News stories from November 2008

59 News Stories
Stories 1 - 10

Internet 'to become more reliant on speech interaction'
28 November 2008
Web users will be able to use speech more to use the internet in the next five years, IBM has said.According to its IBM Next Five in Five list, the talking web will be one of the main developments tha...
Category: Web Design,
Firms 'should do more in online PR'
28 November 2008
Businesses could benefit from expending more time and effort in the area of online PR, it has been suggested.According to a survey by Citigate Dewe Rogerson, nearly half of UK and Irish marketers are ...
Category: Internet Marketing,
Emotion 'a key part of usable web design'
28 November 2008
The emotional state of web users is an important factor to consider when improving web design usability, an expert has suggested.Kimberly Krause Berg of UsabilityEffect.com wrote in a post for the Sea...
Category: Web Design,
Yahoo! BOSS looks to vertical search
27 November 2008
Yahoo! has unveiled a new vertical search capability for its Build Your Own Search Service (BOSS) platform.A post on the Yahoo! Search Blog demonstrated how the vertical lens technology worked by expl...
Category: Search Engines,
Chrome comes out on top for speed in testing
27 November 2008
A speed test run by technology site ExtremeTech has ranked Google Chrome as the fastest browser on the market.In the experiment, ExtremeTech tested Chrome, Internet Explorer 7 (IE7), Safari, Firefox a...
Category: Web Design,
Web 2.0 seen as key to customer engagement
27 November 2008
Web 2.0 is viewed as one of the most important internet marketing areas for businesses to invest in when it comes to customer engagement, according to a new study.E-consultancy polled some 1,300 busin...
Category: Web 2.0,
Google grabs more US search market share in October
26 November 2008
Google expanded its share of US searches to 61.2 per cent in October, according to new figures.Released by Nielsen Online, the statistics revealed that Google accounted for about 4.7 billion queries l...
Category: Search Engines,
Expert: Ensure e-commerce sites are ready for Xmas season
26 November 2008
Businesses must make sure their e-commerce websites are able to work properly during the key Christmas shopping season, according to Steve Davis of GSI Commerce.The expert wrote in an article for the ...
Category: E-commerce,
Backup websites lacking in half of businesses
26 November 2008
New research has revealed that about 50 per cent of businesses have not backed up their websites in case of an emergency.The research was carried out in Canada by Leger and IT services firm Fusepoint ...
Category: E-commerce,
Qualitative website feedback 'particularly useful'
25 November 2008
Businesses looking to improve the usability of their websites could benefit from seeking qualitative feedback from customers as well as statistics from their website analytics programs.According to th...
Category: Web Design,

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