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January, 2005 Archives
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Jail Sentence for Teenage Blaster Author
MSNBC.com reports that Jeffrey Lee Parson, the 19-year-old charged with creating a Blaster Internet worm variant, has been sentenced to 1.5 years in a low-security prison as well as 10 months of community service. Person will also have to pay fines. The Blaster worm wrecked havoc on computers and networks in 2003.
Posted on January 29, 2005
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Amazon Offers Virtual Yellow Pages
CNN reports that Amazon has launched a new yellow pages type of feature for their A9 search engine that allows users to virtually walk streets and see photos and video of businesses. The search feature is the latest in a trend towards video capability in search engines. Google and Yahoo have both recently launched video features. The aggresive move by Amazon is also part of the battle to gain marketshare in the potentially lucrative yellow pages or local search market. The A9 yellow pages services launches for several major cities including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, L.A., New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Portland, Oregon with over 20 million photos available of local business like restaurants.
Posted on January 27, 2005
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Google Launches Video Search Tool
Wikinews reports that Google has launched Google Video Search, which allows users to search thousands of television programs. Currently the search includes content from eight networks: ABC, KQED, KRON, NBC, PBS, Fox News, C-SPAN and C-SPAN2. Google Video Search shows text and stills from television programs based on the keywords entered into the search box. Yahoo is also beta testing a Video Search.
Posted on January 25, 2005
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Microsoft's Browser Dominance Slipping
Techworld.com reports that Microsoft's dominance in the browser marketplace with Internet Explorer (IE) may be slipping. Techworld.com cited two different research companies, WebSideStory and OneStat, which found that the number of people using IE had fallen a few percentage points while people using the Firefox browser from Mozilla had increased. Firefox usage increased by nearly 5% from May 2004 to November 2004 according to OneStat while IE usage fell by over 6% in the same timeframe. More people are also using browsers like Safari and Opera. The problems for IE begin when they were continually plagued with security issues last year.
Posted on January 21, 2005
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Google Losing Search Engine Lead
Google still has a big lead but search engines provided by
Yahoo and Microsoft (MSN Search) are starting to narrow the gap. A recent
Wall Street Journal article cited a study that showed
many web users find Yahoo and Microsoft's search engines
to be comparable to Google's. 61% of those surveyed said they
would likely make Yahoo their primary search engine -- an
11% increase over last year's 50% result. Google did do better
with 84% saying they would make Google their primary search tool --
however 86% had said this about Google in last year's survey.
Danny Sullivan, editor of Search Engine Watch, told the WSJ that, "It's not a neck-and-neck race at all, but it's getting closer."
Posted on January 15, 2005
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Spam Growth Rate Slowing
There is some finally some good news in the fight against spam. An article on InfoWorld cites numbers from MessageLabs and Symantec that show the growth rate of spam emails have slowed. MessageLabs and Symantec try and measure the percentage of email messsages that are spam messages. Symantec shows about 67% and MessageLabs shows about 72%. Those are high percentages, but the good news is that the numbers have stayed in the 60-70% range for a few months. Unfortunately InfoWorld also found some bad news -- the percentage of spam emails is rising for coporate email networks.
Related Links: Anti-Spam Tools and Resources
Posted on January 12, 2005
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SixApart Buys LiveJournal
Writenews.com reports that SixApart has acquired the popular LiveJournal blogging service. This will allow SixApart, which offers the Movable Type publishing platform and TypePad personal weblogging service, to have a combined blog user base of 6.5 million users. This puts them in a better position to compete with companies like Google, which owns Blogger.com. Barak Berkowitz, Six Apart's chief executive officer said the acquisition of LiveJournal makes Six Apart the industry's largest independent provider of weblogging tools. B.L. Ochman, author of What Could Your Company Do with a Blog, told EcommerceTimes.com that he expects more big mergers to occur in the blogging world.
Related Links: Blogging Resources
Posted on January 8, 2005
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Microsoft Enters AntiSpyware Market
Microsoft recently acquired the anti-virus firm Giant Company
which started rumors they were planning to offer security
software. Now those rumors have become reality as Microsoft
has released a beta antispyware package. Microsoft's first
security offering is Windows AntiSpyware (Beta), which will be available
for free until July 2005. CNN/Money senior writer Paul R. La Monica wrote that "despite its formidable financial resources and marketing heft,
Microsoft faces a lot of challenges in the security software market."
Still, security software companies like McAfee and Symantec have
to be concerned about a giant like Microsoft.
Related Links: AntiSpyware Tools and Resources
Posted on January 7, 2005
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32 Million Americans Blog
Two surveys by the Pew Internet and American Life Project in November
found rapidly increasing activity in the blogging world. The study found
that 8 million American adults say they have created blogs. Blog
readership jumped 58% in 2004 and now stands at 27% of internet users --
or 32 million people. 5% of internet users say they use RSS aggregators or XML readers to get the news and other information delivered from blogs as it is posted online. 12% of internet users have posted comments or other material on blogs. However, 62% of internet users still do not know what a blog is. For more information on the
study click here to read the PDF document.
Posted on January 5, 2005
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