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December a.k.a. The Money Maker

Black Friday marks the beginning of the Christmas shopping season, although merchants have launched their special offers and promotions since Thanksgiving. Because of that, the online sellers expected huge sales and profits especially on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, two days that became famous as the busiest shopp...

10 December 2007
08:10 GMT

And The Most Popular Website on Black Friday Is...

Market researcher Hitwise Today released a report concerning the most popular websites on Thanksgiving Day and on Black Friday, revealing that this year's traffic was well increased since 2006. According to Hitwise, the Thanksgiving traffic grew up with 20 percent in comparison with the same period of the last y...

27 November 2007
01:38 GMT

What A Hacker Wants...for Christmas

Nowadays, a powerful security solution is more than a 'must have', since there are thousands of hackers waiting for a vulnerability in your system. Although it's well known that most attackers want to get control over your computer, many of them are now aiming to steal your financial information and ge...

24 November 2007
07:15 GMT

"Cyber Monday" to Begin the E-Shopping Season

A recent survey shows that this holiday season sales will still pick up, despite the extremely slow kick-start. Good news for the online sales department of any firm, but still not so good because it will actually be a drop in an ongoing on the rise trend."It's true that this year's growth rate will be a dr...

23 November 2007
09:55 GMT

Shanghai Chicken...I Mean, Hilton: Paris Exports Herself to China

Quick! Get some money together and pay an army of lawyers to write about a dozen laws forbidding Paris to come back to the States! Our favorite hotel heiress is abroad, and it's really the best time to act. Kidding. OK, so I don't really want Paris out of the country for too long, because then we'd all...

22 November 2007
04:54 GMT

How to Remain Secure on Cyber Monday

With Cyber Monday almost here, it's very important to equip your computer with powerful and well-developed technologies which would be able to defend you and keep your data secure during the entire holiday shopping season. Today, the Zone Alarm developers, Check Point Software Technologies, offered several piece...

22 November 2007
03:22 GMT

Most Internet Users Vulnerable To Cyber Crime

Security vendor Webroot Software Inc. conducted a new survey to find out how many Internet users prepared their computers for the upcoming online holiday shopping season and how many of them are really vulnerable to the attacks. The findings are at least surprising: 70 percent of the respondents had no concern when i...

19 November 2007
16:36 GMT

Microsoft Claims Santa Moved Online

When it comes down to holiday sales and advertising Santa has moved online. Microsoft, via the Atlas Institute, revealed that the Internet is a crucial influence over holiday sales. The Seventh Annual Holiday Online Shopping Report, put together by Microsoft Advertiser & Publisher Solutions' research and educati...

19 November 2007
10:05 GMT

LiLo The Stalker: This Time, She's After Blood. Literally

Yes, well, I was actually wondering what was going on with Lindsay Lohan these days. And the answer is, she's still reformed (or doing a very good job acting as if she were...reformed, that is), still apparently boring and still trying to act out that principle according to which every day is a blessing. The pro...

14 November 2007
04:20 GMT

£40 Billion To Be Spent Online

The upcoming Christmas shopping season is about to bring impressive revenues in the United Kingdom as the total online spending for 2007 is expected to reach £40 billion, Web User News reported today. The UK residents are expected to spend no less than £14 billion in the holiday season around Christmas, statistics is...

12 November 2007
06:59 GMT

McAfee Now Hacker Safe

Although McAfee is one of the top security companies on the market, the firm struggles to get new technologies which might bring new consumers to their products. Today, McAfee announced that it has reached an agreement to buy ScanAlert Inc. for no less than $51 million and get new solutions designed to protect users ...

31 October 2007
18:06 GMT

Ask.com to Debut UK Shopping Portal

Ask.com and PriceRunner announced they have reached an agreement to launch a UK shopping portal which is supposed to allow the local consumers to buy stuff straight from their computer. The juicy part is that the two companies plan to offer 200 different product categories which might represent one of the largest UK ...

30 October 2007
16:31 GMT

Christmas Shopping Full of Risks

A few days ago, the market researches revealed that the online shopping websites are expecting an impressive number of customers seeking for gifts and presents for friends and families. Today, another study states that many of these pages are not ready for their clients because they are full of bugs which might make ...

25 October 2007
15:06 GMT

Looking For Holiday Gifts? Buy Them Online!

We all know that the online shopping industry grew up a lot and it is going to become even more popular very soon, the analysts think. Market researcher JupiterResearch said that it expects to see a huge number of US online shoppers in the upcoming holiday season which might spend no less than $39 billion on the thin...

23 October 2007
15:06 GMT

Stay Off the Bitch List Rihanna!

Oh, man, and there was me hoping Rihanna had more brains than Paris and Britney do. I mean, don't bet me wrong, this isn't about her talent - she's got plenty of that, more than the other two put together and multiplied by about a million. But the fact is, I was sort of hoping for her to go on being a ...

5 October 2007
05:10 GMT

Yahoo Looks For Hacker, Gets Better Security

No, it's not about the general term of "hacker", it's about Hacker Safe, a company that signed a deal with Yahoo to provide better security for its shopping search engine. This is quite a smart move as most of the Internet giants are looking for powerful partners able to improve the security of its products...

16 August 2007
06:47 GMT

Innovative Software Platform from Alcatel-Lucent

New possibilities are now available for mobile phone users with the release of the Alcatel-Lucent 5965 Mobile Content Platform. The delivery of handset entertainment experiences will take place from now on considerably easier with the release of this software platform.Among the main advantages that Alcatel-Lucent has...

13 June 2007
09:37 GMT


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