A non-profit organisation for IT professionals has been hit with a cease-and-desist letter by lawyers for media giant CMP in a dispute over use of the term Web 2.0.
Web 2.0 is widely used to refer to the next generation of the world wide web. But IT@Cork, a networking organisation for IT professionals…
… in southwest Ireland, […]

Jangl’s new angle on phone calling
Jangl is a new phone service that, initially anyway, will allow people to anonymize their phone numbers the same way they can their email addresses when posting on places such as craigslist. When you sign up with Jangl, you get access to disposable phone numbers that you can share […]

Vista Customization Pack is a tool to turn your Windows XP (with SP2) into Windows Vista, visually. It basically changes the appearance and organisation of icons. However this tool doesn’t exactly to the real Vista theme.
Key features:
New Installer offering two different setup options
– Full Installation
– Goodies (Aero Visual Style, Styler Toolbar themes, The WB Skin, […]

US Auction Info
An auction of nationwide airwaves that could lead to cheaper in-flight broadband and telephone calls was winding down Thursday, with a small Colorado-based company as the apparent winner for the largest swath of radio spectrum.

For several weeks Microsoft has been in discussions about a possible acquisition of online auctioneer eBay, The Post has learned.
According to multiple sources close to the matter, Microsoft has considered buying eBay and merging it with its MSN portal - a deal that would give MSN and eBay considerable clout to take on Google.
Sources indicate […]

eBay and Yahoo! have announced they are forming a partnership centred on advertising, ecommerce and search.
As the internet search and commerce markets grow even more competitive, the two companies on Thursday said they have decided to help each other out.
As part of the deal, Yahoo! will become the exclusive third-party provider of all graphical ads […]

Auction Info
“A partnership or merger between eBay and Yahoo is the most strategically feasible,” according to a report by JP Morgan internet analyst Imran Khan. “A combined company would have the leading position in auctions, communications, payments, graphical advertising, audience reach, and geographic breadth.”

For those of you interested in trying out the blogging peices in Microsoft Office 2007 (and of course Office itself), here is your chance to download the latest beta and try it out for yourself. This version is time bombed for February 1st, 2007.
Microsoft Sign In

The next phase of the web could face “big privacy” issues, a senior UK academic has warned.
Hugh Glaser of the University of Southampton made the comments at the WWW2006 conference in Edinburgh.
He was describing the semantic web, an attempt to make the web more intelligent.
Privacy problems could occur, he said, because the semantic web deliberately […]

Many people spend a lot of time making websites look nice and pretty, with nice graphics, Flash intros and the like.
Does it really matter!
The most sucessful websites eBay, Google, Yahoo, Friends Reunited etc are not really ‘artwork’ or very pleasing to the eye, or are they? They do say beauty is in the eye of […]