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RSS: Great Fit For The Corporate Environment

In its 18 July edition, Red Herring magazine has a good feature article about RSS in the enterprise, focusing in particular on NewsGator and what Red Herring says is its emerging market leadership …

More Hispanics Have Home Broadband Connections

A survey by AOL/Roper Public Affairs says half of online Hispanic households have a fast Internet connection.

Clinton Takes Aim At Pediatric AIDS In Africa

Former US President Bill Clinton offered a light of hope to the impoverished and AIDS-stricken African kingdom of Lesotho by opening up a pediatric AIDS clinic at the Queen Elizabeth II hospital. Around 22,000 children are HIV positive in the tiny country with an HIV rate of around 30 percent.

Sprint, Verizon, To Become EA Dealers

The wireless service providers will compete with Jamdat and sell games from Electronic Arts to their users.

Microsoft Releases RDP Security Advisory

Windows versions 2000, XP, and 2003 could be vulnerable to a Denial of Service condition via the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).

Interstellar 3-Card Monty: Which Star Is The Planet With?

Astronomers stare at the three stars trying deciding which one the planet goes with. It might just go with all of them. But that’s not supposed to happen, is it?

Why a Newsletter Will Help Your Home Based Business

Web site traffic is a huge concern among home based business owners working online because the competition is stiff and it is a huge effort to get your web site noticed among the thousands of others.

Big Sandbox for Google, AskJeeves & Yahoo. MSN Indexes Quickest

Listing delays that have come to be called the Google Sandbox effect are actually true in practice at each of four top tier search engines in one form or another.

Bank of America Gains 12% Net Income

Bank of America reported its financial results for the second quarter today, which included a 12% gain in net income, which was $4.30 billion compared to $3.85 billion the previous year.

Is WSJ.com the dog that didnt bark?

One of the stories that I’ve been tracking for the past 18 months is the relative size of the unique audiences of Yahoo News and Google News.

MySpace Is Now FoxSpace
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Okay, so NYT bought About.com – which is basically just a form of citizen journalism. Okay, so IAC bought AskJeeves, and in the process got the much beloved Bloglines.

TiVo Debuts New Interactive Ad Features

The digital video recorder company says GM and the WB TV Network will have campaigns in its new ad service launch.

OTC Morning After To Be Decided By Sept. 1

After a politically charged back-and-forth, the US Food and Drug Administration sent a letter to the Senate stating that a decision on whether to allow the morning-after pill to be sold over the counter will be reached by the first of September.

Microsofts Ten-Year-Old Pakistani Genius

Arfa Karim Randhawa has been getting a lot of press lately as Microsoft’s youngest Certified Professional at just ten years of age.

Let Your Press Release Get Tipsy

When selling services, especially online, it’s often difficult to ‘show’ people what it is your business offers.

Big Business Web Design Disasters

When you think of the world’s most successful businesses, what names come to mind? Most likely, consumer-oriented giants such as Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Sheraton, Disney, IBM, and General Electric. Not only have they spent billions on advertising to buy their way into your head. They offer convenient products and services that have made them a part of your life.

What Happens If You Block The Google Crawler

Although it’s a move few would consider, what would happen to a site if the webmaster decided to block the Google crawler from indexing their sites by stipulating such in the site’s robot.txt file?

Recall Ability: Web Content Versus Print Content

People are extremely task-focused on the Web. That means they are much less open to content that is not directly related to the task at hand.

Is Off-Shore Outsourcing A “Bane” Or A “Boon”?

An article in CIOInsight, http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,3959,940251,00.asp Quoted some interesting survey results from companies that have gone offshore.

Andy Beal’s Encore Post

Has many of you may know, Andy Beal left his position at Websourced, Inc. last week, citing a difference of opinion with the company’s direction.

Washington Post Goes to Ads in RSS

Hot off PR Newswire, Washingtonpost.com is going to start pushing ads in its RSS feeds starting July 15. From the release …

News Corp. Gets InterMixed

News Corp. announced that it is buying Intermix Media for about $580 million in cash. Intermix is also buying the part of MySpace.com that it doesn’t already own.