Microsoft Knocks $50 Off The Xbox 360 Console to Compete with Wii
Microsoft is giving a $50 discount for the Xbox 360 gaming console, lowering the price in direct competition with what is thought to be the first price cut by Nintendo Co. for its Wii system.
The discount will by way of a mail-in rebate, which is valid for all purchases until 5th October. This drops the [...]
Eric Schmidt Slates Murdoch’s Idea to Charge for Internet News
Eric Schmidt, a Google CEO, has told a group of British broadcastings chiefs that Rupert Murdoch’s plan to charge for online news content cannot work, as there is already so much high quality news that is available for free.
However, he does admit that there is room in the market for a provider of niche news [...]
Facebook Starts Making a Profit
Facebook now has 300 million users, and has announced that it has finally started making a profit. This is solid proof that although social media and networking sites are good fun, they are not a good business model, at least not for start ups.
If an online store had as many returning customers it would be [...]
FT.com and other Financial News Websites To Charge for Content
It appears that there will soon be a major shakeup in the way news is presented online. The Financial Times (FT.com) has announced that they are planning to start charging internet users for their specialist financial reports and news. They have stated that the current model is not sustainable, and as more people have stopped [...]
One Billion Firefox Users Prove The Open Source Is The Future
Firefox, the open source Internet browser, has now been downloaded a billion times. It is estimated that 1 in 3 people now use Firefox instead of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
Firefox is now 5 years old, and has been a hot with the IT crowd since its launch. Firefox’s strength lies in it advanced rendering engine, which [...]
BBC Starts Sharing Video with Commercial Newspapers
Last week one SEO reported that the BBC showed some improvements in its search engine rankings, with pages appearing more often for generic search terms (much like with Wikipedia). This is good news for the BBC, as for years it has been producing high quality journalistic content on a wide range of subjects. It is [...]
Vodafone Are Looking To Takeover T-Mobile
The world’s largest mobile phone company has declared that it is interested in taking over the German cell phone company, T-Mobile.
T-Mobile has been losing market share recently, and even though it won the contract to supply the handsets for Google’s first Android based mobile, the G1, this has not been enough to give T-Mobile the [...]
Mega Virus Crashes UK Banking Network – Cash Machines Are Dead
OK, this is an over the top, sensationalist title. But today a cash machine at HSBC failed to give me my money. So I headed over to Barclays to withdraw some cash, and that too was down. I popped inside to ask what the heck was going on, and all cash points and instore credit/debit [...]
Google Invests $90,000 in Drupal CMS
Google continues to promote and encourage open source technologies by agreeing to sponsor Drupal modules in the net “summer of code”.
“The summer is off to a great start again. Google just announced that they will sponsor 18 Drupal developer stipends in this year’s Summer of Code program (SoC). Google provides a stipend of 5,000 [...]
GeoCities is Closing Down
Yahoo have announced that they are planning to close down Geocities, which offers Yahoo members to create free websites. Yahoo is offering its Geocities customers to purchase Yahoo web hosting, however many will start to look elsewhere to host their sites.
After careful consideration, we have decided to close GeoCities later this year. We’ll share more [...]
