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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]
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]
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]
Hijack High Jinks: What This Means for Web Surfers
White Papers Hijackers are forcing web users to malicious sites and downloading software in their computers. A despicable new thing out there on the net today is hijacking. It is a trend that is becoming all too common among Internet browsers.
[June 9, 2006, 0:00]
Asian web surfers top for time spent online
News These relatively new channels are opening up unprecedented opportunities for self-expression, communication and interaction, and more and more we see that the web is becoming integral to all aspects of people's personal and social lives," said...
[December 1, 2008, 9:24]
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]
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]
Software tunnels through great Firewall of China
News The news and propaganda wing behind the US government's Voice of America broadcasts has commissioned software to let Chinese Web surfers sneak around the boundaries set by their regime. In this case, the United States is eyeing the millions of...
[April 16, 2003, 15:49]
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]
Stakes multiply in search wars
News Web surfers are anything but loyal when it comes to their favourite search engines, according to new research that could give hope to Net titans Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN as they seek to wrest the search crown from Google.
[February 17, 2004, 14:35]
Netscape knocks out pop-ups
News AOL Time Warner has released a version of its Netscape browser that lets Web surfers suppress pop-up ads, a further sign of declining fortunes for a widely hated marketing format. The new pop-up-stopping Netscape 7.01 was released this week...
[December 13, 2002, 11:39]
