The Democrats and Republicans have a new toy: streaming video, and they are reveling in their ability to sling mud 'round the globe via the Internet. As a result of improved technology, distributing video on the Internet is "practically free,"...
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Chances are, new search ideas will pop up first in Google Labs. The lab at Google is playing now with personalization, and the toy they have put out there for us to play with is a personalization engine based on...
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A Harvard and University of North Carolina study found almost no correlation between illegal free music downloads and reduced CD sales. The study's authors compared file transfers with sales data for the same songs and albums. They discovered that prolific...
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Investment bank Goldman Sachs predicts that - contrary to indications seen in government figures - advertising will be shown to have increased between four and five percent in the last two months of the first quarter. The Conference Board figures,...
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Overture plans to bring to cell phones the same cost-per-click text ads that have proven so popular and profitable online. Vodafone and Orange will bow the service in Europe very soon, according to the companies. It will work on WAP-enabled...
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Online sales continued to blaze a separate path, showing another week of 40 percent increases over the same week last year for the period ending March 14. Total retail sales for the country actually declined a few percent during the...
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i-Frontier's Debrianna Obara - a uniquely well-placed woman to comment on the issue - put down her thoughts on the silly regulations requiring drug ads to list side effects and other creative hoop jumping. More usefully, though, her piece makes...
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One of several holders of ludicrous Internet patents who have attempt to extort license fees from e-commerce firms seems to have called off the legal dogs. The PanIP firm, holder of a patent that seems to cover all of e-commerce...
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The company that allows Google to match incoming Internet addresses with physical locations is suing the search giant for violating the terms of its contract. The company alleges that the original agreement only covered Google's use of its database technology...
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Just when one silly Internet patent (the "invention of e-commerce") was seeming to go away, the U.S. Patent Office let another one by, granting to Postini - an email filtering firm - a patent that widely covers the concept of...
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