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Ad Spending in Europe Reach $2.2 Billion
Western European online ad spending reached $2.2 billion, 1,863 million Euro, in 2005. In 2006, there will be 154.1 million Internet users in the five largest Western European nations, with the largest group coming from Germany, according to eMarketer report. [Read more] [Read more]
Berkman Center and Oxford Internet Institute Launch StopBadware Neighborhood Watch
Harvard University’s Berkman Center and the Oxford Internet Institute have launched StopBadware, a ‘Neighborhood Watch’ against spyware and other malicious software programs. The project is being supported by Google, Lenovo and Sun Microsystems. [Read more] [Read more]
AskJeeves Launches Ask Deutschland Beta
AskJeeves has launched Ask Deutschland in Beta. Ask Deutschland includes MeinAsk, Binoculars, Family Filter, Page Translation, and Bloglines Notifier features. [Read more] [Read more]
Yahoo to Open Labs in Chile and Spain
Yahoo is going to open research labs in Chile and Spain. The new offices will be opened by Ricardo Baeza-Yates. [Read more] [Read more]
U.S: Top Spam Relaying Country
U.S is the top spam relaying country with 24%, according to a report by Sophos. China and South Korea followed in the list. [Read more] [Read more]
Google to Introduce Censored Services in China
Google is going to introduce a censored version of its service in China. The China service will restrict access to email, chat rooms and blogs. [Read more] [Read more]
Fiber-optic Broadband Internet Access Increases in Asia
Fiber-optic broadband internet access has increased in Asia. 77% of South Korean houses and 45% of Japanese houses have broadband access through fiber-optics, according to InfoCom’s quarterly broadband monitoring. [Read more] [Read more]
Consumers Prefer Free Online News with Ads
87% of consumers prefer to read online news for free and they do not mind the pop-up and banner advertisements. 37% have purchased a product or service because of Internet ads on news sites, according to Zoomerang survey. [Read more] [Read more]
Google Selects ZAAZ as a Google Analytics Authorized Consultant
Google has selected ZAAZ as a Google Analytics authorized consultant. ZAAZ will provide Google Analytics customers data analysis and marketing optimization services. [Read more] [Read more]
Yahoo’s Paul Baush Releases Yahoo Hacks
Yahoo’s Paul Baush has released an ebook called Yahoo Hacks. Yahoo Hacks contains tips, tricks and projects that can be implied using Yahoo. [Read more] [Read more]
Visimo Helps Launch U.S Government Website
Visimo’s Velocity Web search platform has helped launch the official U.S Government website. The website includes Velocity’s search, federated-search, clustering capabilities and expanded search results from MSN Search. [Read more] [Read more]
IronPort Launches Web Reputation Technology
IronPort, an email security firm, has launched the IronPort Web Reputation technology. IronPort’s Web Reputation technology measures the behavior and traffic patterns of a website to assess its legitimacy. [Read more] [Read more]
