ORKUT: the new danger
December 15, 2006
Orkut, the online portal, owned by Google finds itself at the centre of debate. A nineteen-year-old student has been accused of making a fake account of a girl. Can we prevent the misuse of this technology by not posting our numbers and pictures?
ABHISHEK NEVER IMAGINED that the prank he played on his classmate would land [...]
IBM rewrites the memory game
December 15, 2006
Rewriting storage rules
Imagine a memory chip that is 500 times faster than the current flash cards. Imagine a chip that uses less than one-half the power to write data into a cell.
As the demand for portable storage for music, video and photo has increased, so has the pace of innovation. This new innovation shows that [...]
Click Fraud Conceptions and Misconceptions
December 15, 2006
John Marshall of ClickTracks says that there are two fundamental types of click fraud and that most harbor misconceptions about each. At Chicago’s Search Engine Strategies, WebProNews took a moment out to discuss this and other issues with Marshall.
Type one happens on search results page. In this scenario a childish competitor clicks your ads, ad [...]
Secrets of Search Engine optimization success
December 15, 2006
Online retail is not a venture for the faint of heart, to be sure. Finding success in the realm of eCommerce requires patience, diligence, and a willingness to be flexible and constantly experiment with new methods and techniques to improve rankings and conversion rates.
Alan Dick and Brian Mark are successful e-tailers who know a thing [...]
Looking Beyond Search Engine Optimisation
December 4, 2006
SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is one of the most highly talked about topics between Webmasters and marketers. It is probably also the single topic that more webmasters obsess over than any other (in terms of their website anyway!). However, while SEO can be an excellent resource for targeted traffic, all [...]



