"Pay Per Click" fraud botnet discovered
PandaLabs has detected a network of computers infected with the bot Clickbot.A, which is being used to defraud 'pay per click' systems, registering clicks automatically and providing lucrative returns...
Marriage proposal at the new 5th Avenue Apple Store
Apple opened a new retail store last night on 5th Avenue here in New York City. Since 5pm yesterday evening, they've had a camera trained on the store to capture the first 24 hours of the festivities...
The vPod.tv Play
Rodrigo Sepulveda Schulz, a fellow blogger and broadband fanatic, is either a very brave man or has a plan. He has started vPod.tv, a new online video company based in France, along with his cofounde...
Podcast with Shel and Scoble via Waxxi
Interactive Podcast with Shel and Scoble using Waxi — This was really cool, I was able use the chatroom feature (like a backchannel) , listen to Shel and Scoble talk, and even got to participate and...
Will Continuations continue?
I spoke about dynamic language support and JSR292 at JavaOne today. I was quite disappointed that no one asked about continuations. — There are a variety of reasons why we haven't implemented conti...
Nintendo DS Lite Mania!
Recently with the impending US release, I finally got the Nintendo DS bug. I don't know what tipped it over for me (probably SylphIRC), but it looks like there's some momentum at the office. Ed, Kev...
FCC to delay AWS auction until August
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission abruptly delayed the advanced wireless services auction until Aug. 9, saying applicants needed more time to prepare for the government's sale of 1,122 ...
Net neutrality field in Congress gets crowded
U.S. senators have unveiled their latest effort at legislating Net neutrality principles, marking the second such proposal this week and the sixth this year. — Called the "Internet Freedom Preservat...
Reports of a new vulnerability in Microsoft Word
Hi everyone, Stephen Toulouse here. We've been made aware of a new vulnerability in Microsoft Word XP and Word 2003. Customers using the Word viewer to view documents are not impacted. Yesterday we...
Requests for Corporate Data Multiply
Businesses Juggle Law-Enforcement Demands — For Information About Customers, Suppliers — WASHINGTON — Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, law enforcement efforts to secure corporate inf...
Rollei da6324
Rollei da6324 : Rollei introduces a new compact digital camera, the Rollei da6324. This new compact digital camera features a 6.36 Megapixels 1/2.5 inch CCD image sensor, 2.4 inch TFT color monitor, ...
Unintended Consequences Meet Patent Law Reforms
from the making-the-system-worse dept — For all the talk about patent reform these days, it's unfortunate that every time we see reform proposals, it looks like they'll make the system worse. The l...
PSA: read your MacBook user manual
Given all the recent MacBook Pro drama of late, what with overheating issues and all, it might be a good idea to peruse your MacBook/MacBookPro owner's manual one of these days to make sure you've cov...
Is the blogosphere ready for more aggressive monetization of blogs?
One of the major points of discussion at my recent Blogging 101 workshop was paying bloggers, directly, for promotional space on their blogs. Whether it is an outright sponsorship (this blog, for exa...
Lindens as Micropayments
Second Life has its own currency, Lindens. On any given day people are using it to conduct transactions. They buy items in world (clothes, toys, etc.) and they buy items out of world. People can ca...
Lessons Learned from Trader Joe's
I was talking with a colleague today about the magic of Trader's. Here's how they make billions: — 1. they target a consumer that cares a great deal about what they buy at the supermarket. As a...
FeedPass makes RSS subscription and monetizing other peoples' content easy
People around the web have been talking about the RSS support service FeedPass, which as you can see in action here at a FeedPass page for my personal blog, or this NYTimes feed I've wrapped in AdSens...
YPN launches direct deposit, tax withholding and faster payment turnaround
Direct deposit is one of the most-requested features made by YPN publishers, and I am pleased to say that this feature is now a reality. — Publishers can now enter their bank account details to rece...
Yahoo Tests Stock Widgets for Blogs
Yahoo is testing a new program that allows any publisher - especially bloggers - to put real-time stock quotes and charts on their sites. I have been briefed on the program by the Yahoo Finance team....
US government restricts China PCs
The US State Department says the 16,000 computers it bought from a Chinese firm with links to the Beijing government will not be used for classified work. — Assistant Secretary of State Richard Grif...
Meet The Hackers
Cybercrooks are stealing billions. An inside look at law enforcement's biggest targets — Dimitry Ivanovich Golubov doesn't look like an arch criminal. A baby-faced 22-year-old Ukrainian, he is des...
Round Up: The "Starving Student" Off-Camera Light Kit
The SSO-CLK (for lack of a more poetic term) is designed to give you the most bang for your buck - with a nod toward extreme portability. It will work well with any camera that can be controlled manu...
Browser bug or did Yahoo! just acquire Technorati?
Either I just encountered a very strange browser bug, or Yahoo has just acquired Technorati. Just moments ago, while viewing the Technorati search results for Between the Lines, I clicked through to...
Good usability is like "water flowing downhill"
"I prefer reactions in which the fabric of the organization is changed so that it's easier for people to do the "right" thing. Like water flowing downhill." Silkandspinach's Kevin Rutherford said th...
Kinks with M6
You may have noticed that some of the new features in Windows Live Mail Beta have gone missing! Well, you're right. We hit a couple of bumps with M6, our most recent release, but we're working hard ...