ICANN’s board of directors has voted Monday to allow virtually unlimited new domain names based on themes as varied as company brands, entertainment and political causes, in the system’s biggest shake-up since it started 26 years ago.
The BBC has launched its BBC News product for connected TV which will bring video news clips via the web to living-room TV screens.
SpotXchange, a global marketplace of video ad inventory, is further expanding into the United Kingdom and Europe with the appointment of Andrew Moore, a former AOL Advertising (UK) executive, as SpotXchange’s new Managing Director in the UK.
Twitter has launched a built-in link shortening service that automatically condenses long URLs down to 19 characters.
The number of network-connected devices will outnumber people 2 in three years time, while a million minutes of Internet video to be transmitted per second, according to a new report.
Google is reportedly on the verge of buying online advertising technology company AdMeld. for about $400m, according to media reports.
A new report from Juniper Research forecasts that global NFC mobile contactless payment transactions will reach nearly $50 billion worldwide by 2014. Following on from the Orange Mobile Payments service launch in the UK, 2011 and 2012 are expected to be banner years for NFC service rollouts.
In the build up to World IPv6 day approaching on June 8th, high profile Internet companies are speaking out about of the importance of the new addressing standard to the future of the web.
It’s a common budgeting conundrum for advertisers- where do we focus our ad spend? Farhad Divecha, director of AccuraCast, weighs up the relative merits of display versus search advertising, and what factors should inform a decision on where to spend your budget.
PepsiCo has announced an open call for digital entrepreneurs across Europe to apply to take part in ‘PepsiCo10’, a new programme that will discover and support new technology innovations.