WorldofGood.com launched by eBay last month is spreading the good word and fast! It is fast emerging as a bridge between consumers and producers - large and small - around the world, on an integrated online platform.
As the website mentions:
“You can shop for great products, which also do ‘good’, so you (as a buyer) can […]

Next generation broadband is expected to offer up to 100Mbps (megabits per second) speeds and will allow, for instance, a user to download songs in a matter of seconds even while watching high definition films. It could allow for a new means of delivering medical care, essential services for disabled people and offering solutions for […]

Amongst online social networks, Hi5 is among the largest. But the recent financial turmoil worldwide are probably the cause for them cutting back to lay off around 10 – 15 percent of their employees, although the management has said this is a ‘reconstructing’ move and they are also hiring people simultaneously.
On their blog they have […]

“Valley Girls: Xochi Birch” is an informative and interesting article by Maggie Shiels, the technology reporter of BBC News that depicts the stunning tale of Xochi Birch’s success. She is the brains behind social networking website Bebo (it stands for Blog Early, Blog Often).
The teen favourite website now has close to 40 million

The winds of the economic crisis are getting stronger and stronger. Yahoo is no exception to this. They had a massive 64% drop in profits in the third quarter and now have decided to eject around 10% of the workforce, almost 1500 employees.
Between 1 July and 30 September 2008, Yahoo’s net profit amounted to just […]

If you use a Windows computer that is connected to a network, a new bug may cause havoc on the machine. According to a news report, XP, 2000 and Server 2003 are the most vulnerable versions of Windows. Vista and Server 2008 are vulnerable as well but not as severely. Microsoft has issued the patch […]

The recent release of the sequel to Peter Molyneux’s original Fable video game, Fable 2, has led to a flurry of uncommon searches on Google. Fable 2allows players to create their own characters. Using this, players can decide whether they want their character to be cruel or kind, a hero or a villain, rich or […]

Almost one million internet users in the UK have exceeded, or come quite close to exceeding, their prescribed broadband usage limit, according to the research from consumer group, uSwitch. Their research has found so-called usage caps, wherein internet service providers (ISPs) limit the amount of bandwidth that users can have in a month, are standard […]

It has long been known and scientifically accepted that talking to plants can help in their nurturing and growing, but have you ever tried to imagine what they would perhaps say in response? A plant in Japan now has its own blog, which may well help you understand a plant’s mind and what goes on

Yahoo has released an enhanced plug-in Inquisitor which gives some more power to the search box in your Internet Explorer (download), Safari (download) and Firefox (download). Inquisitor is so designed as to help users get information faster, according to a posting on Yahoo’s Search Blog. It will suggest search terms as the user starts typing, […]

A call worth several million pounds by Google for beneficial, world changing ideas has generated well over 150,000 online submissions. Google will start going through the ideas carefully. These have been given in 25 languages.
Bethany Poole, Google’s product marketing manager said:
“We are very impressed by the variety as well as ingenuity of the submissions

eBay is running a marketing campaign to let know users about recent website enhancements and also the increased number of ‘Buy it now’ products that are now available on it. The campaign created by Tullo Marshall Warren comprises an on-site marketing, email and a direct mail pack.
The target audiences of this new campaign – online […]

A new startup is surely but slowly helping reshape the dynamic social networking landscape. This is being attained by using artificial intelligence for the purpose of automating the process of identifying, locating and retrieving certain specific types of information that is locked within online communities.
Several social networking websites have teamed up with tech-savvy military

AOL has come up with a revamped version of its popular e-mail website. It has given it a right-hand pane, which features plug-ins to display AOL content and Yahoo Mail.
The pane also features immediate access to all relevant information

Yammer is new on the Web scene, only about six weeks old. This online platform comes with a different and rather specific goal: to be ‘Twitter for businesses’. Yammer was originally created for the staff of Geni, a family tree website.
When he found out how useful it proved to be for them, the founder of […]

Millions of pounds from the internet giant Google will be used to research into new diseases and also understand the conditions which help them spread, saving millions of lives.
In a clear indication of their social commitment, the executive director of Google.org, Dr Larry Brilliant, said:

According to a new posting titled ‘what are you looking for, today?’ by Leah Pearlman on Facebook, the networking website is always working on new innovative ways to make user experience more handy and useful. Toward that goal, they have just added Microsoft Live Search to Facebook’s search experience (currently for people in the US).
This […]

The top online search engine, Google, defied current economic worries with almost a 26% increase in profits. Google earned £778m ($1.35bn) this quarter (third quarter of 2008), beating analysts’ expectations. The firm stated its earnings had grown thanks to its online search and advertising businesses.
Quarterly revenue of Google, comprising commissions to affiliated

When the Queen launched her website more than a decade ago, she mentioned how many people found the worldwide web to be ‘a bit of a mystery.’ A few years ago, she reportedly confessed to Bill Gates, Microsoft’s founder, that she had not yet used a computer. But things have changed since then. Her guides […]

There have been rumours for quite some time now of Facebook coming out with digital music service of its own. The topic has been brought to the fore by The New York Post. They have said that Facebook is talking to quite a few players in the online music marketplace for, as the paper calls […]