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Microsoft To Sell Advertising

Saturday, January 14 2006
In a bid to compete for advertising dolloars with Google and Yahoo, Mcrosoft will launch adCenter sometime in June 2006. The system will eventually offer companies a way to purchase online advertising in it's products ranging from its blooging platform to the new Office Live system that offers business software and services online.

The services which are currently being provided by Overture, have been in testing since spring of 2005. The adCenter services will be available when the contract expires with Overture in June. [More from The Economic Times]

Free Google Analytics Service

Saturday, January 7 2006
Google is now offering a free website analytics service called Google Analytics which helps marketers and webmasters determine which keywords attract the most desirable prospects, which advertising content pulls in the most responses from site visitors and which entry pages and content generate the most income.

Google claims that the features in Google Analytics is as sophisticate as those in higher end analytics programs costing many dollars. The service which provides integration with Google Adwords will also provide analytical data and reports for non-Adwords campaigns. [More from Google]

Title Searches In Tennessee

Sunday, January 1 2006
JONESBOROUGH, TN - The Internet is saving time and money and adding convenience for lawyers, real estate agents and title company representatives who perform title searches on property recorded in the Washington Co., TN County Register of Deeds Office.

Funding for the online title service comes from a $2 data processing fee implemented by the Tennessee General Assembly on July 1, 1998. The fee is collected on each property transfer recorded in all 95 counties in Tennessee. [More from Kingsport Times-News]

New Distribution Center In Nashville, Tennessee

Thursday, June 23 2005
Nashville, TN - Office Max, a leading distributor of office equipment, home computers and computer peripherals, has opened a new distribution center in the Nashville Metro Center. The center will server Office Max customers in Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi and virginia. [More from Yahoo Finance]

Habitat For Humanity Search In Tennessee

Tuesday, January 25 2005

Habitat for Humanity is a Christian housing organization located in Tennessee and other states that provides affordable housing in partnership with those who lack adequate shelter. Now they have a search engine which can queried for affiliate locations nationally. To see the Tennessee listings, click the adjacent link.

Sanity Worm Variants Target AOL and Yahoo

Monday, December 27 2004
Days after Google acted to thwart the Sanity worm, security firms warned that variants have begun to spread using both Google and other search engines.

The Santy problem originally flared up a week ago as bulletin board Web sites found their pages erased and defaced by the worm's own text. The worm spread by targeting pages that used vulnerable versions of the PHP Bulletin Board (phpBB) software, and used Google to locate those pages. [More from CNet News]

Search Engine Widens Access To Tennessee Library Materials

Wednesday, December 22 2004
KNOXVILLE -- Books in the University of Tennessee library system will be more visible to those searching the Internet, thanks to two new projects by the search engine Google. UT libraries dean Barbara Dewey said Wednesday that one project is the Google Scholar service. When a user searches for a topic, a list of books and scholarly journals relating to that topic is generated. The user can then input their zip code and see if any of those books are geographically close to them. The search results will show any related materials in the UT Libraries collections. [More from Tennessee Today]

NASA 'scramjet' made in Tennessee

Wednesday, November 17 2004
LOS ANGELES An unmanned NASA jet that set a speed record of almost seven-thousand miles per hour was built by a Tennessee company. The 12-foot-long X-43-A supersonic combustion ramjet -- or scramjet -- flew on its own power for just ten seconds yesterday after separating from a booster rocket, but it was enough to excite researchers. [More from WVLT, Knoxville, TN]

Microsoft Search Engine Preview

Wednesday, November 10 2004
Stiff competition may be on the way for Google. Microsoft will offer consumers an early look at its technology for searching the internet beginning Thursday. The software giant has offered a search engine on its MSN website for a long time, but the technology behind it has been powered by subsidiaries of Yahoo! [More from WLNS.Com]

Google Print Beta Launches

Friday, October 8 2004
Google has launched a beta version of Google Print, a search tool that enables users to search the full text of books, read excepts, and links them to sites where the books can be purchased. Google says the intent is to help users "discover books," not read them online. [More from News Factor Network]

Content Management Systems and Search Engines

Thursday, September 16 2004
When Content Management Systems were first developed, most had little regard for the requirements of search engine optimization. For some Content Management Systems this still holds true. Most CMS's, however, now have workarounds to accommodate those wanting to perform search engine optimization on their websites. The workarounds in the Content Management Systems involve two areas: writing search engine friendly URL's and creating individualized title and meta tags per page. [More from WebProNews]

AT&T Will Stop Vying for Consumers

Thursday, July 22 2004
CEO David Dorman said last month he would stop trying to attract subscribers in Ohio, Missouri, Washington, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas and New Hampshire after rules that gave AT&T discounted access to the local market came unraveled. Earlier that month, the Bush administration said it wouldn't back AT&T's effort to wage a Supreme Court battle to keep in place the regulations that let AT&T rent competitors' networks at rates set by regulators. [More from Bloomberg]

Tennessee Loses Millions To E-Commerce

Tuesday, July 20 2004
Tennessee lost between $436.3 million and $454.7 million in Internet sales taxes in 2003, an amount that University of Tennessee (UT) researchers estimate could grow up to close to $1 billion by 2008.

In a report released Thursday, Dr. William Fox, director for the UT Center for Business and Economic Research, and research assistant professor Dr. Donald Bruce found that by 2008 Tennessee could lose between $612.5 million and $957.9 million in state and local revenue losses from e-commerce. [More from Nashville City Paper]

MSN Acquires Lookout

Monday, July 19 2004
"Lookout has developed an innovative technology for searching e-mail that is aligned with our own MSN Search efforts," said Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of MSN. "Our vision is to take search beyond today's basic Internet search services to deliver direct answers to people's questions, and help them find information from a broad range of sources." [More from Netimperative]

University of Tennesee eLearning Institute

Tuesday, June 29 2004
The University of Tennessee Internet eLearning Institute (IEI) is a non-traditional course of study offered by a very traditional University to enable persons who desire work in Information Technology fields to achieve their goals. On line certification tracks are offered for the Internet Professional, Web Database Developer, E-Commerce Analyst, Web Development and Administration, Help Desk Specialist or Network Systems Specialist. The courses can also be taken individually. [More from University of Tennessee Internet eLearning Institure]

Microsoft Deal Worth $64M for Tennessee Residents

Saturday, June 12 2004
Tennessee residents who purchased Microsoft products from 1994 to 2002 will share an estimated $64 million worth of vouchers if a Microsoft antitrust settlement is approved by a Nashville, TN judge Monday. ... Tennessee is among about 20 states that filed anti-trust lawsuits claiming the software giant overcharged indirect purchasers of its operating systems and software applications, said Ted Carey, one of the attorneys for the Tennessee plaintiffs. [More from Nashville City Paper]

Cellular South Expands Network

Friday, June 4 2004
The CDMA 1X network has increased by twenty percent and provides seamless coverage from Memphis, Tennessee, through Mississippi, Coastal Alabama and the Florida Panhandle to Walton County. With its network now 100 percent CDMA 1X, capacity for voice and data traffic is in place to support the company's groundbreaking flat-rate Unlimited Calling Plan, unlimited text messaging service and plans for rollout of enhanced wireless data services. [More from Wireless IQ]

Yahoo! Search from Microsoft Outlook Inbox

Tuesday, May 25 2004
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- Plaxo Inc., creator of the fastest growing contact management software and update network, today announced that Yahoo! Search will be featured in the upcoming new version of Plaxo Contacts™ software -- Plaxo 2.0, due out this month. Plaxo Contacts seamlessly integrates with the world's most widely used email applications, Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, making Yahoo! Search the first in its category to integrate with these email products. [More from Market Wire]

Tennessee Sales Tax Refund For Internet Service

Thursday, May 20 2004
The notice explained that Internet access is no longer considered a taxable "telecommunications service" under Tennessee law, following a state appellate court ruling in a case brought by Prodigy Services Corporation Inc. against the Department of Revenue. The Tennessee Supreme Court denied the department's petition for appeal. [More from Nashville Business Journal]

Bellsouth Offers Centrex IP In Memphis Area

Tuesday, May 18 2004
BellSouth serves the Memphis, Tennessee region, where the company employs about 914 people. In conjunction with San Antonio, Texas-based SBC Communications, the company also owns Cingular Wireless, which employs about 222 people in Memphis, TN. Customers will be able to use Centrex IP to access enhanced call management functions through a secure login, and have real-time control of calling features. [More from Memphis Business Journal]