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Jennifer Slegg / Search Engine Watch Blog:
MSN adCenter Officially Launches & Changes Name to Microsoft adCenter — While MSN adCenter has been in pilot mode since mid-October, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is announcing the official launch of adCenter at Thursday's MSN Strategic Account Summit... as well as the new name change to Microsoft adCenter.
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Kim Peterson / Seattle Times:
Microsoft's adCenter is Google, Yahoo! rival — Microsoft today is launching its adCenter online advertising system in the U.S., and will now compete directly with Google and Yahoo! in selling ads on the Web. — The official announcement is coming this morning when Chief Executive Steve Ballmer addresses …
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft takes plunge with AdCenter — REDMOND, Wash.—A year after first announcing plans for a homegrown ad engine, Microsoft is now using the tool for all its U.S.-based search queries. — Microsoft is banking on AdCenter as the lynchpin of its efforts to increase advertising as a source of revenue across the company.
PR Newswire:
Seventh Annual MSN Strategic Account Summit Celebrates Advertisers' Role in Microsoft Media Network Vision — CEO Steve Ballmer Announces the Launch of Microsoft adCenter in the U.S. — REDMOND, Wash., May 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — At the seventh annual MSN® Strategic Account Summit …
Roy Mark / internetnews.com:
Spyware Hustler Hit With $4M Penalty — Justice was finally downloaded Thursday on Sanford Wallace, a notorious spammer of the 1990s who moved on to illegal spyware operations that installed adware, spyware and other unsolicited software programs on users' computers.
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Windows Expertise:
Corel completes destruction of WinZip — Sometime in the past few years, I stopped using WinZip. That's after ten years of enthusiastic use of what used to be an essential utility. It helped that basic support for the non-proprietary and widely used Zip format was built into Windows Me and then Windows XP.
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Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Full-up Google choking on web spam? — Buddy, can you spare a server? — Webmasters have been seething at Google since it introduced its 'Big Daddy' update in January, the biggest revision to the way its search engine operates for years. — Alarm usually accompanies changes to Google's algorithms …
Brenda Goodman / New York Times:
I Hear Ringing and There's No One There. I Wonder Why. — SIX minutes 39 seconds into the Richard Thompson song "Calvary Cross," Mike Pelusi, a music reviewer in Philadelphia, will almost invariably check his cellphone. — Minka Wiltz, an actress in Atlanta, has tried to answer her phone …
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Bruce Schneier / Wired News:
Everyone Wants to 'Own' Your PC — When technology serves its owners, it is liberating. When it is designed to serve others, over the owner's objection, it is oppressive. There's a battle raging on your computer right now — one that pits you against worms and viruses, Trojans, spyware …
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David Pogue / New York Times:
A Big Question Unanswered by a Tiny PC — ACCORDING to legend, they teach you in journalism school to remember the five W's: who, what, when, where and why. — This week, Microsoft unveiled a new kind of computer called the Ultra Mobile PC — and has good answers to four of those questions.
Jessie Seyfer / Mercury News:
Skype putting town-hall idea on the Internet — NEW SERVICE LETS UP TO 100 HOLD AUDIO DISCUSSIONS — Internet phone-calling software maker Skype has created a way to transform blogs from soapboxes into live, town-hall meetings. — Starting today, people who have installed the free Skype software …
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Ben Charny / eWEEK.com:
Google's Mountain View Wi-Fi Network Hits a Snag — There's a chance that Google may miss the June launch date for a wireless network its building in Mountain View, Calif., or make the deadline, but with a network that doesn't have the promised coverage. — Google's begun testing the network and …
Jaanus / Skype Blogs:
Early preview of Skypecasts — We all know that people love to talk, so we're excited to announce an early preview of Skypecasts: a new way to have conversations with people across the world who share your interests. Skypecasts are live, moderated conversations allowing groups of up to 100 people …
Inside AdSense Team / Inside AdSense:
New referrals for Google Pack and Picasa — We're happy to announce that, in addition to AdSense, AdWords, and Firefox with Google Toolbar, you can now refer your users to Google Pack and Picasa. You'll earn up to $2 for each time a user installs Pack and up to $1 for each Picasa install.
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Philly Wi-Fi project passes final hurdle — Philadelphia's citywide Wi-Fi project overcame its final hurdle Wednesday, as a city council committee approved measures to allow the contractor for the project, EarthLink, to hang equipment from city-owned utility poles.
