A fascinating article in Silicon.com tells of France trying to change its ‘image problem’ in the world of technology. Thus is revealed some interesting information about French culture – and France’s place in the world: France has a higher percentage … Read More
Multilingual search is to increase its coverage of European and world news by adding additional contributors to its roster, says Editor Andy Atkins-Krüger. “The news blog was launched almost 3 months ago and has come a long way in a … Read More
After closing their local sites 1.5 years ago, Yahoo has once again opened up to local users in Sweden, Denmark and Norway. The local sites have a very similar look and feel to the US site, but one major difference … Read More
Looking for a posh hi-tech keyboard ?? Metadot Corporation from Austin Texas introduces the keyboard defined as “Only For the Best”. What makes it so different from the others ?? It bears no inscription on the keys – 100% blank … Read More
A new report called ‘e-family-2005’ of the Association Federcomin, shows more and more Italian families are investing in broad band connections to the internet. An increase has been registered in digital cameras, DVDs, satellite connections, and broad band internet access. … Read More
The Google blog has announced that the desktop search tool is now available in a wider range of languages comprising of French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Japanese and Korean. Google Blog: Speaking of search
The Greek alphabet is to make its way into Greek domain names from July 4, the country’s telecommunications authorities EETT reported on Tuesday. The step is intended to increase the use of new technologies in Greece. At the present time, … Read More
Belgian web connections are more expensive than those in the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, France, the UK, Germany and Italy, says a study by Belga’s Test Achat. Reported by Expatica
The far east still heads the league table of most broadband connected countries with South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan all in the top 6. The far east will overtake North America and Europe in the next few years … Read More
Mr. Olu, the Will Smith of search engines, has created a new search engine for the world – Big Clique – in fact covering 17 languages from day one an amazingly ambitious undertaking! Big Clique claims to offer ‘Just search…’ … Read More
BelSoc.org has launched a social search engine in the French language in Belgium focusing principally on professionals in the ‘social-medical’ sector. Moteur Social claims to only feature pages from Belgium, in the social fields and principally in French language. More … Read More
Excite Italia is now officially part of Ask Jeeves Inc. Tiscali, a major European Internet Company, had acquired 70% of Excite Italia in March 2001, and purchased the residual 30% in April 2002. The value of the acquisition is estimated … Read More
China is a large country. So even a small percentage of web users produces a big number – 98.8 million users according to an official in the Ministry of Information. Not surprising then that the leading US web-based businesses are … Read More
The German search engine Seekport has moved its UK search engine out of Beta. Seekport launched in the UK in December and claims to offer more UK-oriented results – partly thanks to a team of editors who quality check the … Read More
ImiTiki – the search marketing conference brand which normally runs conferences in Paris, is to run a seminar for the first time in Lyon sponsored by Google. The seminar will be on the 16th of June with the morning focusing … Read More
