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Average Online Consumer Spends 14 hours a Week Online
An average online consumer spends 14 hours a week online, which is the same amount of time they watch TV, according to Jupiter Research report, ‘U.S. Entertainment and Media Consumer Survey, 2005’. [Read more] [Read more]
EFF Files a Lawsuit Against AT & T
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a lawsuit against AT&T accusing violation of the law and the privacy of its customers. EFF claims that AT & T has collaborated with the National Security Agency to allow ‘scanning millions of ordinary Americans’ phone calls and emails’. [Read more] [Read more]
WebSideStory Acquires Visual Sciences
WebSideStory has acquired Visual Sciences. WebSideStory will integrate Visual Sciences’ solutions with HBX Analytics through the Stream Integration Platform. [Read more] [Read more]
World Association of Newspapers Seeks New Standards and Policies
World Association of Newspapers has agreed to work together and seek new standards and policies to protect the publishers’ copyright. They accuse the news aggregators and search engines of exploiting their content without proper compensation to the creators/producers. [Read more] [Read more]
VOIP Market to Reach $3.3 Billion by 2010
VOIP market is going to reach $3.3 billion by 2010, according to a report by the Yankee Group. The most anticipated growth will come from the hosted VOIP market. [Read more] [Read more]
Internet Explorer Has Top Global Usage
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has the top global usage rate (85.82%) in January 2006, according to OneStat. Mozilla Firefox was second in the list with 11.23%. [Read more] [Read more]
Mozilla Releases Update to Firefox 1.5
Mozilla has released Firefox 1.5.0.1, an update to Firefox 1.5. Firefox 1.5.0.1 has “improved stability, improved support for Max OS X, fixes for several memory leaks, and several security enhancements.” [Read more] [Read more]
F-Secure Warns of Breplibot.ae
F-Secure has warned of the Breplibot.ae worm. The worm is attached to email messages pretending to be from F-Secure anti-virus company. [Read more] [Read more]
FreshAddress Adds Opt-In Email
FreshAddress, an email database service provider, has added Opt-In Email Appending to its services. The new service offers customers with deliverable email addresses matched to customer database on an opt-in basis. [Read more] [Read more]
Yesmail Announces Project Magellan
Yesmail, an email service provider, has announced the introduction of Project Magellan. Project Magellan, a technology platform, is aimed at enhancing Yesmail’s messaging platform functionality and offer a suite of integrated infoUSA data products and services. [Read more] [Read more]
Yahoo to Feature Links to Super Bowl Ads
Yahoo is going to feature links to Super Bowl ads on its video home page. The ads will be hosted by MTV Network’s Ifilm. [Read more] [Read more]
Shopping.com Hires Revenue Science
Shopping.com has hired Revenue Science to help them deliver behavioral targeted ads. Revenue Science will work on behavioral targeting for Shopping.com, as well as its consumer reviews site Epinions. [Read more] [Read more]
