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September 30, 2006

Google addresses W3C link selling

Link: Google addresses W3C link selling
Filed under: Google News, Webmaster News, Search Engine News

Google
Google has addressed recent complaints over the W3C selling links on its website. Google engineer, Matt Cutts, told John Battelle in an interview that a controversial page that allows webmasters to pay for listings on the W3C site now had a "index, nofollow" ...

 



September 27, 2006

AOL sued for search privacy violations

Link: AOL sued for search privacy violations
Filed under: Companies News, Legal News, Search Engine News, Security News

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AOL is being served with a class action lawsuit in America, after the company released user data online that allowed users of the AOL search engine to be traced. It's the first legal action to arise from AOL's disastrous - and ...

 



Report says organic listings as valuable as paid search marketing

Link: Report says organic listings as valuable as paid search marketing
Filed under: Marketing News, PPC News, Webmaster News, Search Engine News, Business News, Economy News

Google
A study by internet marketing firm WebSideStory has found that strong natural listings on search engines are almost as effective as paid search marketing for making sales. The company tested more than 57 million search engine queries to client sites over the first 8 ...

 



The Intel strikes back

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Filed under: Hardware News, Companies News, Webhosting News, Technology News, Internet News

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SPECIAL REPORT In the face of encroachment by AMD into traditional chip markets, Intel is powering to strike back with a recently announced series of releases. Key to this is the coming launch of its quad core chip family for x86 servers - Core 2 ...

 



September 26, 2006

Net delivers mobile domains

Link: Net delivers mobile domains
Filed under: Mobile News, Browsers, Web Development News, Webhosting News, Internet News

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Public registrations of .mobi - the newly accredited domain name extension - has opened up today. The aim of .mobi domain names is to cater specifically for mobile device users. The domain registration body overseeing the project - Mobile Top Level Domain (MTLD) - insists ...

 



September 20, 2006

Torpark browser released to protect privacy

Link: Torpark browser released to protect privacy
Filed under: Software News, Firefox News, Browsers

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A new browser named Torpark has been released, which claims to offer greater privacy protections online. Torpark is a modified version of the increasingly popular Mozilla Firefox browser, and connects to the internet via an extensive network of servers and routers set up ...

 



New DVD format could close HD DVD and Blu Ray rivalry

Link: New DVD format could close HD DVD and Blu Ray rivalry
Filed under: Technology News

HD DVD & Blu Ray
Researchers with Warner Bros. have filed for a patent that allows a single DVD disc to store multiple high definition DVD formats. The resultant disc would allow standard DVD storage - in addition to also storing both rival High Definition ...

 



September 19, 2006

Sony laptop batteries recall continues

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Filed under: Hardware News, Apple News, Technology News

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The recall of laptop batteries made by Sony continued this month as Toshiba recalled over 340,000 batteries from its laptops. The affected Toshiba laptops are the Dynabook and Dynabook Satellite, made between March and May of this year. The reason for the recall is ...

 



September 15, 2006

UK housing market powers up

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Filed under: Property Market News, Economy News

Property
Indicators show that the UK property market is powering up again, despite the recent interest rate rise. The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) (formerly known as the Office for the Deputy Prime Minister - ODPM) announced this week that house prices across ...

 



September 13, 2006

UK breaking EU employment law

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Filed under: Employment News, Legal News, Business News

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The UK has been judged to be breaking EU employment law, for failing to ensure that workers have proper rest periods. The case was brought by the European Commission in the European Court of Justice, after the UK was seen to be failing to ...

 



Economic downturn continues to threaten UK

Link: Economic downturn continues to threaten UK
Filed under: Ecommerce News, Economy News

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SPECIAL REPORT The UK economy is facing continued indicators of a slowdown, against the backdrop of a general warning on the state of the Global Economy. Key challenges facing the UK ecnoomy are the twin evils of rising inflation and rising inflation. Despite Tony ...

 



September 3, 2006

Donald Trump site hack warning to business

Link: Donald Trump site hack warning to business
Filed under: Webmaster News, Security News, Internet News, Business News

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Businesses were again reminded to take proper care of security for their websites, after Donald Trump's website was found hacked. A search on Google shows the site has been filled with junk pages and links promoting a third-party pharmaceuticals site. Webhosting and design company ...

 



September 1, 2006

New Browzar offers private surfing

Link: New Browzar offers private surfing
Filed under: Firefox News, Browsers, Microsoft News

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UPDATE: Browzar stands accused of being AdWare, and Techcrunch accuses it as being nothing more than a simple shell to IE which forces Overture ads on its own users. A new internet browser named Browzer has been released, which is built to ...