Britain’s Queen Elizabeth has joined the digital revolution, launching her own branded channel on YouTube. At 81, the queen recognizes that the Web is an increasingly influential space to connect with her global following.

With a series of posts including vintage footage of her first Christmas broadcast circa 1952 along 19 other videos, the channel takes [...]

France said “bonjour” to the iPhone on November 29th. As the AP reports, Apple and mobile carrier Orange released its first iPhone to Philleppe Amardielh in Paris. Orange hopes to sell 100,000 devices by New Years.
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While demand is high, so too are the prices. Unlocked iPhones in France will cost about $965. In Germany, Deutsche [...]

German-based startup Sharewise, a service which connects analysts, stock ratings and buyers, recently added a fantastic new Web 2.0-inspired fuction. Sharewise launched a new option which makes it possible to exchange rumors about stock or company insights in a Twitter-like manner. Since a tremendous amount of Web users (including our i5invest team) use Twitter as [...]

 
With the majority of our i5 team located in Austria, we wanted to see how the Austrian Web community measured up with the global Web community.
According to Web traffic ranking site Alexa, the most popular online destinations for Austrian internet users are:
1. Google Österreich (Austrian)
2. YouTube
3. Google
4, Yahoo!
5. Windows Live
6. Gmx.net
7. Wikipedia
8. Ebay.at
9. Myspace
10. Google [...]