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Oil edges above $134 on weaker dollar - Oil prices rebounded on a weakening dollar Wednesday as investors braced for a ...
Security hole exposes utilities to Internet attack 5 hrs ago - Attackers could gain control of water treatment plants, natural gas pipelines and other critical utilities because of a vulnerability in the software that runs some of those facilities, security researchers reported Wednesday.
The San Francisco Examiner |
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How Google Handles Duplicate Content Scrapers
A Google Webmaster Central blog post by Sven of the Search Quality Team addresses underlying concerns regarding how Google handles scraped content. In the two scenarios discussed, one (duplicate content within your domain) can be controlled. The other cannot. However, he recommends that you offer a link back for syndicated content: In cases when you are syndicating your content but also ...
Search Engine Roundtable |
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Google Trends Features New Numeric Scales and CSV Downloads
Greg Sterling reported earlier this week on Search Engine Land that Google Trends has had an update. You can now download the Google Trends in CSV format (for later research) and can view the data on a numerical scale (on the Y-axis). Google explains that the numbers aren't exact search, but that these results scale to size: These numbers don't refer to exact search-volume figures. Instead, ...
Search Engine Roundtable |
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Unified Communications Magazine Honors Interactive Intelligence with TMC Labs 2008 Innovation Award
INDIANAPOLIS----Interactive Intelligence , a global provider of unified IP business communications solutions, received TMC Labs 2008 Innovation Award for its enterprise messaging platform, Messaging Interaction Center™ .
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Opening Glance: Internet software, services stocks
Most Internet software and services stocks declined in Wednesday morning trading, following the overall market's movement as oil prices rose above $134 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange after declining on Tuesday.
Boston Globe |
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Lawmaker says Chinese hacked Capitol computers
A congressman said Wednesday the FBI has found that four of his government computers have been hacked by sources working out of China. Rep. Frank Wolf, a Virginia Republican, said that similar incidents - also originating from China - have taken place on computers of other members of the House and at least one House committee. A spokesman for Wolf said the four computers in his office were being ...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune |
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Smells Phishy: E-Mail Promising Tax Rebate Is a Scam
As the government continues to dole out economic stimulus checks, far too many taxpayers are still falling victim to Internet scams preying on the confusion about their payments. One such scam that has become prevalent enough to warrant a warning from the FBI is a spam e-mail that claims to be from the Internal Revenue Service. The e-mail is causing confusion because, although it's not from ...
Enterprise Security Today |
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AVG's Free Anti-Virus Software Difficult to Find, Use
I have been bombarded with questions about AVG's free antivirus program, which periodically expires in an effort to sell the commercial (non-free version) to unsuspecting consumers. This happened about a year and a half ago, when version 7.1 "expired" and was replaced with version 7.5. AVG's manufacturer, the Czech company Grisoft, didn't make it widely known that a free version still existed. ...
Enterprise Security Today |
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Opening Glance: Internet software, services stocks
(AP:NEW YORK) Most Internet software and services stocks declined in Wednesday morning trading, following the overall market's movement as oil prices rose above $134 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange after declining on Tuesday.
INO News |
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Google "Skip Intro" Link Skips You Past Splash Pages, Plus Google Offers Query Translation
Sick of sites that force you to sit through a Flash splash screen? Now Google's offering a "Skip Intro" link to save you that annoyance. Plus, Google's also offering to translate your queries into other languages. More on both, below. Click to continue reading...
Search Engine Land |
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Virginia-based Command Information buys Idealogica
HERNDON, VA - Command Information, which sells networking and consulting services based on the new IPv6 Internet protocol, has acquired Leesburg, VA-based Idealogia.
TechJournal South |
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Satyam repositions itself; changes tagline
HYDERABAD, INDIA: Indian IT major Satyam Computers now sports a new tagline. The previous one – 'What Business Demands', adopted by the Hyderabad-based company in 2003, now gives place to 'Business Transformation'.
CIOL |
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Panda Security Anti-Rootkit and Anti-Malware Solutions Determined Most Effective by AV-Test.org
Panda Security today announced that the Company's anti-malware solutions offer the best protection against malware that uses rootkits, according to a new study by AV-Test.org, an independent anti-virus software testing authority.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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CEA Praises House DTV Hearing
ARLINGTON, Va.----The following statement issued yesterday by Consumer Electronics Association ® President and CEO Gary Shapiro commends the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Telecommunication and the Internet for yesterday's hearing which explored the status of the digital television transition:
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Sprint's Wireless Broadband to Power Jukeboxes
Rowe International has selected Sprint's Mobile Broadband to serve as the network connection between its jukeboxes and its online library of downloadable music. Patrons at bars and restaurants that have Rowe jukeboxes will be able to download new music ... (follow link to read)
Phone Scoop |
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E-trading service gives the right Zignals
Two Irish entrepreneurs have joined with Microsoft to launch an online service they claim will 'transform' the trading process for smaller investors.
ElectricNews.Net |
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Google Would Support U.S. Privacy Law
Privacy advocates object to the amount of information that Google, Yahoo and other online companies collect about users....
eWeek |
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Google Opens Data on Search Terms
Google Trends expands service to allow users to see underlying numerical data on the popularity of any particular search....
eWeek |
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TRW Automotive Completes Agreement with Davey Bickford to Acquire Igniter Machining and Intellectual Property Assets
TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. today announced that its subsidiary, TRW Airbag Systems GmbH, has closed an agreement with Davey Bickford SNC, France, to acquire initiator machining and intellectual property assets.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Camp is the computer guy at Catholic Charities
Chuck Camp has a passion for computers. He began fixing them in 1966 and has worked on networks all over the world. After retiring in 2004, Camp knew he had to continue working on computers to stay current with the technology.
The Jackson Citizen Patriot |
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Microsoft TownSquare puts web 2.0 in a suit
Andrew Charlesworth, Information World Review , Wednesday 11 June 2008 at 15:03:00 Social network gives Facebook a corporate face Microsoft is testing a prototype Facebook-like offering designed to bring social networking features to company intranets. TownSquare will provide feeds and updates on employees using web services to poll SharePoint....
vnunet.com |
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Obama sets up cyber 'war room' to fight slurs
Chain e-mails and blog sites have made the claim that Obama is a radical Muslim who is sworn in as a US senator on the Koran, with many focusing on his middle name of Hussein, taken from his Kenyan father.
The Times of India |
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The Asterisk on the 3G iPhone's Price Tag
Apple has named the next iteration of its game-changing mobile device the "iPhone 3G," which calls attention to a feature missing from the original release -- the ability to grab information from the Internet at near-broadband speeds. However, the fact that the new iPhone will use AT&T's zippy 3G network is not its killer feature. Nor is the fact that it will talk to the Global Positioning ...
E-Commerce Times |
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Interware Prioritizes DataCore
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. and TORONTO -- DataCore Software, the leading provider of storage virtualization software, today announced that one of its partners – Interware Systems – has made DataCore storage virtualization software the cornerstone of its Total Enterprise Virtualization practice.
Byte and Switch |
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ADI goes to Sweden to license mobile middleware
Factum Electronics AB (Stockholm, Sweden), a supplier of digital multimedia broadcasting systems, has said that it is teaming up with, and would license software to, integrated circuit vendor Analog Devices Inc. (Norwood, Mass.).
EETimes |
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