This Holiday Season, Santa Came to the UK Online
According to a recent BBC online News article, online sales in the UK were up 50% this holiday season. The boost has meant that 10%of every purchasing GPB spent came from purchases on the Web. Next, a High Street retailer that made an effort to boost online sales this year, saw Internet sales rise 15.3% […]
New directions in multilingual information access
Via the SIGIR FORUM comes this 2006 SIGIR Report that examines current issues and the future of multilingual information access (MLIA) . The report does a critical review of The Quaero Project and similar initiatives. Six sessions and multilingual participants shared research free from unrealistic expectatives, wishful thinking or SEO hearsays. New Directions in Multilingual […]
YouTube may have to go offline in Brazil
Yes, more problems for Google in Brazil: last year a paparazzi filmed Daniela Cicarelli, Brazilian model and former Ronaldo (Brazilian football star) wife, during a torrid love scene in Ibiza. A Brazilian Justice ruled that all websites must take the video off air or pay US$175k per day as a penalty. It seems once again […]
Portuguese Telecom in takeover bid war
Last year has been quite a busy one for the Portuguese stock market, mainly because of the takeover bid of Sonaecom over PT Telecom, the Portuguese main Telecom operator. In a very small market like Portugal this may have impredicable effects in the way we comunicate. PT Telecom owns the copper wire telephone network, the […]