YouTube heading for mobile phones, says Chen

YouTube will be running on mobile phones by next year, according to one of the company's co-founders. Steve Chen, who is YouTube's chief technology officer, was outlining his plans for the service at a 'Web 2.0' summit in Taipei, Taiwan. ...more

What polite visitors, Jeeves

Ask Jeeves, the search engine that supports "natural language" queries, has released details of the most popular questions people have been asking. Covering the period of December, for American users, "Sex" does not figure at all and "MP3" only makes one appearance. It all seems very polite and respectable. ...more

Google launches web analytics tool

A move by Google towards offering some kind of web analytics tool has been on the cards since March of this year when the search engine announced the purchase of Urchin software. Web analytical tools have become a vital component in the search engine optimisers' armoury. Whilst the analysis of server log files has been a no-brainer for any serious web site for over a decade web analytical tools are able to delve much deeper and provide information that allows an optimiser to study where the traffic from search engine comes from, what is does when it arrives on landing pages and, most importantly what it does when it gets there. ...more

Yahoo! stock stumbles

Despite meeting forecasts with its latest financial results, Yahoo! has faced the displeasure of the markets, concerned about the future performance of the Internet media giant. As far as the figures go, for the first quarter ending 31 March - net revenue totalled $193m compared to $180m for the same quarter in 2001. Pre-tax earnings were $24. ...more

Creative takes on the iPod mini with the Zen Micro.

Creative has launched the latest in its line of digital music players with the Zen Micro. At 84 x 51 x 19mm, it's a diminutive device, but with a 5GB disk it can carry 2,500 songs, according to the company. Creative says the rechargeable battery lasts 12 hours for continuous music playback and 16 hours for continuous use of the FM radio. ...more