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What’s that site running?
Netcraft is an Internet services company based in Bath, England which is funded through retained profit and derives its revenue in the following ways:
Providing network security services, including fraud detection, application testing, code reviews, and automated penetration testing.
Providing research data and analysis on many aspects of the Internet. Netcraft has explored the Internet since 1995 [...]
World Cup Extension For Firefox
Google has developed an extension for Firefox that integrates with the social network Joga and allows you to view the latest scores from the World Cup, videos of the best goals, and talk with other fans about your favorite teams.
You can view the score of the latest match in the status bar. The extension will [...]
Web firm tastes success on spam
A small Welsh computer company has won the right to include the word “spam” in a trademark, despite objections from a multi-national food corporation. NetBop Technologies developed a filter it called “bopspam” aimed at combating unwanted e-mails, known as spam.
But US-based Hormel Foods, which makes the meat product of the same name, initially objected [...]
BBC website shows World Cup games
All of the BBC’s 2006 World Cup matches will also be broadcast exclusively live on the BBC Sport website. The service will be available to UK broadband users and will mirror terrestrial and interactive coverage.
In addition there will be four-minute highlight packages from every single game of the tournament on demand. [Link: BBC [...]
WWW inventor Tim Berners-Lee starts a blog
Sir Timothy "Tim" John Berners-Lee, the man who created the World Wide Web, now keeps a diary on the intermablogomosphere. Snip:
In 1989 one of the main objectives of the WWW was to be a space for sharing information. It seemed evident that it should be [...]
A guide to British pub etiquette
"By all means visit Stonehenge and Buckingham Palace, but if you want to see what real life in Britain is all about, you have to go to the pub. Pub-going is by far the most popular native pastime. The 61,000 pubs in Britain have over 25 million loyal customers. Over three-quarters of the adult population [...]
