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PDF spam rides again - vulnerability found

Microsoft researchers follow the Search Engine Spam money...

Emerald Technology, Inc. acquires VistaDB

PPC advertising is dead because of search engines

This is a pet peeve of mine. What I mean by bulk matches are companies who buy a match to ANY words entered into the search engine. For example I recently typed in Dot Net into the search engine (I meant to type some more, but hit return on accident). The sponsored sites on the side were all “dot net” in the title, and NONE of them had ANYTHING to do with Dot Net. Click the title to read the complete article.

Safe to View IE Toolbar public beta released

What is it? Safe to View is an Internet Explorer 6/7 toolbar addin. It shows you while you are surfing the web if a site may be threatening to you or not. There are also over 40 categories of domains for you to choose the type of content you want flag as objectionable. Did you misspell the domain name again? We could have blocked that parked domain from sending those two dozen popups your way. Sick of search results that are 50% or more parked domains just trying to send you to anot

Office 2007 and SMS to your phone

Update on our virus scanner plans

Anti Virus prices going up

T-Mobile free Wi-Fi for Vista users

New File Formats for Office 2007

New file format extentions in Office 2007 are going to be added to the default file block list. This article talks a little about the new file formats, and some of the new features of the file formats in Office 2007. You can now save PDF files and a new filetype called XPS.

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