Monthly Archives: November 2006

French presidential candidate compromised by vlogger

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

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

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

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

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

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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