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Million Dollar Homepage Being Blackmailed
The Million Dollar Homepage is being hammered by extortionists who want money in return for halting the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that knocked down the site last week and has since made it nearly impossible to access, reports The Register (U.K.). The site's ow [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 18th 2006
Internet Sales Tax Bills Likely to Be Combined
Two Senate bills that propose mandatory collection of internet sales tax will likely be combined into one that would provide exemptions to small retailers, writes InternetRetailer, quoting John Logan, senior state tax analyst at CCH Inc. "As we get further into 2006, some of the unsettled issues will get settled, making passage...more favorable," Logan says. Two versions of an internet sales tax bills were [...]
Posted: Monday, January 16th 2006
PodZinger Launches Audio Search, PPC Ad Biz Model
PodZinger on Wednesday officially launched its audio search service that's based on speech-recognition software that parent company BBN Technologies sells to super-secret government agencies, reports InternetNews. PodZinger crawls the web and daily adds podcasts to its index. Using speech-to-text technology it creates a text version of the audio index that's searchable by keyword. Searchers can click to listen from the PC, dow [...]
Posted: Friday, January 13th 2006
Google Seeks Mobile Click-to-Call Ad Patent
A new Google patent application hints at the search giant's plans for the mobile advertising market, with a type of ad that would result in a phone call instead of a visit to a website, reports ClickZ. A senior research scientist at Google, Shumeet Baluja, filed U.S. patent application 20060004627 for the "call-on-select" process that takes into account screen size, connection speed and input capabilities of mobile devices to determine [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 12th 2006
A Day of Rest Even for E-Commerce
One of the benefits of e-commerce may be that customers can expect 24/7 shopping and service, but some e-tailers with strictly observant religious owners or execs do not complete orders or otherwise engage in business on their Sabbath (Jewish or Christian) - apparently with no serious consequences - writes the New York Times. Adhering to the tenets of both business and religion can be tricky, though. For example, observant Je [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 10th 2006
NSA, White House Give Cookies to Visitors
First the National Security Agency, and now the While House have been caught illegally tracking U.S. citizens' and others' online movements - but the latest revelations have little to do with domestic spying under the guise of national security measures, and more to do with the web sites of the NSA and White house placing cookie, apparently inadvertently, on the hard drives of those who visit them. Red Herring [...]
Posted: Friday, December 30th 2005
Spitzer Subpoenas Warner on Song-Download Pricing
Warner Music Group received a subpoena on Dec. 20 from New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer as part of an industry-wide antitrust investigation into digital-music pricing practices, writes Bloomberg. "As part of an industrywide investigation concerning pricing of digital music downloads, we received a subpoena from Attorney General Spitzer's office as disclosed in our public filings. We are cooperating fully with t [...]
Posted: Monday, December 26th 2005
Microsoft, Google Settle Kai-Fu Lee Suit
The months-long legal scuffle between Microsoft and Google over the search giant's hiring of former Microsoft executive Kai-Fu Lee is finally a footnote in history. Red Herring writes that the two companies have settled the pending litigation, but that the terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
In July Microsoft sued Google and Lee charging that he had breached his [...]
Posted: Friday, December 23rd 2005
DMA Unhappy with Internet Tax Bills in House
The Direct Marketing Association is not happy about two bills in the House of Representatives - H.R. 2152 introduced by Sen. Michael Enzi (R-WY) and H.R. 2153, introduced by Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) - that would allow states to force online sellers to collect sales tax for state and local taxing jurisdi [...]
Posted: Thursday, December 22nd 2005
FTC Says CAN-SPAM Works Well
In its report to Congress on the effectiveness of the CAN-SPAM Act, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said the law is indispensable in the war on spam but subsequent anti-spam measures must be technological, writes ClickZ. FTC officials summarized the report's findings during a press conference, during which they also discussed enforcement initiatives undertaken together with Canada and those with some southern states. However, only 2 [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 21st 2005
Microsoft Faces Wireless Email Patent Lawsuit
Brian Bogosian, CEO of mobile email startup Visto, claiming that Microsoft is infringing on three of its patents, is suing the software company and seeking "unspecified monetary damages" as well as an injunction barring Microsoft's sale of products, writes [...]
Posted: Friday, December 16th 2005
Double Whammy: DirecTV to Pay $10.4 MM in Fines
The FTC has levied on DirecTV a fine 10 times greater than any other penalties related to the do-not-call law. The satellite TV provider was charged with not sufficiently overseeing the contractors it used to sell its services, reports AdAge (vi [...]
Posted: Friday, December 16th 2005
McCann Conquers U.S. Army Account
The U.S. Army has awarded its advertising account to Interpublic Group's McCann Erickson, deciding against incumbent Leo Burnett, reports AdAge (via MediaBuyerPlanner) [...]
Posted: Thursday, December 8th 2005
The Search for Meaning in Podcasting Babel
New search engines are trying to do for podcasting what Technorati did for blogs, writes Wired, quoting Gary Price, news editor of Search Engine Watch, as saying "the spoken word is now becoming as searchable as the printed word has always been." Two such engines, Podzinger and blinkx, search audio content by translating the entire audio into text and creating an index for searching, rather than relying on a podcast's metada [...]
Posted: Wednesday, November 30th 2005
Group Challenges ICANN-VeriSign Deal
The World of Domain Name Developers, a trade group of internet businesses, in a lawsuit filed Monday in a California federal court, challenged the proposed settlement regarding control of the .com domain, claiming the deal violates U.S. antitrust laws, reports Reuters. The agreement, reached in October, settled [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 29th 2005
NYC to Launch Interactive Advertising in Taxis
New York City has mandated that its 16,000 cabs be equipped with interactive units designed to provide city and tourist information, taxi fares, a GPS location system, credit card billing and, of course, advertising, eWeek writes (via Media [...]
Posted: Monday, November 28th 2005
Commerce Dept: Online Retail Up 27 Percent in 3Q
Online retail sales in the third quarter reached $23.32 billion - 26.7 percent more than the $17.6 billion sales in 3Q04, on an adjusted basis - the Census Bureau of the U.S. Department of Commerce reported, writes InternetRetailer. The proportion of online retail sales to total retail sales reached 2.3 percent in the third quarter, compared with 2.0 percent in last year's third quarter.
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Posted: Wednesday, November 23rd 2005