Google released a desktop search product for businesses late Tuesday, reports Reuters. Its aim is to help workers more quickly search the web, their hard drives and email inboxes, and info on corporate intranets. The business edition of desktop search...
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Yahoo has launched a beta of its instant messaging software that promotes VoIP and its new social network, writes CNET. The new version is designed to make free calling via computer easier, as well as sending messages to mobile devices,...
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Google is launching its beta program for contextual ad distribution via RSS feeds for publishers using AdSense, ClickZ reports. Ads placed in Google's AdWords will automatically appear in feeds. Advertisers will not yet be able to target their ads by...
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Once it institutes paid subscriptions for some of its most popular online content, the New York Times will likely turn to bloggers as affiliate marketers to help generate revenue, writes ClickZ, quoting The Times's senior VP of digital operations Martin...
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Spyware-removal firm Webroot reported that the amount of adware programs it found on consumer computers dropped in the first quarter of 2005, saying it found adware on 64 percent of computers it scanned in the first quarter, down from 73...
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Horizon Media bought Mass Transit Interactive's assets in a deal that will double Horizon's online billings from about $20 million to $40 million. The companies didn't disclose terms. The deal comes after both Horizon and Mass Transit have worked in...
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A Los Angeles Times piece (via Chicago Tribune), takes a critical look at the state of advertising and posits that after having siphoned off ad dollars for years from print publications, the internet is chipping away at the biggest, baddest...
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NewsGator on Tuesday acquired RSS reader FeedDemon from Bradbury Software, finally freeing its multi-device synch system from Outlook, writes Internet News. NewsGator's software platform - which lets users read content in RSS format in Outlook, on the web and on...
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In the same week that Europe's Lastminute.com was acquired by Travelocity owner Sabre, a new U.K. company - Allcheckin - has launched a price-comparison site for flights, hotel and car-hire information, writes NetImperative. Allcheckin, aimed at leisure and business travelers,...
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Apparently, the same "efficiency" expert who told credit card companies they could handle millions of telephone calls with a four-person call center also told them that the longer it takes for a dialup user to load their websites, the better...
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Newspapers have seen rapid growth in online advertising revenues, but publishers are still looking for ways to charge for content, writes eMarketer, and cites data from various sources on online newspaper readership (up in March 3.1 percent from a year...
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