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Microsoft’s Cashback Offers Over Live Search–Effective?
Microsoft has announced their new innovation over the online advertising competition–a cashback program at the Advance08 Conference in Redmond, Washington. The idea is Microsoft will pay a portion of a purchase price (from 2 percent to more than 30 percent) to individuals who use its Live Search engine to find products online and buy them […]
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Spielberg’s Rising is on the Rise?
It’s been a rumor that Hollywood’s superproducer Steven Spielberg is going to launch his own social network. Recently, it’s known that this social network is specializing in special interest of paranormal/ghost activities and UFOs and will be called ‘Rising’ or ‘The Rising’. He’s been planning that this Rising–other than being a social network–will be […]
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DISH Says News Corp Hired Hacker for Corporate Espionage
by Tom Corelis - DailyTech
News Corp claims hackers only assisted in internal network security.
The world’s “second best hacker” says he was hired under the table by media conglomerate News Corp, which owns the Wall Street Journal, MySpace, Fox News, and DirecTV.
Christopher Tarnovsky, testifying in Echostar v. NDS, says he was paid $20,000 — mailed inside […]
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Yahoo lukewarm on Microsoft bid
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Internet search engine Yahoo says it is “not opposed” to Microsoft’s takeover bid, but wants a better price.
The letter from Yahoo’s board was a swift response to a deadline issued at the weekend by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for Yahoo to agree to the deal.
Microsoft warned if […]
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Cybercrime Treaty Gains Momentum
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by Jeremy Kirk
The number of countries that will have ratified the only international treaty addressing cybercrime is expected to nearly double this year, a sign that momentum is building behind efforts to police the Internet.
The Council of Europe’s Convention on Cybercrime, which sets guidelines for laws and procedures for dealing with Internet […]
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