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  • “Porn is better than sex” say British men

    With such a title I should be ready for some flak. But this is just what announces a Neilsen Netratings survey commissioned by the Independent on Sunday. There, you will learn that the United Kingdom is fast becoming the best market for Internet pornography thanks to a phenomenal growth touching – Yes ! – women…

  • ThePirateBay.org: Servers seized by police

    ThePirateBay.org: Servers seized by police

    The world biggest indexation site for BitTorrent contents, ThePirateBay.org, would consider itself totally immune from actions from copyright holders associations (like the American RIAA and MPAA) because of its geographical location in Sweeden. As a matter of fact, in this Scandinavian country indexing contents (showing where to find them and not providing them by yourself)…

  • Is Google the leader?

    The answer is an obvious YES after the recent Comscore Networks report. It appears that after nine consecutive months of progress, Google is now reaching 50% of all searches on the Internet. The competition is far behind.

  • Choose your WordPress visits statistics

    Choose your WordPress visits statistics

    Early on, the priority of a serious blogger becomes to confirm factually the number and the origin of the visits to her web site (usually, this is the first step to optimize the paying advertisment). In order to fulfill this goal, several management packages may be found. I tested several of them (with WordPress, even…

  • Al Qaeda may not be using video games to recruit terrorists

    While the American Congress saw earlier this month a video seemingly proving that extreme muslim militants used modified American video games to recruit kids and teenagers in the fight against the great American Satan (Reuters news), it appears that this was a kind of hoax. As a matter of fact, we just learned that the…

  • Is Canon leaving film cameras?

    Is Canon leaving film cameras?

    That is what can be infered from a Reuters UK news article. After other firms (like Nikon, most prominently) who have already left this dwindling market, Canon would be considering it. At least, there is some lack of precision since the news bit has been modified by the authors after first publication. What was very…

  • Roumazeilles.net is worth $11,616 – How much is yours?

    Or so says the LeapFish webs ite which specializes in price evaluation of web domain names. If somebody wants to buy my web site for this price, I am ready to sell. But I am still waiting for the first offer. Worth noting, my other great web site SpamAnti.net, would be valued at $31,974. Even…

  • Akismet 1.15 – More for less SPAM

    Akismet did it again. They upgraded slightly their excellent SPAM-fighting tool. It is currently protecting my web site against SPAM in the comments and trackbacks. I wouldn’t do without it. Highly recommended.

  • A new TLD for Internet: .mobi

    This is not everyday that Internet adopts a new TLD or Top Level Domain. We were quite well used to the more common .com, .net, .org, .fr and other similar national suffixes. Now, here comes .mobi targetting use by the mobile operators (mostly in telephony) a little like we had received .tv some time ago.…