Microsoft Issues Free Enterprise Search Challenge
Search Server 2008 Express arrived as a free download from Microsoft, which launched the release candidate during a California conference.
eBay Works To Keep Buyers, Sellers Interested
I’ve never had a serious grudge against eBay or complaint about its site. Nonetheless, it’s been months since I’ve visited an online auction for personal reasons, and eBay is trying hard to reverse this sort of behavior.
YSM Webinar: 2007 Holiday Consumer Overview…
Our friends from Yahoo! just let us know Pato Spagnoletto, Senior Director of Marketing at Yahoo! Search Marketing, will be hosting a webinar on Wednesday, November 14. Called "2007 Holiday Consumer Overview and Search Best Practices," many subjects from best practices, to the impact of combining search and display, to 2006 holiday results/consumer trends will be discussed.
Microsoft JPEG XR Approved As New Image Standard
Joint Photographic Experts Group, which owns the JPEG standard, has voted to make Microsoft’s HD Photo their new standard, under the name JPEG XR.
The Facebook Announcement
Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch is liveblogging Facebook’s announcement as we speak I type this. The first fifteen minutes were filled with soundbites from Zuckerberg about the social graph, how cool and popular Facebook is, the history of advertising and how revolutionary this announcement is. Just moments ago, Zuckerberg began on the actual announcement:
Mobile Video Users To Double By 2010
Global sales of mobile video phones are estimated to more than double by 2010 compared to last year, according to a new report from Infonetics Research "Mobile Video Phones, Services, and Subscribers."
Sales of video phones will increase to around $125 billion by 2010 from close to $58 billion last year. The number of video subscribers is projected to increase from just a few million last year to 58.6 million in 2010.
Brits Type 1.2 Billion Text Messages Per Week
In all of 1999, Brits sent one billion text messages on their mobile phones. Now, according to new numbers from the Mobile Data Association (MDA), they’re sending more than that per week.
Users Prefer Ad Supported Content
If they have a choice 72 percent of Internet users would favor viewing ads to pay for Web content instead of paying to access content according to a Direct Marketing Association study.
Telemundo To Offer Entire Shows On Yahoo
Telemundo has announced that it will make entire episodes of its prime-time shows and novelas available on Yahoo Telemundo Web site the morning after the original broadcast.
79% Of Adults Go Online
The number of U.S. adults who are online has increased ten percent in the past year, amounting to an estimated 178 million online users according to a new poll from Harris Interactive.