Topic: WebTechnology

Posted by : Anonymous on Sunday, March 27, 2005 - 02:42 AM

A new survey has found that the use of legal music download sites has almost doubled from last year, but that surfers are still sharing files with each other in old and new ways. The report, by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, found that the use of paid-for downloading services rose from 24 per cent of all internet users in 2004 to 43 per cent this year. However, although 27 per cent of American internet users downloaded files or music in January, 19 per cent got the files from someone else's MP3 player and 28 per cent got them via email.

Posted by : Anonymous on Sunday, March 27, 2005 - 02:39 AM

SEATTLE - Amazon.com Inc. has one potentially big advantage over its rival online retailers: It knows things about you that you may not know yourself.
Though plenty of companies have detailed systems for tracking customer habits, critics and boosters alike say Amazon is the trailblazer, having collected information longer and used it more proactively. It even received a patent recently on technology aimed at tracking information about the people for whom its customers buy gifts. Amazon sees such data-gathering as the best way to keep customers happy and loyal, a relationship-building technique that analysts consider potentially crucial to besting other online competitors.

Posted by : trraju on Saturday, March 05, 2005 - 03:41 AM

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Yahoo Inc. says it has acquired technology to take its popular Web-based parlor and card games from personal computers to mobile devices. In a deal announced Friday, Yahoo said it will integrate technology from New Jersey-based Stadeon, Inc. to permit multiplayer games across multiple platforms. Terms of the acquisition weren't disclosed. It means that someone on their cell phone could play dominoes in real time against a friend playing the same Yahoo game on a PC. Likewise, two cell phone users on different service providers could compete against each other.

Posted by : Anonymous on Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 12:37 AM

TORONTO (CP) - Wireless Age Communications Inc. is shelving plans to merge with Relm Wireless, citing hostility on the part of Relm's board of directors.
"Our overtures to Relm's board were not well-received," John Simmonds, chairman and CEO of Wireless Age, said Wednesday in a release. "There was a short window for a friendly business combination to occur.
Unfortunately, I believe that it has now closed." He also said Wireless Age (OTCBB:WLSA) will use $2.25 million in cash proceeds from a maturing Relm promissory note to repay a $2.33-million note and "continue to pursue other transactions with parties that believe in our consolidation strategy."

Posted by : Anonymous on Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 12:31 AM

NEW YORK - EBay Inc. became the latest Web site to say it will stop using Microsoft Corp.'s Passport user authentication system, as Microsoft continues to scale back the service. Microsoft once had big plans for Passport, which was designed to let Internet users have a single "username" and password that could be used on the Web sites of many different companies. It originally also stored credit card numbers in an attempt to make shopping at several sites more convenient, but Microsoft phased that out last year.

Posted by : Anonymous on Monday, October 18, 2004 - 09:12 AM

Anyone who's spent hours struggling to find a missing document on a computer hard drive will love Google's new desktop search program. Most home computer users know how to locate a simply named document file, like ''vacation.doc.'' Finding a particular file with a favorite chicken soup recipe in it, or the e-mail with an important phone number in it is another story.

Posted by : Anonymous on Wednesday, September 29, 2004 - 04:24 AM

SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) - Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. has given its popular Web site a facelift to highlight some of the features that the company has been improving during the past year. Yahoo.com's new look, expected to debut Tuesday, isn't a radical makeover, although company officials say it represents the most significant cosmetic change at the Internet's most popular destination in two years. The retooling also affects ``MyYahoo'' - a channel that enables the site's registered users to customize their own package of favorite features.

Posted by : Anonymous on Wednesday, September 29, 2004 - 04:24 AM

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Google's new Chinese news service is omitting a handful of government-banned Web sites, prompting activists to charge that the Mountain View Internet search company is aiding China's efforts to censor controversial information. A U.S. company that creates software to get around China's Internet censorship, Dynamic Internet Technology, said it discovered that news stories from at least eight Web sites do not appear in Google's Chinese news Web site when accessed from within China. However, the same news can be accessed through Google News from outside of China.

Posted by : Anonymous on Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 03:08 AM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Hoping to emerge from the shadow of its more popular rivals, Ask Jeeves Inc. is adding new tools for visitors to save and organize links to Web pages they find through the company's online search engine. The free features, scheduled to be unveiled Tuesday, represent Ask Jeeves' latest attempt to get a leg up on industry leaders Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. Even as the Emeryville-based company improves its search technology and becomes increasingly profitable, Ask Jeeves has struggled to shake its early reputation as a financially feeble dot-com distributing an inferior product.

Posted by : Anonymous on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 - 06:48 AM

Web browser technology developer Opera Software ASA has announced that its Opera smartphone browser will soon become available for Microsoft Windows Mobile software. One of Opera's features is Small-Screen Rendering (SSR) technology, which enables users to browse regular web pages on small mobile screens by reformatting the page, which eliminates the need for horizontal scrolling.