Feedster Hosts Develoment Contest and Launches Blog Search Feedster, the RSS and blog search engine today announced the launch of its developer network and contest for best new applications and uses for its technology. iPods will be awarded to the winners for the best use of Feedster in the following categories: standalone RSS aggregator, Web [...]

Webmaster World’s World of Search Conference Features 70 Speakers The WebmasterWorld of Search Conference scheduled for November 16-18 in Las Vegas has published a final speaker roster and announced over 24 sessions with more than 70 industry-leading speakers. The line up features speakers from such companies as Google, Yahoo, Kanoodle, Ask Jeeves, Ebay, Overture, Mirago, [...]

FyberSearch Acquires RSS Feed Search Engine FyberSearch announced the acquisition of the feed archive search engine FeedPlex today in hopes of adding to its collection of useful search tools. FeedPlex is a feed search engine that provides Internet users the ability to find data in XML/RSS format on the web. “We are very happy to [...]

Spammer Convicted to Nine Years in Prison Yesterday the first two spammers ever were convicted of a felony for sending fraudulent unsolicited commercial e-mail – spam. Jeremy Jaynes and Jessica DeGroot, a brother and sister team, were convicted in a Virginia court Wednesday of sending AOL users millions of unsolicited commercial e-mail messages while evading [...]

BellSouth and SBC Partner to Buy YellowPages.com SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. announced that their directory affiliates have created an Internet yellow pages partnership that has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the online directory publisher www.yellowpages.com, Inc. The new venture will utilize the highly recognized YellowPages.com brand and expects to become the [...]

Microsoft Expands MSN Music Store Download Service Microsoft expanded its MSN Music Store to eight new countries yesterday, crossing the border into major European countries that iTunes staked its claim in during its U2 fueled EU push in October. With this expansion the MSN Music Store is now accessible in 17 countries while iTunes is [...]

Napster Offers Music Downloads to Cell Phones Napster is invading a cell phone near you with Napster To Go, their portable music subscription service which is available for users of the new AT&T Wireless based Audiovox SMT5600 Smartphone. The Napster To Go / Audiovox SMT5600 compatibility enables the only mobile phone in the U.S. market [...]

LookSmart and UpSNAP Partner for Cell Phone Directory Looksmart has partnered with UpSNAP! to offer its customers a new way to extend their reach off-line and directly to consumers via text-enabled cell phones under a pay-per-click/call model. UpSNAP! recently launched its free 411 service allowing mobile users to access White Pages and Yellow Pages listings [...]