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Byline: Brian Quinton The 2008 Presidential election is shaping up to be the most networked political contest in our nation's history. All the contenders have fairly interactive Web sites, and [...]

NEW YORK -- The title of most-visited online news site continues to be hotly contested, with CNN, Yahoo! News and MSNBC all vying for the throne. Last month, the CNN [...]

NEW YORK -- The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood is demanding social networking site for kids Webkinz stop putting ads on its site. Webkinz.com has promoted itself as being ad-free. [...]

A day after users of AOL's instant messaging service were advised to upgrade to address a vulnerability uncovered by Core Security Technologies, well-known security researcher Aviv Raff reports that he […]

Google Apps Premier Edition may be a tempting alternative to Microsoft Office software, but it may not be all that it's cracked up to be early on, according to one […]

Byline: Stephen Wells Plan with Google spreadsheets Excel isn't the only spreadsheet in town -- you can take figures online with Google Imagine you're trying to plan a family reunion. [...]

By Susan Avery Purchasing professionals use the Internet to do business with industrial distributors more today than they did two years ago. Mainly, buyers are using the Web to find [...]

Merged giants will target the commodity sector but in so doing will face an online Trojan horse, says Steve Endacott MARKET consolidation will mean many at this year's ITT conference [...]

Using the internet to search for diagnoses will be expected in consultations, according to an expert in medical informatics. Martin Gardner, from the University of Glasgow, said that better integration [...]

Search for 'hardcore porn' on Google and you're spoilt for choice in both the natural and paid results. Search for 'horserace bet' and life is suddenly more complex. Market leaders […]

aicpa.org/ Professional+ Resources/Public+Accounting+Firm+Resources/CPA+Marketing+Toolkit/ If you're still stumped by marketing your small firm, this site is for you. It's a windy URL, but this site cuts right to the point of [...]

ISVs have a problem with Linux. They want to be able to write, compile and ship one version of an application. They don't want to make one for SUSE, another […]

As the ultimate Trojan horse, Google allows online agents to attack the big chains' underbellies, says Steve Endacott Controversially, I think the majors' relentless drive to move customers online is [...]

LONDON (Reuters)--Patients are not the only people turning to the Internet for medical information. Searching the worldwide web with engines such as Google Inc. may also help doctors to diagnose […]

Byline: s.d. If you view much of your media life, as I do, through the prism of a search engine, then you'd do well to immerse yourself, if only briefly, [...]

Byline: Abbey Klaassen What if your laptop could eavesdrop on your TV? That's the scenario Google's serving up in a paper that describes how it could bring social networking as [...]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD AOL, an Internet Services Provider (ISP) and unit of Time Warner Inc, has confirmed that a software problem which delayed the transmission of millions […]

Byline: Ken Wheaton Adages was green with envy last week when, in the middle of a meeting, Advertising Age reporter Willow Duttge came through the door and informed us she'd [...]

Byline: Brian Quinton Ad:Tech 2006 San Francisco kicked off yesterday with a discussion of the Next New Thing: how to spot it, and how to get it bankrolled by venture [...]

Byline: Donny Jackson A San Francisco city panel yesterday announced that it has selected a bid from search-engine giant Google and EarthLink as the best candidate to build out a [...]

Web developers combining their creations with Google Maps aren't a very happy lot any more. The unease has given rise to a new technology package, Pushpin--to be formally introduced April […]

The StopBadware.org coalition, funded by Google, has listed the Kazaa file-sharing application at the top of a list of noxious software programs that present a threat to business and consumer […]

In a week when the tech community's attention is focused on the notion of an 'attention economy,' notably in sessions at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, it's […]

Byline: Brian Quinton In their first appearance on the dais at a Search Engine Strategies session on click fraud, Yahoo! and Google went head-to-head with search engine marketing firms on [...]

Web filtering in order to protect productivity is being demanded by corporates keen to block access to sites and services that waste time and to fend off potential virus attacks. […]

Byline: Steven Levy (SUBMIT QUESTIONS AT ASKLEVY.NEWSWEEK.COM) I listen to audiobooks frequently while I'm driving. Can Apple's iPod allow me to download audiobooks and play them through my car radio? [...]

The 530 miles of shelving in Washington's Library of Congress, the largest library in the world, hold the equivalent of 10 terabytes of information in text form. Search engine turned […]

My previous column on Google Maps provoked an unusually strong response. First up was Wil Rivers, who pointed out that Telcontar's Drill Down Server is the engine that does the […]

Antony Savvas computer.weekly@rbi.co.uk Most top UK companies are spurning search engine optimisation and pay-per-click opportunities on the web with the result that their brands do not feature prominently on popular […]

AOL Instant Messenger users in battleground states and in the Washington, D.C., metro area are receiving a new kind of campaign advertisement designed specifically for broadband users with always-on connections. […]

Cliff Saran cliff.saran@rbi.co.uk The MyDoom e-mail worm slowed down internet search engine Google and brought down the DoubleClick advertising network for several hours last week. The variant had its own […]

Eric Lease Morgan works in the Department for Digital Library Initiatives of the North Carolina State University Libraries in Raleigh. His e-mail address is eric_morgan@ncsu.edu and his home page is […]

NTIS has expanded the resources available on its Government Research Center, including access to the entire NTIS database back to 1964, plus online document-ordering capabilities for products and reports referenced […]

What's it like to travel the world without leaving your home? The website Google gives people a chance to find out with its Street View project. In 2007, Google employees […]

A WHILE BACK, a friend of mine asked me if I was watching some show on her Netflix account. No, I said, I've never seen that show and don't use [...]

Bored with spying on your neighbours? Users of Google's controversial Street View will soon have some less quotidian sights to peer at: this past week, the company sent tricyclists to [...]

LOS ANGELES -- When he showed up to begin shooting his new film 'Five Killers' in the south of France last week, Ashton Kutcher encountered one of those unexpected glitches [...]

For many people, the word 'twitter' brings to mind birds rather than humans. But information professionals know that Twitter (www.twitter.com) is a fast-growing, free messaging service for people, and it's [...]

On Feb. 28th, at the 2008 annual HIMSS conference, Google announced its first product for healthcare--Google Health--a new personal health record (PHR) that will be free to use and available […]