Google extends searching offline

1. Google extends searching offline

Google may already be dominant on the web but now it is stretching its wings to the physical world as well. 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 more on this:
- read full story from BBC News, Nov 24 2005


2. Opera *nixed by security bug

Opera users on *nix platforms are been urged to update their browser software following the discovery of a security flaw that creates a means for hackers to compromise vulnerable systems.

For more on this:
- read full story from theregister.co.uk, Nov 24 2005


3. Pipex 'encouraged' by WiMAX trials

UK-based Pipex is "encouraged" by trials of its WiMAX wireless broadband service and is pressing ahead with further tests, it revelaed today. The ISP has been running the WiMAX trial in tandem with Airspan Networks at the US-based firm's test facility in Stratford-upon-Avon.

For more on this:
- read full story from theregister.co.uk, Nov 24 2005


4. New Web Mail: More Polished, Powerful

Drag-and-drop functionality makes it easy to quickly organize messages in the Yahoo Mail beta and other Ajax-based e-mail apps.Microsoft and Yahoo are poised to make Web-based e-mail more powerful than ever with updates that bring a desktop-style interface to their respective Web mail offerings.

For more on this:
- read full story from Yahoo! News, Nov 24 2005

5. Google Testing Click-to-Call

Google searchers can turn to the phone as well as the Web to connect with advertisers. Google is testing a new feature for its AdWords keyword ads that appear alongside natural search results: click-to-call.

For more on this:
- read full story from internetnews.com, Nov 23 2005

6. Google Base awash with smut

Google Base was flooded with porn marketing days after its launch despite claims spam postings would not be a problem for the search engine giant's online classified service.

For more on this:
- read full story from theregister.co.uk, Nov 24 2005


7. 2006: crunch time for mobile firms

Next year will be difficult for mobile companies as their traditional business model comes under threat, Arpu continues to fall and wireless VoIP starts to have an impact.

For more on this:
- read full story from theregister.co.uk, Nov 23 2005


8. EU committee approves telecoms data storage rule

An European Union parliament committee voted on Thursday to keep details of all EU-wide telephone calls and Internet use for six months to a year to help combat terrorism and serious crime.

For more on this:
- read full story from Yahoo! News, Nov 24 2005

VZ Wireless Sues Alleged Spammer

1. VZ Wireless Sues Alleged Spammer

Verizon Wireless today said it is suing a Florida vacation outlet for allegedly sending nearly 100,000 unsolicited text messages to the carrier's customers.

For more on this:
- read full story from internetnews.com, Nov 23 2005


2. Bogus E-Mails Contain New 'Sober' Worm

Austria's equivalent of the FBI said Tuesday that it is investigating a flurry of bogus e-mails sent in its name to people in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

For more on this:
- read full story from washingtonposts.com, Nov 23 2005


3. AIM Gets Upgrade, Integrates More Features

America Online Inc. launched a new version of its instant-messaging service yesterday, integrating e-mail, text messaging, and voice and video chatting into one online software program.

For more on this:
- read full story from washingtonposts.com, Nov 23 2005


4. AOL Launches Its Triton

AOL today officially launched its new AIM Triton service, which includes an integrated communications client that offers instant messaging, e-mail, SMS mobile texting and voice and video chat services.

For more on this:
- read full story from messagingpipeline.com, Nov 22 2005


5. Google Must Buy TiVo

Last month, I incurred the wrath of not a few Google (Nasdaq: GOOG - News) fans when I criticized a proposed deal with Sun Microsystems to push Star Office. I said then, and still believe, that Google's strength isn't in applications, but in search and targeted advertising.

For more on this:
- read full story from Yahoo! News, Nov 23 2005



6. Google Testing Click-to-Call

Google searchers can turn to the phone as well as the Web to connect with advertisers. Google is testing a new feature for its AdWords keyword ads that appear alongside natural search results: click-to-call.

For more on this:
- read full story from internetnews.com, Nov 23 2005


7. Perspective: File-sharing crackdown rages worldwide

Lest there be any doubt, the recording industry is quite serious about cracking down on what it perceives to be illegal file-sharing, in the United States and other countries as well. To prove the point, the industry has just initiated more than 2,100 new legal cases against individuals in Europe, Asia and South America.

For more on this:
- read full story from CNET News.com, Nov 23 2005


8. Yahoo: From Dot-Com Survivor to Web 2.0 Powerhouse

While Google and Microsoft dominate the headlines, Yahoo has quietly embraced new technologies to emerge as a legitimate big player in the Web 2.0 sphere.

For more on this:
- read full story from eweek.com, Nov 23 2005


9. Computer Worm Poses as E-Mail From FBI, CIA

It's being called the worst computer worm of the year -- a fast-spreading Internet threat that looks like an official e-mail from the CIA or FBI but can leave your computer wide open to intruders.

For more on this:
- read full story from washingtonpost.com, Nov 24 2005


10. Google fixes glitch that unleashed flood of porn

A technology glitch temporarily turned Google's new personal listings service, Google Base, into a vast, virtual red-light district earlier this week.

For more on this:
- read full story from CNET News.com, Nov 23 2005

Search usurping email as top internet activity

1. Search usurping email as top internet activity

Search is catching up to email as the internet's number-one activity, according to a new poll. Forty one per cent of US adults who surfed the internet on a "typical day" in September 2005 used a search engine, up from 30 per cent in June 2004, according to the latest Pew Internet & American Life survey of consumer behavior.

For more on this:
- read full story from theregister.co.uk, Nov 23 2005


2. Eclipse broadband no longer titsup

Eclipse Internet says its broadband service is now back to normal after going titsup yesterday evening although punters may have to reset their kit to restore their connection.

For more on this:
- read full story from theregister.co.uk, Nov 22 2005


3. Out With The Old AIM, In With Triton

It text messages, launches phone calls via your broadband connection, enables video along with all that VoIP and keeps track of other important messaging info via SMS alerts.

For more on this:
- read full story from internews.com, Nov 22 2005


4. Eclipse broadband no longer titsup

Eclipse Internet says its broadband service is now back to normal after going titsup yesterday evening although punters may have to reset their kit to restore their connection.

For more on this:
- read full story from theregister.com, Nov 22 2005


5. VoIP ICs: Billion Dollar Market by 2009

As demand for VoIP products continues to grow, so will the market for the integrated circuits that make the Internet-enabled voice communication possible.

For more on this:
- read full story from theinternetnews.com, Nov 22 2005


6. Skype Thinks Outside the PC Box with Partner Push

Skype Technologies, S.A. recently announced that it has signed a deal with RadioShack Corporation to distribute the first Skype-certified Motorola Bluetooth-enabled phones and headsets in America, making it the first U.S. retailer to offer this Internet phone service.

For more than this:
- read full story from eweek.com, Nov 22 2005


7. CBS in Talks with Google for Video Search

U.S. television network CBS is in discussions with Internet media company Google Inc. for video search and on-demand video, CBS chairman Leslie Moonves said Tuesday.

For more on this:
- read full story from eweek.com, Nov 22 2005


8. High speed may not be enough to topple ADSL

HSDPA is the wireless technology that few people can spell and even fewer understand. But behind the unwieldy acronym - it stands for high-speed downlink packet access - lurks a golden opportunity for operators to upgrade today's networks to better support high-speed data services.

For more on this:
- read full story from Yahoo! News, Nov 22 2005


9. AOL Delivers Next-Generation AIM

America Online Inc. released Monday a new version of its popular Instant Messenger software, which is meant to draw more eyeballs to the company's other online facets.

For more on this:
- read full story from eweek.com, Nov 22 2005

MSN College & University Program

1. MSN College & University Program

Connect your campus with free1 hosted e-mail from MSN®. Provide all of your students and alumni with free e-mail accounts that potentially never expire1, featuring a custom domain name selected by your institution.

For more on this:
- read full story from imagine-msn.com


2. Web ad sales hit another record high

Sales of Internet advertising have continued their long rally, reaching a quarterly all-time high of $3.1 billion in September, according to a new study.

For more on this:
- read full story from CNET News.com, Nov 21 2005


3. Google Gift to Digital Library

The Library of Congress will announce today a $3 million gift from Google to help the library begin building a World Digital Library, a project that aims to digitize and place on the Web significant primary materials from national libraries and other institutions worldwide.

For more on this:
- read full story from The New York Times, Nov 22 2005


4. AOL Joins Start-Up Company to Offer Web Video Distribution

America Online reached an unusual arrangement yesterday with a start-up company that will allow almost any producer of video content to distribute programming on its service, splitting revenue from advertising or fees.

For more on this:
- read full story from The New York Times, Nov 22 2005


5. Hong Kong Internet providers vow privacy protection but respect local law

Hong Kong Internet service providers say they will respect their users' privacy but were bound by local laws, a week after a group of record companies asked them to hand over information about clients accused of illegal music downloads.
For more on this:
- read full story from Yahoo! News, Nov 22 2005


6. Net TV startup lands $16.2 mln from AOL, IAC

Brightcove, an Internet television startup that helps programmers syndicate shows across the Web and collect money from it, plans to announce on Tuesday it has attracted new high profile investors including AOL and IAC/InterActiveCorp, and a distribution pact with AOL.

For more on this:
- read full story from reuters.com, Nov 21 2005


7. Hungry for net freedom in Tunisia

Last week's UN-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society put the spotlight on the host country Tunisia. Human rights groups both inside and outside the country intensified their criticism of the Tunisian government's record regarding internet freedom.

For more on this:
- read full story from BBC News, Nov 21 2005


8. Microsoft Launches Free Hosted E-Mail

Internet domain owners can now outsource their e-mail and instant messaging to Microsoft. The new service, Windows Live Custom Domains, lets domain name owners access MSN services without the need for a Passport, Microsoft's star-crossed authentication system.

For more on this:
- read full story from internetnews.com, Nov 21 2005

1. How Google tamed ads on the wild, wild Web

Five years ago, Web advertisers were engaged in an ever-escalating competition to grab our attention. Monkeys that asked to be punched, pop-ups that spawned still more pop-ups, strobe effects that imparted temporary blindness--these were legal forms of assault.

For more on this:
- read full story from CNET News.com, Nov 20 2005


2. Cisco's IP vision becomes reality

Cisco Systems is putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to the promise of Internet protocol convergence and the networked home.

For more on this:
- read full story from CNET News.com, Nov 18 2005


3. Skype in US retail distribution pact

Skype, the Internet-calling phenomenon that eBay Inc. acquired for $4.1 billion, is set to break into the U.S. consumer mainstream by selling its telephone kits in RadioShack stores.

For more on this:
- read full story from Yahoo! News, Nov 20 2005


4. Getting Skittish About Skype

It's the kind of notoriety that comes with a $2.6 billion buyout. Since Luxembourg-based Internet telephone startup Skype Technologies was gobbled up by online marketplace eBay Inc. for that princely sum in September, Skype has added 12 million more users, for a total of 66 million -- and has attracted a boatload of closer scrutiny.

For more on this:
- read full story from Yahoo! News, Nov 18 2005


5. Google Downplays Gmail Security Fix

Google Inc. has quietly patched a security bug in its Gmail service, but the company is downplaying the severity of the risk to its users. Google confirmed that it made "modifications" to Gmail to cover an attack vector that allowed malicious hackers to take complete control of a victim's Gmail account.

For more on this:
- read full story from eweek.com, Nov 18 2005


6. Yahoo! Wins Search Victory

In the ongoing battle for high-level search expertise, Yahoo! announced a key hire in its research department, tapping the former chief scientist at AltaVista to lead its developmental search projects in this hot area of the Internet.

For more on this:
- read full story from forbes.com, Nov 18 2005


7. Internet still young, faster access to spur growth

The Internet has given rise to profitable companies such as Yahoo Inc., Google Inc., eBay Inc. and others, but the industry is still in the early days and will be further fueled as even faster Internet access proliferates through the United States and other countries, executives said on Wednesday.

For more on this:
- read full story from Yahoo! News, Nov 19 2005


8. Windows Live Custom Domains - Free Email Hosting

A new service was added to the Windows Live Beta family today - Windows Live Custom Domains. The basic idea is that anyone with a domain can now point their MX record to the Live servers.

For more on this:
- read full story from neowin.net, Nov 19 2005