Tuesday, October 7, 2008eCommerce a “Bright Spot” in Uncertain Economy
A news release was issued earlier this month stating that online retailing remains a “bright spot amid a struggling economy.”
“Online retailers are expecting average annual growth this year of 25%, and 35% say they expect to perform better than initially expected through the first half of next year,” states the article, which can be found [...]
Sunday, October 5, 2008Google-Yahoo Ad Merger Delayed
The Washington Post’s Post IT tech blog tells us that the highly anticipated (and a little dreaded, in some quarters) merger between Google and Yahoo — called “Goohoo” by some — has been delayed to allow time for the U.S. Justice Department to further review the deal.
The announcement delays slightly (less than a month, according [...]
Tuesday, September 23, 2008MyHostNews Gets a New Look
One of the web hosting industry’s premium directories just got a facelift. Click here to see MyHostNews.com’s new look.
MyHostNews is a great resource for online businesses. It offers a variety of articles aimed at giving consumers every advantage when choosing a web host, going beyond superficial aspects like price to some of the more in-depth [...]
Thursday, September 18, 2008Domain name registration rules “about to get a lot crazier”
Lately, we’ve been discussing the world of domain names and domain name registration a lot here at the Aplus.Net Blog — how to successfully buy and sell domains, how to structure them, even how you can make money from the domain names you own but aren’t using.
And all of this discussion has revolved around the [...]
Thursday, July 3, 2008ICANN Opens Up Domains
This is huge, huge step forward for the group that oversees the development of the internet. The board of the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers–ICANN–unanimously approved some proposals that could open up domains past the standard .com, .org, .info, etc. This could open a lot of new websites in the future that are [...]
Tuesday, July 1, 2008Hooray Flash!
Adobe is teaming up with search engine powerhouses like Google and Yahoo to enhance search engine indexing of Adobe Flash content. Read the press release here.
This is an amazing step forward for web content writers and producers! Now it’ll be easier and faster to make engaging, interactive, rich web content and still leave it accessible [...]
Tuesday, April 22, 2008Pay-per-click Advertising Continues to Evolve
Yesterday, the New York Times ran in interesting article detailing some of the changes the world of Internet advertising is undergoing thanks to the current economic slowdown.
Granted, Internet advertising is already a very dynamic force, something that evolves and adjusts on an almost daily basis. But, at the same time, as it becomes a larger [...]
Tuesday, April 15, 2008Computers as Authors? The Digital Revolution Continues
It seems that the 21st Century Digital Revolution, as it may someday be called, is getting bigger and bigger with each passing month. As is well known, financial losses faced by the movie industry and the music industry are increasing monthly as bootlegs made possible by digital versions proliferate. New digital models that could [...]
Thursday, April 10, 2008Father of the Internet Turns 50
DARPA, or the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the agency that eventually morphed into the Internet, is celebrating its 50th birthday tonight in Washington, D.C.
In Monday’s Washington Post, Stephen Barr writes that DARPA “pulled together researchers who created the blueprint for the Internet.” The organization also “sponsored the inventor of the computer mouse (the first [...]
Wednesday, April 9, 2008Report: U.S. Internet Situation Better than Expected
Contradicting earlier studies, conventional wisdom and politicians’ rhetoric, European researchers say that the Internet infrastructure of the United States is one of the world’s best and getting better.
So begins a story from today’s New York Times that offers some good news: The American Internet infrastructure is, apparently, just fine.
Not only just fine, actually, but among [...]