Missouri Brothers Indicted In $4 Million Spam Scheme
Two Missouri men and their two accomplices have been indicted by a federal grand jury for a nationwide email spamming scheme that targeted more than 2,000 colleges and universities.
Through the spamming scheme more than $4 million worth of products were sold to students, according to Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri.
Google Launches DoubleClick Studio
Desperate times apparently call for colorful, interactive measures. Even as we remain stuck in the recession – Chrysler declared bankruptcy today, if you didn’t hear – Google unveiled DoubleClick Studio, a tool that promises to help users develop and produce rich media ads.
GeoCities Users Get a Bailout From Wetpaint
You may have read that Yahoo is closing the door on GeoCities. This was announced a week ago after about ten years of Yahoo ownership.
"We have decided to discontinue the process of allowing new customers to sign up for GeoCities accounts as we focus on helping our customers explore and build new relationships online in other ways," GeoCities noted.
Flickr Staff Falling Apart
As you may know, Yahoo has cut over 600 jobs. The company’s popular photo sharing service Flickr looks to be among the Yahoo properties directly affected by this.
Disney and Hulu Officially Get it Done
Rumors have been swirling for about a month or so, but today the news is official. Disney and Hulu have entered a partnership that will see Disney content appearing on the increasingly popular online video site.
Facebook Asks For Money But Says They Don’t Need It
Does anyone else see the similarity between Facebook’s attempts to raise additional funds and last week’s episode of
Pirate Bay Defenders Launch The Pirate Google
One thing’s for sure, Google doesn’t want to be associated with pirates; the company has enough copyright troubles as it is in its battles with Viacom and the AP. But defenders of The Pirate Bay argue there is precious little difference between two engines both capable of retrieving existing .torrent files on the Internet.
Newspapers Best Opportunity Is Online
As the newspaper industry continues to struggle its best opportunity is online, according to a new annual survey by the Center for the Digital Future at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication.
The survey found that Internet users read online newspapers for 53 minutes per week, the highest level seen so far. In contrast, Internet users in 2007 spent 41 minutes per week.
The survey also found that 22 percent of Internet users stopped their subscriptions to a printed newspaper or magazine because they could access the same content online.
Google Granted Patent For Next-Gen Data Centers
The top three things Google seems to consider when building data centers are real estate costs, electricity costs, and, perhaps, privacy. And the next generation of data centers may do extremely well in all of these respects, as Google’s been granted a patent for water-based data centers.
Computer Analysis Slow To Pick Up Swine Flu Search Trends