Europe’s largest telecoms operators - with one American firm - are planning to launch a mobile phone search engine to rival Google and Yahoo. The companies concerned include Vodafone, France Telecom, Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, Hutchison Whampoa, Telecom Italia and US firm Cingular. Combined, they have a user base of 600 million people - with some 20% in the UK expected to have broadband speed mobile phone access by the end of 2007.
Jabse is the name of the new player in search in Bulgaria. In a market, dominated entirely by Google (over 90% if you compare it to pure search engines) this new entry looks like a very brave move…
The new edition of E-Bulgaria report (published annually by Vitosha Research) contains some interesting insights about Internet penetration in Bulgaria and how Bulgarians use the technology.
Even though the research predicts over 33% Internet penetration in January 2007, things are not …
Threadwatch and ThomasB report that Google has extended the GoogleMaps application to cover many more countries in Europe. Then have even followed route E30 all the way to Moscow!
As Thomas writes, the implications for local search are significant. With multilingual …
French registrations of .EU domains show a clear rejection of the name by the French. After 24 hours, the French have only registered one fifth the number of domains (48,000) that the British have registered (260,000) - …
A new study sheds light on irregularities of internet users distribution in Bulgaria.
Bulgarian internet advertising market made a huge step forward by increasing its revenues with 81% last year. Recent market studies show rise in online advertising spending from 3.1 million leva (approx. 1.9 million USD) to over 5.6 million leva …
The long awaited .eu domain name opened today for applications. The ’sunrise’ period will run from 7th of December to 7th April 2006 to allow those with prior claim to secure their domains before they are made available on a …
Google has recently announced on their website that they are looking to hire a regional representative for Romania and Bulgaria. The giant in search is also looking to expand in South America and the Far East…
A little battle took place today on an auction for the Bulgarian national A-class Wireless Network licence. All top players in the Bulgarian communications industry were there bidding for 2 licences which allow the building of national-wide wireless network in …
Bulgarian internet is getting bigger and mature. Many statistics prove that fact. Millions of web users are now online. Thounsand and hundreds of thousands of websites are serving their needs. Still, Bulgarian search engines are nowhere to be seen on …
Speaking at the eyefortravel Sales and Marketing in Travel Europe conference in Berlin, Jan Oetjen, Travelocity’s managing director Germany, said that the search engine revenues would be cut following the likely consolidation in the travel industry. …
Jeteye beta, is an innovative way to search and share search results. Recently launched on August 23rd, jeteye offers the user a completely new way of exploring the web and organizing search results clustered in so-called “jetpacks”.
The jetpack concept …
Proximedia of Belgium is predicting that 25% of Belgian companies are likely to switch to using a .be domain name.
European businesses abuzz over ‘.eu’ domain names - INQ7.net
The Bulgarian country Top Level Domain (TLD) ‘bg’ is registering slow growth in number of active domains in 2005. At the end of August 2005 the number of registered ‘bg’ TLDs is only 4092. The growth rate now is …
The Bulgarian internet population now reaches 1 800 000 people who account for 24% of the country’s population. The share of internet users has increased by some 50% since last year and the trend continues, fueled by ISPs who now …
