Tonight begins the two part season finale of Top Chef on Bravo. As the remaining four head to Singapore, they are challenged with trying to recreate Asian cuisine. Which chef will have what it takes to gain immunity tonight and which chef will be asked to pack their knives by the end of the evening? [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Top Chef: Season Finale Part One", url: "http ...

Microsoft gets legal might to take down spam botnets

SEATTLE -- With a judicial assist, Microsoft has perfected a new superweapon to shoot down botnets, the engines cybergangs use to deliver malicious Internet attacks.

NEWS: Google Instant is the future of search engines

Despite the myriad of Web services Google now offers, its name is still associated mostly with search. And today, the un-evil company reminds us all just how they rose to the top, by reinventing the search engine with Google Instant. Google Instant, as its name implies, is a more instant way to achieve results. The way search is normally done is a 2-step process: 1) type in your question and 2 ...

MasterChef: Final Four Revealed

Gordon Ramsay is back tonight for another two hours of Masterchef on FOX as the final four are revealed. With their final mystery box challenge followed by a tense food critic challenge, who will prove that they have what it takes to make it into the finale next week? Keep reading for all the tasty [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "MasterChef: Final Four Revealed", url: "http ...

Vatican: Quran burning 'outrageous'

Burning the Quran would be an "outrageous and grave gesture," the Vatican said Wednesday, joining a chorus of voices pleading with a small Florida church not to burn Islam's holy book on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks.

Microsoft moves forward with Waledac takedown

Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Thursday 9 September 2010 at 00:45:00 Company gets approval to shut down botnet domains Microsoft is continuing on its campaign to shut down the notorious Waledac malware botnet. The company said that it has been awarded a summary judgement which will give Microsoft control of some 276 domains which are being used by Waledac's operators. The judgement ...

Court OKs Microsoft's new weapon for taking down botnets

A federal judge as approved a new tactic Microsoft used to cripple the notorious Waledac botnet, and Microsoft plans to use its new legal weapon again.

Online Privacy: FTC Mulls New Ad Tracking Rules

At the Gov 2.0 Summit, one official says consumers still aren't aware of how much they're being tracked online. That concern could have serious implications for both Internet users and the marketers who want to reach them.

What Does the .CO Launch Mean for New gTLDs?

The .CO top-level domain made over $10 million in just a couple of months. What do the results of the .CO re-launch mean for new gTLDs? Remember, .CO is the country-code TLD for Colombia. Until this summer, you could only register names under .com.co, .net.co, etc. You couldn't register myname.co.

SafeNet

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Bosh Turns Over to NBPA Remaining Athlete and Celebrity Domains Awarded in Lawsuit

Winston & Strawn LLP, on behalf of its client, the Miami Heat's Chris Bosh, in concert with Bosh's agent, Henry Thomas, and the National Basketball Players Association, today announce that the NBPA agreed to assume management of hundreds of domains awarded to Bosh for continued return. Â Domains already returned include those identical to members of Charlotte Bobcats, Chicago Bulls, Indiana ...

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Network Solutions Web Hosting Register your domain name with nsWebAddress™. Includes free instant homepage, local directory listing and 24/7 real person support!

RIM Buys "Documents To Go", But Microsoft Missed Out

RIM has confirmed that it purchased a significant portion of DataViz, along with the intellectual property and coding skills behind the popular Documents To Go app. The move will help RIM improve its BlackBerry platform as a business productivity tool, and represents a significant missed opportunity for Microsoft.

Web Host Go Daddy Launches XCO URL Shortening Service

September 8, 2010 -- Domain registrar and Web hosting provider Go Daddy announced on Wednesday it has launched "X.CO" , a free short URL redirection service that offers customization, rich analytics and social media integration.

Web Host Go Daddy Launches XCO URL Shortening Service

September 8, 2010 -- Domain registrar and Web hosting provider Go Daddy announced on Wednesday it has launched "X.CO" , a free short URL redirection service that offers customization, rich analytics and social media integration.

Online Marketer - Ecommerce - SEO - SEM - PPC - Affiliate - CPA. - 35k

This position is open as of 9/5/2010. Online Marketer - Ecommerce - SEO - SEM - PPC - Affiliate - CPA - traffic - ranking - CPC. Online Marketer - Ecommerce - SEO - SEM - PPC - Affiliate - CPA - traffic - ranking - CPCIf you are a Online Marketer with SEM, SEO, PPC, Email, and Banner Ad experience, please read on!What you need for this position:- Bachelors in Marketing, Advertising, etc.- 3 ...

Neustar Announces .BIZ Domain Name Security Enhancements

STERLING, Va., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Neustar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR) announced today that .BIZ is the first top-level domain (TLD) to deploy both DNS security extensions (DNSSEC) and the Registry Lock service. Neustar is the registry administrator for the .BIZ TLD as designated by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and is the first company to announce these improvements ...

Centro and Global Strategy Group Study Reveals Positive Impact of Online Advertising on Political Campaigns

Live, In-Market Test Finds That Exposing Voters to Both Tv and Online Advertising Delivers Increased Candidate Name Recognition and Favorability

‘X.CO’ Marks the Spot for Internet Treasures

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For many people, the Web has become all about one thing – sharing informative, funny and even juicy links with others. These Web addresses, also known as URLs, are often very long. URL shorteners have helped Internet users pass along simplified links for some time. Now, Go Daddy’s new ‘X.CO’ delivers with a punch – complete with customization, rich analytics ...

Payment Software enables transactions via mobile phone.

Designed for financial institutions, mobile operators, e-commerce, and catalog retailers, WISePay(TM) allows universally trusted payment services to be offered out of Switzerland using WISeKey's secure technology. Downloadable from iTunes, WISePay Virtual Money is for mobile transactions with virtual economies such as multi-user-domains, while WISePay Cash allows person-to-person transfer, bank ...

Online Trust Alliance Forms Cross-Industry Anti-Malvertising Task Force

SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwire - 09/08/10) - The Online Trust Alliance (OTA), today announced it has formed an Anti-Malvertising Task Force in response to increased threats to consumers and to help defend the integrity of interactive advertising. The group has drafted a series of guidelines to support cross-industry efforts to combat malvertising, and it has issued a request for comments from the ...

Goodmail and Truedomain Partner to Deliver the Ultimate Antiphishing Solution to Protect Email Senders and Their Brands

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. & MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Goodmail Systems® today announced a distribution partnership with Truedomain® that gives email senders the intelligence needed to protect their domains from being phishing bait for online scammers.

Marshall Edwards Reaches Agreement in Principle to Acquire Intellectual Property Portfolio From Novogen

Marshall Edwards, Inc. , an oncology company focused on the clinical development of novel anti-cancer therapeutics, announced today that it has reached an agreement in principle with Novogen Limited to acquire Novogen's entire isoflavone-related intellectual property portfolio in a stock-based transaction.

Vodone Debuts MOBUS, Expands into Mobile Advertising Market

Vodone Group announced today that China's largest online broadcasting advertising platform has been upgraded to "1bus" . This newly-evolved web platform has two major line products: VBUS and MOBUS.

The Dot-Pro Domain Helps Give Professionals an Edge in the Job Market

As the economy recovers from the recession, the unemployed are renewing their job search. Using a dot-pro domain from EnCirca for email and an online bio helps give unemployed licensed professionals an advantage in the job market.

Intellectual Property

Furniture retailers confront copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property (IP) issues on a daily basis. These arise internally when creating and protecting catalogues, websites, advertisements, and trademarks.

Defining cloud computing

Dale Vile, Computing , Wednesday 8 September 2010 at 10:25:00 Making sense of what cloud means to your business involves evaluating the options and clarifying the benefits you expect from its implementation, writes Dale Vile The media, social media, analyst and marketing domains sometimes act like an echo chamber. The same things are heard over and over again on high-profile topics as messages ...

Craigslist not the only online site for sex ads

Craigslist’s newly implemented ban on advertisements for adult services does not mean such online classifieds have vanished from the Internet. Craigslist - Classified advertising - Sexuality - Classifieds - Prostitution

LucidMedia and Milabra Announce Online Advertising Pact to Deploy Brand-Safe Visual Content for Advertisers and Agencies

RESTON, Va. & NEW YORK----LucidMedia , a leading digital advertising management platform and Milabra , the leader in online visual intelligence for media, today announced a partnership to provide visual data and brand-safe online advertising inventory featuring images and visual media for advertisers and interactive advertising agencies using LucidMedia’s demand-side platform .

Display advertising gets back on track

The multi-billion-pound online display market is experiencing a resurgence, boosted by innovation and expansion by specialist ad networks, and renewed confidence from advertisers and agencies.

HardDrives.com, Computer Hardware Domain Name & Website to be Auctioned Off at Epik.com Domain Development Conference

Epik.com, a leading domain name development company, has released a list of developed domain names to be auctioned off on September 16, at 1:30 pm at the Bell Harbor Conference Center Bay Auditorium in Seattle.

/C O R R E C T I O N -- NO KILL NATION/

In the news release, BUILDING A NO KILL SOUTH FLORIDA CONFERENCE, issued 07-Sep-2010 by NO KILL NATION over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that the URL at end of the release should read "http://www.thenokillnation.org/" rather than "http://www.thenokillnation.com/" as originally issued inadvertently. The complete, corrected ...

Parked domains: is Google wasting your money?

Parked domains are generally low quality resources, housing value-less directories or pages of AdSense ads. Why then is the proportion of AdWords spend that is going to these parked domains on the rise?

Twitter's link logging will be a boon for businesses

Twitter is getting into analytics. Finally. This week, the microblogging service announced that it will be updating its URL shortener t.co to help alleviate malware problems and track link sharing on its service.

Track Your Website Visitors and Their Behaviors in Real Time

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

UNO Head Keeps Eye on Hispanic Mayoral Candidates

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Privacy watchdog raps TalkTalk over URL scanning

The Information Commissioner's Office was not informed about a TalkTalk malware-scanning trial that is looking at all websites requested bythe ISP's customers ( ZDNet UK - Security )

Web Host MyHost Expands Name Server Infrastructure to Europe

September 7, 2010 -- New Delaware-based Web host MyHost Corp has just expanded its name server grid to Europe, giving it the Domain Name System infrastructure to increase delivery speeds in both the US and Europe.

ICO warns TalkTalk over URL tracking service

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued a warning to TalkTalkafter the ISP ran a covert trial that traced web sites visited by its customersin order to detect malware.

Intellectual Property

Opposer's opposition to Applicant's registration of the mark MITHRIL for jewelry was sustained by the TTAB on the ground that Applicant lacked a bona fide intent to use the mark in commerce.

Intellectual Property

The TTAB sustained each of three oppositions in a consolidated proceeding between competing flashlight manufacturers. In the first proceeding, the TTAB found a likelihood of confusion between Brinkmann's MAGNUM MAXFIRE mark and Mag's MAG-NUM STAR mark, rejecting Brinkmann's asserted Morehouse defense.

Intellectual Property

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment to plaintiff on its claim that defendant's eVISA mark used for a "multilingual education and information business" diluted plaintiff's famous VISA mark for credit/debit-card services.

Intellectual Property

In an opinion by Judge Lourie, joined by Chief Judge Rader and Judge Moore, regarding Stauffer v. Brooks Brothers, Inc., No. 09-1428 et al. (Fed. Cir. August 31, 2010) ( Stauffer ), the Federal Circuit reversed the district court and held that qui tam plaintiff Raymond Stauffer had standing to sue under Section 292 and that the U.S. government could intervene in the standing controversy at the ...

Understanding how the UK advertising watchdog can go about removing PPC ads?

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in the UK is extending its powers to cover all online marketing and advertising from March 1st 2011.

DNS Clients Do Request DNSSEC Today

After the DNS root zone was finally signed and a number of Top-Level Domains (TLDs) began signing their zones, we were curious to see how many clients actually request DNSSEC information. We looked at the RIPE NCC server that provides secondary service to several country code top-level domains (ccTLDs).

Intellectual Property Attorney Leads Team Exodus

One of the biggest local names in intellectual property has a new home.

Easyspace Announce 70% Discount on .BIZ Domain Name Registration in September

GLASGOW, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwire - 09/06/10) - Easyspace, one of the UK's leading domain name and web hosting companies, has announced an incredible offer of 70 percent off all .BIZ domain names to take place throughout September. This latest offer, which runs for the whole of September, allows any customer purchasing a .biz domain name to receive an automatic 70% discount and will only pay ...

Intellectual property rights protection improving in China

China's intellectual property rights protection system is improving thanks to a cooperative project between China and the European Union, senior officials said.

British Advertising Regulator Making Itself Felt Online

The Advertising Standards Authority of Britain plans to extend its oversight to social media, company Web sites and other nontraditional digital marketing activities.

Name game aflame as Latinos fight AOL

A Lower East Side army is marshaling its forces for battle against the capitalists of America Online. The Latino Army of Light, a fraternal order whose "Grand Sword Bearer" once hobnobbed with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, says it has owned the domain name latinoaol.com since 1998, two years before...