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Email Marketing ROI Alive And Kicking
MarketingVox points to a story from eMarketer which cites data about email marketing and the return on investment associated with it. eMarketer said 63% of the respondants to their survey use email marketing to retain customers and increase loyalty.
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Date: 2005-04-29
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Will Paris' Podcast Have Character?
I've heard this already described as a 'character blog': Podcasting is hot. But it just got hotter. Paris Hilton invites you to join her on "The Paris Hilton Podcast -- Countdown to House of Wax," beginning on April 29.
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Date: 2005-04-29
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Xbox360 AND HDTV: Dude… I Gotta Have It!
Madden 2006 on the Xbox360 AND Samsung's new HDTV is gonna look so cool. Samsung and Microsoft are tag-teaming on this one and the benefits for the geek set will be unbelievable.It's going to be a hip offering and MTV will broadcast the event. New games will be available with a better graphics, sound, etc. But now Samsung will help them out just a little with its new HDTV .
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Date: 2005-04-29
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Nokia Finnishes IPod
Finnish phone phenomenon Nokia announced the N91 and promises to give IPod a run for their downloads with the mobile phone with a 4 gig hard disk which will hold up to 3000 songs. IPod may have their work cut out for them..
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Date: 2005-04-29
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Xbox AND HDTV: This is Gonna Rock!
Everyone knows Microsoft will kick out its new X-Box in May 13, which is just a few days away. It's going to be a hip offering and MTV will broadcast the event. New games will be available with a better graphics, sound, etc. But now Samsung will help them out just a little with its new HDTV offerings.
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Date: 2005-04-28
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But Is It Search?
Yahoo, unsurprisingly, is taking steps towards being a banner ad-serving company via its network of content publisher partners. Google recently announced their own progress in this area, which included allowing animated banners, and a new CPM-based pricing system.
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Date: 2005-04-28
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Podcasting: A New Fix For Info Junkies
While it's admittedly taken some time for podcasts to work their way into my daily info hunt, I'm finding that I'm now habitually plugging in whenever I have a moment. In fact, it feels like a borderline addiction at times.
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Date: 2005-04-28
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Atomic Energy On the Table at UCLA
Remember the backpacks in the Ghostbusters movies? They had nuclear accelerators on their backs. UCLA scientist Seth Putterman may not be far off from with their new experiments being published in today's issue of the science journal, Nature.
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Date: 2005-04-28
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Empire Rules the World in Star Wars Poll
Revenge of the Sith hits theatres in just a couple of weeks and fans are wound up. The magazine Empire polled 40,000 followers in the U.K. of the George Lucas epic to find out which of the Star Wars movies ranks number one.
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Date: 2005-04-28
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Search All Of Google With Xtra-Google
How would you like the ability to search all of Google from a single static page? Does the idea of using Google to do a keyword search while it's associated with a popular term and/or site appeal to you...
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Date: 2005-04-28
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Big Woods Finds Big Woodpecker
Reports of the death of the ivory-billed woodpecker were premature. The rare woodpecker, listed as "presumed extinct" on the Audubon Society website has been spotted in the Big Woods region of eastern Arkansas.
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Date: 2005-04-28
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Gmail Clips Test RSS Advertising
With RSS continuing to be adopted as a form of content distribution and as subscriptions to RSS feed increase, advertising with RSS feeds has been moved to the front burner.
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Date: 2005-04-28
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Watch How You Google
So-called typosquatting leaves a dangerous option for PC users who spell the popular search engines name incorrectly a certain way.
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Date: 2005-04-28
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Alternative Energy That Doesn’t Stink
Energy is in a crisis right now. Oil prices have been shooting off the charts for months now. Oil went over $58 a barrel earlier this month. It's starting to drop but gasoline is still more then $2.20 a gallon at the pump.
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Date: 2005-04-28
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PR Agencies Become Blog Amplifiers
Apparently David Sifry, founder and CEO of Technorati, said yesterday that corporate employees should not only be able to blog but that they should be autonomous and not subject to PR agency screening.
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Date: 2005-04-28
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RSS Feed Hijack!
A very peculiar thing with the RSS feeds for some of the blogs that I read has happened since yesterday.
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Date: 2005-04-27
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RSS Keeps On Trucking
DM News, the online news site for direct marketers, reports that RSS lets companies with smaller advertising and marketing budgets ...
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Date: 2005-04-27
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Stop Defining Blogs
I'm a big fan of Doc Searls. Not just the Cluetrain Manifesto, but his blog, his input on the late, lamented Gillmor Gang, his keynotes, his other writing.
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Date: 2005-04-27
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Gates Grabs 64-Bit By the Longhorn
This week Microsoft began the push of its new operating system due out next year. The new version of Windows, called Longhorn is loaded with innovation, the most spectacular being the integration of 64 bit technology.
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Date: 2005-04-27
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Press Releases: Getting Media Coverage
Press releases are a powerful tool for any online or offline business. Your blog, website, or any online business promotional efforts, can be multiplied many times over by being the topic of a news story.
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Date: 2005-04-27
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NASA and Rice Running Cable
NASA announced a new project today working with nanotechnology research leader Rice University. This $11 million project could change the future of cable lines all over the world and certainly in the space program. The project for this ultra light cable will last about 4 years and will involve serious, heavy duty research.
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Date: 2005-04-27
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Cosmonaut Wants Booze in Space
Want a wet bar in space? A Russian cosmonaut does. Salizhan Sharipov just got back from the International Space Station and thinks a little liquor would help them do their jobs better.
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Date: 2005-04-27
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Microsoft Advances 64-Bit With Advancement Program
Microsoft announced a program to help move along its current 64-bit offerings in the form of a trade in program of sorts. Current owners of licensed 32-bit version of Microsoft Windows XP Professional and Microsoft Windows Professional Reduced Media Edition will be able to pick up the Windows XP Professional 64-bit Edition.
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Date: 2005-04-27
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Page Six May Go Blog
Richard Johnson, editor of the Page Six in the New York Post, was asked by IWantMedia if/when the gossip column might become a blog.
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Date: 2005-04-27
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Firefox Battle Giant Internet Explorer
Mozilla's browser, Firefox made gains against the Microsoft's Internet Explorer(IE) to a total global share of 8.69%. IE still owns the street with over 86% but Firefox has made substantial in recent months. The percentage increase of .24% does indicate a decline in growth experts say.
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Date: 2005-04-27
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Trend Micro Fixes Glitch
Computer security company, Trend Micro announced a glitch in their new Official Pattern Release (OPR) 2.594.00 available as a download over the weekend of April 22nd.
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Date: 2005-04-26
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The Hobson and Holtz Report - Podcast #27
Content summary: Listeners' comments (on character blogs, recording with an ipod, our mention in the New Scientists article on Skype, FeedDemon, our review of Yahoo 360 and employer monitoring of employee e-mail and online activity); Les Blogs update; Business Week's cover story, "Blogs Will Change Your Business," communication strategic planning, executive voice in a CEO blog...
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Date: 2005-04-26
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Laptops To Cost $100
Advanced Micro Design's focus on x86 architecture could mean cellphone-like commoditization of laptops, according to AMD's president.
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Date: 2005-04-26
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The Craft of Blogging
I used to believe that brand-centric companies were not adopting public blogging. Corporate brands are paying attention to blogging as they draw greater attention and criticism.
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Date: 2005-04-26
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PR Face2Face: Al Golin, Chairman, GolinHarris
PR Face2Face is a special series of interviews with the top public relations and publicity professionals in the country, as well as with people involved in the public relations world. The eigth installment is Al Golin, Chairman of GolinHarris.
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Date: 2005-04-26
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Google Has A Suggestion For You
There's another Google search page that looks just like Google.com, but it can offer you search term suggestions based on what you are keying into the search box.
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Date: 2005-04-26
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Huffington Shoots into the Blogosphere!
Political columnist and commentator Arianna Huffington plans to launch a new blog in May that includes hundreds of leaders and celebrities commenting regularly on the world today. The AP story said the former California gubernatorial candidate would include current news as well as the blog editorials from various people.
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Date: 2005-04-26
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Multiply Gives Social Search A Shot
Social networks like Friendster and Orkut are often viewed with excitement when they are first launched. However, with the proliferation of social network-based services (Yahoo and MSN have each started one), the luster seems to wear off shortly after the public becomes aware of them.
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Date: 2005-04-26
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High Speed Travel
I'm on the Thalys high-speed train back to Amsterdam following an extremely worthwhile three days in Paris. I was at Les Blogs, about which I blogged a bit yesterday and about which I'll start writing a more complete personal view while I'm on the train which I'll post tomorrow.
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Date: 2005-04-26
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New All-in-Ones for Lexmark
Lexmark threw out two new inkjet all-in-one printers into the ballgame today. The #2 printer company announced the new P4350 and the X3350 as well as a new line of photo papers.
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Date: 2005-04-26
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Gates Goes 64-BIT At WinHEC
Bill Gates promises a lot of cool stuff at this year's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Seattle. He shows what Microsoft will be doing and where they are going in the coming years.
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Date: 2005-04-25
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Les Blogs And Social Software
Sitting in the French Senate for Les Blogs. Given the fact that there are 300 bloggers here, I probably will not do my conference blogging schtick. The past couple of days have been a wonderful getaway and chance to see friends. Loic has been a wonderful host.
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Date: 2005-04-25
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Stairway to Voyeur Heaven
I'm on about 10K dialup up right now, having had no broadband for the last 24 hours. I had planned to write up a great Google article for today, but my internet situation, plus spending Saturday relearning my CSS "skills" so I could make a few changes to the site, and continually refreshing the page as I watched my son's new CD...
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Date: 2005-04-25
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Blogs' Impact on Analyst Relations
The Yahoo! account team over at public relations firm Fleishman Hillard brings us a great example of the impact blogs can have on analyst relations. And since I am no longer at an agency, I have no problems submitting it up for your review.
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Date: 2005-04-25
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Hubba Hubba Hubble: It’s Your Birthday
The Hubble Space Telescope celebrates its 15th year of service to the world this week as exhibits all over the country are unveiled to celebrate this device's contributions to man's understanding of the universe.
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Date: 2005-04-25
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Google Adopts CPM for Content
In the coming weeks, Google will be rolling out a significant change to the content targeting side of its AdWords program. These changes do not affect "search" ads on Google and other search network partners.
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Date: 2005-04-25
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Les Blogs Afternoon
This afternoon at Les Blogs has had many of the characteristics you see in almost any kind of conference. You know, it's after lunch, after the time you've spent meeting new people, seeing people you already know, chatting, etc.
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Date: 2005-04-25
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High On DVD Hybrid
Electronics manufacturers Toshiba and Sony continue to negotiate for a new hybrid DVD format as more companies weigh in on the matter.
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Date: 2005-04-22
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Blogs Fit The French Culture
When a Swede, or Scandinavian in general, feel unfairly treated by authorities, companies, life -- many of us say: "This they wouldn't have accepted in France.
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Date: 2005-04-22
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Catholic Insider Podcasting Rig
A special invited guest at yesterday's Blognomics conference in Amsterdam was Father Rodrick Vonhogen of the Catholic Insider podcast, the one that's been top of the downloads hit parade on Podcast Alley for some weeks.
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Date: 2005-04-22
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PR Gets Some Good Press
In a turnaround from its recent stories on public relations, the New York Times takes a look at how Wendy's has been handling its crisis.
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Date: 2005-04-22
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View Google Maps on TiVo!
Google Maps is one of the coolest of Google applications , and anyone using TiVo knows that it is one of the most essential products for your home entertainment.
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Date: 2005-04-22
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PR Gets Some Good Press
In a turnaround from its recent stories on public relations, the New York Times takes a look at how Wendy's has been handling its crisis.
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Date: 2005-04-22
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3-D Goes Glassless
In the wake of the successful 3-D on Imax release of The Polar Express, development of more realistic 3-D imaging techniques continues.
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Date: 2005-04-22
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Pay Up, Intel
1965 issue of Electronics magazine containing Dr. Gordon Moore's article where "Moore's Law" is first mentioned is found in the home of a Surrey engineer.
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Date: 2005-04-22
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It's A Dead Man's Party
Two of them, actually, and though neither piano player will be returning for the performance, their music lives on in high-resolution MIDI.
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Date: 2005-04-22
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Apollo 13 Engineers Get Recognition
Whether you were around for the original Apollo 13 mission, or have only seen the thrilling Tom Hanks movie of the same name, you remember the engineers' role in saving the astronauts.
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Date: 2005-04-21
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Sony Announces Hot New HD Camcorder
Sony announced today a sharp new camcorder in its Qualia line of cameras that can record and playback high definition video. This toy is loaded with features and promises real excitement in the video recording field.
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Date: 2005-04-21
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Sony and Toshiba Begin Peace Talks on New DVD Format
Sony and Toshiba both express interest in coming up with a new universal standard for the next generation of DVDs. The two companies continue to develop high definition DVD systems but hope to work out this new standard which would be better for all involved.
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Date: 2005-04-21
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HIPAA Compliance Comes Due
Physicians, hospitals, insurers, and others in contact with personal health-care data must be in compliance with new security requirements. Today.
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Date: 2005-04-21
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NASA Slows Discovery’s Launch
NASA announced they would run a week late on getting the space shuttle back off the ground. The new date has been moved up a week to May 22nd in order to run further tests and check things out more thoroughly instead of flying out on the original date of May 15th.
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Date: 2005-04-21
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Entrepreneurship Alive and Well in the US
The entrepreneurial spirit alive and well in the U.S., according to findings from a new nationwide study, revealing that 47% of U.S. adults have taken initial steps toward starting their own business or supplementing their income.
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Date: 2005-04-21
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Google PageRank FAQs
Google PageRank (one word) is Google's measure of the relative importance of a web page on the internet. The numbers rank from 0 to 10.
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Date: 2005-04-21
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GM Blog Stays On Track
Yesterday, General Motors announced its financial results for the first quarter this year, reporting a net loss of $839 million compared to a net profit of $1.2 billion for the same period last year.
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Date: 2005-04-20
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Microsoft Granted 911 Patent
"Hi, it looks like you are bleeding profusely. Can I help." The possibility of your office suite's software assistant coming to your rescue may be a reality soon.
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Date: 2005-04-20
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Symantec Beta Will Blast Spyware
Symantec announced this week of the Norton Internet Security 2005 AntiSpyware Edition. This new product is the next logical step in Symantec's overall computer security service. The beta version is currently available as a free download from Symantec's website https://www-secure.symantec.com/public_beta/.
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Date: 2005-04-20
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P2P Provides Point of Entry for Spammers
You're jamming to the song you just downloaded. You're looking over some files you needed to complete so work. You put up some video of relatives for you mom to get. If you're using peer-to-peer technology, chances are you're getting jammed yourself.
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Date: 2005-04-20
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AOL Takes Action Against Phishing
America Online announced a major new initiative to combat "phishing" -- the practice of using fraudulent e-mail and fake web sites to solicit sensitive personal information from users.
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Date: 2005-04-20
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Playboy Plays With PSP
Playboy plunged further into the wireless world today with the announcement of PlayboyStation Portable hot on the heels of their successful IBod line for IPods.
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Date: 2005-04-20
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Can Google Reach $250?
John Battelle reports that Safa Rashtchy, a seniot research analysts, just initiated coverage on Google with an Outperform rating and a target price of $250.
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Date: 2005-04-20
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Dual Core POWER
The U.S. chip manufacturer released prices for the new AMD Opteron Dual Core processors. The entry-level Opteron 865 will run for $1,514 and is about the same price for their top single core processor.
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Date: 2005-04-20
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Kick-starting a Broadcasting Revolution
New Scientist: Twice a week, Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson co-host an internet radio talk show. No big deal. What is a big deal is that Holtz lives in California while Hobson lives in the Netherlands. And neither has access to a radio studio. Yet with a couple of PCs, a broadband connection and a fashionable piece of free software, they can bridge the Atlantic and broadcast to the world.
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Date: 2005-04-20
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WS-Security Standard Is Ready to Roll.
Fourteen organizations joined together for the first time to demonstrate interoperability of the WS-Security OASIS Standard at the Gartner Application Integration and Web Services Summit in Los Angeles today.
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Date: 2005-04-20
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Is Tagvertising Toast?
Kevin Ryan says tagvertising is bunk... "But to my mind tagvertising has about as much chance of providing value to the searching public or advertisers as I do of becoming the next Pope".
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Date: 2005-04-19
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Snap Adds Suggest
John Battelle reports that Bill Gross' excellent Snap.com search engine now has a suggest feature, where as you type, it suggests possible searches.
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Date: 2005-04-19
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Interchange Powers ivantage Local-Search and Directory Network
Interchange Corporation, a leading provider of local and national paid-search services in the United States and Europe, announced today that the company is providing its local-search and advertising platform to power a comprehensive network of over 2,000 city-based search and directory sites for online city guide provider, ivantage.
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Date: 2005-04-19
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Yahoo Completes the Overture
Yahoo Inc. completed the process begun in 2003 with the purchase of Overture Services Inc. by bringing them into the brand and calling them Yahoo Search Marketing for the U.S. market. Yahoo will extend the renaming to everywhere except Japan and Korea and the Overture name will stand there.
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Date: 2005-04-19
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Comparing Search Engine Results - My Experiment
A couple months back I was covering the launch of a new shopping search engine. As part of my event coverage I was allowed to be part of the beta group, prior to the launch only a handful of people [mostly employees and family members of employees] were able to take part in the Become beta test.
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Date: 2005-04-19
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New! Use Google Text Messaging to get Directions
A couple weeks ago, I published Googling from your Mobile Phone-no Web Browser Needed!, which turned out to be one of the most popular articles yet. It showed how Google SMS (Short Message Service, otherwise known as text messaging) enables you to send Google queries as text messages over your mobile phone and in a return text message get precise answers to your questions.
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Date: 2005-04-19
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Is the reign of Intel over?
Everyone knows the jingle, the happy little tones of Intel. We all giggled when we spied the little "Intel Inside" sticker on the outside of that first Pentium CPU-it was like a whisper through our cochlea that said, "this is gonna be so much better than that 486, hallelujah, praise be to God."
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Date: 2005-04-19
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Brian Williams, Katie Couric to Blog?
NBC may launch blogs for its top news anchors and celebrity interviewers as it seeks to maintain the appeal of U.S. network news among active online users, President Jeff Zucker said today.
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Date: 2005-04-19
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Yahoo Profits Soar
Reuters reports that Yahoo's quarterly results were much better than expected. "It looks like search revenue was particularly strong for Yahoo ...
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Date: 2005-04-19
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Blogs in the Communications Mix
Recently, I wrote that it was all about content, and that no matter how great the content is, unless it is being pushed out in a way for people to read, it's not going to matter.
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Date: 2005-04-19
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Citizen TV, Democratizing the Tube
While participatory media is still arguably in its early stages, it's hard to argue that enabling technologies like blogs and podcasts haven't already delivered a swift back handed slap to the print and broadcast radio gatekeepers.
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Date: 2005-04-18
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Avoiding Blog Burnout
Duncan has posted on the topic of How to avoid blog burnout in one easy lesson where he suggest taking a break is a good way to sustain your blogging over a longer period of time.
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Date: 2005-04-18
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Don't Believe the Skype?
Although I haven't yet tried Skype, I believe in it. There's something about "the world's big, free Internet telephony company" that sort of makes you sit up and take notice.
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Date: 2005-04-18
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Apple Introduces Final Cut Studio
Yesterday, at an event in Las Vegas, Apple revealed Final Cut Studio, a software package that's being called "The Production Box Set". The package contains four specific pieces of software; each designed to function as a whole, giving amateur moviemakers everything they need to produce quality movies and DVDs.
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Date: 2005-04-18
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Blueprint Ethics Code For The Profession
One thing I've frequently commented about in this blog is ethics in the communication profession. Or, rather, about the lack of an authoritative and cohesive voice that speaks on ethics on behalf of the profession.
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Date: 2005-04-18
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Skype Soars with New Services
Skype International SA created excitement with the announcement two new services and two more coming based on voice over internet protocol technology or VOIP.
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Date: 2005-04-18
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Will Blogs Replace Press Releases?
Scott Baradell cites an Economist article in which Bruce Lowry of Novell foresees blogs "completely replacing press releases within 10 years." The argument goes like this: The Net has promoted transparency.
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Date: 2005-04-18
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Aggregators Abound
This morning, perusing my RSS feeds, I found an item I wanted to blog about. The source was an site out of India called Webnewswire. (The item prompted my post on whether blogs might someday replace press releases.)
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Date: 2005-04-18
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The Blog VS. Journalism Debate Continues
San Jose State University journalism professor Richard Craig jumps into the blogs-vs.-journalism debate with a well-reasoned op-ed piece appearing in today's San Jose Mercury News. Craig wins points by noting the whole debate is specious, but goes on to explain why.
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Date: 2005-04-18
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Cisco Takes Routers Up a Notch
Cisco Systems introduced the Cisco XR 12000 Series routers, which represents the combination of the Cisco Internetworking Operating System (IOS) XR software with the proven market-leading capabilities of the Cisco 12000 Series routers.
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Date: 2005-04-18
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Hospitals Adopt RSS
The New York Presbyterian Medical Center, which saved my life back in 1982, is embracing RSS in an innovative way.
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Date: 2005-04-18
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HP Completes Acquisition of Snapfish
HP today announced the completion of its acquisition of Snapfish, a leading online photo service. Effective today, Snapfish has joined HP's Consumer Imaging and Printing business led by Larry Lesley, senior vice president.
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Date: 2005-04-15
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Skype Announces SkypeIn and Skype Voicemail Beta
Skype, the Global Internet Telephony Company, today announced the public beta launch of SkypeIn and Skype Voicemail, two new premium services available in the latest download versions of Skype software for Linux, MAC OS X, Pocket PC and Windows platforms.
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Date: 2005-04-15
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Shouldn't Metadata Be Everywhere?
Today, debates about metadata protocols seem to move glacially. But the need for much more labeling of business objects (like products) is getting more pressing as the search metaphor leaks into everyday life ...
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Date: 2005-04-14
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Firefox Experiences 237 Percent Growth
Ever since GetFirefox.com has met the minimum requirements to be monitored by Nielsen//NetRatings, which occurred in June of last year, the browser's site experienced a 237% spike of unique visitors.
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Date: 2005-04-14
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Jobs Touts Tiger, Smacks Windows
With the April 29th release of the highly anticipated Mac OS X 10.4, nicknamed Tiger, approaching rather quickly, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is in understandably high spirits.
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Date: 2005-04-14
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Apple To Ship Tiger On April 29
Apple's new version of their OS X operating system, called Tiger, is preparing to hit the market, and it appears it will do so running at full speed. Boasting over 200 new features, including one of the more robust desktop search applications, Tiger seems to be in a position to become one of, if not the, best operating system available to computer users.
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Date: 2005-04-13
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Microsoft Issues A Number Of Security Updates
A day after the SP2 block expired, Microsoft released a number of updates addressing security issues affecting Windows, Office, Messenger, and Exchange. Of the eight updates (five for Windows), five are considered to be critical.
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Date: 2005-04-13
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Intel Will Pay $10000 For Moore’s Law
Intel co-founder Gordon Moore once wrote an article for Electronics Magazine, delivering his ideas concerning the future of transistors in relation to computer processing technology. This article went on to be known as Moore's Law.
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Date: 2005-04-13
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Upcoming DVD Formats Discuss Co-existence
Because of space required to record high-definition broadcasts and movies presented in H-D format, the need for higher capacity DVD discs becomes more and more imperative. However, because there are two formats vying for industry acceptance, deciding which one becomes standard has been a heated occurrence.
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Date: 2005-04-13
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Working at Google = Fun!
Jen Fitzpatrick (Director, Engineering at Google) points out a video they've put together highlighting all the benefits of working at Google.
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Date: 2005-04-13
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Yahoo Announces Free Business Web Sites
Yahoo!, a leading global Internet company, today announced a new feature on Yahoo! Local that provides free Web sites for small businesses. This free and easy-to-use feature builds upon Yahoo!'s leadership position as the number one online destination for local information and small business services.
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Date: 2005-04-13
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Next Xbox Coming To MTV
With the help of LOTR's Master Frodo or Elijah Wood, MTV will be the first to provide a sneak peak at Microsoft's perhaps most anticipated product ever, the next generation Xbox. So far, the console's title has not been announced, but there are rumors that indicate the next Xbox will be called the Xbox 360.
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Date: 2005-04-12
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Mac OS X Tiger Set For April 29 Launch
Apple is preparing to go to another level with its upcoming OS. Offering what is being called "The World's Most Advanced Operating System," today Apple announced the highly anticipated next version of its Mac OS X, which now resides at 10.4, called Tiger will be available to consumers on Friday, April 29th.
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Date: 2005-04-12
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XP Service Pack 2 Block Expires Today
Today, April 12, 2005 sees the ability of the optional XP blocking tool, which prevents Microsoft's XP Service Pack 2 from being downloaded, expire. This means if you had selected the option to delay the download and installation of SP2, you can no longer do so.
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Date: 2005-04-12
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HP Announces Two New iPod Additions
Today, Hewlett-Packard announced two additions to Apple's iPod family, giving users the ability to take their music with them, as well as their photo library. HP, who introduced the color screen to the iPod line-up, made the photo feature possible.
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Date: 2005-04-12
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Will The New Xbox Cost $299?
With the MTV/Xbox announcement looming, many have begun to look ahead to the next Xbox launch, which should occur in time for the 2005 holiday season. Not only are people speculating about the launch date, but the price point for the upcoming console has been discussed too.
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Date: 2005-04-12
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Ask Jeeves Exec Joins InfoSearch Board of Directors
Leading online media firm InfoSearch Media announced today that Claudio Pinkus, 48, has joined the Company's Board of Directors. Mr. Pinkus brings 25 years of strategic technology management experience to InfoSearch Media, with specific expertise in the search engine market.
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Date: 2005-04-11
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Microsoft Files 8 Lawsuits Targeting Counterfeiting
Microsoft's legal department announced the filing of 8 lawsuits in 7 different states against PC developers and resellers for the alleged distribution of counterfeit, illicit and unlicensed Microsoft software and the components accompanying them.
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Date: 2005-04-11
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Microsoft To Unveil Xbox 2 (360?) On MTV
Today, Microsoft has announced a partnership with MTV to premiere the upcoming Xbox 2 (360?) on the MTV channels in the United States, Asia Pacific and Europe. The system will be showcased in these areas during a 24-hour period.
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Date: 2005-04-11
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Intel, AMD Fight For Dual-Core Debut
Last week, it was reported AMD would be releasing their dual-core processing technology featured in enterprise-level machines later this month (April 21). Chief competitor Intel has not taken this news lying down.
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Date: 2005-04-11
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Google's fresh link filter discussion on SEO Radio
Google's alleged fresh link filter is on the minds of many website owners and search engine optimization professionals. If indeed, Google is filtering new links into web pages, and not providing full link popularity transfer, then SEO is a whole new ballgame.
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Date: 2005-04-11
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Links: Your questions answered
What are links?
Links are the pathways created by website owners that lead from one website to another. The internet was built on this series of interconnections between sites. Links are seen on virtually every page on the internet, ready to be clicked by the mouse, and send the internet surfer to another page either on the same site, or to a different website entirely.
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Date: 2005-04-11
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EFF Issues Guide To Safe Blogging
I've been a fan of the Electronic Frontier Foundation since it started. I've paid dues, gone to fundraisers, attended rallies. The EFF's defense of people who can't afford to defend themselves for online activities that attract the ire of organizations that oppose would stifle the use of the Net for expression has earned my respect.
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Date: 2005-04-11
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The Wrong Question
Ana Marie Cox, author of the Wonkette blog and keynote speaker at the upcoming IABC international conference, dismissed the question "Who is a journalist?" when it was posed to her at a panel discussion telecast on C-Span.
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Date: 2005-04-11
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Has the RSS Wagon Stalled?
Thanks to Nick Bradbury, I was in San Diego today giving a hands-on tutorial in blogging and news feeds to a group of foundation execs at the Council on Foundations' annual conference.
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Date: 2005-04-10
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9 Years For Spam
A judge in Loudoun County Virginia sentenced spammer Jeremy Jaynes to nine years in prison in the first spam-related felony prosecution in the U.S.
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Date: 2005-04-09
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TurboScout: a New Meta Search Engine
A 21 year-old undergraduate from Singapore launched TurboScout.com, a new search tool that helps Internet users to access and compare original results from over 90 search engines across 7 categories on a single web page, removing the hassle of retyping keywords into different search engines.
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Date: 2005-04-08
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PR Face2Face: David Kistle, 2004-2005 IABC Chairman
PR Face2Face is a special series of interviews with the top public relations and publicity professionals in the country, as well as with people involved in the public relations world. The first part of the fifth installment is David Kistle, the current chairman of IABC.
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Date: 2005-04-08
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Microsoft Teams Up With Police Forces To Target Child Pornography
Microsoft has agreed to join forces with police forces in an effort to put a stop, or at least a huge dent in online child pornograhpy. The agreement calls for a two-year collaboration, with Microsoft developing a computer system that will allow global police agencies to share information in order to track online child predators.
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Date: 2005-04-08
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PR Face2Face: Warren Bickford, 2005-2006 IABC Chairman
PR Face2Face is a special series of interviews with the top public relations and publicity professionals in the country, as well as with people involved in the public relations world. The second part of the fifth installment is Warren Bickford, the incoming chairman of IABC.
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Date: 2005-04-08
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Judge To Spammer: You've Got Nine Years
A Loudoun County Circuit Judge sentenced Jeremy Jaynes, who was convicted of sending unsolicited emails, to nine years in prison in the nation's first felony prosecution resulting from a spam-related case.
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Date: 2005-04-08
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Get Used To Fake Blogs
Every time some ad agency launches a fake blog, outcries ring from the "legitimate" blogging community. "Here Comes Another Fake Blog" is the headline on Steve Rubel's Micropersuasion today, referring to a blog from the company GourmetStation, written by fictitious character T. Alexander.
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Date: 2005-04-07
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AOL Introduces VOIP Service
America Online has decided to throw their hat into the voice-over IP industry by introducing an AOL-branded VOIP feature called AOL Internet Phone Service.
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Date: 2005-04-07
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Google to SEM Firms: You Don't Own Your Clients, We Do!
Disturbing news circulating the SEW forums about Google's attitude to search engine marketing firms. We've known this for a long time and it is common knowledge among most SEMs, yet few people realize that Google and Yahoo are constantly trying to "absorb" clients brought to them by an SEM firm.
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Date: 2005-04-07
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Mozilla Preparing Firefox 1.0.3 Update
In light of the discovery of new security vulnerabilities in the Firefox browser, the Mozilla developmental team is hard at work on an update to the blossoming and very popular web browser.
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Date: 2005-04-07
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Over 500,000 Sony PSPs Sold In First Two Days
An announcement from Sony Computer Entertainment America provides impressive details about the Sony PSPs first few days in the North American market. According to their announcement, the portable device sold over half a million in its first two days of being available.
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Date: 2005-04-07
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Real Organization Transparency
Companies everywhere talk a lot about how important their employees are and the contribution they make to overall success. But most companies don't do this with the public openness and transparency demonstrated by CMS Cameron McKenna, an international law firm headquartered in London.
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Date: 2005-04-07
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Yahoo Updates Toolbar For Firefox, Mac, Linux
Yahoo! has made one of its more popular toolbar features, Yahoo! Anti-Spy (Windows), available through its Toolbar for the Firefox browser. Additionally, the Yahoo! Toolbar for Firefox is now available for Mac and Linux operating systems.
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Date: 2005-04-06
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Service Pack 2 Will Be Downloaded On April 12
Starting next Tuesday, April 12, machines running Windows XP without Service Pack 2 installed will no longer be able to block delivery of the much-discussed update. Machines without it installed will have the potentially 200-plus MB SP2 downloaded to their computers, no questions asked.
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Date: 2005-04-06
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Gravity Storm Announces Release Of Service Pack Manager 7.0
Gravity Storm Software, a leading provider of Windows patch management solutions, announced the release of the latest version of Service Pack Manager (SPM) v7.0 which now includes functionality to manage the Windows firewalls on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 network machines.
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Date: 2005-04-05
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Google Video Wants Your Vlog
At a cable television conference in San Francisco, California, Google co-founder Larry Page outlined his company's vision for their video search service, Google Video.
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Date: 2005-04-05
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Velocity Micro Partners With Intel
Velocity Micro, makers of high-end PCs, has agreed to a partnership with Intel to develop Velocity Micro PCs using Intel's Dual Core processing technology. The systems will feature Intel's Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 840 processor in Velocity Micro's new DCX line of computers.
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Date: 2005-04-05
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It's All Happening In France
In February, I wrote about what some French newspapers are doing with blogs - Le Monde with its reader blogs and Libération with its journalists' blogs.
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Date: 2005-04-05
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Click Fraud to be Tested in Court
We knew it would come, and now it has. A consortium of advertisers have filed a class action suit in Arkansas, against a total of eleven Search engines including Yahoo! and Google over alleged click fraud...
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Date: 2005-04-05
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Adobe's Next Illustrator
Adobe announced Adobe Illustrator CS2 software, a significant new release of the industry standard for creating graphically-rich vector content for print, motion graphics, the Web and mobile devices.
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Date: 2005-04-04
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Time To Discuss Blogs With Ad Agencies
Robert Scoble argues over at The Red Couch that you never should let your ad agency write your blog. I agreee - their expertise has nothing to do with blogs. In fact, advertising is in many ways something opposite to blogs.
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Date: 2005-04-04
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Preparations For Global PR Blog Week 2.0 Have Started
Global PR Blog Week 2.0 is an online conference on how new media technologies are changing the practice of public relations and corporate communications. We're talking weblogs and participatory journalism, wikis, podcasting, and RSS - but the list of topics is open.
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Date: 2005-04-04
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Email Catchup and Blackberries
One of the things that's a real chore when you get back from a trip is catching up with email. I got back late last night from a 3-day trip to the UK and encountered 248 emails when I turned on my PC this morning.
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Date: 2005-04-01
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Introducing Google Gulp
Just when you thought Google had settled on their business model and secured their place in the search engine industry, they go introduce a new item. This newest product, called Google Gulp may wind up leaking Google's domination into the sports drink industry.
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Date: 2005-04-01
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Blogs and Trust
Lee Hopkins raised an old question in a new context in yesterday's installment of For Immediate Release.
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Date: 2005-04-01
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Mozilla Awards Bug Bounty Hunters
The Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting choice and innovation on the Internet, today demonstrated its commitment to preserving a safe and secure Internet experience by awarding "bug bounties" a cash prize for users who identify previously unknown security bugs in the open source software.
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Date: 2005-04-01
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