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Site: Web Technology News items, Blog posts on ZDNet
The recruitment sector is the leader of advertising market with 25.7% share
Publish Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 14:55:17 -0700
The recruitment sector continued to lead the market with 25.7% market share, up 0.9 points on the second half of 2006, according to Internet Advertising Bureau. Second was automotive with 11.9%, while Technology (10.4%) overtook Finance (10%) for the first time to take third place. Other areas of growth were... Stane or Ballmer?
Publish Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 21:05:23 -0700
Obadiah Stane description from the Iron Man website: "As ... a top executive in Stark Industries, Stane is a calculating genius who is willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done." From the people... Top URLs in March 2008
Publish Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 07:06:13 -0700
Rank Website Market Share 1. www.google.com 5.6% 2. mail.yahoo.com 5% 3. www.myspace.com 4.5% 4. ww.yahoo.com 3.78% 5. mail.live.com 2.33% 6. www.ebay.com 1.98% 7. search.yahoo.com 1.63% 8. www.msn.com 1.24% 9.... What people do after seeing an ad with an URL
Publish Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 15:11:45 -0700
Consumer Activity 2007 2008 Point Change Visit a web site specified in the ad 29% 26% -3 Use search engine to find a website for the company 14% 22% 8 Visit the company website to find the name/phone number of a... 76% of young adults say they find Internet content targeted
Publish Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:18:53 -0700
76.0% and 73.9% of the 18-24 year and 25-34 year segments, respectively, say online content is aimed at their age groups, according to Burst Media. Most (55.7%) of those age 35-44 also say so. 35.4% of those age 45-54 year say internet content is focused on people their age. The... Turns out it's harder to be green when you have a lot of green
Publish Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:18:02 -0700
Turns out there's some truth to that phrase "filthy rich," at least when it comes to your environmental footprint. Web site TGDaily reports today about a new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that proves (surprise, surprise) that your typical billionaire like tech titan Bill Gates... Is Google locking up historical works?
Publish Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:13:08 -0700
Google provides funding to universities and researchers around the world who scan and digitize books for them. Many of these books have considerable historical significance, although Google's real goal, according to a CNN piece on the effort, is to create Google Inc.'s Book Search, a portal... Google Product Search gets a bit smarter
Publish Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:56:30 -0700
Google Product Search -- the latest name for the Google service that was originally called "Froogle" -- recently received another update that makes the service a lot more useful. Instead of simply indexing individual product listings from online stores, Google has now started grouping similar products together.... Weekend Gadget Guidance: Save on shipping online purchases
Publish Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:50:06 -0700
Ah, the bane of a Toybox reader's existence: online shipping costs. You've narrowed down which gadget you want to buy, you've found the most inexpensive vendor that's still trustworthy, you've put the item in your shopping cart and....wait, 12 bucks for shipping?! Highway murder!! ... Google names new CIO
Publish Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:10:02 -0700
Google has named Benjamin Fried chief information officer. Fried, had been a managing director at Morgan Stanley's Application Infrastructure group. News.com's Stephen Shankland reports that Fried will take over in May. Fried replaces Douglas Merrill, who left earlier this month to go to EMI. ... Ballmer: We don't need Yahoo and we aren't raising our bid
Publish Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:04:55 -0700
As expected, Microsoft launched its Yahoo counterattack on Wednesday as CEO Steve Ballmer said the company isn't raising its bid for the portal and would be just fine without a merger. Whether Ballmer is bluffing or not remains to be seen. Yahoo reported solid first quarter earnings... Nalgene abandons BPA products
Publish Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:40:38 -0700
One suspicious plastic just lost a major supporter. Bispheonol-A (BPA) is suspected of having deleterious healty effects. Now Nalgene, the upscale sporting goods manufacturer says ti wil lno longer user plastics that contain BPA. Nalgene makes water bottles for atheletes, hikers, bikers, et al. ... Google-Yahoo search test an alleged hit; Squeezes Microsoft
Publish Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:50:39 -0700
Yahoo is reportedly moving closer toward outsourcing search to Google in a move designed to gain leverage in any talks with Microsoft. Let's be clear: This story was leaked to the Wall Street Journal because Yahoo is likely to meet with Microsoft again soon. According to the... Psystar: Hoax or fraud?
Publish Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:02:17 -0700
Update as I was writing this post: So I just talked to a woman who answered the phone at Psystar. She said the company would post a statement on the website regarding all the questions regarding the company by tonight or tomorow. I asked her if they were actually shipping... Fastest-growing Web sites in France in February 2008
Publish Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:13:10 -0700
Property Jan-08 Feb-08 Growth, YTY Total Internet : Total Audience 29,232 29,419 1% The Mozilla Organization 2,489 4,459 79% Francaise des Jeux 1,634 2,200 35% BNP Paribas 2,847 3,602 27% Lastminute.com Sites 1,697 2,107 24% ... Digging into Psystar
Publish Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:39:21 -0700
[UPDATE 04/17/08 9:51am - Today there's a new announcement on the Psystar website and I link to in and include it here for completeness: "We're in the process of moving to a new location which is now listed on our contact page. The first new address posted... Brijit: Saving the planet, one magazine at a time
Publish Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:34:01 -0700
In this age of the digital you'd expect magazines, that old-fashioned idea of putting ink onto paper, to fade away. Magazines seem harder to cure than herpes. Once you get 'em, you can't get rid of them. The multiply, they spread, they just appear. And yet... Fastest-growing Web sites in Germany in February 2008
Publish Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:09:01 -0700
Property Jan-2007 Feb-2008 Growth, YTY Total Internet : Total Audience 33,904 33,814 0% The Mozilla Organization 4,205 8,046 91% KPN 2,453 4,341 77% Axel Springer AG 6,517 9,484 46% Amadeus Global Travel Distribution 2,633 3,438 31% ... 60% of Americans feel uneasy about Web site personalization
Publish Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:50:23 -0700
Nearly 60% of Americans questioned in a Harris Interactive poll said they were uneasy when Web sites use information about personal online activity to tailor advertisements or content. by AM Explaining science with drawings
Publish Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:35:11 -0700
A recent news release from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) mentions a project it helped to fund, 'Picturing to Learn.' For this project, college students have to create pencil drawings to explain scientific concepts to high school students. As says Felice Frankel, a Harvard University researcher who is leading...
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Site: Security News items, Blog posts on ZDNet
Gmail can be used as "Spam Bazooka"
Publish Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 07:46:29 -0700
INSERT, the Information Security Research Team, has sucessfully created a proof of concept exploiting the "trust hierarchy" that exists between mail service providers. Taking advantage of the way Gmail forwards messages, the team was able to send 4000 messages in a short period of time from a single account... News to know: Office 2007 SP1; Microsoft security; KVM vs. Xen; AMD
Publish Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 02:15:59 -0700
Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Mark your calendars: Microsoft to push Office 2007 SP1 on June 16 EIC podcast: SAP; JavaOne; AMD, Microhoo Larry Dignan: Microsoft previews three critical bulletins; two for Office Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft shares... Microsoft shares more IE8 security details
Publish Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 17:12:22 -0700
When Microsoft officials released a first test build of Internet Explorer (IE) 8 back in March, they said they were intentionally refraining from talking specifics about new security features and functionality that would be part of the next browser release. In the past few weeks, however, Microsoft... Microsoft previews three critical bulletins; two for Office
Publish Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 11:32:40 -0700
Microsoft on Thursday previewed three critical bulletins for Microsoft Office and Windows and a moderate denial of service vulnerability for the company's security software. According to Microsoft's advance notification, the software giant will address the following in its Patch Tuesday update May 13: A... Brewster Kahle offers a cookbook for fighting security letters
Publish Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 11:16:27 -0700
Just talked to Brewster Kahle at the Internet Archive about their successful settlement with the FBI of a lawsuit over a National Security Letter. The FBI had demanded personal information on a user; the Archive replied with a lawsuit challenging the propriety of the NSL. As part of the settlement,... Google offers enterprise web security
Publish Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 09:53:04 -0700
Postini, a company acquired by Google, is now offering enterprise web security. All traffic is routed through Google, and they take care of making sure traffic meets your corporate policies. The interesting part of all this though is how it secures computers, even when they aren't in the... Facebook reaches safety plan with states
Publish Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 09:43:18 -0700
Facebook has joined MySpace and inked a deal with 49 state attorneys general on a safety plan. Texas was the lone holdout. News.com's Caroline McCarthy reports: "We've agreed with 49 states and the District of Columbia to set up principles around Internet safety," Facebook... Malware shipped with Firefox 2 language pack
Publish Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 06:18:37 -0700
Mozilla is warning that a Vietnamese language pack for Firefox 2 is carrying malware. In her blog, Mozilla security chief Window Snyder writes: The Vietnamese language pack for Firefox 2 contains inserted code to load remote content. This code is the result of a virus infection,... iTunes FairPlay DRM - Protecting artists and labels, or helping Apple sell more iPods?
Publish Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 05:02:54 -0700
One day, two emails, two very different viewpoints: Email #1: "DRM on songs sold through iTunes is a necessary evil, there to protect artists and the labels from piracy." Email #2: "Apple's FairPlay DRM is nothing more than a tool that locks you into buying iPods... Mozilla spreads malware rather than security
Publish Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 02:30:18 -0700
Vietnamese users turning to Mozilla's Firefox to offer then security got a shock yesterday when the company revealed that the Vietnamese language pack for Firefox 2 was contaminated with malicious code and that this had been available for download for three months. Because of a virus infection, the Vietnamese... Hot off the wire: Windows XP SP3 available from Windows Update
Publish Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 21:24:15 -0700
From Paul Miller at Engadget: "At last the moment you've been waiting for. Microsoft wants to hit your version of Windows with an update, and this time you don't have to go rummaging around the internet to find it: just fire up Windows Update and let Microsoft do all... Microsoft releases Windows XP SP3 to Windows Update and Microsoft Download Center
Publish Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 13:02:19 -0700
Following last week's delay, Microsoft finally releases Windows XP SP3 to Windows Update and Microsoft Download Center. As to the issues last week relating to Microsoft Dynamics RMS, here's what a Microsoft spokesperson had to say: Following last week's discovery of a compatibility issue between both... XP SP3: Now on Windows Update
Publish Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 12:08:47 -0700
A week after deciding not to release Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 3 via Windows Update and the Microsoft Download site as planned, Microsoft has begun pushing the collection of updates and fixes through those channels again. On May 6, Microsoft both released officially SP3 and resumed... House of Hackers social community opens up
Publish Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 09:07:07 -0700
PDP, the leader of the Gnucitizen White Hat Hacker outfit announced the opening of the House of Hackers social community yesterday. The House of Hackers is intended to enable its members to exchange ideas with each other, communicate, form groups, elite circles and tiger/red teams, conglomerate around projects, and participate in... Google launches CERT for open source
Publish Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 08:09:45 -0700
Google on Tuesday detailed plans for oCERT, a volunteer workforce that will remediate security issues in open source applications. The move makes a ton of sense. Community driven software can have bugs and plenty of folks to find these vulnerabilities. The problem: There's no central group to... Do we need another CERT?
Publish Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 07:15:06 -0700
Yes. Google's backing of oCERT is a major milestone in the history of open source. It's not that I have anything against the Computer Emergency Response TeamCERT at Carnegie-Mellon. They do important work, not only in identifying risks but in educating people on them. ... News to know: SAP; Hacking NASA; Apple; OpenSolaris
Publish Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 03:09:23 -0700
Notable headlines: Nate McFeters: Hacking NASA: One small step for man, one giant leap for hackers? Common misconceptions about database security Sapphire 2008: Dennis Howlett: The changing SAP culture Larry Dignan: SAP's Apotheker: Business ByDesign costs led... Catching up: MySpace adds Karaoke; Friends Reunited drops paid access; Facebook apps create privacy scare
Publish Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 12:16:36 -0700
The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the last week… MySpace adds Karaoke. Nearly two years after Fox Interactive purchased the karaoke site kSolo.com, its feature-set has finally been integrated into MySpace. "The combination of... Hacking NASA: One small step for man, one giant leap for hackers?
Publish Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 11:52:17 -0700
The CORE Security Team released an advisory to the Full-Disclosure mailing list today that documented a stack overflow in NASA's Common Data Format libs. Looking at this bug, the tech details aren't overwhelming, I think I'm mostly excited about it due to the high profile of hacking NASA libs. One... SAP: Security keeps it off Symbian, Windows Mobile, iPhone for now
Publish Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 11:26:16 -0700
SAP has forged an agreement with Research in Motion to run its customer relationship management software on the BlackBerry platform. Just don't expect SAP to roll out to other platforms anytime soon. In an interview with the Enterprise Irregular blogging group Monday, Bob Stutz, SAP's executive vice...
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