http://www.webzine.com Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:44:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As reported in the weekly sales report at http://www.dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm ScienceFairProjects.com sold for US$45,000. Now on the surface this may sound like a lot of money for such a long 3 word domain, but one should consider that this is a highly searched for term, overture indicates the term is searched ... http://www.webzine.com/2005/03/20/sciencefairprojectscom-sells-for-us45000-2/ The Sony Playstation Portable is set for release on 24 March 2005 with a RRP of US$249.99 Full details can be found on the sony website at http://www.us.playstation.com/psp.aspx Initial reports indicate that the demand may outstrip the supply. http://www.webzine.com/2005/03/20/sony-playstation-portable/ According to an article at searchenginewatch, the top 3 search engines at which searches were performed are as follows 1. Google 35% 2. Yahoo 32% 3. Msn 16% I have only recently started to use msn for searching, and have been fairly pleased with the results. It will be interesting to see whether they ... http://www.webzine.com/2005/03/20/top-3-search-engines/ I read about this at yahoo news, possibly a shape of things to come, but some websites are opting to advertise on your mouse cursor. An example can be found at the lakers website which shows a Mcdonalds sign as your cursor. Personally, I find that rather annoying. http://www.webzine.com/2005/03/20/cursor-advertising/ The information at webhosting.info is a valuable resource. It is interesting to see the trends of web hosting companies. A list of the top 50 web hosting companies worldwide can be found here The list data is not an entirely accuarte guide as to web hosting clientbases, as it includes a ... http://www.webzine.com/2005/03/20/top-50-hosting-companies-worldwide/ As reported at dnjournal, gospelmusic.com sold for US$150,000 by greatdomains. Now while overture shows that this term 'gospel music' is searched for 67,882 times a month, and the domain gets type in traffic, 1929 for the term gospelmusic.com it does sound like a lot of money to spend if to ... http://www.webzine.com/2005/03/24/gospelmusiccom-sale-for-us150000/ Effective at the start of April, yahoo is going to increase their email storage limit from 250mb to 1,000mb This is obviously a measure to take on the increasingly popular gmail service from google. http://www.webzine.com/2005/03/25/yahoo-set-to-increase-email-storage-to-1gb/ Under the terms of the agreement, IAC will issue 1.2668 shares of common stock for each share of Ask Jeeves common stock in a tax-free transaction valued at $1.85 billion net of cash acquired Ask Jeeves is one of four world-class search technology providers, with approximately 42 million U.S. unique monthly ... http://www.webzine.com/2005/03/26/iacinteractivecorp-set-to-acquire-askjeevescom/ Popular domain registrar godaddy.com have expanded their range of services to include dedicated servers. The details of their offerings which start from US$109 per month are here. http://www.webzine.com/2005/03/27/godaddy-offering-dedicated-servers/ Siemens have created a cell phone which has a built-in projector which projects the keyboard onto a surface and then with a special pen you can type on the projected keyboard. Details of this can be found here. http://www.webzine.com/2005/03/28/cell-phone-with-built-in-projector/