Archive for February 20th, 2008

Last week Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion in cash and stock. This represents a 50% premium for shareholders, and indicates Microsoft’s anxiety to beat Google. In my view, it also represents a tacit admission from Microsoft that Windows Live, MSN, etc., are all failing to win market share. As the Nielsen Online [...]

What are Sitemaps?Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually [...]

This brings us to the biggies, and Norton is probably the biggest antivirus brand that’s out there, so let’s start with that
Norton AntivirusSymantec product page

Symantec has this habit of coming up with minor variations of Norton every year: they’re more or less the same, or only rarely significantly improved (some say v2007 was a [...]