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Redmond pledges support for NT4, at a price
Microsoft has pledged to support NT4 for another two years for those willing to pay for a custom contract, and has promised free patches for security holes in the OS that threaten 'the integrity of the Internet'
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Microsoft blog service sparks censorship dodging
You can't register a blog with MSN Spaces if it contains words Microsoft considers rude. Or can you?
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Company PCs swamped with spyware
A spyware audit has found that UK firms are hosting a nasty cocktail of spyware programs within their computers, which could put precious confidential data at risk
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Lycos anti-spam weapon melts away
Update: After days of negative publicity and criticism, the 'Make love
not spam' application is no longer available. Lycos says it's just been too popular, and promises it will be back
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Firefox ad published in Europe
After the success of The New York Times ad, Europe has seen its first publicly funded ad for an open-source project
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Pipex gift-wraps VoIP for business
And other VoIP stuff
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US health secretary resigns
We're still all going to die though
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Cable broadband regs draw high court review
Washington Roundup FCC, Bells to slug it out before the Supremes
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Need a job? Get a card - arresting ID pitch to business
Analysis Redefining voluntary again...
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UK govt takes iTunes gripe to Europe
Union trade regulators asked to probe 'one country, single store' policy
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BT confirms Italian job
Goes large with Albacom
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Argentina gripped by telecoms strike
'Exploited' workers demand more dosh
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Pierre Danon and BT: speculation abounds
Pundits having a field day on exec's exit
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Search Engine for Handwritten Documents
Slashdot readers point to new search engine technology created by the University of Massachusetts which is able to search handwritten documents.
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Former Compaq CEO Takes Top Job at Search Company
Gary reports Eckhard Pfeiffer, the former CEO at Compaq, has been named the CEO at Accoona, a new business search engine that will officially launch on Monday evening.
All together now... "Accoona Matata....it means no worries, for the rest of your da
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Lycos's Anti-Spam Screensaver Diverted to Attack Lycos
We knew this was coming.
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Google CFO Warns About Click Fraud
Google's CFO made some worrying comments yesterday on the subject of click-fraud.
"I think something has to be done about this really, really quickly, because I think, potentially, it threatens our business model," Google Chief Financial Officer George
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IBM's New WebSphere Commerce Makes Web Sites Easier To Find
According to InformationWeek, IBM is readying an upgrade to its WebSphere Commerce it says will help companies increase traffic to their Web sites.
New to WebSphere Commerce v. 6.0 is the ability to create static URL pages. This lets spider technology
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FyberSearch Celebrates 1st Birthday
FyberSearch celebrates one full year of giving users the control over their search results by looking back at the major developments that took place in the last twelve months.
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Google Opens Tokyo Research Center
According to ComputerWeekly.com, Google has opened a research and development center at its Tokyo offices this week.
The centre's role in Google's global R&D network is yet to be defined and will be shaped by the people who are hired to work there, sai
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Google Reaches Out to Spammers
MarketingVOX points to a Threadwatch posting in which Google offers amnesty to any spammers who help them fix a problem with Google results hijacking.
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Web Search, Not the Only Fruit
David Vise of the Washington Post, takes a look at the emerging industry of enterprise search. Convera is one such enterprise search company making headway.
From the FBI to the CIA to the National Security Agency, and from the Department of Homeland Se
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Creative Commons search engine in the new FireFox
Source: Pandia - The FireFox browser gets a new search engine for searching public license documents....
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Google CFO: Fraud a big threat
Source: CNNmoney - "I think something has to be done about this really, really quickly, because I think, potentially, it threatens our business model," Google Chief Financial Officer George Reyes said Wednesday....
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Beyond Bid Management: Breaking Through the Search Volume Wall
Source: ClickZ - Want to get more sales or lead volume from search and still meet profit objectives? These strategies can break though the wall, delivering more volume and higher profits....
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Google opens Tokyo research centre
Source: ComputerWeekly.com - The centre's role in Google's global R&D network is yet to be defined and will be shaped by the people who are hired to work there, said Howard Gobioff, the centre's engineering director and principal engineer. (Thanks...
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Lycos army shoots itself in foot?
Source: ZDNet UK - According to security company F-Secure on Thursday, one of the Web sites Lycos targeted in its zombie army attack -- www.mortgage.info -- redirected traffic back to www.makelovenotspam.com. This means that Lycos could have targeted its own...
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Lycos Europe's antispam tool no longer available
Source: News.com - After days of negative publicity and criticism, Lycos Europe's "Make love not spam" screensaver application is no longer available. The company says it's just been too popular and promises it will be back....
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What Can One Man Learn in Five Years?
Source: John Battelle's Searchblog - Eckhard Pfeiffer, who ran Compaq but was run out on a rail in 1999, is coming back to Chair a business search engine, Accoona....
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Congress moots intelligence overhaul bill
ANother layer of federal bureaucracy
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German Supreme Court rules in favor of 'generic domain grabbing'
First-come, first-served system 'not unethical'
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IDG: e-magazines 'not good value'
'Sometimes discouraging'
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Web users demand more protection from ISPs
Survey: Most users want their ISPs to give them better protection from malicious attacks and are even willing to pay more for it
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BT stands firm against Ofcom
Wants to tango with army
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BCS certifies Freedom of Information
New Year's Day deadline approaching...
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Phishing attacks rise ten fold in 2004
The number of phishing attacks intercepted by MessageLabs has rocketed in the last year
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DoubleClick Says Black Friday Was Good For Search Marketing
[momdy.com] Source: Search Engine Watch - DoubleClick has released figures relating to search marketing over the "Black Friday" post-Thanksgiving heavy shopping weekend that found traffic, conversions and spending was up among the search marketing campaigns it manages on behalf of clients....
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Google Registers Three Domain Names
[momdy.com] Source: Search Engine Watch - Gary Price finds that Google has registered: googleshoppinglist.com, googlereviews.com, googlewishlist.com and others....
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HighBeam names Chief Blogging Officer
[momdy.com] Source: e-content institute - Locke's blog showcases how bloggers can use the HighBeam Research Engine to search newspapers, magazines, journals, and transcripts on HighBeam Library; meta-search the entire Web on HighBeam Web; fact-check using encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauruses, and almanacs on...
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Search Engines and the SEO Business
[momdy.com] Source: ClickZ - Ask Jeeves and Lycos will now offer SEO services. Is it a conflict of interest or a natural evolution in search monetization?...
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