Microsoft to offer free anti-spyware software
Microsoft will offer consumers who use its Windows operating system free software to battle spyware and eventually antivirus software chairperson Bill Gates said on Tuesday Gates said that Microsoft is on track to deliver an antivirus product to consumers by the end of the year following its acquisition ofSybari Software
Microsoft and Pfizer fight fake Viagra spammers
The flood of junk emails peddling Viagra could become a thing of the past after the drug maker Pfizer joined forces with Microsoft on Thursday to file 17 lawsuits aimed at cracking down on spammers...
Desktop Search and Revenue Streams
The name of the game in Internet search has always been helping users find what theyre looking for as quickly as possible as precisely as possible The panelists at the Cyberposiums Search Visionary session at Harvard Business School on January 29th spoke about the latest efforts to refine search capabilities
With that in mind panel moderator Thomas R Eisenmann associate professor of Entrepreneurial Management at noted that the next wave in search tools is going beyond material on the World Wide Web to finding data on desktops as well as elsewhere...
JAMES DERK: Pay-per-click
Scripps Howard News Service
Lets cover the weeks developments in technology in a nutshell with some commentary that I hope will shed some light
Investigators are finally getting tough on click fraud the practice of screwing around with payperclick ads on sites like Google and Yahoo The idea is simple Lets say you own a banana plantation in Alaska You purchase the keywords banana plantation
from Google That assures your link is at the top of the search link You have agreed to pay Google a fee for every person that clicks on the link...
IE 7 Sparks Talk Of Browser Wars
Microsoft Corps decision to update Internet Explorer sooner than originally planned is less about improving security as the company has claimed and more about combating rivals in the lucrative search market a market analyst said Wednesday
In announcing that the company would begin beta testing 70 in early summer Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates told attendees at the Conference in San Francisco Tuesday that the upgrade would include additional defenses against phishing scams worms viruses and spyware but did not give any details on new capabilities...
A Few Minutes With Google Maps
The Google Maps themselves look very nice on my computer screen and are easy to use While the slider is useful to zoom in and out of a location I would also like to be able to click on the map itself to do this
Youve probably already noticed that the Navteq supplies some of the map info to Google Navteq also supplies map data to Yahoo Maps Maps and MapQuest
Maps offers the very useful Paste An Address feature Using it you can take an address from any web page and search it without having to fillin the address and location boxes Google and Yahoo should also offer something like it...