Industry News

ContentID could see Google profiting from YouTube
Google hopes to boost YouTube's coffers by convincing copyright holders to make advertising revenue when users upload their content to YouTube.

Illegal music downloaders spend most on recordings
A new survey claims that, despite the popular demonization of music downloaders, they are in fact among the section of society that spends the most on music recordings.

Argleton, Lancashire becomes internet sensation
Argleton - a destination in Lancashire - becomes famous for the sole reason that it does not exist.

Yahoo! offers open source cloud server
Yahoo!'s Traffic Server software offers a high-performance server for cloud computing services.

Microsoft-Yahoo! partnership delayed until 2010
Yahoo! has revealed that its deal with Microsoft is taking longer to finalise than expected, but is hopeful of closing the deal "by early 2010."

Microsoft launches music download service
Four months later than planned, MSN Music offers one million tracks for download.

October browser market share unveiled
Internet Explorer is still winning - but it looks like Google's Chrome is slowly, ever so slowly, gaining in popularity.

Google Dashboard centralises personal data
Google has launched its new Dashboard, offering users easier access to their Gmail, Google Reader and YouTube accounts.

Google commerce search cashes in on Christmas
Google's Commerce Search has an eye on scooping up some of the Christmas cash by offering online retailers a search service aimed at helping shoppers.

Microsoft announces first international distributor for Windows Mobile
Bsquare will be the first international distributor of the Windows Mobile operating system to handset and rugged device manufacturers.