Apple’s iPhone is now is moving to China: In the latest in a long series of international iPhone distribution deals, mobile operator Hutchison said today that it has a deal to sell Apple’s phones in Hong Kong and Macau later this year. Meanwhile, Apple plans to start selling its iTunes movie downloads/rentals in more countries [...]

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Inspector Le Knackeur of the Paris Yard has arrested 22 people, mostly teens, across France in connection with a hacking investigation. The arrests follow a probe in the eastern city of Dijon in February. More than 30 French and foreign companies complained that they had a bad case of hackers and the French police tracked [...]

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Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has confirmed that Microsoft is no longer interested in buying his company but is looking at other relationships. Yang said that his company is not under Volish ’siege’, but Steve Ballmer was negotiating other forms of partnership. He added that the Yahoo board was listening to such overtures. Had Ballmer wished, [...]

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A major online publisher says that ad sales are “very soft” at his shop and at his competitors’. He predicts that Q2 online sales at large online publishers will be “flat”. Last quarter we heard about pullbacks among financial and mortgage advertisers, as well as the auto sector. Now, the problem is the “scatter” market [...]

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The EU internet security agency ENISA is calling for all sorts of new laws to be put in place concerning social networks. It sounds like most of the proposed laws will take care of really minor “problems” that might occur at the expense of annoying everyone. For example, it wants laws to be put in [...]

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Although traffic is still important for an ecommerce website, the sales turnover is even more. This means that if you sell products online, that you will want targeted traffic brought about by a target audience and product. To ensure that your website can compete with thousands of ecommerce sites, you will have to find a [...]

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Customer feedback is essential for any online shopping facility, auction site and every website for that matter. Customer feedback helps to keep tabs on what your clients think and provides clues to how you can improve the website design, products, services and your Internet marketing strategies.
The following methods can be used to obtain customer feedback [...]

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Yahoo has sued a group of unknown lottery spammers, even if it is highly unlikely the wrongdoers responsible will ever be in court. Lottery spammers send you emails saying that you have won some kind of prize or lottery winnings from Yahoo. The suit claims trademark infringement and breaking the Federal CAN-SPAM Act, and related [...]

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Copyright defence group Copiepresse, an organisation that protects the rights and interests of a number of Belgian news organisations and publications, is demanding damages totalling $77.2 million from search engine giant Google. The long-running court clash, which was first reported way back when, relates to Google’s reproduction of headlines and extracts from a number of [...]

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In a move that could change the Internet forever, a Singapore firm has sent out invoices to companies that use graphics to link to web sites, claiming that it owns the patent. Vuestar technologies has been busy sending out invoices all week under the claim that it owns the patent to technology used by almost [...]

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