Web promotion - Blog subscribers seek out small universe of sites (Reuters)Reuters -

Web promotion - Blog subscribers seek out small universe of sites (Reuters)Reuters -

Blog subscribers seek out small universe of sites (Reuters)
Reuters - The Web publishing phenomenonknown as the blogsphere has millions of sites but only a smallnumber gain significant audiences, according to data releasedon Friday.

AOL Launches TotalTalk VoIP Service (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - This week, AOL (NYSE: AOL) marked the beginning of its foray into the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) market with the launch of TotalTalk.

EU presses for cross-border online music licenses (Reuters)
Reuters - A key European Union official wants tosimplify the way music is licensed to online services such asApple's iTunes, warning that Europe will fall behind unlesscross-border licenses are created.

Retailers Improve Image Online (TechWeb)
TechWeb - Retailers overall are doing a slightly better job at treating their customers online, compared to six months ago, a research group says.

Cyber Security Month Aims To Calm Consumers E-nerves (TechWeb)
TechWeb - A not-for-profit group composed of government agencies and big-name technology firms gears up for a long-term campaign to ease growing consumer fears of the Internet.

Yahoo accused of raiding workers (SiliconValley.com)
SiliconValley.com - Nuance Communications, a Menlo Park maker of speech-recognition software, has sued Yahoo for unfair competition and theft of trade secrets, accusing the Internet giant of ``raiding''all but one of Nuance's research and development engineers.

VeriSign Acquires Weblogs.com for$2.3M (AP)
AP - Internet services company VeriSign Inc. said Friday it has acquired Weblogs.com, a service that automatically alerts people when blogs and other Web sites are updated with new material.

Taiwan wants Google to apologize (SiliconValley.com)
SiliconValley.com - Google's ambitious global mapping effort may push the edges of geography, but the Internet giant is learning that new maps can't escape old politics.

Google Takes Local Search Service out of Beta (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) has brought its local search service out of beta, giving users the ability to search for specific locations within towns and find information on local attractions, restaurants and hotels.