Microsoft and its partner developers are gearing up for the release of the latest in their incarnation of web browser, Internet Explorer. This release, in the 15th year since IE 1, will be the 9th instalment of the much used (51% market share) browser.

Over at the Windows Server Divison Team WebLog, news that a couple of new addons for IIS have been released. Take advantage of these new technologies and the latest Windows Server operating system and see your site soar up the rankings!

Developers looking to take advantage of the new features in R2 should be delighted to hear about a new training kit made available for download by MS.

Over at MS they’re developing a whole load of web addons (as discussed in previous WebPI post). This particular little number might be useful for the wider community of developers who might not need such automated tools to configure their servers. Bing Maps beta (http://www.bing.com/maps/) MSDN: Developing a Silverlight Application Using Bing Maps Web Services [...]

With all the hype surrounding Windows Server 2008 it was easy to get dazzled by the bright lights of the big new features like its built in virtualization capabilities, the server core offering and the all new install process. In the mix with all this was IIS 7.0.

Back in May 2008 Google controversially changed its rules to allow companies to bid on rival trademarks. This afforded firms the potential opportunity to achieve top billing on rival terms. Understandably, this change generated a new campaign intensity that inevitably increased PPC prices. However, new research from the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising states average [...]

Today the Internet is awash with news, article, links and blogs about the new Government report on Britain’s digital future. When reading through the various online entries on the subject it is striking just how many different industries this report impacts on. ISPs, online retailers, media, advertising, newspapers, the list goes on. And all seem [...]

A new survey headed up by KPMG adds further weight to the argument that B2B companies are not embracing many of the webs potent communication technologies because they do not fit in with traditional company procedures. The survey, which draws its conclusions from answers provided by 472 executives worldwide actually pinpoints security and governance issues [...]

This week has seen the death of a man who reached the absolute pinnacle of his career. Probably the world’s favourite operatic tenor. The internet has allowed the public to share their feelings in a way that fans of Caruso would never have been able to when he passed away in 1921. Observing my own [...]

Yesterday I attended a seminar session in Manchester called Meet the Northern Correspondents, which added to the newspapers’ online debate. The two speakers were Helen Carter of The Guardian and James Wilson of the FT. Helen revealed that some departments have a ‘Web First’ policy meaning that their stories appear on the web and then [...]