Google Partnership With Fairfax Digital Announced

Americans may not be familiar with the Fairfax Digital group, but it’s Australia’s “leading provider of online news and classifieds websites.”  And it’s now Google’s partner - Fairfax Digital has joined the Google Adsense network, will make some clips available through Google Video, and plans to integrate Google Maps throughout its properties.

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YouTube Guys Call BS On Pentagon

A Defense Department decision to ban YouTube and several other sites from its unclassified network has been challenged by YouTube's founders.

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Fair Isaac Enters Click Fraud Debate

A study of click fraud by Fair Isaac found 10 to 15 percent of ad traffic is "pathological," and is more of a problem than companies like Google and Yahoo want to admit.

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All Bets Are Off – Yahoo Gets Into Online Poker

Online poker has (deservedly or not) gotten a bad reputation, and it’s actually illegal in the U.S.  It came as a bit of a surprise, then, when Yahoo launched a new site called Yahoo Poker.  The site’s not for kiddies, and it’s not a joke; players will use real money.

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Senate Pushes Web Pharmacy Regulations

There's most likely a balance between no regulation and too much regulation, and the current Democratic Congress is walking that line. No one would doubt the potential harm caused by "rogue" Web-dealers, but Sen. Patrick Leahy's (D-Vt.) tightening grip on Internet service providers should at least cause one to step back a bit to look at it.

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