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Mozilla Announces Extend Firefox Contest Winners
Mozilla has announced the winners of the ‘Extend Firefox Contest’. Out of the 200 extensions submitted Michael Wu’s ‘Reveal’ won in the best overall extension category. Reveal offers thumbnail view of pages in search history with a magnifier. [Read more] [Read more]
Rate of Spam Increases 2% in January 2006
The rate of spam has increased 2% in January 2006, compared to January 2005, according to a report by Postini. The total amount of spam quarantined by Postini for January increased 73% [Read more] [Read more]
JotSpot Introduces Pre-Designed Wikis
JotSpot has introduced pre-designed Wikis. The two pre-designed Wikis are JotSpot Bug Reporter and JotSpot Class Reunion Planner. [Read more] [Read more]
AT&T to Acquire BellSouth
AT&T is going to acquire BellSouth for US $67 billion, in an all-stock deal. Under the agreement, AT&T will hold full ownership of Cingular Wireless LLC. [Read more] [Read more]
AOL Launches Open AIM
AOL has launched Open AIM. AOL is inviting developers, online communities and sites to build new plug-ins and custom communications clients based on the AIM platform. [Read more] [Read more]
NBC to Acquire iVillage
NBC is going to acquire iVillage for $600 million. After the acquisition, iVillage will report to Beth Comstock, NBC’s president of digital media and marketing development. [Read more] [Read more]
Google Analyst Day and Google G Drive
Google’s 94 slide powerpoint presentation on the analyst day has given an indication that Google will soon be launching Google G Drive, according to Greg Linden. Google has said in the presentation that Google should be able to make all user files accessible from anywhere. [Read more] [Read more]
AOL to Offer Pay-Per-Download Service
AOL will begin to offer a pay-per-download service by the middle of this year. This service will be an expansion of its free, advertising supported video-on-demand service. The starting price will be $1.99. [Read more] [Read more]
CampusAdTrader Announces New Features for Buying and Selling Online Ads
CampusAdTrader has announced a series of new features for buying and selling online ads. CampusAdTrader uses Web-based auction technology to the media-buying process and the new features are meant for buyers to make more informed decisions and sellers to showcase their space for sale. [Read more] [Read more]
Google’s Share of 5.7 Billion Online Searches – 48%
5.7 billion searches were made in January 2006 and Google had 48.2% share of all the searches. Yahoo and MSN had 22% and 11% of the searches, respectively, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. [Read more] [Read more]
46% of Advertisers Victim of Click Fraud
46% of all advertisers with 500 or more employees have been a victim of click fraud. 82% of non-authentic clicks have been found to be related to publishers or networks trying to inflate revenues, according to emarketer. [Read more] [Read more]
Google Offers Videos from the Googleplex
Google has a special collection of videos related to Google at Videos from the Googleplex. These videos give an overview of Google’s culture, products and business and include conversations and presentations from authors such as Seth Godin. [Read more] [Read more]
