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Web Surfers Brace For Pop-up Downloads
News Web surfers who thought online advertisements were becoming increasing obtrusive may be dismayed about a new tactic: pop-up downloads. In recent weeks, some software makers have enlisted Web site operators to entice their visitors to download...
[April 8, 2002, 12:28]
Australian Web Surfers Are The Stickiest
News Asia Pacific countries are showing the most dynamic Internet usage patterns in the world, with Australians emerging as the "stickiest" of all surfers, according to new research. Surfers in that country logged an average 2,164 page views over the...
[May 4, 2001, 7:55]
Web Surfers Accidentally Hit Porn Sites
News Web surfers on the lookout for information about NASA's Pathfinder mission to Mars were in for a shock if they mistakenly pointed their browsers to "www.nasa.com. A tiny New York company with a sense of humour registered that particular domain name...
[July 16, 1997, 13:44]
Web Surfers Cut Off From Net In Asia
News Internet users in Asia were unable to access the Web on Friday due to cable failure, a telecommunications company spokesperson confirmed. As a result, Web sites hosted in countries such as the US and Japan could not be accessed, Sim told CNET Asia.
[July 5, 2002, 15:34]
New Music Stores Serenade Web Surfers
Talkback Who cares? I'm not going to pay 99 cents for a song that I can record off of the radio using my stereo, or record on VHS via MTV or VH1. Todays music, with but very few exceptions, isn't worth a plug nickle.
[October 17, 2003, 10:23]
New Music Stores Serenade Web Surfers
Talkback The new music stores are all well and good, but what about people like me who were searching for obscure songs, many of which have nerver been released on CD? As a fan of doo-wop, I was able to locate virtually anything ever recorded, including...
[October 17, 2003, 17:06]
Web Ad Firm To Profile Surfers
Talkback Avenue.A, so that is another ID for the nasty company that has been plantiing its dodgy tracker cookies & downloads. My anti spy software has been reporting it ever since the 'drive by downloads' of premium rate diallers increased considerably.
[April 27, 2004, 18:33]
Are Web Surfers Fleeing Portal Sites?
News But the question remains: is the month's decline a blip -- or the start of a significant trend of Web visitors abandoning portal sites? In addition, the Web audience has become more educated about the contents of the Internet.
[May 21, 1999, 8:17]
Google Ushers Web Surfers Into Its Labs
News Google is expanding its research and development on several fronts, including courting software developers by offering limited licenses to experiment with Web APIs (application programming interfaces) that allow programs to tap directly into its...
[May 22, 2002, 9:15]
Firefox Aims For 10 Percent Of Web Surfers
News We don't have 10 percent of the Web at the moment, but we have the momentum," claimed Decrem. Benchmark tests show we're about the same speed, but home users who have been accessing the Internet for five years may have 15 or 20 pieces of spyware...
[October 25, 2004, 14:10]
New Music Stores Serenade Web Surfers
News Even BuyMusic, which currently sells music as a download from its Web site, says it's building a jukebox-style piece of music software to house its song store in the future. A Web store is great. An announcement is expected as soon as Monday.
[September 29, 2003, 14:55]
Gnutella Swapping Cookies, Too
News Web surfers trading free music and other digital goods over one of the Web's most popular file-swapping networks are sharing much more: sensitive data files that could expose them to identity theft. Web sites place cookies as a way to identify...
[February 9, 2001, 8:42]
Mainstream Web Sites Spreading Back-door Infections
News Security researchers warned Web surfers on Thursday to be on their guard after uncovering evidence that widespread Web server compromises have turned corporate home pages into points of digital infection.
[June 25, 2004, 8:40]
Web Attack Disarmed At Source
News Web surfers are no longer playing Russian roulette each time they visit a Web site, security researchers say, now that a far-reaching Internet attack has been disarmed. Compromised Web sites are still attempting to infect Web surfers' PCs by...
[June 28, 2004, 9:00]
What Would You Want To See In Microsoft's IE?
News While Microsoft is attempting to make standalone browsers a thing of the past, Web developers and surfers alike are trying to push the company to bring Internet Explorer up to the present. But if Microsoft could be persuaded to update IE, what...
[September 30, 2004, 15:00]
Search Engines Losing Popularity
News Internet surfers are increasingly favoring direct navigation and bookmarks over search engines and Web links, according to a study released Wednesday. WebSideStory, a San Diego, California-based company that measures Internet audiences, said that...
[February 14, 2002, 9:13]
Narrative Lets Net Users Buy Direct From Ad Banners
News The company unveiled technology today that will let Web surfers buy items directly from banner ads without leaving their current site. Narrative's updated Enliven client and server technology will allow surfers to select a size and submit credit...
[February 4, 1998, 9:29]
Publishers Pull Pop-ups
News After years of witnessing the mainstream Internet become a veritable jack-in-the-box of commercials, Web surfers are being promised some relief by a handful of sites, that are hoping to reverse mounting ill will stirred by the ads.
[August 2, 2002, 12:20]
Marketing Companies Take Tips From Hackers
News Web surfers are in a tug-of-war for control of their home page settings, fighting off increasingly aggressive tactics by Net businesses and online marketers aimed at commandeering first rights to consumers' browsers.
[February 26, 2001, 8:05]
US Authorities To Put Pinch On Site Hijackers
News The US' Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is set to announce a sweeping crackdown on the hijacking of legitimate Web pages to redirect Web surfers to porn sites. The practice affects "millions of legitimate Web pages and innocent Web surfers...
[September 16, 1999, 9:39]
