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Microsoft Knocks $50 Off The Xbox 360 Console to Compete with Wii
Microsoft is giving a $50 discount for the Xbox 360 gaming console, lowering the price in direct competition with what is thought to be the first price cut by Nintendo Co. for its Wii system. The discount will by way of a mail-in rebate, which is val...
Eric Schmidt Slates Murdoch’s Idea to Charge for Internet News
Eric Schmidt, a Google CEO, has told a group of British broadcastings chiefs that Rupert Murdoch’s plan to charge for online news content cannot work, as there is already so much high quality news that is available for free. However, he does ad...
Facebook Starts Making a Profit
Facebook now has 300 million users, and has announced that it has finally started making a profit. This is solid proof that although social media and networking sites are good fun, they are not a good business model, at least not for start ups. If an...
FT.com and other Financial News Websites To Charge for Content
It appears that there will soon be a major shakeup in the way news is presented online. The Financial Times (FT.com) has announced that they are planning to start charging internet users for their specialist financial reports and news. They have stat...
One Billion Firefox Users Prove The Open Source Is The Future
Firefox, the open source Internet browser, has now been downloaded a billion times. It is estimated that 1 in 3 people now use Firefox instead of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Firefox is now 5 years old, and has been a hot with the IT crowd si...
BBC Starts Sharing Video with Commercial Newspapers
Last week one SEO reported that the BBC showed some improvements in its search engine rankings, with pages appearing more often for generic search terms (much like with Wikipedia). This is good news for the BBC, as for years it has been producing hig...
Vodafone Are Looking To Takeover T-Mobile
The world’s largest mobile phone company has declared that it is interested in taking over the German cell phone company, T-Mobile. T-Mobile has been losing market share recently, and even though it won the contract to supply the handsets for G...
Mega Virus Crashes UK Banking Network - Cash Machines Are Dead
OK, this is an over the top, sensationalist title. But today a cash machine at HSBC failed to give me my money. So I headed over to Barclays to withdraw some cash, and that too was down. I popped inside to ask what the heck was going on, and all cash...
Google Invests $90,000 in Drupal CMS
Google continues to promote and encourage open source technologies by agreeing to sponsor Drupal modules in the net “summer of code”. “The summer is off to a great start again. Google just announced that they will sponsor 18 Drupal...
GeoCities is Closing Down
Yahoo have announced that they are planning to close down Geocities, which offers Yahoo members to create free websites. Yahoo is offering its Geocities customers to purchase Yahoo web hosting, however many will start to look elsewhere to host their ...
Amazon Disallows PPC Campaigns for Associates
Just received an update to the terms of service for advertising Amazon products on a website. From 1st May Amazon Associates members will now no longer be able to drive traffic direct to Amazon pages using PPC (such as Google Adwords). Amazon expect ...
London G20 Protest Riots - RBS Attacked, Mounted Riot Police Respond
Tomorrow is the G20 meeting in London, but anti-capitalist protesters got off to a good start today in the City (of London) with an attack on an RBS building. During my lunch hour I strolled from Moorgate to the Bank of England. Princes Street was bl...
The Internet is Coming Home - Local Newspapers Are Fading Out
Local portals set to grow online due to failure of traditional local press. The continuing economic downturn has caused many local newspapers to consider merger opportunities with their rivals, to help cut operating costs and improve economies of sca...
Today Lycos terminates its Webhosting Service
Just received a reminder from Lycos that it is closing its webhosting services. Lycos used to be a popular search engine, and also provide webhosting. So where is Lycos going now? What is it planning? In addition to web hosting it has also ended its ...
Google Introduces Adsense to Orkut
Google’s social network, Orkut, has been overlooked by most Americans and Europeans, but is hugely popular in Brazil and India. The Orkut project was born as a result of Google’s 20% policy, which allows employees to spend 20% of their ti...
Google GDrive is Getting Closer - Is GUnix Next?
Rumours are strife that Google is on the verge or releasing its new cloud technology to the public - the Google GDrive. For several years now Google have been focussing new developments on software that runs off their own servers, and stores data on ...
Yahoo Names Autodesk’s Carol Bartz as new CEO
Yahoo! has announced that Carol Bartz is to be the new CEO. Yahoo have been searching for a suitable candidate for two months. Carol Bartz is the former head of Autodesk Inc. and Yahoo hope that she can steer the company in the right direction to i...
Dixons, Currys and PC World Websits are all Down!
Today a major UK retail chain has lost all internet visibility. All of DSG International’s online stores are currently off-line! The websites for Dixons, Currys and PC World have all been offline for most of the day today. The message on each w...
New York Times Internet Content and Linking Lawsuit
“If successful, a lawsuit against the New York Times Co. brought by Gatehouse, a chain of local newspapers, could radically change the way information is distributed on the Internet. The suit challenges the widespread practice of reproducing sa...
Web3.0 - Cloud Wars: Will Google and Microsoft Meet in the Cloud?
In the last few weeks we have seen some interesting developments coming from both the Google and Microsoft camps, which could indicate a shift for both companies in their direction, and therefore the future of the internet. Google has released its fi...
Google’s Starts to Suffer as Online Retail Declines
Bank of America has slashed Google’s target price by 23% due to a large reduction in online shopping searches. The credit crunch crisis, and resulting recession, has meant that people are restricting their online spending. Brian Pitz, and analy...
Microsoft Planning to Win 10 Year Contract to Operate Yahoo Search
Hot off the press - the Yahoo-Microsoft merger is on the cards again as partnerships are forming. Although there is unlikely to be a complete takeover of Yahoo by Microsoft, the wheels are in motion for Microsoft to have a controlling stake in Yahoo,...
Europe’s Largest Computer Chip Maker Suffering the Crunch
More problems in the computer chip markets as ST Microelectronics NV, Europe’s largest semiconductor maker, said fourth-quarter revenue and gross margin will miss forecasts after a slowdown in demand from the wireless, automotive and computer perip...
Online Newspaper Advertising Revenue Falls
At first it seemed that there was going to be a shift from advertising on traditional paper media to more online advertising, leading to a more competitive market, and rising advertising revenues of web publishers. However, according to recent report...
Sun Microsystems Latest Victim of the Credit Crunch
Today the might Sun Microsystems announced that it will be cutting up to 6000 jobs to reduce costs to help counter falling sales. It has been hit hardest with a reduction in sales of servers to the financial sector, and has lost market share to other...
PayPal Finds Partnerships with Established Banks
As the global banking sector undergoes much change in response to the credit crunch, there have been some interesting new developments, with tech companies acting as lenders to smaller technology start ups, and now online payment companies teaming up...
Today’s Top Credit Crunch Tech News from Bloomberg
The round up of the days main headlines from Bloomberg. The creidt crunch appears to be biting deeper and further as more warnings are seen across the whole spectrum of the global technology sector. Communications, hardware, microchips are all suffer...
The Chips are Down - Intel Drops After Sales Target Chopped by $1 Billion
Intel Corp. is the latest computer chip manufacturer to see a drop in sales and profits. Share price fell by over 7% in European trading after Intel slashed its final quarter sales forecast, confirming that the credit crunch is affecting global techn...
Google’s Deal With Yahoo is Ditched
Google has decided to cancel its plans to enter an advertising partnership with Yahoo. Google stated the reason being to avoid having a “protracted legal battle” with regulators. The partnership was going to see Google providing some of t...
Computer Chips are Down, Credit Crunch Affecting Communications Hardware Sector
Europe’s biggest computer chip maker, STMicroelectronics, has forecast a drop in final quarter profits, citing the economic slowdown and reduction of demand for mobile phones. It is expected that sales will be down 8% from the third quarterR...
