Industry News

ArenaFest to show online live social networking service
ArenaFest have launched a new live social networking service, offering a wide range of live events to its members.

Online spending up 1% on 'Black Friday'
Consumer spending rose one per cent on Black Friday, the traditional kick-off to the US festive shopping season.

Yahoo! searchers choose Britney over Obama
Yahoo! reveals the top searches for 2008. Britney beats Obama, and while Palin takes on McCain, she might not have counted on Jolie jumping in.

Windows market share drops below 90% for the first time in 2 years
New statistics from Net Applications show that the percentage of Windows users dropped below 90 per cent for the first time in 2 years last month.

Google's top searches down under precede year-end Zeitgeist
Google releases the year's most popular searches in New Zealand and Australia, as anticipation builds up for its global end of year Zeitgeist.

Google “pages from the” Affiliate Opportunity
A bigmouthmedia reporter investigates whether Google's choice to display pages from only one region in search results could sometimes be less than ideal and how affiliates could take advantage of this.

.tel Top Level Domain Launched
A new top level domain extension was launched yesterday. The extension .tel is slightly different from other extensions in that it is designed to be used as a facility for keeping contact details on the actual Domain Name Server.

Wikipedia falls subject to British censorship rules
Wikipedia page censored over image of "potentially illegal" 1976 album cover.

Cyber Monday - UK's busiest online shopping day of 2008
Online shopping has become a popular choice for many consumers these days and the second Monday in December 2008 is expected to be the busiest online shopping day of the year in the UK.

Google reveals new AdWords options
Google's AdWords are now available for advertisers who want to target mobile phones with full internet browsers