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.
A recent Hotwire Ipsos MORI survey, identifies blogs as one mos the most influential information sources, second only to newspapers.
The study reveals that 34% declare they have not purchased a product after reading comments on the internet from customers or …
Accoona has launched its search engine into the European zone - in fact western Europe. The search engine - which is on a .eu at www.accoona.eu searches by language - rather than country. Currently, the EU version runs …
TAGora is a Research Project funded by the European Union. The TAGora project aims at exploiting the unique opportunities offered by the increasing popularity of computer-mediated social interaction and social networks.
The project will develop along several lines:
A systematic and …
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) - …
The BBC reports on the opening of the doors of EurID to allcomers trying to register one of the valuable .EU domains - now on a first come first served basis. Already 300,000 have used the sunrise period to …
A fascinating cross-lingual scientific search engine called Dandelon.com - a collaborative project between the university libraries of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and AGI - information management consultants, together with GBV - has reached a landmark 100,000 books scanned and prepared …
According to the Swiss Media Research and Studies organisation (la société Recherches et études des médias publicitaires (REMP)) reported by Edicom, the number of web users in Switzerland now exceeds 4 million representing around 60% of the population. Between …
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 …
Mirago chose to launch its new advertising network in Sweden at the Search Engine Strategies conference in Stockholm where the first advertisers were formally signed up to advertise. Mirago is a UK-based pay per click search engine and has …
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. …
Trade Doubler reports a drop in online advertising sales for loans in July
According to Brand Republic the big online brands could well move into the traditional media by buying a firm called Trader Classified Media.
Trader Classified Media (not ‘trade’ as reported elsewhere) owns 575 print titles and 56 web sites in 20 …
XiTimonitor has published a study showing that Firefox is truly taking off with European audiences.
Norway and Portugal have been the fastest growers in the last with 19% and 15% respectively. Five eastern European countries score for the …
The far east still heads the league table of most broadband connected countries with South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan all in the top 6. The far east will overtake North America and Europe in the next few years …
CEO of Ask Jeeves has revealed to Reuters plans to roll out the butler throughout western Europe.
Following the IAC acquisition, Ask certainly has more capital at its disposal so it is not surprising to read speculation of a buy-out of …
The very first .eu domain has gone live on the web today - but don’t get your cheque books out yet - this is the registration organisation itself - EURid at www.eurid.eu - which is responsible for managing the new …
Whilst Denmark retains the top spot as the leading e-ready nation even beating the US, Slovakia has moved up 5 places in the rankings from a lowly 39th last year to 34th in 2005 in the latest e-readiness rankings from …
Nielsen//NetRatings global netview analysis shows signficant year-on-year increases in the number of hours per month spent online in all European countries monitored. Outside Europe, Hong Hong achieved the highest increase of 25% - whilst the US dropped.
Most impressive are the …
