Nov. 30th 2008
The world of Spam protection had been enjoying an uncharacteristic period of calm over the last few weeks. After the closure of unscrupulous hosting sevice, McColo, (a service provider that coordinated a phenomenal amount of spam until its actions were discovered by security researchers at the start of the month) forced levels of spam to drop by as much as 65%. That period however, would appear to be over as, predictably enough, the spammers have found a way back.
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Nov. 29th 2008
A double standard in the rules that govern inclusion in Apple’s ‘App Store’ has emerged after Google admitted that voice search programme, Google Mobile App violates Apple’s SDK. Specifically, Google Mobile App is using undocumented APIs to conduct its voice searches. This is forbidden by the rules that Apple have set out for developers wanting to create applications for the iPhone, which clearly state that developers may use, only APIs supplied in the iPhone developers kit. The offending APIs relate to the app’s proximity sensor function.
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Nov. 28th 2008
The 15 billion valuation of Facebook negotiated in their Microsoft deal last year appears inflated to many. Nevertheless, it has given the social networking site some clout financially. Enough, reportedly, to offer a buyout worth $500 million dollars worth of Facebook stocks to Twitter, the personal blogging site. A deal that Twitter have apparently rejected out of hand.
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Nov. 28th 2008
Yahoo began much in the same way as Google. A student at Stanford needed an idea and thus he launched his idea on the internet in 1994. While Yahoo is the first major search engine, it has not been able to keep up with Google’s innovations.
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Nov. 27th 2008
Inventor, Elliot Gottfrucht is suing Apple, claiming that part of the web surfing system very on the iPhone is ripped off from his patented system. The patent, filed on March the 13th 2006 was awarded to Gottfrucht’s company, EMG and covers a system for putting web pages onto televisions and mobile devices. It re sizes web content to the right size for the screen it is being viewed on and also allows zooming and scrolling.
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Nov. 27th 2008
Google began on an idea that they would be a search engine using mathematics rather than indexing every page that came along. From the beginning Google used alpha and beta data to index pages in their search engine. Now Google is offering a new range of search options. It is these new options that are most important to search engine marketing now.
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Nov. 26th 2008
Google is being hit just like most businesses by the credit crunch. They are seeing lower trade on their shares. It may be a shock that even Google is affected like a small business, but that is not our true point. In these tough times there are things one can do to get their business more income.
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Nov. 26th 2008
When banker and amateur game developer, Steve Dementer thought up Trism, a puzzle game based on matching colours, he can’t have thought that he was creating a new career for himself. However, after writing the game in his spare time and placing it on the App Store, that’s just what it became. The game proved to be a huge hit and to date, has earned Steve around $250’000 dollars.
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Nov. 25th 2008
Like the iPhone and the T-Mobile G1 before it, it seems that many people were so eager to own RIM’s latest product, the BlackBerry Storm, that they lined up for hours in the freezing cold.
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Nov. 25th 2008
MSN began in 1995 as a search engine for music and other websites. They have also been a company offering internet service to consumers. MSN is part of Microsoft and has been a dominating force on the internet since their launch. They are still not the leader Google is, but they do keep trying.
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Nov. 24th 2008
Google’s concept began in 1996. At that time Yahoo was the leading search engine. The idea was started by Larry Page who needed a dissertation topic and decided to do it on the internet and its mathematical properties. During his studies he looked into web crawling, page rank, and many other options. From this research Google.com and therefore Google Inc was born.
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Nov. 24th 2008
Today Virgin America becomes one of only two commercial airlines to offer full Internet access to their customers. The new service, dubbed GoGo, is only available on one plane at present but if it is deemed a success, will rolled out to 24 others.
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Nov. 23rd 2008
Google is considering cutting a deal with personal computer makers to have Google Chrome pre-installed on new computers. A deal of this nature could considerably boost Google’s already gargantuan share of the search market as well as introducing Google to a new swathe of computer users, boosting the amount of people using applications like Gmail, Google Reader, Google Docs, etc.
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Nov. 23rd 2008
Microsoft and Yahoo seem finally ready to link up and make a concerted effort to fight the dominance of market leader, Google. The resignation of Jerry Yang, Yahoo’s beleaguered CEO is thought to have been the catalyst for renewed interest from the software company.
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