Clueless MPAA attack DigitalPoint

Link: Clueless MPAA attack DigitalPoint
Filed under: Legal News, Webmaster News

The MPAA has is in the process of being challenged over it's aggressive legal threats. Shawn Hogan was contacted by a lawyer for the MPAA last year, claiming that Shawn had illegally downloaded the film "Meet the Fockers" via BitTorrent. The MPAA then demanded $2500 ...

 

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Google GDrive becomes Platypus?

Link: Google GDrive becomes Platypus?
Filed under: Software News, Companies News, Google News, Search Engine News

Google's long anticipated suite of online software services for storing user data - the so-called "GDrive" - has apparently been spotted going under the name of "Platypus". A download page offering Google's online service bundle as Platypus was originally found on a HTML index ...

 

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Google AdWords - changes bite advertisers

Link: Google AdWords - changes bite advertisers
Filed under: Ecommerce News, PPC News, Marketing News, Google News, Webmaster News, Business News

Some advertisers have complained that recent changes to the Adwords advertising system are sending PPC budgets sky-high. The changes implemented by Google include an unknown "quality rating" factor, which directly affects bid prices. Where Google feels the page the ad leads to is of ...

 

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Search engines support removal of DMOZ titles

Link: Search engines support removal of DMOZ titles
Filed under: Google News, Web Development News, Webmaster News, Search Engine News, Microsoft News, Internet News

In another move to empower webmasters, a new meta-tag is being supported by some search engines. The new meta-tag tells search engines to use the actual page description and title, as opposed to a DMOZ description and title. This is because Google and MSN have ...

 

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Bye bye Windows 98

Link: Bye bye Windows 98
Filed under: Software News, Technology News, Microsoft News, Internet News

Windows 98 - a revolution in its time during te 1990's, is not being officially closed down. As of July 11th, Microsoft will no longer release upgrades and patches to the Windows 98 operating system. The change affects Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, and ...

 

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Yahoo! and MSN Messenger join

Link: Yahoo! and MSN Messenger join
Filed under: Yahoo! News, Microsoft News, Internet News

People who use Yahoo! Messenger and MSN Messenger can now contact each other directly. The breakthrough comes after both companies released software that will allow their own proprietary messenger software services to be compatible. At present the work is in trial stages, but is expected ...

 

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VoIP - not ready yet

Link: VoIP - not ready yet
Filed under: VoIP News, Software News, Yahoo! News, Google News, Internet News, Microsoft News, Business News

VoIP is good - but not good enough to replace existing landlines. That's the conclusion of Which? magazine, the publication of the Consumers Association. It tested 6 of the major VoIP suppliers - Skype, Yahoo!, Google, Babble, Sipgate, and MSN. It rated Skype as one of the easiest ...

 

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Oil hits record highs

Link: Oil hits record highs
Filed under: Finance News

Oil prices have hit record highs, after a series of events brought fresh fears to already jittery worldwide commodity markets. US light crude reached a record $75.89 a barrel, while London Brent crude hit a new high of $75.60. A combination of Israeli aggression ...

 

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Forums warned on new wave of spam

Link: Forums warned on new wave of spam
Filed under: Marketing News, Webmaster News, Security News, Internet News

Security Watch is advising that a new wave of spam users has been registering at forums over June. The forum spammers - people who join forums simply to post advertising - have been signing up to forums in large numbers over June with ...

 

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Economic growth exceeds forecasts for 2006

Link: Economic growth exceeds forecasts for 2006
Filed under: Economy News

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported that the UK saw ecnomic growth above expectations over the first three months of the year. ONS said that GDP had increased by 0.7% instead of the forecasted 0.6%, mainly due to increased activity in the ...

 

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