Leading search engine and content provider Yahoo wants to give women their place to shine, with the launch of its new web site. Yahoo Shine is for what the firm states is an ‘underrepresented demographic’.
It will also provide advertisers a single ‘lifestyles destination’ to access the 40 million women in the age group of 25 […]

Yahoo! - the subject of a hostile takeover attempt from Microsoft – had just announced it would be building the semantic web principles into its search engine as well as adopting some of the key ‘standards’ (rules about categorising, tagging information, which will standardise the method in which data is organised while indexing a piece […]

How will the Internet look and evolve in another five years’ time? According to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the fellow credited with inventing the phenomenon of world wide web, it’ll be rather different to the cyberspace as we know, see and surf today.

The BBC iPlayer system lets Internet users to see BBC shows, such as Doctor Who and Top Gear online and also or to download them onto a desktop. The corporation agreed with production firms to incorporate anti-piracy measures in all programmes. This anti-piracy software, termed digital rights management (DRM), ensures that new shows get […]

The watchdog of European Union’s competition has approved the use of £76m of French state aid for a consortium in an attempt to build a comprehensive Internet search engine to take on search engine giant Google.

As you are aware, a new instant-messaging ‘chat’ service is soon to be added to one of the most popular social networking sites, Facebook. The networking major would be launching the service in two weeks time. Let’s check out the features of the ‘chat service.

Many younger art and craft loving people are utilising the Internet as a platform to merge two of their passions: traditional crafts and new technology.
There are now networking sites like ravelry.com and craftster.org that are the craft surfer’s alternative and answer to Facebook. These networking sites bring together art and craft loving people. They act […]

Several leading social networking sites, including MySpace, have stated they welcome the idea of applications being written by third-party developers, which can be downloaded and utilised by their members.

Yahoo!, the struggling Internet giant, has delivered a major snub to Microsoft even as the latter bids to take over the firm. Yahoo! declared it was opting to become part of a Google-led social networking initiative. It has turned down till this point at least, Microsoft’s $45 billion cash & shares offer, stating it actually […]

The new Internet usage review report has recommended the creation of a UK council overlooking child Internet safety. It would be established by (and reporting to) the Prime Minister. The council is expected to serve as the ‘conscience of the industry’, and would encourage it to take more responsibility for doing away with inappropriate content, […]

Marketers are increasingly aiming to seek, leverage and use personal information, which is gathered by Internet firms about their users for targeting their advertisements more effectively. However, privacy campaigners are acutely concerned about such services, which precisely track users’ behaviour for gathering such piece of data.

Google owned video streaming site YouTube is to start using the vast pools of data it compiles about its users for providing video creators with vital feedback about how their content is being viewed (and by whom) to work out their strategy on basis of the tastes and needs of the target audience.

Social networking web sites may well be needed to take away any material perceived unsuitable for children like obscene or violent images and statements, within just 24 hours of receiving a complaint in this regard. This step has been suggested under a rigorous new code for Internet safety.

Internet users in the Republic of China will get to read English language news items on the BBC web site - for the first time - following years of control by Beijing authorities. The BBC news is one of several sites to have been blocked by the Chinese Government to stop Internet users from availing […]

The mobile email provider, Visto will be powering wireless carrier Vodafone Germany’s mobile email offering ‘Vodafone E-MailConnect’. The new service is geared towards Vodafone Germany’s expanding consumer base and small business markets in the country.
Vodafone Germany chose the Visto Mobile platform for improving the mobile email experience for its users. “The strategy is to provide […]

Federal technology professionals have formed a Web-based community where private consultants, government employees, and even neutral observers can discuss improving, innovating their agencies. Dubbed NextGov, the Washington based Web resource, is largely geared toward federal IT officials as well as program managers. A division of Atlantic Media, Government Executive Media Group launched it as one-stop […]

Skycore LLC, a developer of Cellyspace.com, has launched the new, effective RSS-to-MMS publishing tool for content providers that will them to automatically convert and deliver syndicated RSS feeds - directly to mobile subscribers’ messaging inboxes.

Adobe has just announced the launch of public beta testing for its free Web-based Adobe Photoshop Express photo editing service & community. Photo enthusiasts will now be able to edit their photos online with Adobe. It’s anticipated to be a competitor for similar services, such as Phixr, Splashup and Picnik.

Users worldwide - searching for information through leading search engines – are now believed to be the most crucial target audience for marketers. In fact, this is the most important development in marketing over the last decade, according to a survey conducted by an internationally recognised PR firm Eurocom Worldwide, done in association with agency […]

Ringleader Digital, a popular third-party ad serving network for mobile devices, will assist deliver ads on Local Wireless network of Local Solutions Network Inc.
Its addition to ad network of Ringleader means over 50 million extra impressions per month available to mobile advertisers, the firm claims. “Ringleader integrates online ad campaigns with mobile advertising. We’ll be […]