Just a quick one today for all the Pay Per Click account managers out there. We wanted to let you know about an aspect of Adwords that you might not have been aware of. The ten word limit for keywords.
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Microsoft, which is currently in the process of being sued by the European Union for violating antitrust laws, has been granted an extension of the deadline for them to respond to the allegations facing them. The new deadline has been set for April the 21st. The extension is a significant act of good faith on the part of the European Union – the body is not usually in the habit of granting extensions of this nature. It is thought that the size of the company and the large-scale nature of the infringement are factors in its decision to do so in this case.
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A study from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has indicated that almost 15 per cent of the households in the US has no land-line in their house, surviving solely on mobile phones. The study found that 14.7 per cent of US citizens are solely reliant on their mobile phone.

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Tiscali have become the latest technology company to run into recession related trouble after their stock plummeted 40 per cent earlier this week. This drop has left the company’s valuation floundering at a pitiful €100 million Euros.
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There’s a new release from Microsoft. Unfortunately it’s not Windows 7 or a magical patch to make Vista work properly, in fact, it’s not even software. Microsoft’s hardware department have put their heads together and come up with a new gadget to keep laptops cooler. It’s an inch thick stand for your laptop that comes with an inbuilt fan powered off a USB connection to the laptop itself. They’re going to retail at about $30 dollars, which is a very good price for what it is.
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The guys at YouTube must be wondering whether they’ll ever resolve the issues with music on their site. Not only are they still trying to resolve issues with record companies relating to the showing of music videos on their site, yesterday they lost most of their most popular videos as a result of a separate battle with the Performing Rights Society (PRS), the body responsible for collecting royalties for musicians.
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A Tennessee student who hacked into the email account of former Vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has been handed three felony charges. David Kernel, an amateur computer hacker, plead not guilty to the charges on Monday.
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The major selling point that twitter has over Facebook is its real-time nature. Updates on twitter happen almost instantaneously, changing before your eyes as whoever you’re following updates their status. This week it seems that Facebook has woken up to this threat, tweaking its algorithm so that now fresh information floats serenely to the top of search results almost as soon as your friends change anything.
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According to comScore, 14.8 billion online video were watched in January. The principal was, obviously, the Google controlled, YouTube, whose users exceeded 100 million for the first time in the opening month of 2009. Startling as the web viewing figures are, they are part of a longstanding trend and actually represent only a four percent increase on December’s figures.
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Roger McNamee, co-founder of Elevation Partners has been quoted as saying that all iPhone users are going to be switching to Palm Pres when their contracts expire. Now, this site has been as complementary as anyone about Palm’s new venture and we really do hope that they can finally compete with Apple. However, claiming that the Pre is so good that every single iPhone user is going to toss their prized possession aside in disgust and embrace the device may be slightly overstating the case. Here’s the quote in full…
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Earlier in the week we reported that Microsoft was internally testing a new search engine named Kumo. Technical details are still sketchy – presumably it’s being tested internally for a reason – though one thing we can do is explain the name Kumo.

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Late Tuesday night Amazon.com released Kindle for iPhone as a free download from the iPhone App Store. The app allows iPhone users to download and read over 240,000 ebooks that have been specifically formatted for Kindle.
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Yesterday we told you about rumours circulating that Apple would be releasing new iMacs and Mac minis at a gala event planned for the end of the month. Well, it seems, if Internet chatter is to be believed, that the new products could be with us a little sooner than that, tomorrow even.
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Facebook users are being warned to display vigilance when it comes to using third party apps on the popular social networking site. The warning comes after hackers launched yet another programme specifically aimed at convincing users to give up their log in details.
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