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Nowadays, it is extremely difficult to choose a hotel for either a business trip or vacation, because even with the internet and all its websites there is no way to figure out the services and luxuries offered at hotels  and the size and quality of the rooms cannot be anticipated by the pictures on the website. Room 77 is launching a review website [...]

Former Accel Partners’ associates, Avid Larizadeh and Kiyan Foroughi have started this new ecommerce venture called Boticca. It will serve as a marketplace for all kinds of accessories, especially jewellery. You might ask what is new about this one? Founder Kiyan Foroughi says: “The most singular thing about the site is how the site combines fashion [...]

The security company NuCaptcha is to accommodate digital advertising system in a CAPTCHA (routines for verification of identity and authenticity) that uses video and makes more difficult the use of programs that seek to pierce this protection. Typically, the CAPTCHA box displays a static image with two words written with characters whose reading is [...]

Can you imagine hairy legs becoming fashionable? I don’t think so. You will never have the courage to let the hair grow. J. Crew put a model with hippie-hairy legs on its website. It made some of the clothing enthusiasts recoil at the sight. Some even thought that it was a handiwork of a disgruntled web designer. It was difficult to believe that it [...]

Although the Internet has gained millions of users in the last year, the concern now is for those who still do not access the network and may be excluded from being online benefits such as discounts and special services. More than 38 million British adults accessing the web, of which 30 million are connected every day. But most of senior citizens, [...]

Google released a new version of YouTube for mobile devices this week. The new proposal is to offer a better user experience when accessing the site on mobile devices, providing better and faster in what is being displayed. The new version uses the standard HTML 5 to view the videos and, according to Google, offers advanced networking socials that [...]

The trend is towards realism. In Japan where you have sites and papers full of images of beautiful girls the trend is definitely shifting towards “amateur” type ordinary rather than the professional beautifully made up model. There has been a lot written about the Bijin-Tokei website and telling how the provincial lasses were being saved by cosmetics. In [...]

They are still a minority in the network, but are spending more hours connected to the web than men. According to a recent survey conducted by comScore, women now spend more time online than men, especially when access is related to communication – they spend about one third of total time online in social networks, instant messaging and sending [...]

The Flipboard innovated in an attempt to be a “social journal” in the IPAD. The purpose of the app is to show – with a very visual layout that resembles the print media – not just news but also what your contacts are saying and indicating on Twitter and Facebook. So you would have at hand, for example, a digital magazine with [...]

After start charging for its content, the online version of the British newspaper The Times has lost about two thirds of its audience in five weeks, according to figures provided by the Financial Times website. The decision by Rupert Murdoch, owner of The Times to charge for access to its online content and the Sunday Times had already been announced [...]