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US Gambling Market closed to Europe, Japan and Canada

Posted December 18, 2007

US Locks out Foreign Online Gambling CompaniesThe 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…)

Filed under: Internet News — Tags: , , , , , — Tim @ 10:35 pm

Opera says Microsoft “deprives consumers of a real choice”

Posted December 16, 2007

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…)

Filed under: Internet News,Web Browsers — Tags: , , , — Tim @ 12:00 pm

OpenSocial – Over Before It Began?

Posted December 15, 2007

Facebook Applications vs. Google OpenSocialFacebook 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…)

Filed under: Coding,Internet News,Networking — Tags: , , , , — Tim @ 10:46 pm

Advertise in PDF Documents – Yahoo and Adobe Team Up

Posted November 30, 2007

YahobeAdobe 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…)

Filed under: Internet Marketing,Internet News — Tags: , , , , , — Tim @ 9:20 pm

Big Business Prefers Internet Advertising over Mass Media

Posted November 29, 2007

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…)

Filed under: Internet Marketing,Internet News — Tags: , , , — Tim @ 5:10 pm

Chinese Addicted to the Web?

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…)

Filed under: Internet News — Tags: , , — Tim @ 12:09 am

Google Goes Geographic!

Posted November 18, 2007

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…)

Filed under: Internet News,SEO,Web Design — Tags: , , — Tim @ 12:31 am