Media - Internet

NEW DLEHI, September 8: The days of bookselling are not history as yet. Books, in fact, are making history and are are the among the hottest selling items online. A recent survey by the Internet & Online Association of India (IOAI) and Cross Tab Marketing Services has found that books was the most popular category among online shoppers. Unlike apparel or jewellery, books are not something buyers...

Sharon Keating, a lawyer in New Orleans, grabbed her laptop as she fled Hurricane Katrina with her family in a three-car caravan. For the past 11 days, Keating has been blogging about her evacuation on the home page of About.com, a Web site owned by the New York Times Co. Tiny details brought her account to life, such as her husband waking in a hotel and saying, "I don't own a pair of socks," and...

NEW DELHI, September 8: Yahoo, Indiatimes, Rediff, MSN and Sify have emerged as the established generic portals in a recent survey of popular websites. Google, Naukri and Shaadi among others have earned good niche audiences. The study also found that most popular Net activities are social and professional interaction, keeping track of news and events, check for sports and cinema content...

A new Internet boom is emerging with the growing popularity of syndicated content in the form of Web logs, commercial newsfeeds and podcasts, audio broadcasts that are simple to record and can be downloaded onto MP3players such as iPods or other devices. FeedBurner, a Chicago-based technology startup, is poised to help the writers, publishers and broadcasters who create this content capitalize on...

Any Weblog or podcast in one of theBOBs' nine languges (English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Persian and Arabic) can participate in the Deutsche Welle's 2005 theBOBs -- The Best of the Blogs. THE CATEGORIES The Deutsche Welle is organizing an international Weblog award. The competition is aimed at supporting the free flow of information on the Internet and will be...

In a legal case being watched closely by bloggers, an Internet company has sued the owner of a Web log for comments posted to his site by readers. Traffic-Power.com1 sued Aaron Wall, who maintains a blog on search engine optimization – tactics companies use to get themselves to appear higher in searches at Google, Yahoo and elsewhere – alleging defamation and publication of trade secrets. The suit...

NEW DELHI, August 31: The Internet gender gap may be fast disappearing, but differences in how men and women use technology still remain wide. Female consumers are catching up with their male counterparts in online media consumption, purchasing behaviour, and device ownership; but gender roles persist: men engage in financial activities, watch more television, and spend more online; women keep in...

NEW DELHI, August 28: More than 70 per cent of consumers/visitors are unlikely to purchase from, or even return to, a website after encountering a pet peeve. And, because only 25 per cent of consumers say they will complain to the companies about their pet peeves, the use of features that annoy consumers may be having a negative impact that is difficult to trace or measure. These are some of the...

A publisher of nude photos is calling Google a massive infringer of copyright as part of a lawsuit. Norman Zada is CEO of Perfect 10, which publishes a print magazine and a subscription-only Web site showing nude photos of models under exclusive contracts. On Wednesday, his lawyers asked a U.S. District Court in Los Angeles to order Google to stop showing images of Perfect 10 models. Zada sued...

Public life has sped up dramatically over the past 10 years or so. Politicians, Hollywood, corporate chieftains, and other newsmakers all have had to learn how to respond to news instantly – as it’s being made. Call it "The CNN Effect," a phrase that entered news jargon in the 1990s when the phenomenon jelled, thanks to the instant flood of real-time images of suffering and conflict transmitted...