Americans prefer old fashioned Internet access A new study suggests that attitude rather than availability may be the key reason why more Americans don’t have high-speed Internet access.

Teens Buying Online but Spending Less

Will advertisers adapt to VOD? VOD would seem well-positioned to capture a rising share of ad spending, but the way consumers use it may limit its potential as an ad medium.

Search Engines can now find and index Flash files Adobe has come up with a way for the search engines to read SWF files and index all of the information they contain. That means any text or links in a Flash application can now …

Why not getting traffic from search engines? Search engines are probably the single most effective way to generate traffic to your web page. Because of this, web owners will inevitably complete with each other in order to get a higher ranking. But …

Privacy issues as more people get online By the end of 2009, more than two-thirds of the US population—or 200 million people—will be going online.”Unfortunately, this potential audience for Internet ads is largely unenthusiastic about most forms of advertising, notably banners, rich …

Hackers Hijack Critical Internet Organizations Turkish hackers Thursday defaced the official sites of the international organizations that oversee the Internet’s critical routing infrastructure and regulate domain names, researchers said Friday. A group calling itself “NetDevilz” claimed responsibility for the hack, which …

Top 10 Internet-Advertising Websites - May 2008 Hitwise measures more than 1 million unique websites on a daily basis, including sub-domains of larger websites.

Microsoft buys Mobile Software Maker Mobicomp Microsoft on Thursday announced plans to buy MobiComp, a Portuguese company that makes software for the mobile world, including mobile posting to Web sites such as Facebook. Microsoft hopes the acquisition will further its mobile ambitions, …

Google tries tighter aim for Web Ads Google, with its deep reservoir of data about online behavior gathered by tracking hundreds of millions of computers, is for the first time testing ways to use some of that data to aim ads at …

Airline tests in-flight Web access American Airlines says customers will be able to test in-flight Internet access on two flights beginning Wednesday, with broader service expected to begin in the following couple of weeks. Besides the paid service, passengers will …

BBC plans £68m network of local video news websites The BBC has unveiled plans to spend £68m by 2013 on a network of 65 websites covering the whole country that will provide local on-demand video news. The plans were unveiled today as the BBC …