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Illegal Ads Plague Bing.com AdCenter

LegitScript.com reported that 89.7% of pharmaceutical category ads on Bing's adCenter were from illegal pharmacies....

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Google As Big Brother … Well, There’s Some Potential

Google aims to be able to track its users to within 100-200 feet of their location ...

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Talks Over Limiting The Internet’s Warfare Potential Unites US and Russia In Talks

Posted on 13 December 2009

The United States recently changed course and began open talks with Russia regarding the role of the United Nations arms control committee towards strengthening Internet security and limiting the use of cyberspace as a military platform. Although Russia and the US have engaged in dialogue about the subject, their interpretations vary. There has been a growing concern in the Obama Administration over the increasing development of cyberweapons and their use. The goal of the US is to increase international cooperation regarding cybercrime.

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NYU Researcher Gets Grant To Rewrite Moby Dick In Emoticons

Posted on 17 October 2009

An NYU researcher received grant funding to rewrite all 438 sentences Herman Melville’s Moby Dick using Japanese emoticons. Fred Berenson, the researcher, plans to use Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to obtain three different interpretations from each sentence. From there, each sentence will be voted on and one will be chosen.

When asked why he chose Moby Dick as the book to be translated, Mr. Berenson stated that he needed a public domain book and one that was fairly long in order to demonstrate the the capability of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.

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Bloomberg To Buy Businessweek

Posted on 14 October 2009

Bloomberg LP has confirmed it’s acquisition of Businessweek. Bloomberg will be paying $2 million to $5 million in cash.

“We are not buying BusinessWeek to gut it. We are buying it to build it” Bloomberg stated.

Businessweek.com has 20 million unique users and 100 million pageviews. It generates $60 million in revenue. It has not been decided what Bloomberg will do with the web operations.

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New Web Game Encourages Citizen Spying

Posted on 09 October 2009

A private business called Internet Eyes encourages citizens to roam through live video clips taken from an extensive CCTV network in the UK and report crime. The website makes the process of video voyeurism into a game–awarding it’s top users cash prizes of £1,000 for catching criminals.

Source: Ironpaper: Current “Internet Game That Uses Surveillance To Stop Real UK Crime”

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