Date: 11/13/07     Keywords: ebay

Suit will focus on determining who is responsible for policing site for counterfeit products; loss by eBay could invite more litigation. A lawsuit by jeweler Tiffany & Co. against eBay brought under trademark law is set to open on Tuesday and could affect online auctions of luxury products....

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6218261.html

Date: 11/12/07     Keywords: web

Web site staffed by high school, college, and graduate students covering presidential race enters second week of publication. Presidential candidates keep close tabs on the reporters and bloggers who cover them. Now they will have to contend with a press outlet that includes staffers who aren't old enough...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6218153.html

Date: 11/12/07     Keywords: no keywords

Today I have been reading New York Times reporter Laura Holson's incisive piece entitled, Cellphone Straitjacket Is Inspiring A Rebellion. One of Laura's theses is that we are in the early stages of a transition from a time that cell companies had all the power, to one...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=2727

Date: 11/09/07     Keywords: web

Man designs Web site dedicated to finding girl he spotted on a crowded subway. Fellow city dwellers help him out. A tale of online love inspired usually cynical New Yorkers this week to help a young man find the girl of his dreams after he spotted her on...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6217755.html

Date: 11/07/07     Keywords: web

Web host warned customers that servers would be down for about 12 hours on Saturday. It ended up being more like five days. Some of the 165,000 Web sites that have been offline since Saturday due to a bungled data center move at NaviSite were back up Wednesday,...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6217438.html

Date: 11/07/07     Keywords: web

Senior execs and directors are prohibited from posting messages about company, rivals or vendors on Net forums it doesn't sponsor. Whole Foods Market amended its code of business conduct last week to restrict online activities by top officials, according to the company's Web site. The updated code bans...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2110-9588_22-6217377.html

Date: 11/06/07     Keywords: yahoo, microsoft

Last month, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called Facebook and social networking a fad and then plunked down $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook. While speaking in Mumbai, India this week, Ballmer was asked by reporters whether Microsoft was interested in acquiring Yahoo. He responded: "My answer...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6908

Date: 11/04/07     Keywords: web

The milestone for the pay site comes as other sites are throwing themselves open for free. The Wall Street Journal said on Sunday that its Web site now has 1 million subscribers, a milestone for a site that charges for access even as other sites are throwing...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2110-9588_22-6216913.html

Date: 11/01/07     Keywords: ecommerce, ebay

comScore just released their 3Q ecommerce numbers for the US and they paint a completely different picture about ecommerce than what I would have expected after looking at eBay's business over the last year. (Thanks to Sandy from the stores board for bringing this up)Online retail spending in the third...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6851

Date: 11/01/07     Keywords: web

The online news and opinion magazine may launch a business news and opinion Web site, according to a source. Slate, the online news and opinion magazine owned by The Washington Post Co., may launch a business news and opinion Web site, according to a source familiar...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2110-9588_22-6216354.html

Date: 10/31/07     Keywords: no keywords

Hindi and Tamil language versions of its portal in India are part of an aggressive global expansion. AOL plans on Wednesday to launch Hindi and Tamil language versions of its Internet portal in India as part of an aggressive global expansion that will see it in 30 regions...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6216186.html

Date: 10/31/07     Keywords: web

Visitors to U.S. newspaper sites rise 3.7 percent year over year, even as print editions reported lower ad sales. The number of people visiting U.S. newspaper Web sites rose 3.7 percent year over year during the third quarter, even as their print editions reported lower advertising sales. ...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6216178.html

Date: 10/30/07     Keywords: no keywords

I'm attending a major break out session at Von on Triple-Play services and bundling. Up there on the rostrum:  Brian Angiolet, executive director of marketing for Verizon FIOS; Christopher Alband, director of product engineering at Comcast; Mark Chinn, vip marketing and product development,...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=2691

Date: 10/26/07     Keywords: technology

Move to put the artwork online in high resolution will let art lovers and conspiracy theorists alike scrutinize it from their own computers. A high-resolution image of Da Vinci's Last Supper will soon be posted on the Internet by an Italian technology firm. The move will allow...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6215435.html

Date: 10/26/07     Keywords: no keywords

I have to agree with Haochi on this one -- the new YouTube preview makes me wonder what they are doing. Way too much red, which I hope is just because it's a "preview", and it feels like I stepped back in time to 1999 with the drop down...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=782

Date: 10/25/07     Keywords: technology

Apple's search technology Spotlight is getting a serious makeover in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: speedier performance, a greater reach for its searches and an overall improvement in its usability. However, the new version appears to use a different format for its indexing and some folks qualifying Leopard report trouble...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=976

Date: 10/25/07     Keywords: no keywords

This picture is from NASA/JPL. What do you see here? You see stresams of water on the surface of a melting Greenland ice sheet. The streams converge on a moulin which is a shaft or tubular path down which the water pours until it...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=438

Date: 10/24/07     Keywords: web

EPA Web site gives advice based on where people live and what type of heating and cooling systems they have. With U.S. consumers facing higher heating costs this winter, a new government Web site gives homeowners specific, customized recommendations on how to cut their energy use and save...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6215060.html

Date: 10/24/07     Keywords: web

The Colorado Rockies baseball team is about to start its World Series against the Boston Red Sox. Unfortunately, the Rockies' ticket sales website went down just as fans were trying to purchase seats. As described in CFO magazine: The Rockies announced Monday that due to an overload of...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=447

Date: 10/21/07     Keywords: google

The Google homepage turned out its lights yesterday in support of the of the Lights Out SF initiative. The Google homepage was turned completely black for users connecting from San Francisco -- but the goal wasn't to save energy directly (like some people think it would) but to convince...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=777