posted by admin on Jul 28
Free ad costs Fairfax a rap over the knuckles by ACCC
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has rapped Fairfax Digital over the knuckles for misleading customers over the use of the term ‘free’ in conjunction with a mobile phone property listing on its Domain real estate site.
Software group weighs piracy lawsuit against eBay
A trade group representing hundreds of software vendors is considering a lawsuit against eBay for what it calls widespread sales of counterfeit software on the auction site.
Microsoft looks to Facebook to expand Live Search
Microsoft yesterday announced that it is expanding its banner advertising agreement with Facebook to include Live Search capabilities and paid search advertising on the social network.
Google counts more than 1 trillion unique Web URLs
In a discovery that would probably send the Dr. Evil character of the “Austin Powers” movies into cardiac arrest, Google recently detected more than a trillion unique URLs on the Web.
Microsoft adds free calendar sync to Outlook tool
Microsoft this week added calendar synchronization to the long-running beta of a free tool for users of its Office 2003 and Office 2007 suites.
AOL to shut down Xdrive, other services
AOL will phase out several online services as the Time Warner unit continues to struggle in its transition from a business model based on subscription fees to one based on advertising revenue.
Fugitive spam king dead in apparent murder-suicide
Convicted penny-stock spammer Eddie Davidson has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, apparently after killing his wife and three year-old daughter in his home town of Bennet, Colorado, the U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday
Open Web Foundation formed
The Open Web Foundation, a non-profit organization intended to help create an “Open Web,” was announced Thursday at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon.
Yahoo: Burn your DRMed tracks to CD now
Yahoo has become the latest company to abandon customers who bought tracks from its music store encoded with DRM (digital rights management), drawing fire from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).