NewsFactor – Popular classified-ad Web site Craigslist.com faces a battle with the Cook County, Illinois, sheriff’s department. Sheriff Thomas Dart says the Web site’s “Erotic Services” section is being used for prostitution and he wants it shut down.
Archive for the ‘Shopping news’ Category
PC World – In a Windows first, Microsoft has confirmed you’ll be able to remove Internet Explorer and other previously integrated programs from the Windows 7 operating system. Internet Explorer 8 will be one of nine new options on the “Windows Features” customizable control panel. Windows Media Player and Windows Search are among the other services being added to the list.
AFP – Microsoft has announced that a control panel in its next-generation computer operating system will let users shut off Internet Explorer 8 and other built-in programs.
Reuters – Microsoft Corp is developing a feature in its new operating system that allows users to turn off Internet Explorer and other key Microsoft programs.
Mar 9th,2009
Facebook courting Twitter lovers (AFP)
AFP – Facebook is courting Twitter lovers with pages that fire instant updates to limitless audiences in a fashion echoing the essence of the hot micro-blogging service.
Mar 9th,2009
Indian election goes online (AFP)
AFP – India is turning to the Internet as general elections approach, but it is not political parties or the main candidates in the world’s biggest democracy that are embracing the likes of Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube to swell coffers and boost support.
Reuters – Software giant Microsoft Corp , Web search leader Google Inc and online auctions company eBay were among Barron’s newspaper’s top picks for the next 10 years.
PC Magazine – Nokia Oyj is betting a wider and more tailored offering of media and software for its phones will prove attractive when its Ovi online store opens in May and goes head-to-head with Apple Inc’s App Store.
PC World – As more and more Europeans start shopping online, a shrinking proportion of them purchase items or services from outside their own country, according to the “Report on cross-border e-commerce in the E.U.” published by the European Commission late last week.
Reuters – Nokia Oyj is betting a wider and more tailored offering of media and software for its phones will prove attractive when its Ovi online store opens in May and goes head-to-head with Apple Inc’s App Store.
