Sprint files lawsuit against AT&T and T-Mobile

Sprint filed a law suit again the merging of AT&T and T-mobile last September 6, 2011. The lawsuit was filed under Section 7 of the Clayton act.

Italian prosecutors seek jail for Google execs

Italian prosecutors sought six-month to a year sentences for four Google executives Wednesday over an Internet video showing the bullying of a teenager with Down's Syndrome, the company said.

Astronaut's wait over as daughter born back home

By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer - Sun Nov 22, 2009 7:19AM EST

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -
Astronaut Randolph Bresnik is a new dad again, after launching into space and taking a spacewalk, all the for first time.
He announced the birth of his daughter, Abigail, on Sunday morning on NASA's airwaves.

New Attack Fells Internet Explorer

By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service - Sun Nov 22, 2009 3:30AM EST

A hacker has posted attack code that could be used to break into a PC running older versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser.
The code was posted Friday to the Bugtraq mailing list by an unidentified hacker. According to security vendor Symantec, the code does not always work properly, but it could be used to install unauthorized software on a victim's computer.

Oldest US newspaper for gays and lesbians shutting down

Washington Blade, the oldest newspaper in the United States for gays and lesbians, said Monday it was shutting down.

Washington Blade, the oldest newspaper in the United States for gays and lesbians, said Monday it was shutting down.

Facebook: We're going after scammy ads, too

The industry P.R. frenzy over scams in ads and offers on social networks goes on: Facebook announced on Thursday evening in a post on its developer blog that since it updated its developer platform terms of service this summer, it has disabled two ad networks that it says were running deceptive advertisements.

Facebook password scam circulates online

The Tech Herald covers a new Facebook scam that was recently distributed through spam email. The spam email asks appear to come from the Facebook Support Group and ask the user to download an attachment to change their password. In reality, the attachment is malware and makes the victim's computer part of the Bredolab botnet.

AT&T vs. Verizon: There's a lawyer for that

 
It was bound to happen. AT&T is suing Verizon Wireless over its "There's a Map for That" advertising campaign.
When I first saw the advertisements on TV, I thought for sure that AT&T or Apple would file a lawsuit claiming the advertisement was too similar to the iPhone's "There's an App for That" slogan.
I was right about one thing. AT&T is suing Verizon. But I was wrong about the reason behind the suit.

Microsoft gives the MSN butterfly a makeover

Aiming to stay relevant, Microsoft on Monday is introducing a new look for its MSN.com home page.
Although MSN gets far less attention than the company's Bing or Windows Live efforts, the home page remains an important economic engine for Microsoft's online business, as well as a significant source of search traffic for Bing.

Nintendo Says 'Wii Has Stalled', Press Piles On

Poor Nintendo, the Wii can't catch a break. It's been the number one selling console for years, but you wouldn't know it from the dearth of news sites that bother to cover the thing seriously. The system's consistently beat the odds time and again--well, the analyst cobbled together ones, anyway--and gone on to outflank all the pundits,including yours truly.

Horror video games scare up record sales

RALEIGH, North Carolina - What do Jigsaw from "Saw," Freddy Krueger, and Jason from "Friday the 13th" all have in common, besides serial killing? Video games, if the horror stars' latest round of promotions are to be believed.

The PC World 100: Best Products of 2009

PC World looked at many outstanding hardware, software, sites, and services this year, evaluating each one on its design, functionality, performance, and impact. Here is the cream of the crop, the 100 best of 2009. (Note that we chose not to rate products specifically on their price or value, focusing instead on their overall quality.)

What is Niche Marketing

What is Niche Marketing

If you are one of many people who are trying to get on the Internet and try to make money out of it, you probably might be asking the same thing, "What is Niche Marketing?".

As I am sure you have encountered that phrase a lot of times now, when you are in the Internet Marketing field, it is highly common for you to see questions, see articles about Niche Marketing, but if you are still unsure of the real meaning of Niche Marketing, let me tell you something about it.

Niche Marketing is a term used by a lot Affilliate marketers, it is a process done by getting a partial segment of a wide market, and then focusing on that particular segment to reach maximum profits, or atleast a steady flow of income.

When you go into Affiliate Marketing, you sign up for an account, let's say Amazon. Having signed up for that affiliate account you are greeted with a whole bunch of different merchandise to sell, and now you will be confused of what to choose, now by using the principles of Niche Marketing, you can focus on just one particular type of merchandize in order for you to have a more clear desicion on what product to sell, for example you choose technology, of course there are a whole lot of different sorts of technology stuff, there are watches, there are cellphones, Tv's, cameras, and so on and so forth, but if you choose just one particular product let's say cameras, and focus on it, build a website only for cameras, promote it, then the people who are more likely to look at your site, browse your pages, will be targeted audience or possible buyers, resulting in having a steady group of audience and a steady group of buyers.

Then you can start selling, accessories for cameras, lenses or stuff that is related to cameras. You build a world for cameras, you build a reliable looking site, professional looking site, a site that would make your audience feel as if you are the camera authority.

People will go looking for you in the Internet, people will start to notice as you as the person to look for when it comes to cameras. They will start to look for your opinions, they will be eager to have your opinions about cameras.

But before you choose a specific niche to market, you must have a passion for that product, or for that specific niche.

In essence, niche marketing is selling a product or service to those who want or need the product the most.

Week in review: Net theft, under your nose

A new type of banking Trojan horse actually steals money from your account while you are logged in and displays a fake balance.

The bank Trojan, dubbed URLZone, has features designed to thwart fraud detection systems that are triggered by unusual transactions. For instance, the software is programmed to calculate on-the-fly how much money to steal from an account based on how much money is available.

The Trojan, which exploits a hole in Firefox, Internet Explorer 6, IE7, IE8, and Opera, was responsible of the theft of nearly $438,000 during a 22-day span in August.

This is reportedly the first Trojan that hijacks a victim's browser session, steals the money while the victim is doing online banking, and then covers its tracks by modifying information displayed to the victim, all in real time.

Meanwhile, Payroll processor PayChoice said it is investigating a breach in which customers received targeted e-mails purporting to be from the company but were designed to trick people into downloading malware. Workers received e-mails last week that directed them to download a browser plug-in or visit a Web site so they could continue accessing the Onlineemployer.com PayChoice portal.

The e-mails were targeted to individuals and included their user names, log-in IDs and partial passwords, thus increasing the chance that recipients would be likely to fall for the ruse.

Read Complete Story at Cnet.com.

Google Fast Flip is Here

Google has just recently released Fast Flip, Google's newest service that will allow you to read internet articles the way they should be read, like a magazine. You flip pages, just like reading a book. Making it more convenient for readers to enjoy every bit of what they are reading.



The service is meant to duplicate the look and feel of perusing a printed publication. The stories are displayed on electronic pages that can be quickly scrolled through by clicking on large arrows on the side instead of a standard Web link that requires waiting several seconds for a page to load. Readers can sort through content based on topics, favorite writers and publications.

For now, Fast Flip will only  show first page of a story. Readers who want to continue will have to continue will have to click through to the publishers site, where they display reverts to a traditional Web page.

More than three dozen publishers, broadcasters and Web-only outlets have agreed to share their content on Fast Flip. The participants include two major newspapers, The New York Times and the Washington Post, as well as large magazines like Newsweek and Business Week.

The publishers providing the stories to Fast Flip will get most of the revenue from the ads the Google intends show in the new format. That's a switch from Google's main search page and it's news section, where the Mountain View-based company keeps all the money from ads shown alongside headlines and snippets from stories.


Fast Flip is the latest step that Google has taken to improve its relationship with newspaper and magazine publishers, many of whom have railed against the company for profiting from their articles without sharing wealth. The acrimony has escalated as a three-year decline in the print medium's ad revenue accelerated during the past year. The newspaper industry's ad sales plunged 29 percent during the first half this year while Google's crept up 4 percent. In another example of cooperation, Google recently offeredto help newspaper publishers set up a system to charge readers for access to parts of their Web sites.

While the notion of Google funneling more sales to publishers is appealing, news executives also want to ensure that Fast Flip doesn't become too popular. Publishers still want readers to come to their Web sites, where they can sell ads without giving Google a peice of the action.

Internet Traffic Chokers Exposed by Google (Republished)

Google has begun offering tools to expose Internet service providers (ISPs) that choke traffic or shift users into slow lanes while allowing others to zip along at high speeds.



The online search and advertising king is an unabashed champion of "net neutrality" in which all Internet traffic is treated equally instead of letting service providers give preferential treatment to privileged clients.
"At Google, we care deeply about sustaining the Internet as an open platform for consumer choice and innovation," Google chief evangelist Vint Cerf and principal engineer Stephen Stuart wrote in an online posting.
"No matter your views on net neutrality and ISP network management practices, everyone can agree that Internet users deserve to be well-informed about what they're getting when they sign up for broadband."

Google worked with New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, the PlanetLab Consortium, and academic researchers to create an online Measurement Lab (M-Lab) that researchers can use to detect Internet traffic manipulation.

"When an Internet application doesn't work as expected or your connection seems flaky, how can you tell whether there is a problem caused by your broadband ISP, the application, your PC, or something else?" Cerf wrote.

"It can be difficult for experts, let alone average Internet users, to address this sort of question today."
M-Lab went online Wednesday with three diagnostic tools running on computer servers near Google headquarters in Mountain View, California.

The tools are available to help users "diagnose common problems that might impair their broadband speed, as well as determine whether BitTorrent is being blocked or throttled by their ISPs," according to Cerf, a computer scientist often called "father of the Internet."

ISPs such as US behemoth Comcast have sparked controversy by clandestinely throttling some traffic, such as peer-to-peer file sharing.

ISPs argue that such measures are necessary to manage growing congestion on the Internet highway. Google has been among those advocating against fettering online traffic, saying that doing so stifles Internet innovation and growth.

M-Lab United States. More diagnostic tools will be added and results made public, according to Google.
"M-Lab is intended to be a truly community-based effort, and we welcome the support of other companies, institutions, researchers, and users that want to provide servers, tools, or other resources that can help the platform flourish," Cerf wrote.

Facebook launches Facebook Lite

Facebook has recently launched a new version of it's website, it's called Facebook lite. This is the stripped down version of the popular social networking site.



This version is called Lite because it is much more simpler, all those apps that people are getting hooked on are not available in this version, users are only limited to using the wall, post photos and videos, view events and most importantly view people's profiles and basically do the most basic things that you do in a social networking site, of course that is to make friends and connect.

Basically this version was created for the purpose of catering regions that has a slightly limited bandwidth, causing the current version to disable some apps. Apparently this version is only available in countries like India and America.



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Earn Money thru Blogging

This post is a compilation of all the stuff that I have encountered within the months that I have been blogging.
I'm gonna post something that I think is worth the time posting, this post is going to be pointed towards how to
make money thru blogging.

Now, to make money thru blogging is not an easy task and it is definitely not one of those get-rich-quick-scheme bogus
that some other people brag about. If you have spent countless hours and days trying to make your blog look better and attract readers to subscribe to your feed, well the money part won't be that far away from you.

You would have to have a descent number of readers, maybe 50 or a 100 would make the cut. You can earn money from that thru putting ads by Google on you Feedburner feeds. But first, you must have a good topic for your blog. Something that you think is a bit interesting, something that you think people would look up for in the internet. And then you must do the SEO thing too. SEO could be the trickiest part in the whole process.

Then, after you succeed in making your blog exist in the blogosphere or atleast in the category that you intended for your blog. That is the time that you can slap some banner on your blog. But remember to not place ads if your blog is not yet getting traffic or else it would make it harder your blog to rise up. Adsense can be a weight to your blog and drag it down if it doesn't have enough traffic yet.

The amount of money that earn from blogging depends on a lot of different factors, because actually there a lot of things on the internet that you do to make money using your blog. You can put banners, you can do affiliate marketing, or you can make sponsored reviews, but you have to sign up for those sites first and pass all the requirement for you to get some assignments.

Now, getting an assignment from a sponsored review site is also a hard thing to do, because there are some sites that has a lot of requirements just for your blog to pass the screening process. Editors will screen your blogs, and they will look at your blog to see if it passes. Then after that your on your way to earning some serious cash. I am not sure if I have included everything there is to know about blogging in this post. But these is are all I can think of as of the moment. Thanks.

Wikipedia Information is not so accurate

New York - WikiePedia, the online encyclopedia that has drawn some decidedly juvenile pranks, is looking to impose more discipline with new restrictions on the editing of articles.

The latest changes come Wikipedia tries to balance a need for credibility and a desire for openness.

While anyone can still edit entries, the site is testing pages that won't register changes until they are approved by an experienced Wikipedia editor.

If the site's users respond well to the test run, the new restrictions will apply to all entries for living people in the next few weeks.

The idea is to block the kind of high profile vandalism that has marred some pages.

In one of the most recent embarrassments, Democratic Sens. Robert Byrd and Edward Kennedy were prematurely declared dead by rogue editors.

Still, Wikipedia risks discouraging legitimate editing if restrictions on changes or additions become too burdensome, keeping articles from getting better or keeping up with events. That maybe especially true on more obscure pages with fewer active volunteers to approve edits in a timely way.

Aware of the risks, Wikipedia has set the criteria for "experienced editors" status relatively low. Users who are registered for a few days can give changes the OK, said Jay Walsh, a spokesman for the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the site.

A more uniform system for filtering changes on Wikipedia represents a step back from the site's original philosophy, which is called for harnessing the collective knowledge of volunteer editors without any major restrictions.

But it is not the first time Wikipedia has attached some strings.

The same flagging process, for example, has been imposed on all entries in the German-language Wikipedia for more than a year.

On the English site, too, high-profile pages that are likely to be defaced, such as Michael Jackson's, have been tightly restricted.

Some observers believe Wikipedia must continue tightening editing policies if it wants to gain credibility.

"I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop," said Eric Goldman, director of the High Tech Law Institute at the Santa Clara University School of Law.

Goldman envisions a future Wikipedia curated by relatively small group of dedicated editors. Under the current model, he said, there are simply aren't enough volunteers to catch all errors.

"My hope is that Wikipedia still exists and is still considered a useful site," Goldman said. "But it will be at the point a very tightly controlled site. It won't have that veneer of a site that anyone can contribute to. They haven't closed the drawbridge. People can still get in. But it keeps going up and up and up."

Separately, the Omidyar Network, a philanthropic investment group started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyarm said Tuesday it is committing $2 million over 2 years to the Wikimedia Foundation. Omidyar Network's grant will support Wikimedia's goals of bringing free educational content to people around the world supporting more people to help create that content.

It follows last week's announcement of a $500,000 grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to make Wikipedia's software more user friendly and to develop training materials to engage new potential volunteer editors.

Facebook Buys Friendfeed

San Francisco - Facebook is buying a Web Service called FriendFeed that gives users a view of what their friends are doing on all sorts of social media site, including Facebook's rivals.



In an interview, FriendFeed co-founder Bret Taylor said the two services will eventually merge, though FriendFeed will operate seperatrly for now. He said FriendFeed was drawn to Facebook's much larger base of 250 million users.


"Facebook has a really unique opportunity for our team to reach a significant percentage of the world, and that was an opportunity I think everyone on our team was extremely excited about," he said.


<Facebook said all 12 employees of Mountain View, Calif-based FriendFeed will work for Facebook, whose headquarters is nearby in Palo Alto. FriendFeed's for founder - Taylor, Paul Bucheit, Jim Norris and Sanjeev Singh - will take on senior positions on the engineering and product teams at Facebook.


It's Unclear what exactly Facebook pland to do with FriendFeed, which centers around the idea of instantaneously aggregating information from online destinations like short-messaging site Twitter, review site Yelp and photo-sharing Flickr.


Gartner Inc. analyst Ray Vades said FriendFeed acquisition should help Facebook open up site and boost features that show users more information in real time.

"They needed to do something to meet the Twitter challenge," he said, referring to the messaging site that shown the type of buzz Facebook once enjoyed.

Chris Cox, Facebook's vice president of products, said the companies has been talking about a combination for sometime, as they're both working on solving the same problems: how to help people connect with one another over time, how to make these connections work on various devices and how to filter information through friends.


"I think both companies start with the premise that the most valuable information in the world is the one that comes from the people you care about," he said. "Building technologies that leverage those relationships everywhere you go is where we're both starting from."


Cox would not say if Facebook plans to incorporate FriendFeed's real time search capabality onto it's site. He said Facebook has already been testing real-time seacg that FriendFeed has done a great job with own search. Financial terms were not disclosed.