Australia's High Court cleared Google on Wednesday of violating fair trade laws by allowing companies to publish advertisements containing their competitors' names, handing a defeat to the country's fair trade regulator. The High Court ...
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For the first time, a major botnet take-down has included direct victim notification that warns users their PCs are infected and shows them how to scrub clean their machines. Yesterday's take-down of the Bamital botnet by Microsoft and ...
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Software vendors Microsoft and Symantec have "taken down" the Bamital botnet following a joint investigation lasting more than three years. The operation involved shutting down servers that were being used to control hundreds of thousands ...
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An industry group called the Initiative for a Competitive Online Marketplace (ICOMP) has claimed that Google's dominant position in online search and advertising was generated as a result of a "broad-ranging and illegal network of ...
Site statistics collected by Style in View, a search engine which aggregates clothes, shoes and accessories from highstreet and online retailers like ASOS, John Lewis and Marks & Spencer, revealed lingerie to be the most popular search term ...
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Microsoft founder and Chairman Bill Gates recently took part in a question-and-answer session on popular message board site Reddit. Gates’ Ask Me Anything (AMA) session garnering more than 18,000 comments shortly after it ended. ...
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Microsoft and Symantec on Wednesday announced that they have dismantled a botnet that took over millions of computers for criminal activities such as identity theft and click fraud. The Bamital botnet threatened the $12.7 billion online ...
The discovery search engine earns prestigious content industry recognition. NEW YORK, NY, February 07, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Transparensee Systems, Inc., a leading enterprise search software company, today announced that their ...
TipSense, LLC today announced the launch of AppCrawlr, the most relevant and useful search engine for discovering mobile applications. Using technology built from the ground up, AppCrawlr provides more relevant search results than any other ...
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Google has resolved a compensation fight with French news publishers that sees the US internet search giant setting up a 60 million euros ($A78.67 million) fund to help France's media adapt to the digital age. "France is proud to have ...
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Intellectual property company I/P Engine has sued Microsoft for infringing two search patents it acquired from Lycos. Microsoft allegedly infringes two patents that cover a relevance filtering technology that is mainly used to place high ...
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The European Commission has received a proposal from Google to settle an antitrust investigation into the compny's search engine practices, a Commission spokesman said on Friday. At the same time, an industry organization said it has filed ...
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California-based Southwest Healthcare System recently selected Digisonics as the Cardiovascular Information System (CVIS) Solution for Inland Valley Medical Center in Wildomar, Calif. and Rancho Springs Medical Center in Murrieta, Calif. ...
As German government officials prepared to meet to discuss a controversial online copyright bill on Wednesday, Yahoo, Facebook and German online startups slammed the proposal that would allow publishers to charge search engines such as ...
The file-sharing service Mega has fielded 150 copyright warnings since its recent launch as founder Kim Dotcom grows a risky new business while under indictment by U.S. prosecutors for running Megaupload. And a French website appears to ...
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