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EU Privacy Policy May Reach Icy Hand Across Atlantic

If a new privacy proposal set forth by the European Union (EU) becomes law, it could potentially reach all the way across the Atlantic to have a chilling effect on US online marketing practices. In a nutshell, the proposed regulation would prohibit the use of 'cookies' unless users move to specifically allow them. The proposal is part of a larger piece of proposed legislation aimed at telecom providers, which requ  [...]
Posted: Monday, November 9th 2009

Competing Groups Vie for .Gay Web Suffix

Two for-profit groups are planning to start the application process to create a top-level website domain, “.gay,” adding another suffix to a growing list that includes “.com,” “.edu,” “.org,” and “.net,” the New York Times reports. The petitions for the new gay-focused domain reflect a growing adoption of top-level internet domains by various causes - such as the en  [...]
Posted: Monday, October 26th 2009

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/21/09

Web 2.0 News and Trends: Rumor has it that Google will launch a music initiative called One Box to offer song previews, artist bios, graphics, and video - but no downloads or subscriptions. One Box won't be limited to music, according to CNET's Stephen Shankland. There are several different kin  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 21st 2009

British PM to Give Citizens Online 'Voice'

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced a plan to reform Britain's public services by using the web as a forum for the public voice, receiving online feedback from the electorate, writes the Globe and Mail.In the proposal, called "Working Together," the PM optimistically outlined the idea of setting up an online system for people to cr  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 11th 2009

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 6/17/08

Ad Networks and Analytics: 50 percent of respondents to an E-consultancy survey use two sets of analytics tools on their site, presumably because a stable average is considered more accurate than one or the other.The Internet Advertising Bureau released definitions of commonly-used digital video in-stream terms.   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, June 17th 2008

Olympics Channel Launches Amid Strikes in Beijing, Torch Trouble in Paris

The NewsMarket debuted the Beijing 2008 Olympics Channel today. The destination will provide free news content about the Beijing games in both English and Chinese. It will also include video for use by journalists and bloggers. The page went live despite drama about the pending state of internet access over the course of the Games. According to   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 8th 2008

875MM Consumers Shopped Online, Up 40% in 2 Years

Over 85 percent of the global online population has used the internet to make a purchase, increasing the market for online shopping by 40 percent in the past two years, according to the Nielsen Global Online Survey on internet shopping habits,   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 30th 2008

Turkey Bans YouTube (Again)

Turkey has blocked access to YouTube for a second time. A Turkish court cited the same offense as previously to justify the ban. In March of last year, YouTube was blocked in the country after a video that allegedly insulted Mustafa Kemal "Ataturk" ("Father of the Turks"), the founder of modern Turkey, was posted on the video-sharing site. The ban was   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 22nd 2008

Tax on Internet, Mobile May Replace French TV Ads

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France has proposed a bill that bans commercials on public television and taxes internet and mobile phone service, reports the International Herald Tribune. On abolishing advertising on public TV, Sarkozy said channels "could be financed by a tax on advertising revenues of private broadcasters and an infinitesimal tax on the revenues of new means of communication like Internet  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 9th 2008

Influential World Citizens Just Not Happy with Big Corporations

Most of the world's most engaged citizens say large companies wield too much influence on government decisions. Furthermore, they want aggressive action against the activities and influence of national and multinational corporations, according to a new Ipsos survey. The poll of 22,000 people, covering 22 of the world's leading and burgeoning powerhouse economies, finds   [...]
Posted: Friday, January 4th 2008

Massive Mistrust in UK over Identity Fraud

Only half (52 percent) of consumers in Great Britain trust their high-street bank or building society (similar to a savings and loan institution) to protect their personal details from identity thieves, a new "trust poll" has revealed, writes MarketingCharts. Travel and gambling companies f  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, October 16th 2007

Russia, Estonia Face First Cyberwar, US Enters Fray

The cyberattack that Estonia suffered last May, culminating in a massive distributed denial-of-service attack on the country's major websites, has spawned some response from the US, reports ArsTechnica. The US has sent an investigative team to Estonia to help analyze a large volume of data generated by the attacks to help train Estonian IT workers in securing   [...]
Posted: Monday, July 9th 2007

Self-Censorship May Prove Prodigal Comrade for Russian Bloggers

Human rights advocates and Internet users in Russia are complaining about the increased interest of security forces in the online space, accusing authorities of stirring fear and intimidation, says BusinessWeek. Some worry that the Internet, considered Russia's "last remaining censorship-free refuge" by media professionals, may now  [...]
Posted: Monday, June 18th 2007

Google and Microsoft Top Sites in Germany, U.K., France

Google and Microsoft sites were the top online destinations in Western Europe in April, according to the comScore World Metrix reports for Germany (the first such report for the country), the U.K. and France, reports MarketingCharts. Some 32.6 million Germans went online during April, the largest online presence of any European country, comScore   [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 31st 2007

Maroc Telecom 'Technically' Slams Door on YouTube

For reasons not immediately clear, Moroccan ISP Maroc Telecom has blocked access to YouTube as of May 25th, writes Reporters Without Borders. Maroc Telecom did not respond to inquiries made regarding the block, but the firm's press officer said it was the result of a technical problem. The technical problem occurred shortly after videos of pro-independence Saharan demons  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 30th 2007

French Politics Takes on Second Life

French political debate among young people is shifting from Left Bank cafes into Second Life, with supporters of presidential frontrunners center-right Nicolas Sarkozy, Socialist Segolene Royal and centrist Francois Bayrou, along with fans of far-right National Front leader Jean Marie Le Pen, staking out their turf in the virtual world, writes Re  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, March 27th 2007

Google Loses Gmail Trademark Battle in Europe

The European Union's Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market has rejected Google's attempt to register Gmail as a European trademark. The entity ruled that the Gmail trademark will stay with its current owner, German-born venture capitalist Daniel Giersch, who has owned it since 2001, reports the Reg  [...]
Posted: Thursday, February 1st 2007

Sweden to Open Second Life Embassy

Major corporations like IBM are already using Second Life as a business tool; now, Sweden plans to be the first country to open an embassy in the virtual world. According to Reuters, the embassy will be called House of Sweden and is modeled after the country's new embassy in Washington. It will open in a couple  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 31st 2007

U.S. Retains Control of Internet's Core Addressing System

Control of the internet's root directory, which enables any user anywhere in the world to locate any webpage, will remain with the United States. The European Union, in particular, has been critical of the Department of Commerce's influence over the internet's core addressing system and has pushed for control to be handed off to an independent body, the Financial Times reports. The U.S. has licensed contr  [...]
Posted: Monday, October 2nd 2006

No Google News Is Good News in Belgium

A court in Belgium has ordered that all links to newspaper articles published in Belgium be removed from Google News. An association of Belgian publishers - Copiepresse, which helps enforce copyrights of some of Belgium's best-known newspapers - won the case that charged Google of violating Belgium's copyright laws by publishing summaries of articles and links to them, reports the New York Times. The Belgian Cou  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, September 19th 2006