Site Toolkit

Ask.com is overhauling its Web search engine to deliver faster results and improved relevance as it bids to win share from market leader Google. NEW YORK–IAC Corp’s Ask.com is overhauling its Web search engine to deliver faster results and improved relevance as it bids to win share from market…
Original post by Gadgets, gizmos, and […]

Yahoo is moving ahead with a radical redesign of its home page–the most heavily trafficked site on the Web–making changes that give users a personalized view of the wider Web. SUNNYVALE, California–Yahoo is moving ahead on Thursday with a radical redesign of its home page–the most heavily trafficked site…
Original post by Gadgets, gizmos, and […]

Social networking sites are the hottest attraction on the Internet, dethroning pornography and highlighting a major change in how people communicate, according to a web guru. CANBERRA–Social networking sites are the hottest attraction on the Internet, dethroning pornography and highlighting a major change in how people communicate, according to…
Original post by Gadgets, gizmos, and […]

The summer Olympic games provided the first battleground for a war between Microsoft and Adobe over the Internet’s next big competition. SEATTLE–As the world’s best athletes competed in Beijing, the summer Olympic games set the stage for a battle between Microsoft and Adobe over the Internet’s next big competition….
Original post by Gadgets, gizmos, and […]

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has accepted a proposal allowing companies, cities and others to use almost any suffix they want for a web address. At its meeting in Paris, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN, a not-for-profit organization that…
Original post by Gadgets, gizmos, and […]

The founder of Mozilla Europe claims Adobe and Microsoft’s rich-media tech threatens the open nature of the web but concedes they are currently necessary for multimedia content. Companies building websites should beware of proprietary rich-media technologies like Adobe’s Flash and Microsoft’s Silverlight, the founder of…
Original post by Gadgets, gizmos, and […]

A security threat report from Sophos says that attacks are on the rise with an average of 15,000 Web pages compromised daily over the past three months. Web threats have risen significantly in the first quarter of 2008, with one Web page being infected every five seconds, according to…
Original post by Gadgets, gizmos, and […]

Tomorrow’s news from Google, penguins that fly, and half fares for flyers who are willing to stand are just some of the April Fools’ stories that are filling the Web. Today’s Headlines–April 1 An inpromptu Larry Ellison inteview Ed Bott: MaxWin to supersize Windows …
Original post by Gadgets, gizmos, and […]

Man likely to become Russia’s next president launches a site with speeches, his campaign team, news, and a gallery of photos. Dmitry Medvedev, named by Russian President Vladimir Putin last month as his favored successor, launched his personal Web site on Wednesday. In links on the his site,…
Original post by Gadgets, gizmos, and […]

Product inveiled on Monday allows special telephony features, including transcription, to be embedded on Web sites and PCs. Ribbit, a Silicon Valley start-up that lets software programmers embed phone-like voice features in everything from Web sites to computers to phones themselves, unveiled its first product for consumers on…
Original post by Gadgets, gizmos, and […]

Eric Schmidt says mobile Web access is a “re-creation of the Internet” that will turn location-based advertising into big business. The arrival of a truly mobile Web, offering a new generation of location-based advertising, is set to unleash a “huge revolution,” Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on…
Original post by Gadgets, gizmos, and […]

Figures released Thursday confirm the Web as one of the few bright spots for the struggling newspaper industry. A record number of readers visited U.S. online newspaper sites last year, according to figures released on Thursday, confirming the Web as one of the few bright spots for the…
Original post by Gadgets, gizmos, and […]

Shutdown of popular site offering live shows part of crackdown on “unhealthy” Web content and online dissent. Chinese police have shut down a Web site selling real-time porn and arrested 33 people, state media said on Wednesday. The action was part of a campaign that has led…
Original post by Gadgets, gizmos, and […]

Scheduled for rollout in second quarter, free software from Swedish start-up Polar Rose is designed to sort and match faces in photos. Swedish start-up Polar Rose plans to make its face recognition service publicly available on the Web in the second quarter of 2008 as it tries to…
Original post by Gadgets, gizmos, and […]

Opera CTO Håkon Wium Lie asks how seriously Microsoft’s Web browser will support an upcoming Web standards test. Two years ago, the Acid2 test was announced in this column. Acid2 is a complex Web browser test page that shows a smiley face when rendered correctly. …
Original post by Gadgets, gizmos, and […]

Down since January 9, site has become symbol of U.S. tension with Panama after election of controversial figure. An Internet hack launched earlier this month on the Web site of Panama’s National Assembly continues to be a source of irritation, four months after the legislature elected as its…
Original post by Gadgets, gizmos, and […]

More than half who responded to a teachers’ survey say at least a few of their students cut and paste from the Net. More than half the respondents in a survey of U.K. teachers said they thought plagiarism from the Internet is a problem. Some students who…
Original post by Gadgets, gizmos, and […]

About half of those who receive TV over the air will continue to do so; only 12 percent will shell out for pay service, study says. Half of the 21 million Americans who do not have cable or satellite TV will probably continue to use rabbit ears after…
Original post by Gadgets, gizmos, and […]

Home Secretary says she wants Internet industry to help combat extremism in the same way it cooperates to fight crimes against kids. The British government wants the Internet industry to help combat militant Islamism on the Web in the same way it cooperates in fighting sex crimes against…
Original post by Gadgets, gizmos, and […]