New Search Engines Help Users Find Blogs, Wall Street Journal, Sept 7 2005

New Search Engines Help Users Find Blogs, Wall Street Journal, Sept 7 2005

“The race is on to become the Google of blogs.
Web logs, online diaries written and published by everyone from college students to big media companies, are being created and updated at an astonishing rate -- and established search companies such as Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. don't always catch them fast enough. Now, a handful of closely held upstarts such as Technorati Inc., Feedster Inc. and IceRocket.com LLC see an opportunity: Build a search engine that can track the information zipping through blogs, nearly in real time.”

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Adware maker seeks to thwart rogue installs, Cnet News, Sept 7 2005

” In a continuing effort to clean up its image, advertising software maker 180solutions has updated its products to thwart rogue distribution.

180solutions has long been in the crosshairs of anti-spyware groups. The Bellevue, Wash., company makes the 180search Assistant and Zango Search Assistant applications that deliver pop-up ads to users as they perform Web searches. While the company distributes Zango on its own, 180solutions relies on about 8,000 third parties to distribute 180search. Those parties get paid for each installation of the software.”

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AOL Closing in on Video VoIP Launch, internetnews.com, Sept 8 2005

“After years of endless speculation in the industry about plans for video over its vast Instant Messaging networks, AOL is closing in on its own splashy video Voice over IP calling service, internetnews.com has learned.”

Full story at: http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3546946


Cingular music phone ads take cue from iPod images, Yahoo! News, Sept 7 2005

“NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wireless carrier Cingular seeks to bend the ear of consumers with its entry into the market of music-playing cell phones ahead of U.S. rivals, launching a splashy campaign for the new device developed with Apple Inc.'s iPod and Motorola Inc.”

Full story at: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050908/tc_nm/telecoms_cingular_advertising_dc


Former Green Beret Stays Online in Katrina's Wake, eweek.com, Sept 8 2005

“A former Army Green Beret, and colleagues at a Web hosting service, are holed up in a commercial building in downtown New Orleans, with weeks of food and water and a diesel-powered electric generator, struggling to keep a segment of the Internet from going offline because of Hurricane Katrina, Ziff Davis Internet has learned.”

Full Story at: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1856446,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594


Web and text vote trials dropped, BBC News, Sept 6 2005

“Proposed trials of voting via internet or text message in next year's local council elections have been scrapped by the government.
Ministers had been considering holding more pilot schemes in all London boroughs in next year's polls.”

Full Story at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4219008.stm


Judge to rule Tuesday in Kai-Fu Lee case, Cnet News, Sept 7 2005

“SEATTLE--A Washington state court judge plans to issue a ruling Tuesday on whether former Microsoft executive Kai-Fu Lee will be allowed to immediately begin setting up a China development center for Google.
After hearing two days of testimony this week, Judge Steven Gonzalez said late Wednesday that he would review the evidence and issue his decision both in court and in writing on Tuesday morning.”

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New Cisco flaw could pose threat to Net, Cnet News, Sept 7 2005

“A serious flaw in Cisco Systems software puts computer networks at risk of cyberattack and has prompted security vendor Symantec to raise its Internet threat level.
A vulnerability in Cisco's Internetwork Operating System could be exploited to crash or remotely run malicious code on devices that run IOS, the San Jose, Calif., networking giant warned Wednesday in a security advisory. IOS runs on Cisco's routers and switches, which make up a large portion of the Internet's infrastructure.”

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