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Well, all that cute Web 2.0 terminology – you know how you guys do, combining two words to make one or leaving vowels out and stuff – is now the sole property of bloggers and developers, because marketers, if you'll forgive the Kentucky boy in me, done went corporate boardroom on it.

Users of Facebook will have their profiles indexed by the likes of Google and Yahoo unless they opt to keep their listings from appearing in search engines.

When it comes to looking for a new place to live more people are turning to online resources to find what they are looking for. In August, 2006 51 percent of all Internet users had taken a virtual tour of real estate property according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

As part of the company's shift to an audience-supported model, AOL will offer all Internet users 5GB of free online storage through the Xdrive service it purchased in August 2005.

AdWords clients will be able to view information on invalid clicks as detected by Google through an advanced option in an AdWords account; it is Google's first significant effort to make this information more transparent to its AdWords customers.

One well-known name and one relative newcomer have designs on the enterprise resource-planning world, and will use open source technology to take on the entrenched powers in the industry.

General counsel Brad Smith announced in Brussels that Microsoft was going all in and calling the EU over their Statement of Objections issued in December 2005.

Long dominated by three companies, the mobile phone market will see a big change later this year.