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As reported in the weekly sales report at http://www.dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm ScienceFairProjects.com sold for US$45,000. Now on the surface this may sound like a lot of money for such a long 3 word domain, but one should consider that this is a highly searched for term, overture indicates the term is searched for approximately 182,690 times a month, I would imagine it might also get quite a bit of type in traffic as well as overture shows 1672 results for the term sciencefairprojects.com

The Sony Playstation Portable is set for release on 24 March 2005 with a RRP of US$249.99
Full details can be found on the sony website at http://www.us.playstation.com/psp.aspx
Initial reports indicate that the demand may outstrip the supply.

According to an article at searchenginewatch, the top 3 search engines at which searches were performed are as follows
1. Google 35%
2. Yahoo 32%
3. Msn 16%
I have only recently started to use msn for searching, and have been fairly pleased with the results. It will be interesting to see whether they take away any of google and yahoo’s dominant market share.

I read about this at yahoo news, possibly a shape of things to come, but some websites are opting to advertise on your mouse cursor. An example can be found at the lakers website which shows a Mcdonalds sign as your cursor. Personally, I find that rather annoying.

The information at webhosting.info is a valuable resource. It is interesting to see the trends of web hosting companies. A list of the top 50 web hosting companies worldwide can be found here
The list data is not an entirely accuarte guide as to web hosting clientbases, as it includes a number of large companies which focus primarily on domain registration/URL forwarding as opposed to web hosting, and it also includes a number of very large private domain speculators.

As reported at dnjournal, gospelmusic.com sold for US$150,000 by greatdomains. Now while overture shows that this term ‘gospel music’ is searched for 67,882 times a month, and the domain gets type in traffic, 1929 for the term gospelmusic.com it does sound like a lot of money to spend if to use it just as a pay per click page.

Effective at the start of April, yahoo is going to increase their email storage limit from 250mb to 1,000mb
This is obviously a measure to take on the increasingly popular gmail service from google.

Under the terms of the agreement, IAC will issue 1.2668 shares of common stock for each share of Ask Jeeves common stock in a tax-free transaction valued at $1.85 billion net of cash acquired
Ask Jeeves is one of four world-class search technology providers, with approximately 42 million U.S. unique monthly users.
Full details of the transaction can be found here

Popular domain registrar godaddy.com have expanded their range of services to include dedicated servers. The details of their offerings which start from US$109 per month are here.

Siemens have created a cell phone which has a built-in projector which projects the keyboard onto a surface and then with a special pen you can type on the projected keyboard. Details of this can be found here.