Contribute to your Web site

Web software specialist Macromedia has announced a new application that is designed to make it easy for anyone to edit and update a Web site. Contribute works with any HTMl Web site, allowing users to browse to the Web page they want to edit, make the changes and then publish them to the live site. Alternatively updates can be updated offline or emailed for checking, before being published on the live site. ...more

Google moves to protect user privacy

Google, with mountains of data on its users' search habits, is taking steps to boost consumer privacy protections in coming months, the company said late on Wednesday. The world's leading provider of Web search said it is taking steps to anonymize, or obscure details, after 18 to 24 months on the surfing habits of tens of millions of Web users that could potentially be used to identify individuals. The Mountain View, California-based company collects information on Web searches, such as the keyword queries, Internet addresses and 'cookies' used by Web sites and advertisers, to track Web surfing habits. ...more

And also today (26-September-2001)...

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. Intel Xeon 2Ghz Dubbed by Intel as the world's fastest processor for dual processor, high-performance workstations, the 2GHz Intel Xeon processor is based on the NetBurst micro-architecture. It has recorded performance increases of more than 10 percent over existing Xeons. ...more

Ask Jeeves gets new look

The popular Ask Jeeves search engine has joined the trend for a Google-like look and feel with a new streamlined look and new services. The new service claims to be 50 per cent faster and has followed the trend among search engines to offer a separate pictures, products and news libraries and a dedicated browser tool bar. Joining other search services such as Google, FAST and Yahoo, visitors can now specify whether to search for pictures and news directly from the homepage. ...more

BT Wireless gets its first chairman

BT has appointed the first chairman of its to-be-demerged BT Wireless division. David Varney will become Chairman-designate before the end of June and will join Peter Erskine, the CEO of BT Wireless. Both men will have to work on the details of the demerger of BT Wireless from BT Group. ...more