Google says advertisers face minimal click fraud
February 28, 2007
Reuters - Google, on Wednesday disclosed
data showing that while its pay-per-click Web advertising
system is under regular attack from fraudsters, virtually all
such tricks are automatically detected, rebuffing critics who
say its online ads are a magnet for fraud.
Independent Video For Sale on the iTunes Store
February 28, 2007
Variety reports on a new entity on the iTunes Store. Apple started selling “That” (iTunes Link) a 39 minute snowboarding direct-to-DVD action video by Forum Snowboards. According to the article this “is the first time iTunes has sold video content …
Australian state bans YouTube in schools to stop bullying
February 28, 2007
AFP - An Australian state has banned the popular internet film-sharing website YouTube from school computers in a bid to clamp down on cyber-bullying.
The Transition to Digital TV
February 28, 2007
PC World - A group of broadcasters, consumer electronics vendors and civil rights groups pledged Wednesday to leave no television viewers behind as the U.S. transitions to digital over-the-air broadcasts by February 2009.
IBM To Pipe Google Gadgets Into Company Sites
February 28, 2007
TechWeb - IBM has reached a
deal with Google Inc. to bring the consumer Internet
into the office by piping YouTube and thousands of other Web
programs into IBM software used by millions of office workers.
RIAA Pressures Students To Stop Illegal Downloads
February 28, 2007
TechWeb - The U.S. recording industry has stepped up efforts to stop college students from downloading pirated music online and offered students a way to settle the disputes out of court.
Take-Two agrees to settlement talks in video game case
February 28, 2007
Reuters - Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.
has agreed to enter into settlement talks in a lawsuit
accusing it of selling “Grand Theft Auto” video games
containing sexually explicit images under the wrong content
label, according to a court document made public on Wednesday.
Bell Mobility offers unlimited local calls to Bell phones, charges for others
February 28, 2007
Canadian Press - TORONTO (CP) - Bell Canada (TSX:BCE), confronting intense competition from cable-TV companies and other rising entrants in the phone business, is offering a new rate plan allowing Bell Mobility clients unlimited local calls to and from other Bell mobile and fixed-line phones.
Google Maps gets real time traffic information
February 28, 2007
A brand new feature on Google Maps lets you see a visual representations of traffic in some major US cities. Green is ideal traffic conditions, yellow means there may be some delays, and red means you should probably expect stop and go traffic.
Imagine this feature available in a GPS navigation unit with wifi or 3G […]
SpikeSource’s Polese faces the heat
February 28, 2007
InfoWorld - SpikeSource CEO Kim Polese is an industry veteran who was head of the Java team at Sun in the 1990s and also founded "push" software company Marimba, which was eventually bought by business software company BMC Software.
