Google snaps up photo geotagging website

Google has bought a Spanish community photos website that links photographs to the precise geographical location that they were taken - a process known as geotagging. Google Earth already displays images from the Panoramio - its photos have been a default layer in Google Earth since the beginning of the year - using location data entered by the site's users. The site also provides an API that enables web developers to embed its functionality into their own websites. ...more

Novell and IBM speed up Linux apps for SUSE

Novell-owned SUSE is to hand out copies of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and documentation to independent software houses building software on the SUSE distribution of Linux. For its part IBM is to open up nine IBM Innovation Centers in North America, Europe and Asia to enable products to be certified quickly for the SUSE Linux on IBM hardware and software. 'The momentum behind Linux is growing daily,' said IBM's Buell Duncan, general manager of ISV and Developer Relations. ...more

Surfing while you work

Which sites we visit at work is the focus of the latest survey on Net usage. Drawing on the Web behaviour of 8,300 individuals, the results come from an 'at work' panel set up by Jupiter MMXI, the Internet research company. The figures - for December 2001 - show search engines and news sites gaining the largest share of visitors, after portals and the sites of ISPs. ...more

PlusNet rolls out 8meg services from ?14.99 a month

PlusNet has launched a new range of up-to-8Mbps broadband services designed to appeal to the 'Internet savvy'. In an oblique reference to recent developments in the broadband market, the Sheffield-based ISP has warned Net users not to 'rush in to a "free" or cheap broadband deal'. PlusNet believes that broadband buyers look for more than just speed and price. ...more

Legal P2P radio gets cash boost

The P2P internet radio company Mercora has landed $5 million worth of venture capital funding. The company says it plans to use the money to expand its team and range of services. Using the Mercora software, anyone can be a radio station. ...more