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Yahoo adds RSS to Yahoo Mail

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Yahoo was set to unveil on Wednesday a new Really Simple Syndication feed alert service and integration of RSS feeds into its new Yahoo Mail beta, making the company the first to offer RSS in a major Web-based e-mail system.
The new RSS feed alert service will allow people to receive alerts via e-mail, instant […]

Fake Pagerank Scams

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

Press Release
Fake Pagerank scams are becoming more and more common on the web. Scam artists usually hang out in forums or chat rooms, looking for inexperienced people to prey on. Often times they will act like the inexperienced web user, asking advice about what they should do with their high pagerank site. […]

300,000 XBOX 360’s for UK launch

Monday, November 28th, 2005

Microsoft says it plans to have 300,000 XBOX 360 units available for the UK launch of the new console on December 2nd.
It is expected that all the Units will be sold out on the day of the launch.
When the XBOX 360 was released on the 22nd of November in the US the units were […]

Pay Pal to pay out on with held funds

Saturday, November 26th, 2005

The online payment-processing company, a unit of auction giant eBay, sent an email to customers on Thursday outlining the process. People who opened an account with PayPal between 1 October, 1999, and 31 January, 2004, and who experienced certain problems with it are eligible for the payout. Advertisements in People, Newsweek and USAToday will also […]

Internet TV ‘to boom’ in Europe

Friday, November 25th, 2005

TV delivered over broadband internet connections will become increasingly popular in Europe over the next four years, new research has predicted.
The number of subscribers is set to hit 8.7 million in 2009 - up from 658,000 now - giving operators almost 9.5% of the pay-TV market, Screen Digest said.
The leading enthusiasts in Europe are currently […]

Firefox plans mass marketing drive

Friday, November 25th, 2005

The Mozilla Corporation is gearing up to launch a large-scale marketing drive when Firefox 1.5 is released.
Christopher Beard, the vice-president of products at Mozilla
Corporation, told ZDNet UK on Monday that there is a “strong
likelihood” that Firefox 1.5, the next major version of the open source
browser, will be released on 29 November.
Beard said the Corporation […]

Analysts predict online Christmas shopping boom

Friday, November 25th, 2005

UK high-street retailers are looking forward to a gloomy Christmas, as shoppers this season turn to the ‘Net for their needs.
An astonishing 89 per cent of UK shoppers plan to buy online this Christmas, with 44 per cent scouting for bargains on eBay. Just 11 per cent of shoppers plan to explore the […]

Google Space extends searching offline

Thursday, November 24th, 2005

Google Space, at Terminal One of London’s Heathrow airport, will allow people to log onto the net and check e-mail while they wait for flights.
For Google, the space will be used to test its myriad product launches on the public.
“We see it as a huge focus group,” said Lorraine Twohill, Google’s European director of marketing.
“For […]

Sober mass-mailer worm

Thursday, November 24th, 2005

Austria’s equivalent to the FBI is investigating a flurry of similar bogus e-mails sent in its name to people in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, the Associated Press reported.”This particular virus is a mass-mailer worm and is the largest one we have seen this year,” said Alfred A. Huger, senior director of engineering at Symantec Corp., […]

Search Engine Use Increasing

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

E-mail is still the most used Internet app, but search engine usage is rapidly gaining, according to new data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project and comScore Media Metrix.
According to Pew Internet & American Life data, 41 percent of the Internet-using population in 2005, approximately 59 million people, made use of a search […]