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Goodmail may just have figured out how to actually thwart spammers: charge money to send email. Sounds like wishful thinking? Well, Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon are actually taking the idea fairly seriously. The basic premise is...
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Web surfers are charging that some "anti-spyware" software companies are tricking users into installing still further spyware programs, merely eliminating the competing pieces of software. A large group of users has been monitoring the behavior, and the Center for Democracy...
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The BBC reports that the likely original source of the MyDoom virus - the latest worm to effect millions of computers worldwide - likely comes from the Linux open source community. The worm's target, SCO, has been initiating legal actions...
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Time Warner's AOL unit is asking the National Football League (NFL) for a refund of its halftime show sponsorship of the Super Bowl. The Internet division had planned on rebroadcasting the show on its online network but chose to cancel...
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A brand naming expert writes that the relevance of product and company names to their English meanings has enormous impact on search engine optimization placement. In a world in which only the few top search listings get seen and the...
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FindSounds is a specialized search engine for sound effects and musical instrument samples. Unlike some other multimedia search services that help people to find songs, radio broadcasts or other types of recorded content on the web, FindSounds is limited to...
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Online prescription pharmaceutical advertisers can breathe a sigh of relief now that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released its new advertising guidelines. Some had feared they would force online advertisers to show gigantic, useless disclaimer and side effect information....
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As Chinese citizens now find themselves as much a target of Chinese-directed spam as the rest of the world, they now find spam to be a majority of their in-box contents. This pressure led to a Ministry of Public Security...
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ComScore watches the surfing behavior of millions of people and on Super Bowl Sunday was proof positive of the link between the immediate impact of both advertising and PR. Cialis (an advertiser) saw an 1,868 percent increase in web traffic...
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According to a leaked memo from the Washington Post's managing editor Steve Coll, sent to internal staff (and forwarded, apparently, to the political gossip blog Wonkette), someone neglected to see a renewal notice from Network Solutions that washpost.com was set...
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Hidden within this interesting article on the eBay eTailing explosion is an interesting percentage quoted from a study. While 44 percent of customers visited a retailer site directly, 37 percent started their shopping experience at a portal or retail aggregator...
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