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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Cingular, Priceline, Travelocity settle adware suit

Three big brands have settled a suit over the use of adware. Cingular.com, Priceline.com and Travelocity.com have agreed to pay fines imposed by New York State's attorney general. >>

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Richter Scales MySpace Security

MySpace is drawing itself up against one of the world’s top three spammers. >>

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Bud.tv Stops Minors In Their Tracks

Not long after the Superbowl, Anheuser-Busch is set to launch a social networking site all of its own. >>

Friday, January 19, 2007

Parents Peek Inside Children's MySpace Profiles

After four families sue News Corp’s MySpace, the social networking site unveils their latest technology in the fight against online child abuse. >>

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Pay Up or Pop-Up Says MovieLand.com

Various Digital Enterprises Inc. websites have been told to revise their pop-up activity in line with Washington’s Computer Spyware Act. >>

Friday, January 05, 2007

Europe Cracks Down on Scammers

The European Union is to bring in new measures to combat email scams. >>

Thursday, December 07, 2006

AAAA Releases Bulletin On Click Fraud

The American Association of Advertising Agencies has released a member bulletin focusing on the basic tenants of click fraud. One issue talked about in the bulletin was the definition of click fraud. >>

Friday, December 01, 2006

Email Covered by 4th Amendment

A court has decided that the government’s ability to search and seize email content from service providers is in violation of the Fourth Amendment. >>

Friday, November 24, 2006

Google Sued for Copyright Infringement

More copyright grief for Google, but this time it’s not via YouTube. >>

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

U.S Websites and Bloggers Protected from Third Party Libel

The California Supreme Court ruled on Monday that websites, ISP’s and bloggers could not be held responsible for defamatory material posted on their sites by a third party. >>

Monday, November 13, 2006

Google Faces Copyright Infringement

As online video content becomes more and more popular, issues surrounding copyright are thrust into the limelight. >>

Friday, October 06, 2006

Skype As A Traffic Monitoring Tool - It’s Possible

Skype, the VoIP company that originally launched as a consumer venture, is increasingly being touted by professional online marketers as indispensable to their marketing efforts. A major deterrant however is Skype’s invisible security protocol. Now, an external company has created an appliance that it claims brings Skype up to enterprise standard. >>

Friday, September 29, 2006

Standards Group Developed For PPC Realm

A standards group has been created by Click Forensics to develop pay-per-click quality standards for the search marketing industry. >>

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Google Taken To Court over Messy AdSense Service; Launches New Format

Google is taken to court by Bravacorp, a San Francisco company that demands $250,000 in damages because it took 100 hours to place and review AdSense advertisements on its website and because Google subsequently took its site down. >>

Friday, September 22, 2006

Publishers Want Control of Search Results

A Belgian court ruling could change the way large search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN give search results. The court ruled that some Google searches infringes on the copyright of French and German newspapers by reproducing parts of the articles in snippets. >>

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