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The crisis, a perfect timing for launching online start-ups
The major players inside the Internet industry appreciate that the moments of crisis, as it also happened in 2000-2001, are a perfect timing for launching new projects, sites that will gain billion of dollars in a few years. At least this is the conclusion drawn by the founder of Digg.com, Kevin...
Discounts for online shopping
Microsoft pours even more money in promoting its search engine, announcing that will offer discounts up 25% to all those that are searching products through Live Search and buy from eBay, for example. For sure, there are many conditions, and the limit of the prices is of about 200 dollars, the...
Larger expenses
The analysts say that for the current year the budgets allocated by users for online holiday shopping are with at least 15% higher against last year, due to the fact that the sums are being transferred from the traditional shops. However the growth is reduced, because on last year there were...
Online caricatures
Two passionate of drawing have launched the site Pixton.com, an online community of those passionate of caricature and drawing, where anybody can load this type of productions and can rate others designs. Launched in January, the site increased to 150.000 visitors and about 10.000 subscribed...
MGM to post full films on YouTube
Metro Goldwin Mayer (MGM), one of the biggest studios of cinema production in the world, is the first player in domain who decided to post full length films on YouTube, instead of the usual trailers and promo videos, the officials of those two companies say. Google is testing new methods for...
Internet traffic, limited to 5-10GB monthly
The Internet users watch more and more online video content, and this means an increased traffic, and also increased invoice values of the ones that have limitations and especially of the ones that access YouTube on the cellular phone, the experts in domain say.Due to the fact that some big...
Knol attacks Europe
The site type encyclopedia developed by Google, Knol, has adopted the languages French, Italian and German for developing its audience in Europe. Although it was launched pompous and even promoted in the search engine of Google, Knol doesn’t record for the moment a special success,...
Fatal comments
Several employees of the air company Virgin Atlantic were dismissed after they have commented on Facebook about the technical problems of the aircrafts and about the misery that exists in the aircrafts, due to the company and also to the thick-skinned passengers. Virgin appreciated that their...
Co-operation online, a dream came true
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, the biggest project on the internet based on collaboration, stated that people aren’t prepared to collaborate in the online environment. „We are only at the beginning of the efforts for online collaboration”, Wales stated. He gave as negative...
Sinowal virus has compromised more than 500,000 banking accounts
On the Internet circulates a free virus that till the present has managed to find out the details of more than 500,000 online bank accounts and credit and debit cards all over the world, the experts in informatics security say. They add that this is one of the most dangerous viruses ever...
30 million people lost their data in 2008
The Organization "Identity Theft Resource Cente" in San Diego, USA, found that the number of information theft this year paled the number of 446 of successful attacks in 2007. With a rate of approximately 57 companies who are losing sensitive information every month, organizations that...
Two Europeans accused of hacking in U.S.
A British citizen and a German one are charged of having launched a series of attacks against a chain stores in the U.S. Article Translated by: NiC Translation Agency Lee Graham Walker from England was arrested under the charge of conspiracy and destruction of an information system,...
The 21st century hacker: the dissatisfied employee
Information attacks are initiated by political motivated persons or by industrial thieves, right? In fact, 70% of the attacks are coming from inside the company. Article Translated by: NiC Translation Agency Employees are responsible for almost one third of the loss of data from the...
The E-mail of the Republican Sarah Palin, hacked by a Democrat
The Republican candidate for the vice-president position in the United States, Sarah Palin, lost control of his address e-mail after a group of hackers entitled "Anonymous" managed to break her Yahoo account last week. According to the site wikileaks.org, a hacker with links to a group...
Ubisoft will invest over 10 million euro in Craiova in the next two years
This year on September 23, Ubisoft has opened in Craiova a second creation studio from Romania, which will invest between 5 and 10 million euro until 2010. The studio starts with 12 people, but will reach 100 employees in three years.
Nokia launches mobile TV shows for N96
Nokia is set to launch a series of mobile TV shows to support the launch of its new N96 mobile phone. The six Capsule N96 series, covering motoring, fashion, technology, lifestyle and comedy will be available for download from Nokiai's website from 1 October until the end of November. The...
Chivas Regal to roll out a social networking site
Whiskey brand Chivas Regal is preparing to roll out a centralised global digital platform to coincide with its new brand identity. De-construct, a digital company, will be responsible for developing a number of social media applications, which will be launched during the next two years. A widget...
Economic crisis determined the increase of traffic on sites
Stepped into shadow,the news and financial information sites and also the blogs inside the industry have benefited of a boom of traffic generated by the economic crisis from United States and its effects felt all over the world. Many investors, employees and ordinary people have accessed the...
Cisco buys Jabber
The leading supplier of networking and telecom equipment in the world, Cisco, acquired the open instant messaging technology provider Jabber, attempting to enter in the offices of the big corporations, the American press writes. Jabber has an application that can be used for connecting...
A new Internet Tablet
For competing better with the mini-laptops and phones with tactile screen, Nokia prepares a new generation of Internet Tablet, the pocket equipment being dedicated to the Internet fans. It has WiFi connectivity, but this time has also 3G (HSDPA) tehnology, being in progress an eventual...
Online advertising exceeds the boom stage
The growth rhythm of the invested sums in the online advertising industry starts to slow down, the boom stage being exceeded and starting the maturity stage of the market, say the experts in domain. The growth percentage of the current year is of about 18%, against 28% in 2007, says the...
Google continues to increase its audience
Despite the desperation of those who begin to consider Google as a monopole on Internet, the share market of the company increased in August, the most beloved search engine reaching now to 63%, according to a survey realized by ComScore. Ranked second, Yahoo lost field, recording a share...
How to organize your digital photo archive
You have made a thousand photos on vacation. Are you sure you will find them in a few months? We have several solutions for the multimedia jungle on your computer.
BlackBerry and Nokia E-series could be affected by the financial crises
The unexpected popularity of small and cheap laptops made that the actual American economic crises to avoid the PC-s industry, but the anxiousness of the investors and shareholders is now pointing the intelligent mobile phones producers, more expensive and dedicated especially to the business...
Google Phone G1 hit the stores on October 22. The price is $179
Google Phone, the first Smartphone running on Google open source operating system will became available in US on T-Mobile network on Oct. 22. The gadget will cost $179 with a two-year contract
