Eclipsed by other Eastern European countries who have already joined the EU, and with less than 10% of the population online in one way or another, you don’t hear about internet progress in Ukraine too often. But here is a little insight: there is progress indeed; baby steps or not, Ukraine is slowly churning out […]

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An article at internetnews.com, annouced that China is joining the internation battle against SPAM.
China, the article notes, is the leading nation for zombie computers - infected computers that are used to send Spam. They have joined the 29 nation (and 17 private sector groups) task force to combat Spam.

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The registration process started on Monday July 4th and the users’ response was overwhelming taking into account Greek standards.
Only at the Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission and within a period of four hours, almost 5.000 applications for registration of domain names with Greek characters and the Latin “.gr” were submitted for authorization. This number will […]

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Since the launch of the new and improved (or in more practical terms, cheaper and more accessible) .es domains, Red.es is happy to report that the number of registrations for .es domains in June was twice as much as in the previous month, reaching 3,348 registrations on June 30th and adding up to a total […]

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In a recent study by Auna, eEspaña, mentioned in an earlier post, blogging received its share of attention in a special section entitled eSociedad (eSociety).
Spain already has 68,000 blogs, but of course only half of them are actually active. It’s not difficult to get excited about writing a blog and then let that enthusiasm trail […]

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Alright, so yesterday’s news of TPI’s upcoming Noxtrum search engine adventure, took more than a few by surprise, after they signed an agreement with MSN just 10 days back to provide MSN Paginas Amarillas (MSN Yellow Pages).
But when that seemed to be the peak, today’s developments proved to put yet another, much more mind-boggling […]

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Let’s get back to MSN for a minute. Now here are some remarkable news: the use of MSN Spaces in Spain literally sky rocketed since it was launched on April 7th. That’s a million active users. Not too shabby. But to put that in perspective, for anyone who is still not impressed, Spain is in […]

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If you thought search in Spain wasn’t exciting enough, think again! TPI (Telefónica Publicidad e Información), reaching 11.89 million in benefits last quarter, is about to throw some spice into the mix, where Google, MSN and Yahoo are running the show and other, determined newcomers (Seekport) are playing to win their share. If you have […]

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Could the Spanish ‘Paginas Amarillas’ (Spanish Yellow Pages) be about to launch a new Spanish search engine?
Lucía Bartolomé contacted ‘Multilingual Search’ regarding having spotted a site at www.noxtrum.com under development. Currently only indexing is taking place.
Lucia says “The owner of the search engine is TPI (Telefónica Publicidad e Información), which is the owner of the […]

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“Osservatorio Banda Larga” provides updated information on broadband access in Italy. The web site requires registration and provides up to date studies and articles from qualified journals and newspapers.

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The Direct Marketing News ran an interesting story that the Telecommunications Authority was getting ready to enact SPAM laws.

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In an interesting move last week, MSN Spain, the leading portal in Spain and TPI (Telefónica Publicidad e Informacion), the principal business directory in Spain, have signed an agreement to integrate TPI’s yellow pages listings into a brand new channel of information, MSN Páginas Amarillas (MSN Yellow Pages). The joint venture makes available the 2 […]

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As published in an earlier post, “Spanish E-Commerce: Optimistically on the rise,” there are now 4 million Spaniards who rely on e-commerce. With 1,000,000 users in Spain, eBay announced that it has now reached 25% percent of the growing number. The number also indicates a 15.8% of the 9,000,000 Spanish online users. Pretty impressive.
Naturally, the […]

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On June 20th, Yahoo launched Yahoo! Música Radio (Yahoo Music Radio) in Spain, a service already available and successful in other European countries, but a newcomer to Spain. With more than 4 million users, Yahoo! Music is the top online music destination in Europe. It’s no surprise that Yahoo will now count on the […]

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The European section of Reporters sans frontièreshas chosen the Italian blog www.ictlex.net as one of the most active Blogs defending freedom of speech. Ictlex.net was identified as the best blog in Europe, and one of the top 60 blogs worldwide.
Source: Corriere della Sera

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Seekport Tecnologie, the new pan European Search Engine has nominated Elena Bovini Head of Index for Italian activities launched this past Tuesday.
Elena is responsible for the quality of results provided by seekport.it and is based in Milano. She will coordinate the editorial staff and oversee all search and indexing activities in Italy.

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Milano, June 23rd 2005 – Register.it leader on the Italian market of web site hosting, online visibility and part of the DADA Group has been officially authorised by EURid to accept preliminary registration of .EU TLDs as of today
Register.it is currently accepting pre registration of .EU TLDs free of charge at
http://we.register.it/domains/eu/
The offer is valid until […]

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The Australian courts may determine who has the rights to misspelled versions of trademarked domain names. Accoording this story from ZNet a local Australian businessman bought the domain but the registrar decided to take it back as in their opinion it was an obvious misspelling of Google.
The businessman is now suing for the return of […]

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Seekport, the innovative European search engine which is already active in Germany, France, UK and Spain, expands it’s reach to the Italian community and launches seekport.it

Joachim Kreibich has answered our questions in a brief interview in connection with the launch of Seekport Italy:
1. Would you like to introduce Seekport - who is Seekport ? Where […]

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Have plans for June 22nd-23rd?
Well, if you are serious about online marketing in Europe, you should be booking to Mallorca, Spain, to take advantage of the first Online Marketing Europe (OME), an International Congress and Exhibition for online marketing.

According to OME’s website, the conference “caters for many different fields including Online Marketing, Mobile Marketing. e-business […]

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