News stories from October 2007
66 News Stories
Stories 1 - 10
- Visitors dig social tools
- 31 October 2007
- Social Media tools are attracting more business visitors to websites, according to new research.The Pluck Corporation found that page views on some industry business media websites doubled after 90 da...
- Category: Internet Marketing, Web 2.0, E-commerce,
- Facing East
- 31 October 2007
- Facebook has registered a local web address in China in a move to fight off future copyright arguments, Reuters reports.The social networking site now has the Facebook.cn address, which could also be ...
- Category: E-commerce, Internet Marketing, Web 2.0,
- Lords calls, government ignores
- 31 October 2007
- The government has disagreed with the House of Lords over its assessment of personal online security.The peers recommended a central enforcement agency, incentives to improve data security for banks a...
- Category: E-commerce,
- Big Facebook Brother?
- 30 October 2007
- According to reports on Valleywag, the popular Silicon Valley blog, employees at Facebook have been violating members' privacy.Claimed abuses vary from looking at which profiles members had viewed to ...
- Category: Web 2.0,
- Google deal gets second look
- 30 October 2007
- The European Commission is asking for more information from the industry before it decides on Google's proposed purchase of online advertising company, DoubleClick, reports CNN Money.comAccording to a...
- Category: Internet Marketing, Search Engines,
- MySpace shows its age
- 30 October 2007
- MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson has lied about his age according to information obtained by Newsweek.When you join MySpace your profile is automatically linked to his and he becomes your first friend ...
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- Muslim lovers search for love online
- 29 October 2007
- The internet is an increasingly popular place for British Asians to find love without breaking Islamic law, the Times reports.Online dating allows young British Asians to do their own matchmaking rath...
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- Online bank job
- 29 October 2007
- A gang of online bank robbers are 'at large' after hacking into victims' bank accounts and spending their money, the Times reports.The crooks take the money by using stolen private data to convince ba...
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- Making a dash for it
- 29 October 2007
- A new application lets mobile users control their phones and change settings from their home computer.US company, Dashwire, has launched new software that mirrors all phone content and stores it in an...
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- Official 'social not-working'
- 26 October 2007
- Workers could be allowed time to spend on non-work related activities after a survey revealed the extent of 'social not-working'.Employees are spending more than 40 minutes every day sending text mess...
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