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| 1481: |  EU Executive Rejects Calls For Online Music Rules"A demand from European Union lawmakers to regulate how authors and composers receive cash for downloaded works has been rejected by the bloc's executive arm." | Webmaster General | Nov 18, 2007 | ||
| 1482: | Minimizing E-mail Newsletter Bounces "Does anyone have any suggestions about how to minimize the number of bounces when sending an e-mail newsletter?" | Webmaster General | Nov 17, 2007 | ||
| 1483: | W3C Pushing for Better Web on Mobile Devices "W3C invites Web authors to run the alpha release of the W3C mobileOK checker and make their content work on a broad range of mobile devices." | Webmaster General | Nov 16, 2007 | ||
| 1484: | WSJ Reports Amazon To Launch E-Book Reader "Online retailer Amazon.com Inc plans to introduce its highly anticipated electronic book device at a New York event Monday,..." | Webmaster General | Nov 16, 2007 | ||
| 1485: | EU: Airline Web Sites Must Improve Or Be Closed "Over 200 European Web sites selling airline tickets, including many run by leading airlines, are misleading to consumers and will be shut down if they do not improve, the European Union's consumer chief said on Wednesday." | Webmaster General | Nov 14, 2007 | ||
| 1486: | Internet Privacy Efforts Take A Step Forward "Soon people will be able to sign up for do-not-track lists, which will help shield their Web surfing habits from the prying eyes of marketers." | Webmaster General | Oct 31, 2007 | ||
| 1487: | Microsoft: Web Apps Won't Kill Off The Desktop "A top Microsoft Corp. executive defended desktop application software, the source of the company's revenue for three decades, arguing in a presentation last week that even services-based companies such as Google Inc. still need it." | Webmaster General | Oct 28, 2007 | ||
| 1488: | PDF Files, Again, Used To Deliver Malicious Code "Emails containing malicious PDF files have been putting computers at risk since Friday," | Webmaster General | Oct 27, 2007 | ||
| 1489: | Webshots Sold For $45 Million "Internet media company and tech news hub CNet Networks Inc. has announced the sale of its photo-sharing site Webshots. Ownership of the lagging site is slated to got to American Greetings Corp., who shelled out $45 million to take it off CNet's hands. Here's the juicy part though, CNet bought the site for $70 million just three years ago." | Webmaster General | Oct 26, 2007 | ||
| 1490: | Senate Says 7 More Years of Tax-Free Net Access "The bill won't go to the president's desk just yet. First, the House must approves the Senate's changes. Congressional aides said they were hopeful the whole process would conclude before current law's November 1 expiration date." | Webmaster General | Oct 26, 2007 | ||
| 1491: | Microsoft Posts Strong Quarter: Profits of $4.29 Billion "Fervent sales Windows and Office for the quarter ended September 30 also helped achieve profits of $4.29 billion, up from $3.48 billion the year before." | Webmaster General | Oct 26, 2007 | ||
| 1492: | Audio Spam Files On The Way "The messages were blank but contained MP3 attachments of around 95 kilobytes, around the size of a cellphone ring tone. The attachments were audio files all pumping up the same penny stock." | Webmaster General | Oct 23, 2007 | ||
| 1493: | Microsoft to Carry Out EU Ruling "The European Commission said Microsoft will now charge a one-time fee of 10,000 euros to firms that want "complete and accurate" technical information on Windows software." | Webmaster General | Oct 23, 2007 | ||
| 1494: | 24/7 Real Media Servers Hacked - Served Trojans with Ads "Since October 8th, hackers inserted an iframe into the ads served by 24/7 and distributed trojans via the ad network servers. It's not known how widespread the attack is." | Webmaster General | Oct 22, 2007 | ||
| 1495: | Libraries Don't Like Restrictions For Online Book Scanning Schemes "Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft to scan their books into computer databases, saying they are put off by restrictions these companies want to place on the new digital collections." | Webmaster General | Oct 22, 2007 | ||
| 1496: | What is the Next Big Thing "I think I can honestly say that I have tried... everything. | Webmaster General | Oct 21, 2007 | ||
| 1497: | Semantic Web App, Twine, Goes Beta "Twine is intended to let you suck in email, bookmarks, RSS news feeds, websites, photos, videos, database and any other digital information. Then it tries to make sense of it." | Webmaster General | Oct 19, 2007 | ||
| 1498: | U.S. and U.N. Cooperate on Global Digital Library "The World Digital Library initiative will digitize unique and rare materials from libraries and other cultural institutions around the world and make them available free of charge on the Internet," Paris-based UNESCO said in a statement." | Webmaster General | Oct 18, 2007 | ||
| 1499: | Discovery to buy HowStuffWorks.com "The Wall Street Journal reports Discovery Channel will announce today its purchase of HowStuffWorks .com for $250 million. " | Webmaster General | Oct 15, 2007 | ||
| 1500: | Microsoft Buys Discount Shopping Site Jellyfish ""We think the technology has some really interesting potential applications as we continue to invest heavily in shopping/commerce as a key vertical for Live Search,"" | Webmaster General | Oct 2, 2007 | ||
| 1501: | Microsoft Office On The Web (Beta) To Come "The software maker is announcing Office Live Workspace, a free online tool for viewing, sharing and storing, but not editing, Office documents online." | Webmaster General | Oct 1, 2007 | ||
| 1502: | Ebay Anti-fraud Forum Hit By Fraudsters? "Ebay says the information was not acquired through a breach of its security and suggests it was likely obtained through phishing or account takeovers. The company also says that the credit card details displayed do not match those on either its own or PayPals servers." | Webmaster General | Sept 26, 2007 | ||
| 1503: | "Recruitment" Trojan Targets Company Chiefs "C-level employees of publicly listed companies are being targeted by cyber criminals using malware-infected RTF (Rich Text File) documents disguised as recruitment letters." | Webmaster General | Sept 26, 2007 | ||
| 1504: | Privacy Group Says Google's Call For A Standard Is Not Enough "The U.S. government still needs to block or impose conditions on Google Inc.'s acquisition of online advertising server DoubleClick Inc., despite Google's call for global privacy standards, three privacy groups said Monday." | Webmaster General | Sept 18, 2007 | ||
| 1505: | 2 Million Wikipedia Articles in English "Wikipedia published its 2-millionth article in the English language version of the anyone-can-edit encyclopedia, a symbolic milestone for the world's largest user-generated Web publishing site." | Webmaster General | Sept 13, 2007 | ||
| 1506: | Washingtonpost.com Launches Reviewed.com Technology Reviews "...congrats to long time WebmasterWorld supporters and pubcon speakers at Reviewed.com..." | Webmaster General | Sept 12, 2007 | ||
| 1507: | Getting Traffic to a New Quality Site The classic catch-22, "can't get traffic without some links - can't get links without some traffic..." | Webmaster General | Aug 29, 2007 | ||
| 1508: | Skype Moves to Absolve Microsoft From Outage Blame ""We do not blame anyone but ourselves," wrote Skype spokesman Villu Arak in a blog posting." | Webmaster General | Aug 22, 2007 | ||
| 1509: | Airwaves Spectrum Sale Could Raise $20 Billion "The sale could raise as much as $20 billion, according to some estimates." | Webmaster General | Aug 20, 2007 | ||
| 1510: | Skype Says Lockout Caused By Reboot After Windows Update Patch "On Thursday, 16th August 2007, the Skype peer-to-peer network became unstable and suffered a critical disruption. The disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users' computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted after receiving a routine set of patches through Windows Update." | Webmaster General | Aug 20, 2007 | ||
| 1511: | Online Ads Become The Entertainment "For generations, advertising interrupted the entertainment that Americans wanted to read, hear or watch. Now, in a turnabout, advertising is increasingly being presented as entertainment, and surprisingly, the idea of all ads, all the time, is gaining some favor." | Webmaster General | Aug 17, 2007 | ||
| 1512: | Skype Users Locked Out "Skype has issued the following statement: Some of you may be having problems logging in to Skype. Our engineering team has determined that it's a software issue and hopes to have this resolved quickly." | Webmaster General | Aug 16, 2007 | ||
| 1513: | Microsoft's $6 Billion aQuantive Deal Goes Through "In closing a $6 billion buyout of digital marketing company aQuantive on Monday, Microsoft is taking a first step in its quest to leapfrog Yahoo and challenge Google in the online advertising business. "Our goal is to be No. 1 or No. 2," Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft Corp.'s platforms and services division, said in an interview last week. " | Webmaster General | Aug 13, 2007 | ||
| 1514: | Microsoft Disputes FCC's Rejection of Web Devices That Use TV Airwaves "Today Microsoft plans to try to convince regulators that it can connect consumers to high-speed Internet over unused television airwaves without interfering with existing broadcasts." | Webmaster General | Aug 13, 2007 | ||
| 1515: | Ad Wars: Online Ad Spend To Overtake Newspapers "It looks like there online ad spend will continue to grow, with online spending being distributed more frugally amongst a broader range of players." | Webmaster General | Aug 7, 2007 | ||
| 1516: | Kids Site Sold for $350 Million USD "Disney said it would pay $350 million for Club Penguin, a virtual community... More than 700,000 users now pay $5.95 a month to customize penguin characters and then chat and play games with other 'penguins.'" | Webmaster General | Aug 2, 2007 | ||
| 1517: | 1 Billion Computers With Windows "...the install base of Windows computers this coming 12 months will reach 1 billion." | Webmaster General | July 30, 2007 | ||
| 1518: | George Roberts of Hostingcon On the Hosting Industry HostingCon 2007 was held this week in Chicago. We catch up with founder of HostingCon - George Roberts for his views on the Hosting industry. | Webmaster General | July 27, 2007 | ||
| 1519: | Microsoft's CEO, Ballmer, Defends Expansion Beyond Desktop "Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer defended the software company's expansion beyond its Windows and office software businesses, saying Web services and consumer devices are key to the company's future." | Webmaster General | July 27, 2007 | ||
| 1520: | Facebook Founder Accused of Stealing The Idea "Mark Zuckerberg, the 23-year-old founder of Facebook, will today be accused of stealing the idea for his enormously popular social networking site from a rival website." | Webmaster General | July 25, 2007 | ||
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