Research service, launched just last week indicates, is starting to paint a rosy |
Posted by iNext
on 2005-11-20
Article Source : TechWeb News
Google Inc. on Friday launched a program that gives ad publishers the option of displaying an "advertise-on-this-site" link that takes advertisers to the search engine.
The initiative is an extension of Google's site-targeted advertising program AdSense, which launched this year. The link takes potential advertisers to a page where they can create an ad that's target to the publisher's site.
Ads created through Onsite Advertiser Sign-Up would compete in the same auction as all other Google ads, including keyword |
Posted by inet
on 2005-11-20
Article Source : AP
The United States claimed victory this week in the contest to keep control of the computers crucial for directing Internet traffic. But approval Friday of a plan to leave Washington squarely in charge hasn't fully ended the debate: The European Union and a host of other countries are suggesting that a new multinational forum, which delegates to a U.N. technology summit also agreed to set up, simply delays the battle for another day.
The forum, they say, still could ultimately |
Posted by iNext
on 2005-11-20
Article Source : Reuters
It's not easy finding love in cyberspace, and now some frustrated online daters say they were victims of fraud by two top Internet matchmaking services and have taken their complaints to court.
Match.com, a unit of IAC/Interactive Corp., is accused in a federal lawsuit of goading members into renewing their subscriptions through bogus romantic e-mails sent out by company employees. In some instances, the suit contends, people on the Match payroll even went on sham dates with subscribers as a |
Posted by iTech
on 2005-11-19
Article Source : PC World
You might be wondering where regular Playlist columnist Eric Dahl has gone. He is still avidly covering music and audio gear for PC World, but since he's swamped with that, I'm stepping in here. Like Eric did, I'll write about technology that helps you enjoy music--and make it, too. I'm hoping to introduce you to some interesting artists along the way.
My first column is on great places online to find out about new music. Why am I revisiting this topic?Read More... |
Posted by iMark
on 2005-11-19
Article Source : TechWeb News
The typical Chinese Internet user is under 30 years old and single, and prefers to use the Web for instant messaging and entertainment, a study released Thursday showed.
The majority of surfers in the world's second largest Internet population are also mistrustful of buying goods on the Internet, a result of the difficulty it is in China to return goods, a researcher said.
The biannual survey of Web users was conducted by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in |
Posted by inet
on 2005-11-19
Google Inc.'s share price crossed the $400 threshold to a new all-time high Thursday, marking a gain of nearly $100 a share in the four weeks since the Web-search giant reported impressive quarterly financial results.
During the intervening period, Google has produced a steady stream of news that has fanned excitement about seemingly limitless growth prospects, and its stock has, in turn, marched fairly steadily upward.
Google's shares rose $5.30, 1.3 percent, to close at $403.45 on the Nasdaq |
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