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YouTube lets advertisers buy search terms

 
According to YouTube, which held a press conference at its headquarters, Sponsored Videos lets users promote their videos by bidding on keywords. Here’s how it works: First, YouTube users, whether individuals or corporations, decide which of the videos they’ve uploaded they want to promote through site search. Then they decide which keywords they want to [...]

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Fake Wordpress Site That Steal Your Data

Don’t mistype “wordpress.org” because you could end up downloading compromised code. Some hackers have set up www.wordpresz.org. The code sends cookie contents to a hacked program hosted on wordpresz.org and could expose passwords and other identifying information.
UPDATE - Looks dead now.
The backdoored pluggable.php file attempts to send the stolen data to wordpresz.org/tuk.php which is still [...]

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“I’m a PC” Recording Kiosks Outside Apple Stores

It appears that Microsoft is starting to get more aggressive with that $300 million marketing blitz. The new tactic? Setting up large kiosks outside Apple stores where visitors can record their own “I’m a PC” video. The image above comes from an Apple store in England where a trio of Microsoft staffers will attempt to intercept [...]

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LG: ‘Life isn’t that good right now’

With economic-downturn on everyone’s minds, LG’s director of marketing plans on downplaying the company’s ubiquitous “Life’s Good” slogan. Time for Lucky GoldStar to make a comeback? Nothing says “recession proof” like a quasi off-brand cereal name.

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New Radiohead Album Cost Whatever You Want It To Be

Radiohead’s newest album will cost whatever you decide to pay for it. Want to give the band $10? Go ahead. $3? Sure, why not? $0? You got it. (Sorta, since you’ll need to pay credit card fees.)
The album, In Rainbows, will be released on October 10 as a digital download on the band’s Web site. [...]

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Microsoft’s Next OS To Be Called “Windows 7?

Microsoft has announced that the latest version of Windows, due in the next couple of years, will be called - drumroll please - Windows 7. It’s about time Microsoft adopted a naming system that might actually make some sense to users, but I can’t wait for hordes of customers to start asking if they somehow [...]

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Google Had Its “Third” Founder, But It Was A Mistake

Google just celebrated its 10th anniversary,then they were someone out from a nutshell claiming that he was the third founder for Google, obviously.
Hubert Chang claims that as an NYU Ph.D student in 1997 he was introduced to Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin by Stanford professor Rajeev Motwani. He then helped the two come [...]

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Things That I Shoved In My Ass

This is what I called, Awesome!

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New Generation iPod Nano Is Sexy

Apple’s decision to transition from the fat third-generation iPod nano to the new svelte fourth-generation iPod nano must have been an easy one. The latest version has the same size screen, the same 8 and 16GB storage and the same video support as before, but adds a much more comfortable (sorta) oval shape, a curved [...]

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Zune Get New Features,Still Tough To Knockdown iPod

The day before Apple is expected to updated their iPods,Microsoft (MSFT) is reminding the world that the Zune still exists, via a handful of new features.
These include the ability to buy music over wi-fi, a new feature that lets you buy songs you hear on FM radio, casual games, and some music recommendation features — [...]

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