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Child Web-safety Aides Launched
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New teaching resources aimed at helping primary school children surf the web safely are launched. 
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2008-05-09
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Borland Finally Sells CodeGear
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After a year and half of trying, Borland find a buyer of developer tools spinoff.
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2008-05-09
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Microsoft Needs A Search Identity
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Too much variation between the company's Live and MSN properties makes it look like the branding professionals had no input into the design. 
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2008-05-09
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Mobile Ads to Kids? FTC Opens Debate
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Panelists debate the consumer harm and technical solutions to protect kids on the third screen.
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2008-05-09
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Yahoo, Microsoft: Off again ... on again?
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Just when it seemed that their stormy relationship had ended, Yahoo and Microsoft may end up reconciling and coming to terms on a merger sooner rather than later.


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2008-05-09
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Fresh Google Analytics Seminars Added To Schedule
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Google has announced a few new Analytics seminars through which it plans to continue spreading important knowledge.  Also, although people living in Boston, Chicago, and Orlando won't be able to make a direct profit by going, there'll be a little bit of wealth-sharing, too.
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2008-05-09
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Microsoft Warns of IE7 Lock-in With XP SP3
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Users won't be able to downgrade from IE7 to IE6.
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2008-05-08
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MySQL To Remain Open Source
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MySQL created a bit of an uproar when it seemed ready to close sourcing portions of the MySQL server.  Now, in what's a nod to the power of crowds in more than one way, the decision has been reversed.
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2008-05-08
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Sun Unveils RIA Toolset, new Project for Developers
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Toolset to ship before the end of 2008.
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2008-05-08
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ValueClick Quarter Strong, Despite Weak Spending in Some Segments
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Finance, healthcare and pharma advertisers reduced spending, but telco and travel ad budgets increased.
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2008-05-08
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Yahoo Business &amp; Human Rights Program Begins
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Yahoo's been the subject of lawsuits, public criticism, and the well-known "moral pygmy" comment due to its human rights policies.  The launch of a Business & Human Rights Program represents the company's latest less-than-remarkable response to all this.
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2008-05-08
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China Likely To Censor The Web During Games
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China says it can't promise that it won't censor the Internet this summer during the Beijing Olympics.
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2008-05-08
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New Firm Combines Social and Behavioral Ad Targeting
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Media6degrees nabs senior Microsoft ad exec Joe Doran to help implement ad targeting based on users' social connections.
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2008-05-07
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Yahoo Adds Safety Alerts To Search
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Yahoo opened the beta test of SearchScan in several countries to help safeguard people against potentially dangerous links in their search results. 
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2008-05-07
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Brightkite: A Bright Future for Mobile Social Networking?
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With a slick interface, extensive privacy controls, and iPhone and Android apps on the way, Brightkite is the most promising location-based social network yet. That doesn't mean it's perfect by any means.
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2008-05-07
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Malware Outbreak Blamed on File-Swapped MP3s, MPEGs
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Security firm says fake music and movie files downloaded from Limewire and eDonkey instead runs ads on your computer.
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2008-05-07
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More People Listening To Online Radio At Work
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An increasing number of American workers are listening to online radio while at work according to Arbitron/Edison Media Research.
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2008-05-07
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MySpace, Facebook Still On Top
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If MySpace were to lose its top spot among social networks, it'd have a long way to fall. Though US visits to the powerhouse were down five percent since last year, MySpace still commanded nearly 74% of the social networking market, according to Hitwise.
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2008-05-07
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US Court Orders Online Advertiser to use 'Negative Keywords'
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A US court has ordered a company to use 'negative keywords' to avoid being associated with another firm's trade mark. The innovative order was one of a series of measures ordered by the judge.
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2008-05-06
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Women Make More Friends On Social Networks
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When it comes to social networks, a new study shows that men are more likely than women to downplay the first part of the term.  Women, according to Rapleaf, tend to have deeper relationships and a greater number of friends.
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2008-05-06
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AP Launches News Aggregator for iPhone
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iPhone users who want news on the go can download a new AP application that aggregates news from more than 100 news publishers.
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2008-05-06
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Indiana Jones Slides into MLB.com Team Schedules
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MLB.com catches baseball fans looking with a unique game calendar ad and sweepstakes for Paramount's upcoming Indiana Jones flick.
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2008-05-06
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Webby Awards Winners Announced, Colbert Named 'Person of the Year'
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Annual "Oscars of the Internet" honors Colbert, Michel Gondry, and the Black Eyed Peas' Will.I.Am in addition to a zillion tech properties from Apple to Zillow.
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2008-05-06
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Skyhook Introduces Geo-Targeted Ads for Mobile App Developers
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Capability will allow developers of mobile applications to deliver ads based on a user's location.
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2008-05-06
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Microsoft Walks Away From Yahoo
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Software giant Microsoft drops its bid to buy internet firm Yahoo after the two sides fail to agree a price.
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2008-05-05
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Amazon Sues New York Over Internet Tax
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The online retailer Amazon mounts a constitutional challenge to the controversial state law that aims to clamp down on collecting Internet sales taxes.
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2008-05-05
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CNN.com, NYTimes.com Vets Partner on Mysterious Ad Venture
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Jason Krebs, David Payne team up on a start-up, operating in secrecy, that aims to remove inefficiencies from the display ad market.
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2008-05-05
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DoubleClick's DART to Work with Mobile Ad Networks
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Integration into DoubleClick's DART makes mobile segmentation emulate the Web.
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2008-05-05
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Drilling Down: A Skeptical Eye on Auction Surcharges
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A study recently published in the Journal of Consumer Research finds that eBay bidders react in profound ways to a seller’s numerical “reputation” on the site.
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2008-05-05
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Nielsen Launches Group to Help Manage Online Reputations
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Digital strategy group, headed up by Pete Blackshaw, to help businesses engage with social media.
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2008-05-05
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New Service to Track Average CPMs by Site
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Firm will anonymously collect pricing data from agencies and clients, then use it to calculate an average CPM per site.
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2008-05-04
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Tibco Backing Microsoft Silverlight
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Tibco Software is throwing its support behind Microsoft's new Silverlight browser plug-in technology for rich Internet applications and also is offering users of Microsoft Web services technology an alternative message platform.
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2008-05-04
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There's Value In Stumbling
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Here's an interesting question put forth by webmasters: What's a link in StumbleUpon worth? Well, it's nofollowed, which means not much in terms of link juice. But there may be an indirect value. 

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2008-05-04
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EFF Blasts MSN Music Shutdown
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Customers will be left holding onto inaccessible music once Microsoft turns off the licensing servers for songs purchased through MSN Music, a situation the Electronic Frontier Foundation finds untenable.
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2008-05-02
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AOL to Open VoIP APIs
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On the heels of Open AIM, AOL is now planning to open its pay-per-minute Call Out service to developers.
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2008-05-01
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Prototyping Tool Eases Design of iPhone Apps
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Software lets programmers design an application quickly just for demonstration
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2008-05-01
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Lessons From a Web 1.0 Archeological Dig
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Think the tech set is getting carried away? Our writer found a BroadVision lint brush, a RedHerring smart card, a BackWeb first-aid kit and some dot-com boom perspective while cleaning the garage.
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2008-04-30
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MySpace Wins Suit Against 'Spam King'
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Accused in lawsuit of spamming MySpace users, Sanford Wallace fails to show up for court and loses default judgment.
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2008-04-30
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Warner Bros Takes TV To Web
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A new initiative from Warner Bros. Television seeks an audience, and advertising revenue, from online broadcasts. 
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2008-04-30
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The Hollywood Reporter Relaunches Site
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The Hollywood Reporter, which covers the movie industry, has redesigned its Web site and says it will feature more charts, more data and more of a business focus.


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2008-04-29
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Yahoo Deadline Passes, Internet Awaits Microsoft Move
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No news emerged over the weekend from the respective Yahoo and Microsoft camps regarding the deadline set by Steve Ballmer for Yahoo to begin negotiating in earnest with Microsoft. 
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2008-04-29
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Drowning in Data
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Does the flood of online video threaten the net's stability?
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2008-04-29
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Government Websites Out Of Control
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The House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts has released its report into government websites, and it is not impressed.
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2008-04-29
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MySpace Wins Lawsuit Against Spamford Wallace
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MySpace has won a lawsuit against notorious spammer Sanford (Spamford) Wallace. The social networking website gained a default judgment against Wallace after he failed to turn over documents or appear in court, CNet reports.
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2008-04-29
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Web Jukebox Sued
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Unlicensed music discovery service Project Playlist is being sued for copyright infringement.
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2008-04-29
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AOL Acquires Fantasy Football Site
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Fleaflicker will add free imaginary pigskin play to AOL's sports portal.
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2008-04-28
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24/7 Real Media and Mindset Media Join Hands to Read Minds
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Mindset Media uses clues from Web browser activity to enable psychographic targeting of online ads
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2008-04-28
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Marketers Begin to Assess HD Video Ads
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Adobe, Intel and Epson were among the first advertisers to run high definition video ads in online ad buys.
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2008-04-28
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Google Pictures Better Product Image Search
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Research presented by Google suggests they are on track to improving image search to a level of relevancy on par with their core web search service. 
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2008-04-28
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Photoshop Guru Leaves Adobe for Microsoft
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Mark Hamburg, the second engineer to work on Adobe Systems' Photoshop and a leader of the Lightroom software project, is headed to Microsoft.
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2008-04-28
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Spammers Ramp Up Siege on Google's Blogger Via Bots
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Spammers are using an automated method to create bogus pages on Google's Blogger service, again highlighting the diminishing effectiveness of a security system intended to stop mass account registrations, according to security vendor Websense.
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2008-04-27
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Yahoo Kicks Off Re-Wiring Project
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A mammoth re-engineering project at Yahoo aims to turn the site in to a vast social networking community.
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2008-04-27
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Want To See That Ad In 3D?
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French company Total Immersion is hawking software that couples 3D models with kiosk ads. They call it "augmented reality."
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2008-04-26
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Microsoft to Offer Web-Streamed Office, Combating Google Apps
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Bracing for a head-on confrontation with cheaper or free online alternative to its applications suite, Microsoft is preparing to announce a test of a revision to a key part of its license for Office 2007. The change will allow Web hosting service providers to offer Microsoft Office via application streaming. 
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2008-04-25
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Nielsen Releases March Search Stats
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Another month, another Nielsen Online data set.  Only the unexpected has happened, and this time around, Google's market share didn't rise.
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2008-04-25
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Zittrain's 'U.S. 1.0' Advice For Web 2.5
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Chatting up his newly published book, Oxford professor suggests that the Internet is at "a constitutional moment," in need of a system of power checks and balances.
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2008-04-25
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Yahoo Introduces Click Filter Report
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Yahoo's quite proud of its Click Protection System, and the company wants the rest of the world to feel the same way.  A new Click Filter Report will show every user just how many clicks are being discarded.
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2008-04-24
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Study: Majority Use Social Media to 'Vent' About Customer Care
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Study also finds 72 percent of respondents used social media to research a company's reputation for customer care before making a purchase.
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2008-04-24
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Adobe, Google Cite Offline Access to Web Apps as Trend
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Adobe, google cite offline access to web apps as trend. Previously, the web was limited to the browser, but now it is expanding, says Adobe evangelist.
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2008-04-24
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DOJ Chats With Google, Yahoo
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Google and Yahoo prefaced their two-week test of Google's AdSense for Search in Yahoo's search results by chatting with antitrust regulators at the Justice Department. 
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2008-04-24
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Hackers Jack Thousands of Sites, Including UN Domains
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Hackers using the same techniques as last month - an SQL injection of some sort, says researcher
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2008-04-24
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Investor: Consumer Web Best Bet for High Returns
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You'd do better to put $2 million in 100 Web start-ups than $200 million in one energy company, says Steve Jurvetson.
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2008-04-24
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MySpace Tests Community Tools for Advertisers
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Beta platform allows brands to create and maintain their profiles.
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2008-04-23
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New Live Search Products Launches
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New live search products launches. Essence will be the latest magazine to try to refashion itself online for a daily, rather than a monthly, audience.
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2008-04-23
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StumbleUpon, Flock Celebrate Earth Day
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Popular content discovery network StumbleUpon and social web browser maker Flock promoted an ecologically aware message with their activities on Earth Day. 
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2008-04-23
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Web 2.0 Spending Set To Take Off
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Enterprise spending on Web 2.0 technologies such as social networks, blogs, wikis, widgets and mashups will increase over the next five years, growing 43 percent each year to $4.6 billion worldwide by 2013, according to a new report by Forrester Research.
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2008-04-23
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BuzzLogic Buys App Firm to Improve Conversational Ad Targeting
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In addition to acquiring Activeweave, the firm is in the preliminary stages of building out an ad network.
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2008-04-23
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Twitter Japan Launches, With Ads
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In a bid to get users to accept ads from the get-go, Twitter Japan will feature them from day one.
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2008-04-23
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How to Turbocharge your Web Site by Dumping Your Database
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Hampered by hard-drive speeds, databases make for a significant bottleneck for Web-based applications or sites. One company has a solution that combines two approaches that each pave a way around the problem. 
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2008-04-22
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Small Business Marketing Unleashed: Site Architecture
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At the Small Business Marketing Unleashed Conference Stoney deGuyter, president of Pole Positioning Marketing talked about Web site architecture.
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2008-04-22
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Yahoo Continues Search Update
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As the index receives another round of tweaks at Yahoo, the search gurus there managed to fix an annoying Site Explorer issue. 
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2008-04-22
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Mashups a Hot Item at Web 2.0 Show
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Mashups, which unite disparate data sources in quickly developed Web applications, are a hot topic at the Web 2.0 Expo conference in San Francisco this week, with companies including Serena Software, JackBe, and Kapow Technologies offering new products geared to mashup development.
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2008-04-22
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Customer Data 'Needs Protection'
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Companies and public bodies are not doing enough to protect customers' data, says the UK's privacy watchdog.
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2008-04-22
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Dynamics CRM Online Now Available
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Microsoft will announce Tuesday that Dynamics CRM Online, the Microsoft-hosted version of Dynamics 4.0, is generally available in North America.


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2008-04-22
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Why Sex Sells, Online or Off
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Sometimes you have to be careful not to too broadly apply the results of a study. In this case, I'm not sure if I can help it. Just call me out (as you often do) in the comments if you think I've done so. Two recent studies showed a strong correlation between sex hormones and monetary risks.
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2008-04-21
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A Web Shift in the Way Advertisers Seek Clicks
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So far, the threat of a recession has not slowed the migration of ad dollars to the Internet, but the slowing economy might be changing where those dollars are being spent.
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2008-04-21
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Bugged Out
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Bill Thompson on the implications of lax programming of Flash.
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2008-04-21
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Gore's 'We' Campaign to Pack Digital Wallop
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America's first major ad blitz on climate change will be built around the Internet. Could the social media strategy backfire?
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2008-04-21
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UK Phishing Attacks Double
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UK payment association records more than 10,000 phishing incidents in the first quarter of 2008.
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2008-04-21
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Researchers Find ISPs Inject Ads Into Web Pages
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Finding is part of a broader study on how frequently Web pages are altered in transit.
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2008-04-21
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Google News Adds Quotations
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Google News now provides quotations for politicians and celebrities and lets you search on just the quotes.
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2008-04-20
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Mobile Advertising To Reach $1.3 Billion
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Global mobile advertising will surpass $1 billion for the first time in 2008, reaching $1.3 billion by the end of the year and increasing to almost $7.6 billion by 2013 according to a new report from Juniper Research.


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2008-04-20
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Paypal to Block 'Unsafe Browsers'
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Paypal says it will block "unsafe browsers" as part of wider anti-phishing efforts.
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2008-04-20
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Psystar Web Store Goes Down Again
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The Mac clone maker is currently unable to sell Open Computers with Mac OS X preinstalled after experiencing an outage for the second straight day.
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2008-04-19
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MySpace Hack Reveals Profile Visitors
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A security problem with MySpace has the potential to botch up law-enforcement efforts to track bad actors on the social-networking site.
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2008-04-18
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Search Ad Spending Wavered in Late Q1
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Google's quarterly earnings call this afternoon will offer further clues.
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2008-04-18
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Chinese Hackers Poised for Anti-CNN Attack Over the Weekend
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An announced denial-of-service attack against CNN is allegedly planned by Chinese hackers incensed over world scrutiny of the crackdown in Tibet. 
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2008-04-18
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Buddy Media Raises $6.5 Million, Launches ad Network
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The company responsible for putting Pirates vs. Ninjas all over your Facebook news feed raises funding from Softbank Capital with contributions from Ron Conway, the European Founders Fund, and others.
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2008-04-17
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Microsoft Live Search News Launches
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Everyone's got their favorite news sites; as other trends come and go, these tend to be something they stick by.  Still, Microsoft is tossing a fresh offering onto the scene in the form of Live Search News.
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2008-04-17
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Newspaper Sites Losing Users' Interest
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Visitors to newspaper sites tend to rank above average in terms of wealth, influence, and political awareness, according to the Newspaper Association of America.  There are also more of them than ever before.  Trouble is, they're not that dedicated.
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2008-04-17
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UK Cracks Down On &quot;Flogs&quot;
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Companies that create fake blogs in order to hawk products violate what most people would consider basic truthfulness.  Starting May 28th, they may also be violating UK law.


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2008-04-17
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New Ad Network Pairs IAC Ad Solutions with HealthCentral Network
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Rollout comes three months after IAC took a stake in HealthCentral.
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2008-04-17
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Pirate Bay Launches Uncensored Blogging Site
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BitTorrent tracking site The Pirate Bay launches blogging service where writers won't be censored.
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2008-04-17
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Sun Update on MySQL Integration: Peachy Keen
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At the first big MySQL developer gathering since the acquisition, Sun's brass says everything's so far going according to plan.
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2008-04-16
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Tax-free Internet Shopping Days Could Be Numbered
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Pro-tax states and the National Conference of State Legislatures are hoping to persuade Congress to let states impose new fees on Internet and mail-order sales.
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2008-04-16
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Yahoo Slurp 3.0: Crawler Revised And Rolling Out
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<link>
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Site publishers will see a new Yahoo bot crawling through their pages, and webmasters should be aware of a couple of little issues that may affect them.
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2008-04-16
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Buddy Media Raises $6.5 Million, Launches ad Network
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The company responsible for putting Pirates vs. Ninjas all over your Facebook news feed raises funding from Softbank Capital with contributions from Ron Conway, the European Founders Fund, and others.
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2008-04-16
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Six Apart Wrestles the Social-Media Dragon
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The software company behind TypePad and Movable Type launches a Facebook app that lets users update a whole lot of blogging and messaging accounts from one interface.
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2008-04-16
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Video Could Fuel Online Recruitment Ad Spending
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A new report shows revenues from online job ads will rise to more than $11 billion by 2012, and a good chunk of that could come from video offerings.
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2008-04-16
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Google Crawls The Invisible Web
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As part of an ongoing effort to index the so-called Invisible Web, Google's automated crawlers are now toying with HTML forms. But only on certain "high-quality sites."
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2008-04-15
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