By the time you finish reading this sentence, three new blogs will have been created, according to Technorati. Make that four.

PDA sales worldwide took off up the road, up 32% from the same period last year. Gartner said 3.6 million units sold from all vendors. Research In Motion’s Blackberry units continue to climb above the others though taking 23% of the market share.

Mozilla, creator of the popular Firefox Internet browser and a number of other products, announced the creation of the Mozilla Corporation today. They created the commercial side to generate revenue and while their market share increases steadily, this should help them grow even further.

I have a friend who calls keyword arbitrage – the practice of buying cheap clicks on one PPC engine and then collecting a higher CPC based on ads served (and clicked often enough) on a content-oriented site – “click pimping.”

Over the past few months Yahoo has been recruiting a slew of veteran online journalists.

Oracle announced that it plans to buy a majority stake in Indian application software company, i-flex solutions. I-flex provides software for banking, asset management, and investor services.

When providing SEO/SEM services for clients (or doing it for yourself), do you target, or at least pay attention to the growing number of local search presences? If so, is this something you consider worthwhile and if not, would you ever consider doing so…?

The search and portal company has made three application programming interfaces available for developers creating shopping-related applications.

A report on Silicon.com today claims the Cisco web site was compromised, requiring users to change their passwords.

Novell has announced that it will be providing technical support for JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS), including the market-leading JBoss Application Server.

Until fairly recently, I used to find it real easy to make a healthy profit from pay-per-click advertising. In fact, I never even considered any other form of advertising. It was so easy just to knock-up a simple ad, add funds to my account with a popular pay-per-click search engine, choose a bundle of popular related keywords and then sit back and wait for the sales to come in!

The Yahoo Publisher Network will provide its advertisers with a service similar to Google’s AdSense program.

The aftermath of a June Supreme Court decision may see DSL deregulated to enable phone companies to compete with cable.

It looks like Wednesday is the day that Yahoo will launch its Publishing Network if this article at CNET is right.

ClickZ, which Jupitermedia had purchased for nearly $20 million USD, and the Search Engine Strategies trade shows, went to UK-based Incisive Media for $43 million.

A business blog component as part of every online business is one of my main SEO recommondations. Because of the search engine power of business blogs, it’s a natural addition for every website.

If a customer owes your local business money, it’s hard not to feel angry, like you want to do anything possible to get your money back. But the days of going all out to collect on a debt over.

The search options under the A9 Toolbar allow users to search a site or page they are currently visiting.

Now this looks compelling – a Skype phone that you use to make and receive phone calls on a wireless network without needing a computer.

Microsoft will reportedly begin a test of its ad placement service in the US at MSN Search.

MSN and Shopping.com are teaming up, so that MSN Shopping customers will be able to shop from thousands more online merchants.

Connexion by Boeing has Intel as a partner and promoter of its high-speed wireless service on airplanes.