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Ebusiness news archive from April 2005
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Worth a gander as a possible alternative means of site content generation is the new My Web search tool launched by Yahoo!
29 April 2005


Net access still growing

More people than ever before are going online in the UK, making the web an increasingly important channel to market not only for retailers but virtually all types of business.
29 April 2005


Connected Communities to complete coverage

The ambitious £5.2 million fixed wireless broadband project in the Western Isles, Connected Communities, has turned out to be the final piece of the jigsaw in achieving 100 per cent broadband coverage in Scotland.
27 April 2005


UK Google Local now here

Here at last! Google Local UK has been launched, providing businesses throughout the country the opportunity to be tracked down online.
22 April 2005


New domains announced

ICANN, the organisation that oversees top level domains, has announced the launch later this year of two new domain name extensions - .jobs and .travel
14 April 2005


Moby Google Local

A test version of Google Local for mobile phones is now being put through its paces.
14 April 2005


Power line broadband pushed by Europe

The European Commission has urged greater testing and deployment of power line broadband to bring high speed connectivity to more homes and small businesses.
14 April 2005


Broadband driving online shopping

Broadband is helping to drive the continuing growth of the UK’s online shopping revolution says new research from the Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG).
08 April 2005


States top spam league

Internet security firm, Sophos has revealed the ‘Dirty Dozen’ countries which top the world league in spam production.
08 April 2005


Seekport’s seekbot

A new award-winning UK-centric search engine is offering website owners a free tool to check their site’s search engine-friendliness.
04 April 2005


Luring the defectors

Funky broadband provider, Madasafish are currently offering four month’s worth of broadband for free to customers migrating to them from another broadband ISP.
01 April 2005