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Click Fraud: Yahoo wants audits!

Last month I asked Click Fraud: Yahoo pledges quality, what about audits? Reggie Davis, newly appointed Yahoo Vice President of Marketplace Quality, told me Tuesday that Yahoo supports the Internet Advertising Bureau’s push for “auditing against standards,” the click measurement standards currently being formulated under the auspices of the IAB’s...

Tags: Click Fraud, Yahoo

Blog posts 2007-04-12

Click Fraud: Yahoo pledges quality, what about audits?

As Associate General Counsel, Yahoo, Reggie Davis negotiated a settlement last year in the class action lawsuit matter of Checkmate Strategic Group, Inc. vs. Yahoo Inc., which alleged breach of contract and unfair business practices, including improper collection of revenue for clicks that were click fraud. Now, as newly...

Tags: audit, Yahoo! Inc., click fraud, advertiser, Reggie Davis, settlement

Blog posts 2007-03-28

Why Yahoo really needs click fraud 'Czar'

In my Yahoo click fraud initiatives: Exclusive update in January, I projected that Yahoo would make a formal, public announcement of a “Traffic Quality Advocate” by April 30, 2007.Yesterday, Yahoo made the announcement:The appointment of Reggie Davis to vice president of marketplace quality. In this new role, Davis will serve...

Tags: traffic quality, Yahoo! Inc., Reggie Davis, click fraud

Blog posts 2007-03-23

Additional Resources

Simplified wireless networking (A deep dive into Windows 7)

Simplified wireless networking (A deep dive into Windows 7)Congratulations!You've won today's best SSID award: bottnet!:)RE: Simplified wireless networking (A deep dive into Windows 7)Microsoft Engineers told me back in 1994 that the mission was to go to some kind of subscription format if possible and if not they will...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Wi-Fi, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, wireless networking, Microsoft Windows Vista, wireless, Microsoft Windows, network, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-18

Higher education key to healthy choices

Higher education key to healthy choicesIt would seem that ....... your higher education doesn't prevent you from making staqtements not supported by the facts however. Even if it is true that Huntington has fewwer people with higher educations, there is nothing in the study that links that to the...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, Food & Beverage, Higher Education, healthy choice, health care

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

OK, so who are the idiots that respond to spam email?

OK, so who are the idiots that respond to spam email?That makes sense...An older guy who um...can't quite er..get it up like when he was 19... Needs a bit of help in that uh...department. Utterly clueless about what he's dealing with. Buys something via the spam because he's too embarassed...

Tags: Cyberthreats, spam, server, spam email

Discussion threads 2008-11-12

Hacking the vote

Hacking the voteYou'd think soBut lots of very smart people have spent lots of time not solving it.i think your server idea is right except that programmable clients make it possible to attack the server data store - something that can't be done with Sun Rays.Downside to having people pick...

Tags: Scanners, E-voting, SECURITY, VOTING MACHINES, ballot, hacking, programmer, server

Discussion threads 2008-11-03

Rockers fight white space; FCC unmoved

The over-50 rocker set has piled onto the anti-white space campaign, Ars Technica reports. Among the musicians signing on to the opposition: Neil Diamond, The Bangles, Don Henley, Mac Davis, Kenny G, Vanessa Williams, Peter Frampton, Rick Springfield, The Scorpions, Meat Loaf, DJ Green Lantern, Stevie Nicks, Bonnie Raitt, and...

Tags: FCC, Federal Government, Desktops, Government, Hardware, Richard Koman, Ars Technica, Adobe PDF

Blog posts 2008-10-29

Can Zimbra compete with Google Apps in education?

Information Week featured an article on Yahoo's Zimbra service for email and collaboration in use with educational institutions. While Zimbra, which "already provides e-mail through on-premises software at a number of marquee education accounts, including Stanford University, Georgia Tech, the University of California at Davis, Pennsylvania University, Northeastern, Carleton...

Tags: Education, Google Inc., Google Apps, Zimbra, E-mail, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-29

Fearing reversal, RIAA opts for the money in Harper case

Ars Technica reports that the RIAA has changed course in the copyright infringement case of a teenage girl who downloaded 37 songs over Kazaa. The judge in Maverick v. Harper had held that Whitney Harper, 16 at the time of her offenses, was an "innocent infringer" and awarded a...

Tags: RIAA, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-19

Verizon, AT&T delivered free cell tower to McCain ranch

Verizon and AT&T installed portable cell towers for the sole benefit of Cindy McCain, who suffers from poor cell reception at the McCains' 15-acre ranch near Sedona, Ariz., the Washington Post reported last night. The McCain campaign reacted angrily: ...

Tags: Lobbyist, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., John McCain, Cell, Cindy McCain, Professional Development, Career, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-16

California governor: Silicon Valley should go to Germany

After more than a hundred years of talk about the Pacific Rim economic opportunities for California, Silicon Valley and other California businesses are firmly focused on the west rather than the east. But Thursday morning California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will be at Intel's HQ in the heart of Silicon Valley...

Tags: California, CeBit, Transportation, Strategy, Corporate Communications, Management, Marketing, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Semantic Technology's place in the enterprise; key, but low-key ?

Last week saw over 200 researchers, advocates, implementors and practitioners of Semantic Technology descend upon the delightful Austrian capital for the second European Semantic Technology Conference ESTC. Smaller than the more established Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose and nestling uncomfortably close both spatially and temporally to...

Tags: European Commission, Verizon Communications Inc., Technology, Conference, Semantic Web, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-09-29

Thomas case reveals obscene penalties for P2P downloaders

<Update>Further note from Ray Beckerman from Recording Industry v The People on the issue of whether MediaSentry's downloading would suffice for the distribution charge see Investigator Downloading section below: "There still has to be sale or other transfer of ownership, or rental, lease, or lending. And the dissemination has to...

Tags: Distribution, P2P, RIAA, Verdict, Judge, Investigator Downloading, Thomas, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-25

RIAA loses $222K verdict against Jammy Thomas

The $222,000 verdict against Jammy Thomas for copyright infringement by P2P is no more. U.S. District Court Judge Michael Davis dismissed the verdict PDF, saying it was based on the faulty "making available" theory of distribution. Thomas will face a new trial, in which the RIAA will have to prove...

Tags: Distribution, P2P, RIAA, Verdict, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-25

Semantic Exchange offers online briefing exploring New Developments in Semantic Technology for the Enterprise

The Semantic Exchange, a new membership organisation comprising many of the companies leading the way in commercialising semantic technologies, is beginning a series of promotional and educational activities with an online briefing tomorrow, 18 September. According to the free sign-up page, participants can; ...

Tags: Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-09-17

Whatever happened to CMP?

When this decade dawned, the big three technology news publishers were International Data Group, Ziff-Davis and CMP Media. Now, Ziff-Davis has been split into multiple pieces, including this site owned ultimately by CBS. And the initials "CMP" are nowhere to be found. The business that brings you...

Tags: Acquisition, Information Week, CMP Media, United Business Media, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Thin Clients, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Hardware, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-09-09

What's on Obama's iPod?

On 15 August I posted a piece about what's on Michael Phelps' iPod (spoiler: lots of hip hop). Over the weekend I came across a piece in thew September issue of Macworld magazine about What's on Obama's iPod. The story which quotes The Examiner article offline says...

Tags: Apple iPod, Obama, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-09-02

Follow that robot!

Three years after the development of robots that act like rats, UC Davis engineers have designed a control system for robots allowing them to pick up on cues that the leader is about to turn, predict where it is going and follow it. This system mimics the human ability to...

Tags: Cue, Leader, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-09-01

Are we to have two Internets?

Are we to have two Internets?And what machine were you testing?"Apache dies when hit with about seven to ten thousand user floods. Yaws just kept on going on up to 85,000 simultaneous users."What kind of setup did you test this on?Great responseI don't agree with all your premises but I...

Tags: Web browsers, PRODUCTIVITY, NETWORKING, Intranet, Yaws, Microsoft IIS Server, Extranet, Erlang, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Internet, Microsoft Corp., tool, Web

Discussion threads 2008-09-01