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French Raid Amazon.com

Agence France: Police raid Amazon.com offices in France L'inspecteurGendarmes raided the Amazon.com French subsidiary, searching an Orleans warehouse for illegal DVDs. Agence France Press quoted an anonymous source as saying the search was for DVDs that fa  [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 8th 2004

Aussie Online Market on a Big Roll

Sydney Morning Herald: At last advertisers are moving online The Australian online ad industry is on a roll, having grown 40 percent last year to come close to hitting the quarter billion Australian dollar mark. That's about 10 percent of television billings. Big clients came from financial, technology and automotive categories. Classifieds were big, taking more than a third of revenues, and - like elsewhere - search gr  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 6th 2004

E.U. Impatient on Anti-Spam Laws

DM News: EU Orders Action on Spam Laws The E.U. started to get tiffy with member nations whose legislatures failed to obey its mandate to pass anti-spam laws. The next step is for those countries to spend two months creating hard-to-read reports as to why they haven't yet complied. Then the matter may be referred to the European Court of Justice, which may order the country to face fines, unless the defendant is France   [...]
Posted: Monday, April 5th 2004

Online Casinos to Lose Portal Ad Access

International Herald Tribune: Hold all bets: Search engines end casino ads In February, more than 100,000 people searched for "casino gambling" or "gambling" on sites within the Overture network. A similar proportion probably did at Google and its network as well. If ten percent of those searchers click on ads, then that was $100,000 in revenue at a typical $10 a click. In May, that number will be zero, at least from offshore advertisers fo  [...]
Posted: Sunday, April 4th 2004

Art of Customer Service Develops Online

Internet Retailer: Online customer self-service broadening to more functions Internet Retailer: At CircuitCity.com, better customer service means longer hours Internet Retailer: With customer service, good talkers aren’t always good writers Internet Retailer published a troika of interesting  [...]
Posted: Friday, April 2nd 2004

Judge Rules File Sharing Legal (But He's Canadian)

The Register: File sharers not guilty of copyright infringement - Canadian judge A judge ruled that proffering copyright protected works on Internet file sharing systems does not constitute a copyright infringement. Bending over backwards so as to not see the potential damage done to copyright holders, the narrow and legalistic decision noted that placing files in a directory accessible to the public was different than distributing  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 31st 2004

New B-to-B Site from Loins of Thomas, FindWhat

ClickZ: FindWhat, Thomas To Create B2B Portal Business-to-business guide publisher Thomas Global Register struck a deal with paid listings company FindWhat.com to start a new b-to-b online portal. Thomas already offers listings for 550,000 suppliers of everything from steel scaffolding and water pumps to bulk paper hand towels.   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, March 23rd 2004

Microsoft to 'Tie' New Search Engine Rather than Settle E.U. Charges

Dow Jones: Q&A: Microsoft Chief Lawyer Explains EU Talks Breakdown MarketWatch: Q&No Microsoft settlement, Monti says The recent breakdown in talks between the European Union and Microsoft regarding antitrust allegations was caused by "future" issues, according to the head of M  [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 18th 2004

UAE Sees Online Ad Revenue Growth

AME Info FN: Online ads total USD8-10m A United Arab Emirates financial news site reports that the Emirate saw online ad revenues of $8 to $10 million in 2003. The report indicated that those revenues could have been much higher if the country tended to have more women online.   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, February 25th 2004

Online Publicity Helps Free Jailed Iranian Blogger

OJR: Iranian Journalist Credits Blogs for Playing Key Role in His Release From Prison In the case of jailed Iranian journalist and blogger Sina Motallebi, the Iranian and American blogospheres came together to get publicity and thousands of signatures on an online petition. There can be no denying that publicity in blogs can have political impact according to Mark Glaser, writing  [...]
Posted: Sunday, January 18th 2004

Public Wi-Fi 'Hot Spots' More Than Doubled Worldwide in 2003

Pyramid Research: Global Hotspots to Exceed 45,000 by Year End Every two weeks, Pyramid Research revises its estimates of publicly accessible Wi-Fi (wireless Internet) access points, known as "hot spots," and has concluded that worldwide the number reach 45,000, compared to 20,000 by the end of 2002. Just over 24,000 of those are in Asia, with slightly over 10,000 each in Europe and North America, although when the broad  [...]
Posted: Monday, October 20th 2003

MPs to Stiffen Upper Lips, Spam Regs, US Congress

BBC: Spam watchdog 'needs more bite' The government watchdog group in Britain, set up to monitor and enforce a new anti-spam measure that comes into force in December, needs more powers and wider authority, according to a group of ministers of parliament. The tough new spam measure levies £5,000 (about $7,500) penalties for each junk email sent, but it only applies to mail sent to consumers, not businesses. The parliament group ma  [...]
Posted: Monday, October 6th 2003

VeriSign Sticks to Risky Path

Just exactly how many licks does it take before Verisign is down for the count? Within a week, VeriSign's SiteFinder service has... - Stirred up privacy violation issues by using Overture and Omniture tracking - Attracted a $100 million   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, September 23rd 2003

Afilias First to Offer Special Character Domains

Demy's News Service: Afilias Introduces Umlauts to Dot-Info In a long-coming first move, dot-info registrar Afilias became the first top-level domain registrar to implement usage of domain names that incorporate special characters. The umlaut is used in the German language and is now available with dot-info domain names from Afilias. Afilias's move opens a new market for domain buyers unable to purchase special character domain names   [...]
Posted: Monday, September 22nd 2003

Labour MPs: U.S. Constitution Is Anti-Spam Hold-up

The Guardian: MPs accuse US of failing to tackle spam Early BritishConstitutional meddlingProfessing surprise that their new European Union (E.U.) law mandating a double opt-in email policy for all companies hasn't tamped down the international phe  [...]
Posted: Friday, September 12th 2003

Overture Europe, Many Languages, Many Markets

ISEDB: Is Overture Overextending Itself in Europe? Overture is expanding into Europe heavily and Jim Hedger provides a revenue analysis of Overture's Continental prospects. However, Hedger doesn't look at the expense side of the expansion equation. When a search engine moves into a new market, editorial staff need to approve listings, sales people have to sell, and fixed costs need to be covered. In the US, a large population, h  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, September 10th 2003

E-commerce Brings Liquidity to Art Marketplace

Rediff: Art of the global village Delhi-based Vij hailsfrom a Fatehpur hamletIn an art world in which living in a big city was almost necessary to be taken seriously, the web is opening up a once-closed market to rural artists, craftsmen and ethnic folk culture artisa  [...]
Posted: Friday, September 5th 2003

Korean Ad Market Turns to Online

The Korea Times: Online Ad Market Takes Shape Watching an otherwise contracting ad market, Korean advertisers and agencies are seeing a marked increase in online activity. The market will reach 250 billion won ($210 million) this year, more than a third greater than last year's 180 billion won ($140 million).   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, August 20th 2003

Diesel Appoints New Agency for Online Creative

DigitalBulletin:Diesel hands global online creative business to Airlock Italian-based designer jeans manufacturer Diesel handed global online creative duties to London-based Airlock. The agency will produce creative to run in all of Dies  [...]
Posted: Thursday, August 14th 2003

Nigerian Spammers Seek Credibility, Enlist BBC

Someone somewhere must be falling for this, because the fraudulent spam messages from Nigeria just keep coming at an ever faster pace. Often pretending to be a relative of a famous African ruler, the spammers try to trick the gullible into paying bank fees in order to help launder money, in return for a percentage of the laundered sum, which of course never existed in the first place. Often called the "419" scam, the story lines often include real political facts about the country being cheated   [...]
Posted: Monday, August 11th 2003

Beware New Zealand Domain Scam

Stuff: Commission urges caution over domain name letter The New Zealand Commerce Commission urged Internet users to be careful in dealing with a business trading as Domain Names NZ. It seems the company is sending out form letters to holders of .co.nz domain names, giving the impression that they owe money for domain services or renewal, when in fact they are merely offering to register the .net.nz equivalent domain.   [...]
Posted: Saturday, August 9th 2003

Kiwis' $1Million Domain Misappropriated

Stuff.co.nz: What's in a name? A $1m Internet bungle Trade NZ, the Kiwi tourism board, so wanted to own the newzealand.com address that it first initiated legal proceedings that it knew would fail against the U.S. owner and then paid out $1 million for the name in what is being investigated as an unapproved and improper appropriation. Minister of Parliament Rodney Hide acquired documents showing the transaction history throug  [...]
Posted: Saturday, August 9th 2003

Study Compares EU Registration Fees

TelecomWorldWire (via Hoovers): New study shows differences in domain name registration fees across the EU Research carried out by the Technical University of Vienna on the differences in the cost of domain names across the European Union finds that the price varies from $121 in Sweden to $17 in the U.K. Sweden proved to have the highest Internet penetration, with 51 percent, while Greece   [...]
Posted: Saturday, August 9th 2003

Yahoo Closes Australian Auction Site

CNET: Yahoo to shutter Australian auction site Continuing a pattern of consolidation by international market, Yahoo pulled the plug on its Australian auction division, leaving eBay the owner of most of the market. The site was originally purchased by Yahoo from F2 in 2001 for about $15 million. The move continues a pattern of very large Internet firms struggling for primacy in the markets of European and Commonwealth countries. The s  [...]
Posted: Friday, August 8th 2003

Canadians Prove Useful

ClickZ: Media Buying in the Canadian Market Canada native Tessa Wegert reviews some of the ways Canadians are becoming a useful audience to online marketers, with one of the highest Internet penetration rates in the world. About 30 million Canadian Internet users reside just north of the world's second longest undefended border. While a highly disproportionate percentage of Canada's gross domestic product goes to exporting  [...]
Posted: Thursday, August 7th 2003