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CNN reports that MSN's Korean site was hacked and passwords stolen. The Korean site, unlike U.S. versions, was operated by another company, which Microsoft did not identify. Microsoft believes the computers were vulnerable because operators failed to apply necessary software patches, said Sohn, an MSN director.

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According to Gary, who reads the WSJ (i won't on general principle heh..), Ebay have bought Shopping.com...

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The Oregon Live.com are covering an Associated Press story that a woman has filed a suit against Yahoo for not taking naked photos of her down from their network, yet previously promising to do so.

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Bittorrent inventor, Bram Cohen has published his new search engine for torrent files. This comes sooner than expected and just a day after
EliteTorrents.org was shutdown by FBI.

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A MarketWatch story covering the D3 conference reports that Barry Diller has talked about rebranding Ask Jeeves to either Jeeves, or ASK. That would be a beautiful thing to see (assuming he chose Ask rather than Jeeves) as the stigma of such a ridiculous name seriously hampers the world's 4th Search engine in my opinion...

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Having had a heavy day today, I was doing a little light reading and came across this on The Register. Happily the web is not all redirects and Bourbon.

Over-excited males flocking to see a controversial TV ad featuring highly-talented heiress Paris Hilton cavorting in a bikini atop a Bentley with a sponge, a hose and a Spicy BBQ Burger brought down the Carl's Jr. website specifically set up to promote the soft-core meatfest.

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The Register is reporting that Lord Justice Maurice Kay and Mr Justice Newman have handed their view on the appeals of Interfact Limited v Enviromental Health And Trading Standards Division and Pabo Ltd v Liverpool City Council. Their ruling effectively makes the sale of porn online in the UK illegal...

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Sci-Tech Today are reporting that Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt has said:

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Peter Preston one of the smart Guardian columnists has highlighted the slow take that print media has suffered in the internet age. Preston quotes some of the large drops on circulation in some of the US' biggest newspapers and attributes it to the internet.

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I am having major problems with my internet connection at the moment,so I will be off-line for a little while.
If those with editor permissions could do me a favour and promote any good threads to the home page and generally look after the shop, that would be much appreciated.
I removed an update thread this morning before I lost the connection and haven't managed to pm those involved, my apologies for that, I will do it when I am back on line.
Thanks everybody.

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We've been talking about Google as a portal (and it is, it's just in stealth mode...) for some time, as more and more standard portal features are added to the cornerstones of email, news and other older Google services. Now Danny reveals that GOOG are finally to launch an integrated page for all these services just like my.yahoo, my.msn and my.jeeves....

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Brian points to the ongoing thread at SEW, SEM Industry Biggest Growing Pains where SearchKing famed Bob Massa posts some provocative thoughts on the general lack of business or marketing skills amongst those that call themselves search marketers...

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may just live to eat his words after a speach at Stanford university where he called the worlds top Search company a "one hit wonder" according to this Bizweek report...

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A new computer worm sent right-wing German messages to millions of computers over the weekend in what anti-virus experts said was a sign that spam has become a tool for propagandists as well as scam artists.

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NewsGator are to aquire FeedDemon and of course Bradbury Software big job Nick Bradbury...

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We knew it would come. Despite other large publishers making more and more content free, ad supported, the New York Times is moving to a paid subscription model for a large chunk of its content...

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The E Consultancy, have delivered another of their buyer guides. This time it is the Search Engine Marketing – A Buyer’s Guide (2005)

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One would expect that being sued for various reasons would be factored into the Yahoo! Groups budget, but it's a nasty wake up call to be sued over child p0rn by the parents of a child whose photo was syndicated on a Y! group...

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The recent SES Toronto get's a slap with this post by searchengineoptimizer for being too basic. "I didn't get very much out of this conference - found it to be VERY basic info..."...

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The SMA-EU officially launched today, after months of preperation....