The major players inside the Internet industry appreciate that the moments of crisis, as it also happened in 2000-2001, are a perfect timing for launching new projects, sites that will gain billion of dollars in a few years. At least this is the conclusion drawn by the founder of Digg.com, Kevin Rose, to Web 2.0 Summit 2008 which just ended at San Francisco. It’s also true that the only concrete event of the conference was the launch of... [...]

Microsoft pours even more money in promoting its search engine, announcing that will offer discounts up 25% to all those that are searching products through Live Search and buy from eBay, for example. For sure, there are many conditions, and the limit of the prices is of about 200 dollars, the payments being mandatory through PayPal. Obviously, only for the users from United States. Microsoft also offers points for the ones that frequently use... [...]

The analysts say that for the current year the budgets allocated by users for online holiday shopping are with at least 15% higher against last year, due to the fact that the sums are being transferred from the traditional shops. However the growth is reduced, because on last year there were recorded larger expenses with 54% more against 2006. Realized by IMGR and Capgemini, the study shows that the traditional retailers will face serious... [...]

Two passionate of drawing have launched the site Pixton.com, an online community of those passionate of caricature and drawing, where anybody can load this type of productions and can rate others designs. Launched in January, the site increased to 150.000 visitors and about 10.000 subscribed users, fact that proves the interest shown for this domain. [...]

Metro Goldwin Mayer (MGM), one of the biggest studios of cinema production in the world, is the first player in domain who decided to post full length films on YouTube, instead of the usual trailers and promo videos, the officials of those two companies say. Google is testing new methods for obtaining profit by YouTube , one of the solutions being to insert commercials in the clips that appear on the site. However, it seems that for gaining... [...]

The Internet users watch more and more online video content, and this means an increased traffic, and also increased invoice values of the ones that have limitations and especially of the ones that access YouTube on the cellular phone, the experts in domain say.Due to the fact that some big operators of Internet services have removed of their offers the option “unlimited”, the access to online video could turn to be more and more... [...]

The site type encyclopedia developed by Google, Knol, has adopted the languages French, Italian and German for developing its audience in Europe.  Although it was launched pompous and even promoted in the search engine of Google, Knol doesn’t record for the moment a special success, and the team is looking for new development solutions. [...]

Several employees of the air company Virgin Atlantic were dismissed after they have commented on Facebook about the technical problems of the aircrafts and about the misery that exists in the aircrafts, due to the company and also to the thick-skinned passengers. Virgin appreciated that their behavior has brought damages to the company and was insulting for its passengers and in conclusion has chosen to dismiss those 13 employees that... [...]

Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, the biggest project on the internet based on collaboration, stated that people aren’t prepared to collaborate in the online environment. „We are only at the beginning of the efforts for online collaboration”, Wales stated. He gave as negative example the sites of online video, such as YouTube or others. „The  online video industry is in the stage of Web 1.0, even before the turn... [...]

On the Internet circulates a free virus that till the present has managed to find out the details of more than 500,000 online bank accounts and credit and debit cards all over the world, the experts in informatics security say. They add that this is one of the most dangerous viruses ever created.  The virus represents a serious threat because uses a common infection method known as “drive-by download” and the users get... [...]

The Organization "Identity Theft Resource Cente" in San Diego, USA, found that the number of information theft this year paled the number of 446 of successful attacks in 2007. With a rate of approximately 57 companies who are losing sensitive information every month, organizations that monitor the phenomenon say that this year they expect at least 680 attacks. Article Translated by: NiC Translation Agency In 2007, 446 attacks... [...]

A British citizen and a German one are charged of having launched a series of attacks against a chain stores in the U.S. Article Translated by: NiC Translation Agency Lee Graham Walker from England was arrested under the charge of conspiracy and destruction of an information system, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigations of the United States (FBI). Axel Gemble is also accused, a German citizen. If they are found guilty, each... [...]

Information attacks are initiated by political motivated persons or by industrial thieves, right? In fact, 70% of the attacks are coming from inside the company. Article Translated by: NiC Translation Agency Employees are responsible for almost one third of the loss of data from the financial institutions. Increasingly more business taking place in a computerized environment, and companies should be increasingly worried about the... [...]

The Republican candidate for the vice-president position in the United States, Sarah Palin, lost control of his address e-mail after a group of hackers entitled "Anonymous" managed to break her Yahoo account last week. According to the site wikileaks.org, a hacker with links to a group of notorious informatics criminals has managed to log into the Republican’s account around midnight, on September 17. Screenshots with a... [...]

This year on September 23, Ubisoft has opened in Craiova a second creation studio from Romania, which will invest between 5 and 10 million euro until 2010. The studio starts with 12 people, but will reach 100 employees in three years. [...]