Mobile Internet and E-mail Services Jump in Popularity Among U.S. Consumers

Posted on December 1st, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

Forty-four percent pay for non-text mobile data services, reinforcing current business models for mobile carriers
Adoption of non-text mobile data services has exceeded 40% of the more than 70 million U.S. broadband households with a mobile phone service, according to Parks Associates’ new consumer study Mobile Convergence: Platforms, Applications, and Services.
Over one-fourth of mobile service users [...]

Tags: email services, mobile internet, parks associates

Wikipedia denies mass exodus of editors

Posted on November 27th, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

Wikipedia has disputed claims that it has lost a huge number of editors that help maintain the online encyclopaedia.
On 26 November it was reported that ten times more editors had left Wikipedia in early 2009 than during the same period in 2008. The group overseeing the reference work said the claims on losses were not [...]

Tags: wikipedia

2009 Will be a Bumper Thanksgiving for Online Retailers, says report

Posted on November 26th, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

Retail Decisions (ReD) predicts that 2009 will be a lucrative Thanksgiving for retailers as online retail sales could hit $51 billion over the holiday season, up 23% on last year’s $41.4 billion. ReD, a world leader in card fraud prevention, payment processing and a card issuer, screens some sixteen billion card transactions annually for fraud, [...]

Tags: online shopping, retail decisions

Google backs away from racist search results

Posted on November 26th, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

Search outfit Google is sticking up adverts linked to words which could be used by racists saying that it has nothing to do with supporting that sort of thing.
People have been more than a little miffed that their nice searches on things like Judaism have been spoilt by the appearance of racist and anti-Semitic material [...]

Tags: google, offensive image of michelle obama, racist advertising

Germany does not like Google Analytics

Posted on November 26th, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

Not very happy with Google at the best of times, certain German authorities want the search engine’s analytics product banned.
Google Analytics is a free software service that allows website editors and publishers to get detailed statistics about the number, whereabouts and search behaviour of their visitors.
However according to Zeit Online German officials claim that Google [...]

Tags: google, google analytics

2% of Internet Population Paying For 100% of Internet Content

Posted on November 18th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

Only two in 100 people who browse the Internet actually click on the advertisements that fund websites, according to a new report by online ad network Chitika. The study, based on the actions of 86 million Internet users over a two-week period, helps illustrate the value of an individual “clicker,” and the vast business potential [...]

Tags: advertising, Internet, online advertising

Platform Computing Announces General Availability of Platform ISF for Managing Private Clouds

Posted on November 10th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

Platform Computing, the leader in cluster, grid and cloud management software, has announced the general availability of Platform ISF, its dynamic IT solution for enterprises to build and run their private clouds. Responding to the cloud management requirements beyond what server virtualization can offer, Platform ISF creates a shared computing infrastructure from physical and virtual [...]

Tags: cloud, cluster, grid, platform computing

Thanks for visiting technologynews.eu

Posted on November 2nd, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

On behalf of the hard-working staff at technologynews.eu, we would like to thank you for visiting technologynews.eu. As you have probably gathered, our website is brand new and is still developing. If you have any suggestions on improvements, please feel free to email us.
Plus, we thought we would tell you that we have recently added [...]

Tags: free advertising, technologynews.eu

Himfr.com Compares Audi Q5 with Benz GLK

Posted on October 31st, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

Himfr.com, one of China’s leading B2B search platforms with more than 30 B2B industry websites to its name, compares Audi Q5 with Benz GLK.
For foreign automobile manufacturers, the Chinese market is a piece of cake, but dividing the market share depends entirely on consumers. Catering to consumers’ tastes is the key to capturing the market. [...]

Tags: audi, benz, ecommerce, himfr.com, search engine

Car Dealers Learn How to Leverage Google’s Secrets to Achieve Google-Like Success

Posted on October 31st, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

Optimizing relevance for consumers has been the key to success for Google and now executives at FirstLook, the pioneer in automotive retail performance solutions, are illustrating how this model can be the key to success for automotive dealers in their online vehicle advertising. As a featured speaker during the Digital Dealer Conference and Expo in [...]

Tags: car dealers, firstlook, google, Transportation

Facebook awarded $711 million in spam lawsuit

Posted on October 30th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

By Steven Musil
Facebook was awarded $711 million in a judgment Thursday against self-described “spam king” Sanford Wallace.
Judge Jeremy Fogel of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California granted Facebook’s application for a default judgment against Wallace for violating the Can-Spam Act, which bans “false and misleading” marketing e-mails. Fogel also found that [...]

Tags: facebook, spam

Trick or Tweet? ‘Malware Abundant in Twitter URLs’, says Kaspersky Labs

Posted on October 30th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

As many as one in every 500 web addresses posted on Twitter lead to sites hosting malware, according to researchers at Kaspersky Labs who have deployed a tool that examines URLs circulating in tweets.
The spread of malware is aided by the popular use of shortened URLs on Twitter, which generally hide the real website address [...]

Tags: kaspersky, malware, twitter

Hosting.com Launches ColdFusion 9 in the Cloud

Posted on October 30th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

Hosting.com, the leading provider of managed hosting, cloud hosting and colocation solutions and an Adobe Solution Partner, today announced the general availability of ColdFusion 9 in its Cloud and Dedicated environments. Hosting.com is the first provider to launch ColdFusion 9’s availability in a cloud hosting environment. Hosting.com is the world’s most trusted ColdFusion hosting provider [...]

Tags: adobe, cloud, coldfusion, hosting.com

Internet regulator Icann approves web addresses in multiple languages

Posted on October 30th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

By Charles Arthur
The internet regulator Icann has approved plans to let web addresses be written in non-Latin characters – such as Mandarin, Arabic, Hindu or Russian Cyrillic script – that it says represents the “biggest change” to how it works since its invention 40 years ago.
The proposal would mean that domain names – such as [...]

Tags: icann, languages, web addresses

Internet celebrates 40th birthday

Posted on October 29th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

By Simon Jeffrey
Today is the internet’s 40th birthday. Well, not exactly the internet but Arpanet – the Pentagon-funded research project that is the predecessor to the internet. Forty years ago, a simple message “Lo” (it was supposed to be “Login”, but the system crashed) was sent between two computers at two Californian research labs and [...]

Tags: arpanet, Internet

VClouds Launches ‘Cloud’ Based Email Archiving Module

Posted on October 29th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

IJJ Corp’s wholly owned subsidiary VClouds Ltd has launched its new “Cloud” based email archiving module. The product complements the current VClouds system as an add-on module which will further enable their customers to better meet email compliance requirements within their organizations.
VClouds users will now have the ability to archive email for an unlimited period [...]

Tags: cloud, email, ijj corp, vclouds

VMware Uses SocialiSoft to Exceed 100,000 Virtual Attendees for VMworld.com

Posted on October 28th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

VMware, using SocialiSoft’s Community-Hosted Virtual Events, today announces they have surpassed 100,000 active online attendees in VMworld.com, their companion online version of their physical conferences held throughout the year. Director of Communities at VMware, Eric Nielsen, said today that “SocialiSoft’s Virtual Events are a great way to expand the reach of our physical conferences by [...]

Tags: socialisoft, vmware