News stories from January 2008
58 News Stories
Stories 1 - 10
- Internet stops
- 31 January 2008
- Damage to undersea cables has cut off internet access for millions across the Middle East and India.The 'outage' is thought to have occurred in a major internet pipeline between Egypt and Europe.Accor...
- Category: E-commerce,
- Amazon's profits grow
- 31 January 2008
- Internet retailer Amazon has seen its operating cash flow double to $1.41 billion (£0.7 billion) in 2007.The online sales giant has released its 2007 profit report, which showed the figure ha...
- Category: E-commerce,
- Advertising - it's in the game
- 30 January 2008
- A new range of brands will appear in the latest incarnation of Burnout Paradise.The developers of the popular computer game have struck a deal with IGA Worldwide, which will see advertising appear on ...
- Category: Internet Marketing,
- Guinness goes social
- 29 January 2008
- Guinness World Records has launched on online social community to increase interactivity with its website.The company's site gets 11 million visitors per year. By creating a network, it has allowed us...
- Category: Web 2.0,
- Virgin speeds up
- 29 January 2008
- Virgin Media has boosted the speed of some of its customers' internet connections to 10 Mbps.The company has started a major broadband upgrade program. From February, customers on the company's 'L' Ta...
- Category: E-commerce,
- Google stops 'taster' sessions
- 28 January 2008
- Google will apply changes to its advertising programme to stop new domains taking profits when they are 'ad tasting', MacUser has reported.Some companies take advantage of a free five-day period befor...
- Category: Internet Marketing,
- Surprises for Google explorers
- 28 January 2008
- Google's Google Earth software has integrated a flight simulator and guided tours into its programming, the Times has reported.The application, which is now familiar to many internet users, has severa...
- Category: Search Engines,
- BBC goes ultra-local
- 28 January 2008
- The BBC plans to launch a series of local websites that feature online localisation and mapping technology, according to reports in the Press Gazette.In a move that could put the corporation at logger...
- Category: Web 2.0,
- Failing to connect
- 25 January 2008
- A quarter of people in the UK are unhappy with the customer service they receive from their Internet Service Provider (ISP), Webuser has reported.The broadband division of telecom's company Orange can...
- Category: Web 2.0,
- China's turning Japanese
- 25 January 2008
- China's leading search engine has launched a Japanese language version.Baidu, which dominates the Chinese market, will provide Japanese users with web, image, video and blog search services."We a...
- Category: Search Engines,
