Overture thinks local (almost) acts global

Pay-per-click search company Overture is testing a new geo-targetting feature that will enable visitors to find products for sale closest to them. Working like a cross between Streetmap and Yellow Pages, the idea is that by entering an address, Overture will produce a map of the nearest stores to you offering a particular product. Customers can zoom in right down to street level. ...more

AOL and DoCoMo for wireless services

AOL is hoping to team up with Japanese mobile Internet company NTT DoCoMo, according to a Japanese paper. The Nihon Keizai business paper says that AOL, the world's largest ISP, wants to do a deal with NTT DoCoMo in order to get AOL content onto mobile phones. DoCoMo is a subsidiary of Japan's biggest telco Nippon and Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) and provides the incredibly popular i-mode service, Japan's equivalent of WAP. ...more

Internet World 2003: Zezame 2.0 opens for Web business

Zezame has released version 2.0 of its group collaboration software. Zezame 2. ...more

Iomega boosts REV drives to 70GB

Iomega has doubled the capacity of its REV removable hard drive backup system Available in external USB 2.0 and internal ATAPI models, the new 70GB version has been designed to increase capacity for server backup applications. It is backward read- and write-compatible with 35GB discs. ...more

Thunderbird updated and patched

Mozilla has released an update for its Thunderbird email client. Thunderbird 1.0. ...more