LONDON - Karmarama has won the £13m UK advertising account for online travel brand Lastminute.com, Travelocity and Holiday Autos following a three-way pitch.

Yahoo! Italia has teamed up with Italian mobile telephony operator 3 Italia to launch in Italy the Yahoo! Internet Key powered by 3. The device is a USB key for mobile internet access from fixed and portable PCs, offering speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps download and 1.4 Mbps upload. The device is available free [...]

With Sony Ericsson’s inaugural Windows Mobile device, the Xperia X1, set to be launched in the coming days, the handset maker has revealed that it had to convince Microsoft to embrace plans to make the Windows interface more user-friendly.

Dynamic URLs vs. Static URLs - The Best Practice for SEO is Still Clear by Randfish, Seomoz.org (Sep 23)

Pew On Networked Workers: Connected, Distracted, Ambivalent, by Greg Sterling, Search Engine Land (Sep 24)

15 Must-Have Firefox Add-Ons Preston Gralla, PCWorld (September 22, 2008)
“Want to increase your security and privacy, synchronize bookmarks among multiple PCs, dress up Firefox tabs, juice up Google, and more? Then I’ve got the add-ons you need. These 15 great downloads make the world’s best browser even better–and, like Firefox itself, they’re free.”

Canada leads globe in broadband access, not speed, by Rafael Ruffolo, Computerworld Canada (Sep 24)
Broadband reaches 80% of the population of Canada and Canadians are spending an average of 17 hours a week on the Internet, but “Canada’s current networks are barely good enough to deal with today’s online traffic, due to a lack of [...]

3 Ways to Visualize Your Search History With FireFox, by Ann Smarty, Search Engine Jounral (Sept 25)
If you are doing a lot of searching, and especially for research purposes, there will be moments when you wonder - where did I see that - dig into the browser history and spend far too much time trying [...]

Mentions a five-day series on the 2008 State of the Blogosphere at Technorati. There are a few answers to who, what, and why - but includes the rather unbelievable statement that average annual revenue for the blogger is $6,000 and those receiving over 100,000 visitors a month could be raking in $75,000. I don’t think [...]

from the three-strikes-law-strikes-out dept
Earlier this year, the EU Parliament spoke out against laws proposed by entertainment industry lobbyists, that would force ISPs to kick accused file sharers off the internet using a “three strikes” law. Now the Parliament has made its position even clearer, taking a vote and, once again, rejecting the idea of using [...]