Facebook wins $711m from spammer

Facebook has successfully taken Sanford “Spamford” Wallace to court as the social networking site has been awarded $711m in damages because of his actions. Wallace used other Facebook users’ accounts without their permission in order to leave wall posts and messages. Wallace is by no means a stranger to this sort of activity - his Spamford nickname is well earned from previous activities.

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Google launches price comparison feature

Google has launched its own price comparison service, providing users with relevant comparison options alongside standard search results.

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Google launches OneBox music service

Google has introduced its new OneBox music service, offering free streams and downloadable MP3s to rival Apple’s dominance of the online music market and to provide an alternative to illegal file sharing. BBC News reports that Google’s OneBox service is currently only available in the United States, in partnership with Lala and iLike, the MySpace-owned music service. The service allows users to search for tracks by song title, artist or even by entering fragments of lyrics, with a pop-up widget offering to the ability to stream the entire song or to download the MP3.

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Using PayPal Effectively

There are a lot of benefits to using PayPal for individual and business purposes. Of these reasons, one stands out; it is that PayPal provides its users with the ability to conduct online transactions more securely. PayPal was founded in 1998 and since then has acquired more than 75 million satisfied users. Today, PayPal is accepted by many, major online merchants, making its use widely accepted.
PayPal is well known for providing safe online funds transfers. PayPal has improved its security features over the years. It is a major target for phishing attacks, and yet it keeps its standard for being the safest method of conducting electronic funds transfers for both businesses and individuals. How PayPal works is simple. An individual or a business registers and opens an account with them. Then validates their credit card with the PayPal account and after that simply signs in using the PayPal username and password to make payments. Online merchants who cannot afford an internet payment gateway can signup with PayPal to accept payments from customers via PayPal.

If a user is using PayPal to pay for goods or services, he or she can have peace of mind knowing that credit card details are not divulged to the merchant. The transaction is carried out by PayPal transferring funds from the user’s credit card to the merchant’s PayPal account. PayPal has also partnered with major websites such as eBay, providing users who pay with PayPal free insurance cover for their goods. Many smaller online merchants, such as those on eBay also use PayPal to receive funds, because it is easy to use, widely accepted and extremely secure.

What is Pay Per Click Internet Advertising?

Pay per Click advertising or PPC is a great way to obtain qualified traffic to an ecommerce website. Pay per Click essentially means that an advertiser pays only for the number of clicks on the advertisement and not the number of times the ad is displayed to users. Companies such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, Facebook and AdBright provide organizations and individuals with the opportunity of conducting PPC advertisement campaigns for their websites.

Most Pay per Click advertisements are listed as sponsored listing on search engines or web pages. Google’s adsense program allows website owners publish advertisements from Google, and Google pays them a percentage of the clicks that are received from their website. The most productive to post your advertisements on a pay per click ad campaign is at the top of search results on search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN.

Some of the advantages of using Pay per Click advertising is that advertisers have much more control over which pages are offered for customers to click and the link to the promoted page is displayed on the first results page as opposed to natural or organic search engine listings. Advertisers can also structure their ads and refine their “call to action” enabling more traffic to their website. Webmasters and marketers can choose what keywords the advertisements should show up for. This allows the webmasters and marketers drive more qualified traffic that will use the website more and provide more profits to the website owners. Pay per Click advertisements will provide the webmaster or marketer with a host of information based on demographic, geographic area, time zone, keywords etc., that will prove useful when analyzing the type of traffic that visits the website.

Google announces Social Search

Google has announced its new Social Search feature, which combines results from social networks including blogs, micro-blogging sites Twitter and FriendFeed and photo sharing site Flickr to allow users the alternative of receiving more relevant and personalised search results from their own social circle.

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Wii Fit Plus: Recommended by The NHS

The NHS is said to be giving the Nintendo Wii Fit Plus the NHS’s Change4Life logo making the Wii the first gaming device to ever be recommended by the health department. While the government and various health agencies have often attacked video games as being a major factor in the health and obesity problems they are trying to tackle, it seems that the the Wii Fit Plus has elicited a change in opinion. They believe will encourage a healthier lifestyle among Britain’s armchair critics - video gamers.

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Antivirus vendor AVG blocks Linkshare affiliate clicks

Widely used antivirus vendor AVG has started to block clicks on the large Linkshare affiliate network. This means that users are unable to access the webpages the links point to, merchants do not get the traffic and affiliates are not paid. False positives from the antivirus scanner AVG are not unheard of.

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Internet expands to accept non-Latin addresses

The internet is expected to undergo the most significant technical change in its history this week, following the expected approval of non-Latin script for domain addresses.

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Sophisticated hack targets Guardian jobs site

A sophisticated hacking attack has put users of the Guardian’s jobs website at risk. The Guardian reports that up to half a million users of its UK recruitment website were targeted on Friday night by hackers looking to steal personal details. A spokesperson confirmed that the attack was stopped before it was completed, and the site e-mailed users who may have been at risk to explain: “You have used the site to make one or more job applications and we believe your personal data, relating to those applications, may have been accessed.” Technical details of the hack are not available as the case is being investigated by Scotland Yard’s central e-crime unit, however users have been informed that their account details and financial information were not accessed

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