The cofounder of Netscape, Marc Andreessen, has developed a reputation for being able to visualise what lies ahead just around the bend. That is exactly why his investment in Qik, (pronounced “quick”), a mobile streaming-video start-up, is being looked at curiously.

A former Yahoo programming executive, Dave Katz, has launched a new social networking website. The online platform is specifically designed for diehard sports fans.
Coincidentally, Dave Katz led Yahoo’s sports, entertainment and studios division. He reportedly cultivated the internet company’s first ‘consistent, home-grown’ content channels. He left Yahoo in December 2006. He spent more than six […]

Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) 2008 Internet Access report show that almost 65 per cent of homes – roughly 16.46 million households – do not have internet access in the UK. This is an increase of 1.23 million households over the previous year. Around 35 per cent of UK homes do not […]

There is a new open source manner in which Twitter can be integrated with blogging platforms- TweetRemote. Its aim is to provide bloggers with more control on the process by which tweets are added to blogs.
Instead of the ubiquitous way of blog integration in which Twitter tools simply collect all tweets and post them exactly […]

The online retail concept have captured an increasing share of the consumer spend. However, the customer service provided by the supermarket websites is not following pace at all. There is a significant difference in the Web Page loading response times within the various leading UK grocer’s websites. As per a survey by online customer experience […]

Hi5 and Widgetbox have teamed up and hi5 now has access to Widgetbox’s App Gallery to get an integrated solution which will allow applications built on Widgetbox to come out as the standalone applications as part of the hi5 network itself. This is a welcome change considering that even after having support for Widgetbox widgets, […]

The virtual world is a playground for cyber criminals who are interested in laundering money and stealing data, according to security firm McAfee. The in-game economies of the virtual world are being seized by criminals who try to hide their profits through the exchange of virtual currencies. Dr Igor Muttik, a senior architect at McAfee’s […]

Sharing documents with your co-workers via Google Docs is sure very convenient. But it can also be hazardous, points out Dr. David Gallagher in an essay titled ‘I’m in Your Google Docs, Reading Your Spreadsheets’ just published in the New York Times. The author notes:
Make one little typo and all your sensitive data could easily […]

A federal court in California has thrown out a copyright infringement lawsuit that was filed by the adult entertainment company IO Group against video sharing website Veoh Networks, stating that the firm was protected by the safe harbour provisions in DMCA (the Digital Millennium Copyright Act).

A new sports news network, OpenSports, has a custom service plan to deliver updated sports news as per the preferences set by the users. A clear difference visible in OpenSports compared to other players in the fray is that it seems to be made to work more like a sports-centric feed reader.
It offers various sports […]

“Captcha sure is the bane of the internet,” states Matt Mullenweg, who runs the popular blogging website Wordpress.com. “I cannot figure them out half the time!” He is here referring to those distorted images seen when registering for online services like free email accounts or blogging websites.
The user needs to type in the letters in […]

eMarketer has floated a curious set of numbers regarding NBC’s in-video advertising. It is around ₤3.11 million and it does seem rather small especially, if it is to be considered what they are actually putting in to provide all the live on-demand coverage and other things.

Google will soon officially be coming out with their Search Suggest feature that it has kept inside its lab for testing for quite a while now. The functioning of Google Search Suggest is similar to that of the, much familiar, ‘did you mean’ feature that is seen when a keyword is misspelled or is ‘seemingly […]

Photosynth is a Live Labs project of Microsoft. It is an application as well as a plug-in for browsers that allows users to stitch regular photographs together into a 3D panorama style virtual experience and it has been there for some time now. It went public a couple of days ago and users of Windows […]

Google has recently made some changes like the guidelines on the slow Ad Landing Pages. The changes are now being followed up through the introduction of improvements on the manner in which Google gives Quality Scores to Ad units. The marking of keywords as ‘minimum bid’ has been replaced with ‘first page bid’. It is […]

Photobucket, primarily a photo hosting website, has grouped up along with Scrapblog, the online scrapbooking tool so that their users will have access to yet another mode in which to share the multimedia content they host.
The Scrapblog application that Photobucket has made available provides scrapbook templates that can be created from scratch. The users can […]

With the impending credit crunch, consumers are now using their mobile phones in order to seek cheaper prices and better bargains when shopping out on the high street. A third of shoppers are taking advantage of the mobile internet to compare prices or to look up product reviews and recommendations before actually investing in luxury […]

The telecoms regulator has released its fifth annual communications market report. As per the report, people in the UK are spending a lot more time than they ever did consuming a variety of content and media services online.
On an average, Britons were spending a total of seven hours and nine minutes every day surfing the […]

Google aims to get the public’s support to help their lobbying to open up the still unused airwaves between broadcast television channels. Google’s advocates have been heard and seen by all in strongly advocating to free up of the white spectrum.
Google states that the move will enable them to provide high-speed and affordable wireless internet […]

The University of Michigan has published the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index (ASCI) report based on the customer satisfaction survey of search and portal companies. The report rates Google at the top.
The customer satisfaction ratings for 2008 are based on interviews of 3000 customers and Google scored 87% overall. This new score sees a change […]