e dot dot dot 12 2009

In-Page Search Option

Add a Google/Yahoo search option to your Web pages. Using radio buttons, you can search each engine individually or both at the same time.

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Amazon Tops in E-tail Customer Service

Inches ahead of Netflix to take the lead in ForeSee Results' latest ACSI study.

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Apple App Store Sees 1,000% One-Day Gain

For the first time, the iPod Touch is outdrawing the iPhone. Meanwhile, Android posts growth but still lags.

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Web Retailers Bet on Eleventh-Hour Deals

The waning hours of the holiday shopping crush caps off a season of surging sales.

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Optimized Popup

Opens a new full screen browser window optimized for the visitor's browser (Netscape, Internet Explorer, or Other). As well, the properties of new window can be customized -- such as the toolbars, scrollbars, menu bar, location bar, the status bar, and whether it is resizable or not. Great!

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Opening Page Link

To get the attention of your surfers to some particular links, you may want to include some link animations. In this animation, the link over-lines itself back and forth.

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Android Passes the 20,000 Apps Mark

Milestone for the mobile platform backed by Google but the iPhone still has quite a lead.

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Is a Big iTunes Revamp in the Works?

The purchase of a music streaming company and a billion dollar datacenter hint changes are coming.

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Must Visit From

If other sites links directly the sub-pages of your site or if previous required pages are being skipped, you can now require your visitors to come from a certain page! Those that did not come from the required page are alerted then send back to the required previous page. Clever!

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Symantec Brings Storage, Security to Amazon EC2

Security software vendor now offering endpoint security and storage foundation apps through Amazon's cloud.

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Bartz: Yahoo's Rivals Aren't Google and Microsoft

Yahoo chief says company's biggest challenge is bringing offline ad dollars onto the Web.

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Yahoo Offers Ad-Targeting Privacy Controls

As government regulators and privacy advocates circle, another Internet leader offers more clarity and control over user data collection for advertising.

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Lawmaker Turns Up Heat on Shady Web Ploys

"There are more than 4 million American consumers whose credit cards are being charged by mysterious membership clubs after shopping online, and most of these 4 million consumers don’t even know it’s happening," Sen. Rockefeller says.

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Cyber Monday Rakes in the Cash

It's an e-tailer's dream as the day's sales totals soar from last year and top even Black Friday's take.

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Kindle Outselling All Other Amazon Wares

Leading Internet retailer reports that e-reader device is most popular item on the site.

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