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“The good news is that a few basic steps and simple precautions are enough to prevent these problems and stop online criminals in their tracks.”

According to research from GetSafeOnline.org, social networking and unsecured Wi-Fi networks are putting people at risk of internet-based crime. via SeekBroadband

“During the boom times, there were lots of companies whose employees made a lot of money fast, like Yahoo and Netscape. But the scale didn't approach Google.”

Bonnie Brown was fresh from a nasty divorce in 1999, living with her sister and uncertain of her future. via New York Times

“We are just interested in a normal royalty if the case determines that ... Google is using the technology we developed”

The U.S. Northeastern University has filed a federal patent infringement lawsuit against Google over technology used in its core Web search system, media reported Monday. via Xinhuanet

“Google has invested Rs 15 crore in this fund so far and is expected to put in the remaining amount by March 2008, when the fund is scheduled to close”

Global IT giant Google will be investing up to Rs 22.5 crore in Ventureast TeNet Fund-II, a seed-stage fund that will invest in technology companies trying to establish their foothold. via Business Standard

“This particular patent has to do with the fundamental database architecture, which they use to serve up every single result they serve to you”

Maybe Google should simply acquire Northeastern University... Of course, that would have been easier before GOOG lost ~$70/share in the last week. via Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check

“With nearly 3 billion users worldwide, the mobile phone has become the most personal and ubiquitous communications device”

Google CEO Eric Schmidt, President of Technology Sergey Brin and other company bosses dropped by the FCC Monday, meeting with Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein and some attorneys. via TV Technology

“We need brains, talent and professional advice. This is what we expect the partners to contribute...Russia is the last frontier.”

The Kremlin plans to sink more than $1 billion into tech start-ups via top-tier VC firms. via CNET News.com

“Our ad network only works with Fortune 500 advertisers", or "our ad network has a proprietary behavioral technology that (major brands X, Y, and Z) have enjoyed for repeated branding campaigns.”

The online advertising technology sector is bubbling over. New startups are launching and getting lots of funding as giants like Google, Microsoft and AOL gobble some of the larger companies up for hundreds of ... via VentureBeat

“It costs your time, it costs a lot of sleepless nights.”

There are a few hurdles between Landy Ung and her dream of growing her startup into a household name. via News Observer

Disk storage technology developer ExaGrid Systems Inc. raised $20 million in a Series C funding round, adding Lehman Brothers Venture Partners of Boston to lead the deal alongside patient existing investors ... via Tech Confidential Blog

The top global technology brand for 2007 is ... The top global technology brand for 2007 is ... um, I'm not sure. via CNET News.com

A report from IBM Global Business Services called "The End of Advertising as We Know It," says that there will be more changes over the next five years than have happened over the last 50 in the industry. In what must be a major concern to traditional media companies, online open advertising exchanges like used by AOL , Yahoo and Google , will get about 30 percent of current revenue being generated by traditional media over the next five years, said over half of the ad professionals polled in the survey. Read more

WALL, NJ, November 9 / MARKET WIRE/ -- Centennial Communications Corp. announced today that Chief Financial Officer Thomas J. Fitzpatrick is scheduled to speak at the Credit Suisse Leveraged Finance Media & ... via Customer Interaction Solutions

“Google is willing to do anything necessary to introduce some competition into this space and to really drive the prices of service to where they are most affordable to the broadest number of people.”

On TechRepublic: 10 embarrassing grammar mistakes Perspective: Parsing the Google announcement that wasn't Does Google really need to build a Google Phone? Only if the network carriers try to play tough, says ... via CNET News.com

“This would still be consistent with the results of the demo, since the decohering qubits would act like classical random bits, and the adiabatic computer would act like a classical computer implementing simulated annealing.”

Company says a scientist from Google will join in with an image recognition algorithm at the SC07 supercomputing conference. via CNET News.com

A deal struck in April had Providence taking 56 Click for the lowest price on dmnobieblank television ');" onMouseOut="setTimeout ',500);" class=hotlink2>television stations in 24 markets from Clear Channel for ... via BroadcastNewsroom

“We are currently in tests to determine the best approach to in-game advertising.”

Google says it is testing ways to deliver advertisements in computer games but declined to comment on the internet buzz that it will be in the market by year's end. via Huliq.com

“The VanityRing doesn't have a jewel”

A Google VanityRing will tell the wearer just how many hits they get, or don't. People love to Google themselves. via The New Zealand Herald

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp and Clearwire Corp are scrapping their agreement to jointly build a nationwide high-speed wireless network based on the emerging WiMax technology, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Website.

Citing people familiar with the matter, the report said the complexities of the transaction and the departure last month of Sprint Chief Executive Gary Forsee made it too difficult to reach a final agreement.

Sprint and Clearwire said in July they agreed to connect their WiMax networks, share costs and offer services to about 100 million people by the end of 2008. Read more

“Once their original content has been placed online, publishers have no visibility into how and where that content is being used. The lyrics research demonstrates the role search engines play in rewarding copied content.”

Filed in archive Industry by noel on November 07, 2007 Report says that official Yahoo Music song lyric pages rank lower, even in Yahoo's own search engine, than copied lyrics pages. via The Search Engine Weblog