 | 'Top technology' woman picked | Source: BBC - Nov 06 2006 | | | UK telecoms boss is picked as the overall winner of the 2006 Women and Technology Awards. | |
| | Zune problems for MSN customers | Source: BBC - Nov 06 2006 | | | Customers of Microsoft's MSN Music store could face problems if they try to move tracks to a Zune player. | |
| | Fitness machine for child gamers | Source: BBC - Nov 06 2006 | | | A machine has been invented which provides a set rate of exercise for children while they play computer games. | |
| | Google ad income 'to surpass TV' | Source: BBC - Nov 06 2006 | | | Google is about to overtake the UK's main commercial TV channels in the race for ad revenue, a study says. | |
| | 'Nasa hackers' detained in Chile | Source: BBC - Nov 06 2006 | | | Chile's authorities detain four computer hackers accused of breaching more than 8,000 websites, including that of Nasa. | |
| | Top prize for computer bug study | Source: BBC - Nov 06 2006 | | | A UK scientist wins one of the largest international prizes in science for his work on the bacterium E.coli. | |
| | Microsoft restates China policy | Source: BBC - Nov 06 2006 | | | Microsoft has re-stated its position on business in China following comments by a senior legal advisor. | |
| | South Korea boosts mobile data | Source: BBC - Nov 06 2006 | | | BBC Click reports on the advances being made in South Korea to deliver blisteringly fast wireless broadband. | |
| | PayPal to offer cash rebates (AP) | Source: Yahoo! - Nov 06 2006 | | | AP - PayPal, the payment-service company owned by online auction site eBay Inc., said Monday it will launch an incentive program, allowing customers who subscribe to the service to receive cash rebates of up to $20 on several thousand merchants&#... | |
| | Cyberspies Invade Silicon Valley | Source: WebProNews - Nov 06 2006 | | | Fictional super spies like James Bond may have to retire from all the action, sizzle and international intrigue of days past if the recent trend in stealing company secrets through computer hacking in Silicon Valley continues. Everything from compute... | |
| | Yahoo China Wages War On Qihoo | Source: WebProNews - Nov 06 2006 | | | Yahoo China is preparing to file an aggressive new lawsuit against Qihoo, a rival portal. The case will reportedly target Qihoo's founder (and former president of Yahoo China), Zhou Hongyi, by claiming "that Zhou has embezzled from Yahoo China and d... | |
| | South Korean portal seeks ties with Google (AFP) | Source: Yahoo! - Nov 06 2006 | | | AFP - Daum Communications, South Korea's second-largest Internet portal, says it is in talks with the world's top Internet search portal Google about possible business links. | |
| | Commercial Ratings Flub Extends DVR Debate (AdWeek.com) | Source: Yahoo! - Nov 06 2006 | | | AdWeek.com - A large poultry company might not seem the obvious facilitator of family togetherness, nor its Web site a place one would visit to exchange video messages with distant relatives. But this Thanksgiving season, Butterball is launching the ... | |
| | Chile police arrest 4 alleged hackers (AP) | Source: Yahoo! - Nov 06 2006 | | | AP - Chilean police arrested four suspected computer hackers on Monday, accusing them of being part of an international group that has broken into thousands of government Web sites around the globe in recent years. | |
| | Google to broker print ads in newspapers (Reuters) | Source: Yahoo! - Nov 06 2006 | | | Reuters - Google Inc. is set to begin helping customers buy advertisements in 50 U.S. newspapers in a test of how the Web search leader can extend its business into offline media, the company said on Sunday. | |
| | Google Just Now Owns AdSense.com | Source: WebProNews - Nov 06 2006 | | | Three years after Google launched its AdSense service, the company finally owns the AdSense.com domain. Previously, the domain was owned by AdSense Consulting, who bought the domain in 1996.And they're still kind of bitter about it. Go to AdSense2.co... | |
| | Comcast tests user-generated video (Reuters) | Source: Yahoo! - Nov 06 2006 | | | Reuters - Comcast Corp. on Monday began testing a Web site for users to post their own videos, and will select the best clips to be aired on the cable operator's on-demand television service. | |
| | "Big Brother" to be launched in Second Life (Reuters) | Source: Yahoo! - Nov 06 2006 | | | Reuters - The popular reality TV show "Big Brother" plans to expand into virtual reality with a new edition in the online world of Second Life, the Dutch unit of television programmer Endemol said on Monday. | |
| | Snuppy passes torch to YouTube (AP) | Source: Yahoo! - Nov 06 2006 | | | AP - YouTube, the video-sharing Web site recently acquired by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion, beat out a vaccine that prevents a cancer-causing sexually transmitted disease and a shirt that simulates a hug to grab top honors as Time magazine'... | |
| | PayPal plans $20 rebates to users (Reuters) | Source: Yahoo! - Nov 06 2006 | | | Reuters - PayPal, the most popular online payment system, on Monday said it will pay up to $100 million in promotional incentives to customers who use the service on up to 100,000 merchant sites in North America. | |
| | Microsoft maps next step in Google chase (AP) | Source: Yahoo! - Nov 06 2006 | | | AP - Microsoft Corp. has upgraded its online mapping service to include three-dimensional tours of 15 U.S. cities, marking another step in its dogged pursuit of Internet search leader Google Inc. | |
| | MySpace may be offered on Japan cell phones: Murdoch (Reuters) | Source: Yahoo! - Nov 06 2006 | | | Reuters - News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch said on Monday he hoped to find partners to enter Asian markets for its MySpace.com Internet business and would discuss offering the world's most popular online community via cellphones with Japan&#... | |
| | AdBrite to auction Web ads to brand marketers (Reuters) | Source: Yahoo! - Nov 06 2006 | | | Reuters - Web advertising start-up AdBrite on Sunday said it will offer a new auction system for buying online brand advertising that aims to disrupt the concentrated hold on the market bigger Internet players have. | |
| | Nokia, FinNode Looking For Mobile Plans | Source: WebProNews - Nov 06 2006 | | | It's not anytime minutes and SMS they want, but they would like to find and reward the winner of a contest for the best business plan in the Web-2-Mobile Business Plan Competition.The contest sponsored by global mobile phone maker Nokia, with FinNode... | |
| | Google to experiment with newspaper ad sales online (USATODAY.com) | Source: Yahoo! - Nov 06 2006 | | | USATODAY.com - Google will begin testing a new program that lets Google's customers buy ads in more than 50 top newspapers, including The New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Jose Mercury News and seven papers owned by Gannett, the publish... | |
| | MySpace may be offered on Japan cell phones: Murdoch | Source: Reuters - Nov 06 2006 | | | TOKYO, Nov 6 (Reuters Life!) - News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch said on Monday he hoped to find partners to enter Asian markets for its MySpace.com Internet business and would discuss offering the world's most popular online community via cellphones with ... | |
| | Chile snares suspects in global Web site attacks (Reuters) | Source: Yahoo! - Nov 06 2006 | | | Reuters - Chile arrested on Monday members of a local group they say hacked into thousands of Web sites globally, including those of U.S. space agency NASA and three Latin American governments, police said. | |
| | Google Facing Hefty Tab For Video | Source: WebProNews - Nov 06 2006 | | | If anyone was wondering why Google made an all-stock deal with YouTube to acquire it, news of negotiations with media companies that could require big cash payments should answer that question.Despite Google's demonstrated willingness to go into cour... | |
| | After Google, NBA Breakup, NHL Steps In | Source: WebProNews - Nov 06 2006 | | | Google Video used to feature official NBA videos, but the deal that made this possible seems to have run its course. Sports fans aren't entirely out of luck, though, because the NHL will be providing content to fill the void. "Not only can you watch... | |
| | Office 2007 code is frozen | Source: Zdnet - Nov 06 2006 | | | Microsoft has finalised the code for the next version of Office, but is still working on Vista | |
| | Comcast tests user-generated video | Source: Reuters - Nov 06 2006 | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Comcast Corp. on Monday began testing a Web site for users to post their own videos, and will select the best clips to be aired on the cable operator's on-demand television service. | |
| | CBS names banker as new digital chief (Reuters) | Source: Yahoo! - Nov 06 2006 | | | Reuters - CBS Corp. on Monday plans to announce it has appointed a Silicon Valley veteran and Internet deal maker as the president of a newly created interactive division, as the broadcaster seeks to reach new consumers on the Internet. | |
| | Google targets newspaper advertising (AP) | Source: Yahoo! - Nov 06 2006 | | | AP - Google Inc. plans to start selling advertising space in 50 top newspapers, expanding the Internet search engine's efforts to provide services off the Web and making it easier for companies advertising online to also show off their products ... | |
| | Microsoft launches 3-D maps for Web search (Reuters) | Source: Yahoo! - Nov 06 2006 | | | Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said on Monday it introduced three-dimensional maps of 15 U.S. cities in an effort to beef up its Web search offering to better compete with market leader Google Inc. | |
| | Codename Max Signs Off | Source: WebProNews - Nov 06 2006 | | | Microsoft abrubtly ends its popular year long endeavor known as the Codename Max project, leaving some users puzzled.Photo paper burns, but software is forever. At least that is what the subscribers of the photo sharing software known as Microsoft C... | |
| | "Big Brother" to be launched in Second Life | Source: Reuters - Nov 06 2006 | | | LONDON (Reuters) - The popular reality TV show "Big Brother" plans to expand into virtual reality with a new edition in the online world of Second Life, the Dutch unit of television programmer Endemol said on Monday. | |
| | PayPal plans $20 rebates to users | Source: Reuters - Nov 06 2006 | | | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - PayPal, the most popular online payment system, on Monday said it will pay up to $100 million in promotional incentives to customers who use the service on up to 100,000 merchant sites in North America. | |
| | PC sales tipped to flop this Christmas | Source: Zdnet - Nov 06 2006 | | | Sony's exploding batteries and Vista's delayed launch are making it hard to count on the usual year-end consumer spending spree | |
| | Google Brings Samba, CC Early Gifts | Source: WebProNews - Nov 06 2006 | | | Samba and Creative Commons, both with ties in the open source community, benefited from Google's largesse, an early present to a pair of organizations for the holidays.The two top search companies made some moves that were very much in the spirit of ... | |
| | Chile snares suspects in global Web site attacks | Source: Reuters - Nov 06 2006 | | | SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - Chile arrested on Monday members of a local group they say hacked into thousands of Web sites globally, including those of U.S. space agency NASA and three Latin American governments, police said. | |
| | IT spending soars in financial sector | Source: Zdnet - Nov 06 2006 | | | Financial firms are spending around £10,000 per employee on IT each year, while computing expenditure lags behind in the public sector | |
| | Microsoft completes Office 2007 | Source: Reuters - Nov 06 2006 | | | SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. said on Monday it has completed the software code for its Office 2007 suite and will begin to offer the world's most popular package of desktop software to corporate customers on November 30. | |
| | Is Bigger Always Better? | Source: WebProNews - Nov 06 2006 | | | Should your company upgrade to grande? The monetary value of larger flat screen monitors is well worth the return in employee productivity, as proven in a recent study conducted by Apple Computers.The phrase "one size fits all" has become all but obs... | |
| | CBS names banker as new digital chief | Source: Reuters - Nov 06 2006 | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - CBS Corp. on Monday plans to announce it has appointed a Silicon Valley veteran and Internet deal maker as the president of a newly created interactive division, as the broadcaster seeks to reach new consumers on the Internet. ... | |
| | FTC Slaps Zango On The Wrist | Source: WebProNews - Nov 06 2006 | | | Zango Inc., the Web 2.0 incarnation of bubble-era adware and porno-popup company 180solutions, settled up with the Federal Trade Commission to the tune of $3 million (about 23 cents per install). The FTC charged that Zango used unfair and deceptive m... | |
| | Web sweeping election coverage | Source: Reuters - Nov 06 2006 | | | NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Tuesday's midterm elections will play out not only in the voting booth and on TV but also on the Web, which will be offering the most coverage ever for an election. | |
| | IT managers increasingly in demand | Source: Zdnet - Nov 06 2006 | | | If you can turn new ideas into great IT products and services, companies will be fighting for your services, says PwC | |
| | Google to broker print ads in newspapers | Source: Reuters - Nov 06 2006 | | | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. is set to begin helping customers buy advertisements in 50 U.S. newspapers in a test of how the Web search leader can extend its business into offline media, the company said on Sunday. | |
| | Poor business case could hobble WiMax | Source: Zdnet - Nov 06 2006 | | | Analysts suggest DSL will win in the developed world, while deploying WiMax in the developing world will prove too costly | |
| | Vodafone vows to spike mobile platforms | Source: Zdnet - Nov 06 2006 | | | Operator is working on tighter application integration with Microsoft, and aims to trim away proprietary platforms in favour of Windows Mobile and Linux | |
| | Fifa 07 hints at beautiful game | Source: BBC - Nov 06 2006 | | | Fifa 07 is Electronic Arts' best football game to date and is sure to please loyal fans of the series. | |
| | ActiveX Flaw Identified | Source: PCWorld - Nov 06 2006 | | | Unpatched vulnerability, triggered by certain sites, could give intruders remote access. | |
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