Reuters - Annie Mole’s blog about the London
Underground rail system began as a New Year’s resolution to
teach herself how to make an Internet Web site and has
blossomed into a popular slice of commuter life.
PC World - AOL saw only a slight gain in its online advertising business for the first quarter of 2008, suggesting the company has a way…
AFP - The Japanese police moved Wednesday to stop a string of suicides using detergent, asking Internet providers to remove information on how to generate the deadly gas.
Reuters - Italians were surprised, and in some cases
outraged, on Wednesday to discover that their income levels
were available for public viewing on an Internet site.
PC World - A Woodbury, Connecticut, man has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for operating Web sites where users could download…
AP - IAC/InterActiveCorp, the Internet conglomerate led by Barry Diller, said Wednesday its first-quarter profit slipped 13 percent marketing and other expenses, but adjusted results met expectations.
InfoWorld - Tibco Software is throwing its support behind Microsoft’s new Silverlight browser plug-in technology for rich Internet applications and also is offering users of Microsoft Web services technology an alternative message platform.
AFP - The World Wide Web is still only in its infancy, its British inventor said Wednesday, on the 15th anniversary of the web’s effective launch.
Reuters - French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen
is looking to make a bit of extra cash by putting his old
bullet-proof car up for sale on eBay.
Reuters - Viral marketing has gone
positively bubonic. While this unconventional approach to
building buzz online is nothing new, it has achieved full-blown
plague status in the walk-up to the summer movie season.