The joint venture between Microsoft and Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd today launched a search service for local businesses called MyLocal and completed the acquisition of mobile content syndication firm HWW.
At the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel talks to host John Battelle about how his company plans to compete with Google by improving search technology and offering more engaging content.
IT managers often speak anecdotally about the challenges of scaling up their systems to meet demand, but Damian Smith faced this challenge head on after the exploding popularity of Big Brother sent demand for Network Ten online videos soaring
Internet Service Provider Pacific Internet is preparing the national launch of a new content filtering service after refining the technology during a trial at its wholly-owned subsidiary, Newcastle-based ISP Hunterlink.
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Will aggregation replace search when it comes to finding useful content on the Web? I reckon so.
A big part of the Google mythology is that you can solve virtually any problem through a combination of clever technology and the use of open standards. The Google reality is a bit more complicated.
Victorian Web start-up My Perfect has a strong story and rationale for why it will succeed. But it has to overcome some challenges and design flaws first.
Watching the latest, hilarious stage in the Jimmy Kimmel-Matt Damon "feud" -- which racked up 2.5 million YouTube views in one day -- I was struck by a thought: who in the world is paying for all this bandwidth?
Previously, much of the business model for the in-flight connectivity market has remained up in the air -- but that could all be about to change thanks to RIM and pals.
The Web portal's plan to become a major Internet content player is treading water, despite its Hollywood credentials.
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EMC's planned acquisition of Documentum represents an infrastructure-level strategy that could be the beginning of a much larger trend, with potential impact on how enterprises seek to address content, archiving, and storage as a completely synergistic, single-vendor solution.
For mid-size Australian businesses that want to awaken as quickly as possible from their current Web nightmare - resulting from content-heavy sites - a new breed of ASP is emerging that promises fast relief.
Adobe Systems has announced it's partnering with search giants Google and Yahoo to increase the quality of search results of dynamic Web content and rich internet applications (RIAs).
We look at which product can help improve customer satisfaction.
Always a contentious topic, we look server-based Internet content filters and some of the reasons why your organisation might want one, or not.
Aimed at small to medium-size enterprises (SMEs) that need a search engine without the hassles, the Google Mini is capable and flexible. We just wish the upgrade path was more affordable.
With Google Desktop, you can search for files on your hard drive just as easily as you can search the Internet.
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