A headline grabbing release from Earthlink claimed that a large study it conducted on about a million computers revealed the average PC contains 28 pieces of spyware. But looking at the study itself, the vast majority of these "spyware" instances...
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The U.S. Sentencing Commission is treating spammers as though they were the equivalent of thieves, frauds and vandals. The Commission is treating many Can-Spam Act offenses as felonies, with suggestions for stiff penalties, including jail time. The sentencing guidelines, unless...
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A California legislator from Berkeley introduced a bill that would force companies sending unsolicited CD-ROMs or DVDs to also include self-addressed, stamped envelopes in which recipients could send them back. Loni Hancock said she introduced the bill out of concern...
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Organic, one of the web's first creative shops, promoted Collen DeCourcy to executive creative director and hired in R/GA executive Patrick Stern as group creative director. DeCourcy will be responsible for creative across the company's four major offices, while Stern...
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Ford is hamming it up for the press, making another set of denials that it wanted its most recent viral ad to be released to the web. The latest ad of the series shows a cat getting decapitated by an...
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A study reported that Canadian e-commerce, a perennial laggard among developed nations, finally started to explode, growing about 40 percent in 2003. More than $19 billion of goods were sold online in the year. Vancouver Sun reports....
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OnApril 15, IceRocket served it's first search results. IceRocket is a search engine aggregator bringing together results from seven other search engines including Google, Yahoo and Alta Vista. In the near future, the company will offer a Google-like search toolbar,...
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A new Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) study taps Denmark as the most business friendly e-commerce zone, with Britain and other Scandinavian nations making the list before the U.S., at number six. The study emphasized business-to-government communications and integration, as well...
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Having first miscalculated the growing importance of search media to its online technology publishing and advertising clients, DoubleClick found itself without a product component to handle the complex inventory management required. Telling investors that it would design its own, it...
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DM News scored a beta version of Google's new Gmail system and was able to run it through its paces over the last week. It reports very little advertising in the email messages, and the little advertising visible was generally...
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