A case winding its way through a court in Pennsylvania attempts to pierce the veil of anonymity that protects web forum participants' ability to say whatever they want about public figures. Though I don't agree with the conclusions of the judge, I am not fan of anonymity of the...

When you are looking for things that Google is about to do, the best place to keep your eye on is Google's robots.txt file -- a document they keep updated with a list of websites they don't want search engines to index. A week ago, they added "/search2001" which...

The London Stock Exchange LSE website displayed incorrect prices for the important FTSE 100 index yesterday morning. It's not the first time they've had problems. by Michael Krigsman

This is a novel legal strategy. And so far it's working. Last month, in an effort to preserve the state's monopoly on legal gambling, Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear sued to have 141 online gambling sites' domains transferred to the state's control. According to the Washington Post, a big...

It's Business 101: Don't wait for your customers to come to you. Go to the places where they are. That's why you've seen the launches of music streaming services within MySpace and Google's AdSense program extended into Web-based video games. Now, YouTube has partnered with Amazon and...

When Canada's Do Not Call registery came on-line last week it was an instant success - well, it took a bit more than two years to issue the outsourcing contract for it, nine months to get it working on Linux, and perhaps two days to port a highly secure (and...

New York-based Inform Technologies issued a press release earlier this week, reporting the success of their recent partnership with the Washington Times on a major website redesign. Having spoken to both Inform's CEO Jim Satloff and the Washington Times' Executive Editor John Solomon, there's an interesting story to tell of...

6:30 p.m. The blogger lounge is loaded with pizza, cupcakes, and Fiji water. Pete Cashmore's sending off party is hosted at Roe in San Francisco, and the place is filling up. I got to work quickly and made friends with the representatives from Artiklz. ...

Several commenters asked why the institutionalized cheating at the UltimateBet Poker site is a security story. alleco writes: Where's the computer security bit of the story? This is a fair question, and it is my fault for not making the link more explicit. ...

It's true: Even Craig Newmark says so. (Although, for a bunch of tech guys, their website sure ain't ready.) Agree? Disagree? Tell us in TalkBack. UPDATE: Related article, "How the Obama campaign is...

It won't be long before British Internet users see targeted advertising based on their usage patterns. British Telecom is about to test software by Phorm, which collects URLs visited, search terms entered, and other data from visited websites. Phorm then categorizes the content and serves up advertising based on your...

The uncertainty surrounding the economy is starting to impact brand names that have become synonymous with online holiday shopping - notably Amazon. Lazard Capital analyst Colin Sebastian lowered estimates for Amazon's Q3, FY 2008 and FY 2009 this morning, noting in an investor's report that, despite its gains in e-commerce...

Jun-08 Rank May-08 Rank Property Audience, 000 N/A N/A Total Internet 16,245 1 1 Google Sites 13,913 2 2 Microsoft Sites 12,991 3 3 Yahoo! Sites 7,894 4 5 Terra Networks 7,265 5 4 Orange Sites 6,340 ...

Rank Website Market Share 1. www.google.com 5.97% 2. mail.yahoo.com 4.64% 3. www.myspace.com 4.32% 4. www.yahoo.com 3.83% 5. mail.live.com 2.2% 6. www.ebay.com 1.66% 7. search.yahoo.com 1.48% 8. www.facebook.com 1.32% 9. www.msn.com 1.07% ...

A few weeks ago I got a heads-up from Google's PR about their new search tool. Dubbed Google Insights for Search, it allows you to apply parameters to search for what other people are searching. Sounds a little strange and it did take a while for my...

Property Jun-2008 Jul-2008 % Change Total Internet 34,986 35,212 1% MEGAVIDEO.COM 640 1,494 133% The Mozilla Organization 4,283 9,362 119% KINO.TO 1,165 2,532 117% FACEBOOK.COM 1,180 1,522 29% Unister GmbH 3,671 4,684 28% WetterOnline GmbH 1,946...

Searching for details regarding the latest celebrity gossip may expose you to everything the IT underground has to offer - from adware and spyware to misleading offers and fake newsletters enticing you to opt-in into a spammer's campaign. McAfee owned SiteAdvisor has recently released the 2008 list of the celebrity...

Clothing retailer, J.Crew, reported weaker than expected second-quarter earnings due to severe problems following a website and call center upgrade. Management accepted blame. by Michael Krigsman

There's big money being spent in the Internet marketplace. Last year, more than $175 billion passed through the Internet in the form of airline tickets, insurance premiums, online bill payments and paperback books, among thousands of other items. But for many consumers, at some point in the process, the online...

July-08 Rank June-08 Rank Property Audience, 000 N/A N/A Total Audience 35,212 1 1 Google Sites 27,463 2 4 Microsoft Sites 18,653 3 2 eBay 18,283 4 5 United-Internet Sites 17,354 5 3 AOL LLC 17,278 ...