Monthly Archives: November 2006

French presidential candidate compromised by vlogger

Posted by coulson on November 13, 2006 3 comments

DailyMotion will have seen a sharp increase in page views over the weekend as over a 100,000 people in France, turned to the video sharing site, after watching the evening news. Which gives me, by the same occasion, the opportunity …

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Italy and Spain show the fastest growth for online sales

Posted by coulson on November 10, 2006 None comments

As Jupiter analysts wrote, “Internet penetration in Europe, grew from 46% in 2004 to 49% in 2005, and will reach 58% in 2011.” “This increased use has resulted in a growing recognition across all industry sectors of the importance of …

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Netvibes leading the Widget race

Posted by coulson on November 9, 2006 11 comments

Netvibes looks set to take the lead in the – Highest number of widgets available on you personalized start page – race. In a statement made by Pierre Chappaz, co CEO at Netvibes, during the Web2 summit in San Fransisco …

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Free PC for new broadband customers at Redten

Posted by coulson on November 7, 2006 41 comments

After Neuf Cegetel in France announced earlier this year their offer of a free computer with every new broadband connection, RedTen Internet are following foot in the UK. But whereas the Easy Gate box from Cegetel is little more than …

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Flash Earth adds NASA satellites

Posted by coulson on November 6, 2006 26 comments

Flash genius Paul Neave from the UK, has updated Flash Earth to include images from NASA’s OnEarth MODIS satellites, as well as : Ask.com, Yahoo! Maps & OpenLayers.org. The NASA imagery is updated daily showing images of cloud formations from …

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The World’s First Chinese-English Email portal

Posted by coulson on November 3, 2006 None comments

Dutch start-up Chinglish offers a new bilingual portal that allows you to write emails in either English or Chinese and translate it automatically before sending. According to Marius van Bergen, CEO of Chinglish.com, people need a Chinese Input Method Editor …

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