Industry News

IBM look to the clouds
IBM has announced plans to build a $360 million North Carolina data centre, as well as a Tokyo facility designated to deliver cloud computing services to corporate customers.

Increased SearchMonkey role for Yahoo!
Yahoo! have put more focus on their SearchMonkey tool by automatically adding three of its widgets to search result pages.

Yahoo! board emerges from shareholders meeting unscathed
Following Yahoo!'s annual shareholders meeting the firm's board has been re-elected after defending its handling of the ongoing negotiations with Microsoft.

Time Warner sale of AOL imminent
After separating its dial-up and advertising businesses, AOL's parent company Time Warner is looking to sell off the parts to the highest bidders - but those bids might not be quite as high as hoped.

Beijing Olympics: TV or online streaming?
Beijing 2008 will be the first Summer Olympic Games to be watched on both television and computers. Which medium will win?

Facebook overtakes eBay to become 3rd top UK website
Social Media phenomenon, Facebook, has become the third most visited site in the UK and is closing in on second placed Hotmail, the online email service owned by Microsoft.

Yahoo! SSP vs. Google Base
A bigmouth news hound compares Google Base to Yahoo! SSP.

Mozilla introduces a buddy for Firefox: Snowl
Firefox creators Mozilla have released a very basic version of new Firefox extension that enables users to integrate messaging into the web browser.

Fast Fashion Forward
Less trips to the newsstand, more logging on. Websites dedicated to the latest in fashion and culture overtake traditional glossies via the fast lane and leaving the traditional fashion mag in the dust.

Search popularity continues to rise with internet users
Search engine usage has grown by 69% since 2002 -closing the gap between search usage and internet email applications.