Telecom company Comcast announced on Tuesday they would provide free streaming access of the NHL to its 7.7 million broadband subscribers. This is news for both Comcast, who lags behind some major opponents and the NHL, who’s rebuilding after the yearlong strike.

The research and advisory firm IDC says nearly 12 billion instant messages get sent each day.

The format and difficulty of computer certification exams is constantly changing. When I took my first certification exam (Novell NetWare 3.1x CNA, January 1997), there was no such thing as a simulator question, and my practical skills really were not tested. The exams then were much heavier on memorization.

A recent Reuters report reminds the tech world that adding tech-lingo to the general lexicon takes a little longer than realized. In London it turns out, the vast majority don’t know their blogs from a hole in the ground.

Some buzz is building around Flock, a web browser built with blogging and social networking in mind.

In the late 90s, only a small portion of the business population really understood online advertising. During that time, businesses were just starting to develop and use their websites as a marketing tool to increase revenues and brand awareness. Online competition was scarce and paying $3.00 per click on Overture was unheard of.

Search coders at the AOL portal have added an option to save past searches, and better grouping of different info formats that apply to a given query.

Media Post reports via comScore qSearch that the number of searches and searchers increased in August, a growth suggesting that users are spending more time inside searching during the summer than previously thought.

The Federal Trade Commission has filed a lawsuit against a company whose product redirected Google and Yahoo searches.

Frequently, professionals view Internet Marketing as the dark, mysterious tunnel that goes on for miles.

An SEO software package called “RankAttack” has hit the market promising an increase in search engine rankings and traffic for just $79. But industry aficionados, most notably Google Insider Matt Cutts, have called out the software as not only bogus and opportunistic, but unethical.

The evangelist site for the Firefox browser has been attacked again and will be offline through October.

Early feedback on Google’s fledgling Site Targeting initiative suggested that much of the inventory might even be overpriced at the $2.00 CPM minimum.

Islandia N.Y. based Computer Associates International (CA) announced on Tuesday they are integrating eHealth and SPECTRUM. This move stems from their efforts to meld the acquired Concord Communications into their network through the integration of their “best-in-class” products.

I spotted this post on the Digital Squeeze today, which links to a job posting on Craigslist …

New UNIX systems for small and medium businesses utilizing a version of the IBM Power5 chip will be available from IBM in quad-core and other configurations.

Nielsen/NetRatings reports that the number of Americans with broadband Internet access reached a record 42% of the US population in August, an increase of 16% since January of this year.

Email/storage startup 30Gigs.com launched and promises its users 30 gigs of memory in their email boxes, said 50 gigs are coming, and the limit could reach 100 gigs. Some have questioned the legitimacy of the new site, which, in this early stage, could create problems for their future.

Search engines could be a lot more useful to people if they could provide a straight answer to a direct question.

Users of a new service called Lycos Planet will be able to blog and upload images and video along with their posts.

In the past few months, Google has made some astonishing moves (and is poised to make another one today when they announce their new partnership with Sun Microsystems), the reactions to which have been as exciting as unnerving-a polarizing force whose benefits may indeed destroy traditional businesses, or at least business models.

Especially if your public relations budget is all about tactics like brochures, special events, talking to reporters and press releases.