2008 will see a significant increase in the number of barcamps to be held in Italy – 10 programmed so far. The once informal gatherings of passionate internet users has rapidly become a worldwide phenomenon limited to the U.S. just … Read More
2007 will be remembered as the year hackers became criminals according to a spokesmen of an antivirus company. Hackers have aggregated into high tech gangs creating virus kits for rent or direct purchase. Nowadays all viral software is developed to … Read More
The Schengen agreement has been extended from 15 countries to 24 giving a wider borderless Europe with no internal border controls or checks and an open market of over 400 million people. Coming into force on the 21st December, the … Read More
Carabinieri are one of The two police forces in Italy. Carabinieri.it has won the eContent Award 2007 for the second time in a row. The award winning site is home to the popular Italian police force Carabinieri for the quality … Read More
The .EU domain registrar management organisation, EURid has suspended 10,000 EU domain names which have been apparently legally registered by a Chinese woman – reports out-law. EURid has the power to remove the domain names from the woman – but … Read More
At least two major new features are arriving in Google’s webmaster tools console according to information from the SES San Jose conference and the official Google webmaster tools blog. The latter has announced support for the Internationalizing Domain Names in … Read More
A report by PhoCusWright Inc says that the European market on average will hit 25% of transactions carried out online during 2007 – this figure was achieved in the US in 2004. There are, however some key differences in European … Read More
A News Flash from ANSA publishes the results of a survey on blogs and the quality/reliability of the blogosphere. Splinder, Swg, University of Trieste and Punto Informatico joined forces to interview 4,000 bloggers and blog readers. Blogs are viewed as … Read More
David Sifry outlines the state of the Blogosphere in the first quaterly report 2007 … Read More
Europe’s largest telecoms operators – with one American firm – are planning to launch a mobile phone search engine to rival Google and Yahoo. The companies concerned include Vodafone, France Telecom, Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, Hutchison Whampoa, Telecom Italia and US firm Cingular. Combined, they have a user base of 600 million people – with some 20% in the UK expected to have broadband speed mobile phone access by the end of 2007.
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The Google monster came under concerted attack from Francois Bourdoncle, CEO and founder of France-based search engine Exalead in the opening keynote of Search Engine Strategies Paris. The press in particular should be worried about becoming sub-contractors of Google, he … Read More
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The Italian National Institue of Statistics, Istat, has issued an update on PC and Internet Usage of Italian Population for the current year: 41,4% uses a PC (was 40% in 2005) 34,1% of population over 6 uses Internet (was 31,8% … Read More
Jupiter Research, released a report on the European Online Advertising Forecast, 2006 to 2011. The executive summary presented by eMarketer provides an insight on the European online expenditure future trends. Europeans are buying more online. Predictions by Internet Retailer see … Read More
eMarketer reports on Internet access via mobile devices. The study was conducted in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, and the US. while 29% of European Internet users regularly access the Internet from their mobile phones, only 19% of US users … Read More
