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Yahoo! Search Marketing Blog:
A New Pricing Model Rolls Out Today — A New Pricing Model Rolls Out Today — Your Click Charges to be Based on Quality of Traffic — Yahoo! Search Marketing is rolling out a new feature that we think will help enhance the quality, potentially reduce the cost and increase the value of traffic to you, our advertisers.
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PR Newswire:
Yahoo! Opens Access to Search Marketing Platform APIs — Dedicated third-party partner services and free, open access to Yahoo!'s "Panama" advertising platform technology will drive further growth and innovation in digital advertising — SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 4, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Florida defendant goes after RIAA for fraud, conspiracy, and extortion — As the RIAA has continued its legal assault on file-sharing, defendants are responding with what amount to boilerplate defenses and counterclaims against the RIAA's allegations of copyright infringement.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
RIAA throws in the towel in Atlantic v. Andersen — One of the most notorious file-sharing cases is drawing to a close. Both parties in Atlantic v. Andersen have agreed to dismiss the case with prejudice, which means that Tanya Andersen is the prevailing party and can attempt to recover attorneys fees.
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Jonathan Richards / Times of London:
Search is history, says Yahoo! — The company says personalisation is now more important than search, in what some have seen as an admission that it can't compete with Google — Yahoo!, one of the two names most synonymous with search on the internet, has surprised Silicon Valley by suggesting …
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The Smoking Gun:
Google As Terror Tool? — One of the plotters behind the alleged scheme to explode gas pipelines at John F. Kennedy airport directed his co-conspirators to use Google Earth to obtain detailed aerial photos of the targeted facility. In a federal criminal complaint, an excerpt from which you'll find below …
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Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Scribd Banks $3.5 Million from Redpoint — Scribd, dubbed the "YouTube for Documents," was the dark horse of their Y Combinator class, but the social document site now gives its critics pause to think. — Since launching, traffic to the site scaled quickly to 75-10,000 uniques per …
McAfee SiteAdvisor:
The State of Search Engine Safety … Key Findings — Overall, 4.0% of search results link to risky Web sites, which marks an improvement from 5.0% in May 2006. Dangerous sites are found in search results of all 5 of the top US search engines (representing 93% of all search engine use).
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Soapbox re-opens, beating YouTube to the punch with content filtering — MSN reopened Soapbox to the public this weekend after a two-month hiatus while the company implemented a content filtering system on the site. Soapbox now uses a combination of "proactive automatic filtering technology" …
Finjan:
Finjan's Latest Web Security Trends Report Reveals New Genre of Evasive Attacks — Evasive Attacks Hit Once and Disappear to Minimize Visibility to Security Products; — Financial Incentives Drive Growth of Malicious Website Affiliations — Finjan, a leader in web security products …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Dell XPS m1330 performance ultraportable revealed — We've got the scoop on some early marketing materials / renders for Dell XPS m1330, and we have to say, this is as impressed as we've ever been with a Dell laptop. Check it out: — 13.3-inch screen, configurable with LED backlight!
Pavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg:
Nintendo's Wii Widens Lead Over Sony's PS3 in Japan in May — Nintendo Co., the world's third- biggest maker of video-game players, widened its lead in Japan last month after its Wii consoles and DS portable players outsold products from Sony Corp., a research firm said.
Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac:
Brushed Metal iMacs Dropping at WWDC — Apple is set to unleash a new iMac design that will utilize the company's trademark "Brushed Metal" look. One inside source claimed that the new iMacs would utilize the Santa Rosa Chipset and could top out at a larger size than the current 24 inch display.
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Mikel / Brain Off:
Hacking Google Street View — We did some completely useless hacking Google Street View at WhereCamp on Yahoo's campus. This is nice .. Google will have good mornings tomorrow with loads of strange requests in their logs from yahoo (evil neatness). — Greg Sadetsky cracked Street View …
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Meraki:
Meraki Introduces First Solar Powered Outdoor WiFi Access Kit — New Meraki Solar and Meraki Outdoor Work Together to Cover Entire Neighborhoods with Outdoor Wireless Access — MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - June 4, 2007 — Meraki Networks, pioneer of the first consumer wireless mesh Internet network designed to …
