Lifelike characters are beginning to appear in films and computer games as technology advances it is allowing facial expressions to be modeled in minute detail.
The London Times has a short animation example video
The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. Google blog has just posted that now in 2008 they have crawled 1 trillion (1,000,000,000,000) unique URLS with several billion pages being added each day.
The top 10 British brands have been publish by YouGov in their Brand Index Survey today
1. Google
2. Microsoft
3. Mercedes-Benz
4. BBC
5. British Airways
6. Royal Doulton
7. BMW
8. Bosch
9. Nike
10. Sony
The British Guardian has more details
The Scotsman has a summary of the IMRG internet retailing report
“The e-retail sales index shows internet shopping has comprised 17p in every £1 of retail spending this year, compared with 15p last year. And is predicted to reach 50p in every £1 by 2014
Reuters.com has an intersting article on networking between small businesses
“Raisecapital.com is another specialized social networking site. It matches entrepreneurs seeking financing with potential investors. Guru.com links freelancers with companies in need of their services.
“Many small businesses use social networks almost exclusively to market their products, finding they offer a quick and inexpensive way to get the word out to large groups of existing and potential customers
Reuters article here
Microsoft has released the specifications for the binary file formats used by pre 2007 Microsoft Office applications.
More details in Microsoft’s formats press release
From the GoDaddy press release
“SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. ( June 26, 2008 ) – The domain name RulesOfSaving.com marks a historic milestone for The Go Daddy Group, Inc. and the Internet. The new domain name brings the Go Daddy portfolio to an industry record 30 million domain names.
NeuStar today announced that two million domain names have been officially registered within the .BIZ Internet domain.
Forbes.com has the NeuStar Press release
Mozilla Labs have made available a concept video to look a improving usability for navigating websites on mobile devices. The Firefox Mobile Concept Video post from Aza Raskin looks in more detail at how a web browser could in future work more successfully within the limited real estate of mobile handsets.
