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  • News: Google upgrades Google Analytics

    Google has revamped Google Analytics, improving and expanding the data reporting capabilities of the website usage monitoring service.

  • News: Apple share surges as Mac surfers double

    The portion of people surfing the web using a Mac has doubled in the past eight months, according to an internet metrics analyst, and represents an audience that can't be ignored by web application developers.

  • News: Slow-loading websites Britain's top web gripe

    Slow-loading websites are the biggest internet complaint for Great Britain's web users, according to research from 1&1 Internet. The average UK and Northern Ireland internet user wastes 2.5 days per year waiting for slow websites to load. Waiting for sites to load elicits a 'negative emotional response' from more than 52 percent of Britons. Such grumpy responses range from 'short temperedness' (35 percent) to 'physical aggression' (7 percent).

  • News: Microsoft fully releases upgraded Hotmail

    Microsoft has officially closed the public-testing period for Windows Live Hotmail. Now begins the lengthy process of migrating users to this major upgrade of Microsoft's Hotmail webmail service, Microsoft will announce today.

  • News: Microsoft-Yahoo deal may hurt Google ad sales

    A potential Microsoft-Yahoo merger probably doesn't have rivals at Google panicking just yet, but if a deal comes off Google may have to worry about its hold on the consumer search and online-advertising markets.

  • News: Internet Explorer 7.0 uptake stagnates

    Interest in Microsoft's IE 7.0 (Internet Explorer 7.0) has stagnated, according to a pair of metrics vendors that track browser usage.

  • News: RIM to offer BlackBerry plug-in for Visual Studio

    RIM (Research in Motion) is to allow developers to create applications for BlackBerry phones using Microsoft's .Net programming environment. RIM's move forms part of its efforts to broaden the capabilities of BlackBerry devices.

  • News: Samsung launches Q1 Ultra ultramobile PC

    Samsung Electronics has announced full details of the reduced price and upgraded performance for its Q1 Ultra ultramobile PC, first announced at CeBit in March this year.

  • News: Google starts paying YouTube contributors

    YouTube is allowing some of its most popular content creators to start earning revenue from videos they post.

  • News: Top 10 Firefox add-ons to avoid

    A couple of months ago, we helped you get started on your journey to browser perfection with our list of 20 must-have Firefox extensions. But the ability to tweak your browser is a double-edged sword. There are extensions best avoided – including some of the most popular.

  • News: Cracking Google's Pagerank secrets

    Rand Fishkin knows how valuable it is for a website to rank high in a Google search. But even he, president of an SEO (search-engine optimisation) firm, was blown away by a proposal he received when he was a panellist at an SEO conference in London, February 2007.

  • News: The top 8 Second Life virtual businesses

    I was standing in a spacious entryway, chatting with the chief science officer at Sun Microsystems. His short-cropped hair, V-neck sweater and glasses were a sure sign of technical prowess.

  • News: Microsoft in talks to buy Yahoo

    Having lost out to Google in a bid to acquire internet advertising company DoubleClick, Microsoft has initiated a new round of talks to acquire Yahoo, according to published reports Friday.

  • News: Yahoo launches mobile oneSeach beta

    Yahoo has launched the beta of its mobile search service, oneSearch, in the UK.

  • News: Google re-opens Belgian newspaper links

    Google is including links again to some of Belgium's most popular French- and German-language newspapers, although their copyright lawsuit against the US search company remains pending.

  • News: Firefox gets eBay auction add-on

    Mozilla is asking users to test a new add-on for the Firefox browser that lets users monitor their deals on eBay's auction site in real time.

  • News: Internet Explorer 8.0 to focus on security

    Microsoft dodged questions this week at the Mix07 Web developer conference about when it plans to update its Internet Explorer (IE) browser to Version 8 (IE8).

  • News: Internet2 knocked out by homeless man

    A fire started by a homeless man knocked out service between Boston and New York on the experimental Internet2 network on Tuesday night.

  • News: Microsoft buys mobile ad firm ScreenTonic

    Microsoft has agreed to buy ScreenTonic SA, a company that specialises in delivering location-based ads to mobile devices.

  • News: DDoS attacks die off, but spam returns

    Symantec has noted a sharp decline in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, where a network of remote-controlled bots overloads a target's system and takes it offline.