Berlin: Travelocity says travel consolidation will cut search engine revenues
Speaking at the eyefortravel Sales and Marketing in Travel Europe conference in Berlin, Jan Oetjen, Travelocity’s managing director Germany, said that the search engine revenues would be cut following the likely consolidation in the travel industry. “We all know that travel is a major buyer for the search engines, consolidation would bring down the costs […]
Jeteye brings a new perspective to search and search engines
Jeteye beta, is an innovative way to search and share search results. Recently launched on August 23rd, jeteye offers the user a completely new way of exploring the web and organizing search results clustered in so-called “jetpacks”. The jetpack concept is central to a community of users surfing the web and sharing their search results. […]
Wi-Fi expansion hindered by new legislation in Italy
Wi-Fi access to the internet faces new challenges as anti-terrorism legislation imposes monitoring of public access points. Anonymous access to the internet is now prohibited by a new law requiring personal identification of users logging on to a public network such as those available in internet cafes. Traffic generated by users is to be logged […]
Google Sitemaps now multilingual
The Inside Google Sitemaps blog has just announced that Google Sitemaps’ user interface and documentation are now available in ten additional languages. The newly added languages are: Brazilian Portuguese Dutch French German Italian Korean Russian Simplified Chinese Spanish Traditional Chinese Sitemap submisssion is not limited by the language of the site, as always. Source: Inside […]
Broadband access limitations on the horizion in UK and Italy
Tiscali UK has announced the introduction of a Fair User Policy which aims at preventing heavy downloads – Peer to Peer – during peek usage hours. In an effort to privilege VoIP, video streaming, and faster web surfing, the Fair User Policy will identify so called bandwidth hogs who are then warned three times before […]
25% of Belgian companies may switch to .EU domain
Proximedia of Belgium is predicting that 25% of Belgian companies are likely to switch to using a .be domain name. European businesses abuzz over ‘.eu’ domain names – INQ7.net
Parla.it introduces innovative broadband access to the Italian market
Eric Le Bihan, CEO of Parla.it a France Telecom Company founded 6 months ago, announced in an interview with Punto Informatico a new and aggressive approach to broadband access starting today. In an attempt to persuade a growing number of curious users, Parla.it has introduced a flat rate for unlimited internet access and VoIP services […]
Welcome Google Talk Beta
Google launched a Proprietary Messaging System called Google Talk late yesterday. Google Talk offers Instant Messaging and Audio and requires a Gmail account. Source: Google
Online advertising sales drooping for loans in Western Europe
Trade Doubler reports a drop in online advertising sales for loans in July
Google or Yahoo or Ebay might buy worldwide publisher
According to Brand Republic the big online brands could well move into the traditional media by buying a firm called Trader Classified Media. Trader Classified Media (not ‘trade’ as reported elsewhere) owns 575 print titles and 56 web sites in 20 countries including the US, France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland and Russia amongst others. What could […]