Posted 2007/12/18
The United States Government has made agreements with the European Union, the Japanese Government and the Canadian government to keep it’s online gambling market exclusive to US companies. The US is still in negotiations with other online gambling company hubs such as India, Antigua and Barbuda, Macau and Costa Rica. (more…)
Posted 2007/12/16
The Norwegian company behind the web browser Opera – a long-time competitor of Internet Explorer, has filed a complaint to the European Commission regarding Microsoft’s operating system Windows and it’s bias towards the Internet Explorer browser, which fails to properly follow the accepted web standards. (more…)
Posted 2007/12/15
Facebook announced that the Facebook application platform would be opened to all social networks, after Bebo announced support for Facebook’s very successful application platform. Unfortunately for Google, this the biggest threat to their open social network platform, OpenSocial. (more…)
Posted 2007/11/30
Adobe and Yahoo have made a deal to allow publishers to sell ad space in PDF documents and advertisers to place dynamic ads inside those documents. The advertisers pay to get their ads in the documents and then a percentage of this is passed on to the publisher. (more…)
Posted 2007/11/29
A recent study by Veritas Communications has revealed that almost half of business leaders in Canada believe that the internet is more effective for marketing purposes than the mass media. Social media, specifically, was considered more important than traditional media platforms by 46%. (more…)
According to a survey, internet users in China are more likely to be addicted to using the web in their daily life than Americans. This is because the internet makes it easier for Chinese internet users to meet new friends and share their views. (more…)
Posted 2007/11/18
In the last two or three weeks, something that had been long awaited had finally arrived. Google finally allowed webmasters to set the geographic region of the primary audience of a website. (more…)