The Summer of Code will spend the autumn and early winter in China, where Google will offer valuable prizes to Chinese participants who win the competition.

Users who find a green phone icon in the sponsored search results on Google can click on it to call the advertiser, as Google begins testing the pay-per-call advertising method.

As I’ve said before, site promotion can be a very time consuming task, and sometimes it helps to have software at your aid to make things easier.

I’ve seen it happen time and again to programmers, network engineers and administrators, and other IT personnel.

The ever-popular Sober worm is making the rounds again in a new and exciting format. The ugly little worm is circulating through email and it looks all nice and official because someone is receiving email from either the FBI or the CIA. Many may ask what they’ve done wrong to warrant attention from the FBI or CIA. Nothing much really you just happen to have an email account.

CNN offered an apology on Tuesday after an apparent technical glitch put a big black “X” over the face of Vice President Dick Cheney. The mishap only lasted a fraction of a second but leave it to the blogosphere to turn it into a major diatribe.

Having animated characters on your website can be a good way to increase your conversion and sales.

A new project from the founder of popular online classifieds site Craigslist will extend citizen journalism to fix trust issues Americans have with journalism.

If you’ve used the Internet at all this year, you’ve probably heard of podcasting.

In the United States, where dot-com is still king, few have paid attention to the sudden spike in activity at the dot-us (.us) domain extension, which grew by 21 percent in the third quarter. Many of these .us domains are being bought by companies based outside the USA. Over the past 12 months, .US registry DNS lookups have increased by 250 percent to approximately 10 billion per month.

Newspaper veterans attending a talk by Oodle.com CEO Craig Donato at a Las Vegas conference learned they’d best get onboard with online advertising ASAP.

Teenagers have traditionally been a hot demographic to target. Lots of spending cash and little responsibility make them more attractive to marketers than they are to your typical Florida schoolteacher. A recent study gives us a glimpse into the modern teen’s life and their online purchasing habits.

Quadralay’s new WebWorks ePublisher Pro for Word is designed to make online content delivery easier, with the use of XML.

A poll conducted by Harris Interactive and Witeck-Combs reveals that gay and lesbian consumers are less bothered by advertising, either on TV, in print, or online, than the general population and are more likely to appreciate product information. But like other demographics, gays and lesbians have little tolerance for pop-up ads or ads that block content.

Chinese parents, claiming the game led to the death of their 13-year-old son, are suing Blizzard Entertainment, makers of the game “World of Warcraft.” They claim the boy was re-enacting a stunt from the game and fell from a 24-story building .

Have you ever considered getting remote access to your office PC? Being able to access your computer from home or on the road is a great way to boost your productivity.

This time the co-founders of Google have been recognized as the search engine company earns a “Business Leader of the Year” award.

With Google, Yahoo, and MSN getting so much attention all of the time, we often forget that there are other fine search engines out there.

For all the incessant attention paid to RSS feeds and Microsoft’s SSE proposal to make them bi-directional, email marketing still has a place, even in the very tactile world of high fashion.

Changing consumer attitudes are driving Customer Relationship Management. Fuelled by Internet induced expectations and an even increasing mood of self reliance among customers, companies have to compete in an environment where communication, buying processes, data management, delivery and service are all-important in the battle for longterm, profitable relationships.

This week, for your time-crunched perusal: a quick blogosphere round up that goes from cats to a stolen Xbox with eerie connectivity.

I don’t know if you’re familiar with a company called BrightTools or not. They are best known for their ActiveWorx Security Center product.