Friday, July 24, 2009
Click Fraud’s New Asian Connection
A note of caution to online advertisers: That flood of Web users seemingly based in Vietnam may not simply be the result of a vibrant emerging economy coming online.
A note of caution to online advertisers: That flood of Web users seemingly based in Vietnam may not simply be the result of a vibrant emerging economy coming online.
In the wake of the disputed Iranian election, American Internet companies including Facebook and Twitter have given Iranians an avenue to voice their opinions and to break through the wall of censorship their embattled government has built around the country’s traditional media.
High school hackers, crackers and digital deviants: Uncle Sam wants you.
“The cloud” has come to represent the bright future of computing, a world where processing and storage become as ubiquitous, cheap and accessible as electricity. But for big business, one researcher argues that “cloud” metaphor may be economically apt: The closer you look at the much-hyped technology’s price advantages, the fuzzier they seem.
In what tech pundits at Gartner Research call the curve of hype and gloom, Linden Lab’s virtual world, Second Life, has officially entered the gloom stage. In October, Reuters pulled its full-time Second Life reporter Eric Krangel, who had written daily news stories about the virtual world’s economy for a year and a half, out of the virtual world.
Digital bibliophiles may have hoped Amazon would offer up a new e-reader before the holidays. But they haven’t let their disappointment–or the tanking economy–put a damper on Christmas Kindle-mania.
Want to know how well a company protects its customers’ data? Don’t talk to its security and compliance officers. Instead, try its marketing department.
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