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		<title>Is dearwatches.com  a scam?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shopping experiences from replica watch store dearwatches.com &#8220;I need my money back!&#8221; When we buy a replica watch from a website but get no response. We need to get our money back. Usually, it may need a week for you to get your money back. I am happy to tell you that dearwatches.com provides 3 [...]]]></description>
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<p>&#8220;I need my money back!&#8221; When we buy a replica watch from a website but get no response. We need to get our money back. Usually, it may need a week for you to get your money back. I am happy to tell you that dearwatches.com provides 3 days money back. If you want to cancel your order and it is reasonable. Dearwatches will arrange the refund in 3 days and finish the refund.</p>
<p>Some customers do not know how to buy from dearwatches replica watch website, they call the customer service and ask for help step by step to complete an order. The thank-you emails often come with good customer services.</p>
<p>The following is part of the emails from a customer of dearwatches.com</p>
<p>Oscar, please check your financial records again.  $88 was charged to my Visa on July 2nd.  It DID go through because I was required to pay it.  You have had my money in your account for three weeks now, and if I do not receive a tracking number of the watch that I ordered within two days, I will report your scam to Wells Fargo Bank. I just want to receive the watch that I have already paid for. </p>
<p>Dear Amber,We use the third party payment system. There is no money from you in our account. I am sorry for this inconvenience.Please contact your credit cart company to ask the money back. We would like to do this business but i am sorry. If you like our watches. we can give you a discount Next time. Thanks</p>
<p>Thank you Oscar. I have disputed the charge with my Visa and I should be refunded in 2-4 weeks.  After receiving the refund I will place the order with you rather than on the website.</p>
<p>Do you have such experiences? If you buy from dearwatches.com , you need not to worry your money. The customer service representatives will contact you and to make sure all of your order status is ok. Order delayed will be offered with a discount and extra money for fast shipping will be refunded. If you do not feel comfortable to buy replica watches on the website, you can contact the customer service representatives for help and buy the off website. In fact, both on the website or via customer service are safe for any purchasing.</p>
<p>If you are not familiar with the procedure of purchasing online, please contact the customer service first or you may failed your order when making the payment. However, it is ok when the order did not go through. Dearwatches.com has 3 ways to pay an order. Paypal, credit card and western union.</p>
<p>Some customers call and want buy via the telephone call, i am sorry to tell you the dearwatches.com do not accept the order from phone, and it is also not safe for a customer to give his/her credit card information on the phone.</p>
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		<title>MySpace wins suit against &#8216;spam king&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sanford Wallace, the so-called spam king, has often been accused of sending annoying messages that are typically ignored by the recipient. Perhaps he considered a series of court orders as something he could blow off. To say Wallace, who could not be reached for comment, failed to mount a vigorous defense would be an understatement. [...]]]></description>
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Sanford Wallace, the so-called spam king, has often been accused of sending annoying messages that are typically ignored by the recipient. Perhaps he considered a series of court orders as something he could blow off. </p>
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To say Wallace, who could not be reached for comment, failed to mount a vigorous defense would be an understatement. </p>
<p>
Each time, MySpace waited and each time Wallace failed to comply. Early on, Wallace informed MySpace he was having a hard time finding legal counsel. Soon after, he said he couldn&#8217;t comply because he was unaware of his court dates; he wasn&#8217;t accepting mail or signing for packages and that&#8217;s why he missed receiving notifications. </p>
<p>
If he did, he was wrong. MySpace has won a legal judgment against Wallace after he failed numerous times to turn over documents or even to show up for court, according to records obtained by CNET News.com. </p>
<p>
The court did not accept his reasons as a valid excuse, but continued to give him chances to comply. Nothing worked. After Wallace continuously failed to appear or respond to filing deadlines, the court issued a default judgment against Wallace. </p>
<p>
He has been sued by the Federal Trade Commission and companies such as AOL and Concentric Network Corp. In May 2006, Wallace and his company Smartbot.net were ordered by a federal court to turn over $4,089,500.
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&#8220;It is&#8230;a defendant&#8217;s responsibility to respond to discovery, obey court orders, and avoid dilatory tactics,&#8221; the court wrote in its order. &#8220;Taking all of the above factors into account, a default is appropriate. The court finds that Wallace&#8217;s noncompliance is due to willfulness, fault, or bad faith&#8230;Wallace has had every opportunity to avoid the sanction of default. (He) has never provided any explanation for his behavior to the court.&#8221; </p>
<p>
In March of last year, MySpace filed suit against Wallace alleging he launched a phishing scam to fraudulently access MySpace profiles. Wallace was also accused of spamming thousands of MySpace users with unwanted advertisements and luring them to his Web sites. </p>
<p>
By now, Wallace should know his way around a courtroom. </p>
<p>
According to records filed on April 15 with U.S. District Court in the Central District of California, Wallace was ordered numerous times to turn over documents requested by MySpace and provide a deposition. A MySpace representative did not respond to an interview request.
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CNET News.com&#8217;s Declan McCullagh contributed to this report.</p>
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		<title>Mozilla  Web apps faster with Firefox 3.1</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[That concentration means that TraceMonkey doesn&#8217;t require a lot of memory or a slow-loading plug-in, Shaver said. And it also means that it&#8217;s good for mobile devices, one of Mozilla&#8217;s main focuses for browser development. Firefox 3.1 will run many Web-based applications such as Gmail faster through incorporation of a feature called TraceMonkey that dramatically [...]]]></description>
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That concentration means that TraceMonkey doesn&#8217;t require a lot of memory or a slow-loading plug-in, Shaver said. And it also means that it&#8217;s good for mobile devices, one of Mozilla&#8217;s main focuses for browser development.
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Firefox 3.1 will run many Web-based applications such as Gmail faster through incorporation of a feature called TraceMonkey that dramatically speeds up programs written in JavaScript, Mozilla said Friday.
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Also in Firefox 3.1<br />
Other significant changes will arrive in Firefox 3.1, Shaver said.
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Another is the built-in ability to play music encoded with the Ogg Vorbis format and video encoded with the Ogg Theora format. These formats, while not nearly as widely used or as supported as rivals such as MP3, are free from proprietary constraints such as patents, Shaver said, and therefore can be added to an open-source project such as Firefox.
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<p>
JavaScript execution speed can make surfing the Web snappier, so naturally, it&#8217;s a key part of the resurgent browser wars between Microsoft&#8217;s Internet Explorer, Mozilla&#8217;s Firefox, Apple&#8217;s<br />
Safari, and Opera. &#8220;We&#8217;re as aware as anybody that the market is competitive again,&#8221; Shaver said.
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TraceMonkey concentrates only on translating selected high-priority parts of software, though. By tracing and recording JavaScript program execution, TraceMonkey finds loops of repeated activity where programs often spend a lot of time. These loops of actual software behavior then are compiled into native instructions the computer can understand.
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Currently, when copies of Firefox 2 check Mozilla servers to see if there&#8217;s an update, the servers don&#8217;t say to move all the way to version 3, so users must manually update.
</p>
<p>TraceMonkey dramatically improves the speed of many JavaScript operations. (Click to enlarge.)</p>
<p>
The SunSpider JavaScript test shows a boost of 83 percent, according to programmer and JavaScript pioneer Brendan Eich, who has worked on TraceMonkey and blogged about it on Friday. However, that speed test is an artificial benchmark that is an imperfect reflection of actual JavaScript applications such as Yahoo&#8217;s Zimbra e-mail software.
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A just-in-time compiler, though, creates that binary file on the fly as the code arrives&#8211;when a person visits a new Web page, and the browser encounters JavaScript, for example.
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Shaver discussed TraceMonkey on his own blog too.
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Mozilla will start encouraging Firefox users more actively to move to the current version soon. In about the next two weeks, Firefox 2 users will start getting messages to upgrade to version 3, Shaver said.
</p>
<p>
&#8220;It lets us focus our optimization energy on the parts of the program that matter most,&#8221; Shaver said.
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<p>
On Thursday, Mozilla programmers built TraceMonkey into the latest developer version of the open-source Web browser, and it will appear in the next released test version, which likely will be the first beta of Firefox 3.1, Shaver said. Firefox 3.1 is due in final form by the end of the year, though Mozilla is willing to let the schedule slip a bit, if necessary.
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<p>
Most software that runs on people&#8217;s computers is already compiled in advance into what&#8217;s called a binary file, but JavaScript usually is interpreted line by line as it runs, a slower process. &#8220;We&#8217;re getting close to the end of what you can do with an interpreter,&#8221; Shaver said.
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<p>
TraceMonkey is what&#8217;s called a just-in-time compiler, one type of technology that solves the problem of converting programs written by humans into instructions a computer can understand.
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<p>(Credit:<br />
Mozilla) </p>
<p>
There&#8217;s still a lot of work to be done in improving Web-based applications, though. Mozilla&#8217;s next priority is improving the DOM&#8211;the document object model elements of Web browsers that are in charge of drawing and manipulating the Web page overall.
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<p>
Another illustration of TraceMonkey speed is a video of photo editing. Contrast and brightness adjustments take about 100 milliseconds instead of more than 700.
</p>
<p> Updated at 2:40 p.m. PDT with more details about<br />
Firefox 3.1 features. </p>
<p>
Although TraceMonkey currently is built into the new developer version of Firefox 3.1, it&#8217;s disabled by default to begin with. &#8220;We did that because we want to get wider feedback,&#8221; Shaver said.
</p>
<p>
One is support for threading by JavaScript programs. Threads are instruction sequences, and newer multicore processors are able to run multiple threads simultaneously. Software support for that will mean JavaScript programs can execute some tasks in the background better, Shaver said.
</p>
<p>
TraceMonkey explained<br />
TraceMonkey&#8217;s name is a cross between SpiderMonkey, Mozilla&#8217;s current engine for interpreting JavaScript code, and a technique called tracing developed at the University of California at Irvine by Andreas Gal and others. Gal is TraceMonkey&#8217;s lead architect, Shaver said.
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<p>
&#8220;We&#8217;re excited to bring unencumbered, truly open-source video to the Web,&#8221; Shaver said. The support also works on all operating systems Firefox supports.
</p>
<p>
&#8220;We&#8217;re looking at doing that in the next two weeks,&#8221; Shaver said. &#8220;The majority of users are still on Firefox 2.&#8221;
</p>
<p>
JavaScript has been very broadly used to add pizzazz or flexibility to Web pages over the years, but in recent years, it&#8217;s also become the plumbing for many rich Internet applications. However, because JavaScript has been hobbled by pokey performance, Web-based applications often struggled to work as responsively as &#8220;native&#8221; software running directly on PCs, and programmers writing Web applications have often turned to other options, such as Adobe Systems&#8217; Flash and Flex.
</p>
<p>
Now Mozilla hopes to change the balance of power in JavaScript&#8217;s favor.
</p>
<p>
In contrast, some compilers translate the entire program, a burdensome process that involves mapping all possible paths the computer can take through the code and trying to figure out which are most important. Tracing technology, based on the actual execution of the program, concentrates only on the areas that actually occupy the computer.
</p>
<p>
&#8220;TraceMonkey is a project to bring native code speed to JavaScript,&#8221; said Mike Shaver, Mozilla&#8217;s interim vice president of engineering, adding that JavaScript performance nearly doubles compared to Firefox 3.0, based on the SunSpider test of JavaScript performance. That speeds up many basic tasks, but it also brings image editing and 3D graphics into JavaScript&#8217;s abilities, he said.</p>
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		<title>Apple iCal hit with three remote vulnerabilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, Core Security announced three vulnerabilities within iCal, the personal calendar application that ships with the Mac operating system. The vulnerabilities affect iCal version 3.0.1 on MacOS X 10.5.1. ZDNet&#8217;s Ryan Naraine quotes an as-yet unpublished Core Security announcement as saying: &#8220;The vulnerabilities are caused due to iCal not properly sanitizing certain fields on [...]]]></description>
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Mac operating system. The vulnerabilities affect iCal version 3.0.1 on MacOS X 10.5.1.
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ZDNet&#8217;s Ryan Naraine quotes an as-yet unpublished Core Security announcement as saying: &#8220;The vulnerabilities are caused due to iCal not properly sanitizing certain fields on iCal calendar files (.ics). This can be possibly exploited to crash iCal (first two bugs) or possibly execute arbitrary code (third bug) via malicious calendar updates or by importing a specially crafted calendar file.&#8221;
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Apple was rumored to be releasing a large security patch later on Wednesday, but, in an update to his blog, Naraine says that will not happen. In the meantime, Leopard users should be suspicious of links and e-mails with requests to add/open calendar (.ics) files.</p>
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		<title>Week in review  Taming the wild Web</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s according to a set of articles that appeared on the paper&#8217;s Web site early Saturday. The articles were published in error, of course, and they disappeared from the newspaper&#8217;s Web site a few hours later. While they were live, the list of prepared-in-advance headlines said Obama had variously chosen Biden, Clinton, Evan Bayh, Chet [...]]]></description>
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That&#8217;s according to a set of articles that appeared on the paper&#8217;s Web site early Saturday. The articles were published in error, of course, and they disappeared from the newspaper&#8217;s Web site a few hours later. While they were live, the list of prepared-in-advance headlines said Obama had variously chosen Biden, Clinton, Evan Bayh, Chet Edwards, Sebelius, Tim Kaine, and Richardson. </p>
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In another feature, known as InPrivate, Microsoft allows the user to suspend caching functions while you surf. The scenarios for using InPrivate include when you&#8217;re using someone else&#8217;s computer, for instance, when you need to buy a gift for a loved one without ruining the surprise, or when you&#8217;re at an Internet kiosk and don&#8217;t want the next person to know which Web site you visited.
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Perspectives also protects against attacks that exploit a recently exposed flaw in the DNS (Domain Name System), which translates Web addresses into numerical IP addresses.
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Technology companies were at the Democratic convention in Denver this week to highlight more than just their new products&#8211;they&#8217;re pushing an agenda as well. The Consumer Electronics Association, a lobbying firm that represents 2,200 technology companies such as Microsoft, Sony, and Hitachi, brought its 28-state &#8220;America Wins with Trade&#8221; bus tour to Denver this week to convince Democrats that free trade benefits the tech industry, as well as consumers. Groups with opposing views are taking a high profile at the convention, however, and the conflicting interests in the party are apparent from its mixed messages on trade. </p>
<p>
The free Firefox plug-in enables the creation of &#8220;user-generated mashups with existing open Web APIs,&#8221; according to a post on Mozilla&#8217;s site. &#8220;In other words, allowing everyone&#8211;not just Web developers&#8211;to remix the Web so it fits their needs, no matter what page they are on, or what they are doing.&#8221; </p>
<p>
The browser battles are heating up, with Microsoft, Mozilla, and Apple all releasing offerings to entice Web surfers into their respective camps.
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<p>
However, a copyright attorney said Viacom can still prevail provided that it proves YouTube is a business built on pirated material and that parent company Google has knowledge of the unauthorized clips on the site. </p>
<p>
However, the Los Angeles Times broke the story that Obama had actually chosen his former archrival, Hillary Clinton, to be his vice presidential candidate. And Bill Richardson. And Kathleen Sebelius. And four other Democrats, too. </p>
<p>
By choosing Joe Biden as their vice presidential candidate, the Democrats have selected a politician with a mixed record on technology who has spent most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. Biden, whose antiprivacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP, ranks toward the bottom of CNET&#8217;s Technology Voters&#8217; Guide.
</p>
<p> Microsoft released the second public beta for Internet Explorer 8, bringing it up to par with alternative browsers such as Opera, Apple&#8217;s<br />
Safari, and Mozilla&#8217;s<br />
Firefox in terms of security and features.
</p>
<p>
Also of note<br />
Hundreds of flights were delayed in cities across the country due to a computer failure in the Federal Aviation Administration&#8217;s system for processing flight plans&#8230;An electronic gaffe at news outlet Bloomberg mistakenly sent an incomplete obituary for Apple CEO Steve Jobs over the wire on Wednesday afternoon&#8230;Amazon.com is buying Shelfari, the social-networking site for book lovers.
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<p>
Politics go tech<br />
On the eve of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Barack Obama announced that he had selected Delaware Sen. Joe Biden to be his vice presidential running mate. Obama was expected to announce his selection via text messages and e-mails to supporters on Saturday. While supporters who signed up for the announcement still received them, the Associated Press reported the selection of Biden late Friday.
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<p>
A U.S. District Court judge found that Veoh was not liable for hosting copyrighted videos that its users uploaded to its site because the company used an automated process to post videos and did not play an active role in getting the material onto its site. The court also found that Veoh removed the material when informed by the copyright holder, putting it in compliance with a &#8220;safe harbor&#8221; provision of the DMCA law.
</p>
<p>
According to Nielsen&#8217;s numbers, the SMS campaign tactic reached 2.9 million people. However, Keynote Systems, which measures and monitors e-business performance, estimates that 40 percent to 50 percent of people who signed up to receive the text either received it late or not at all.
</p>
<p>
Mozilla released an experimental browser plug-in that aims to connect the Web with language to help users perform common Web tasks more quickly and easily. Ubiquity is a command-line interface that enables users to use plain language to manipulate Web tasks, such as mapping, translation, shopping, or retrieving entries from Wikipedia, Yelp, or Twitter.
</p>
<p>
IE 8 adds a Security pull-down menu between Page and Tools on the main toolbar. In addition to blocking phishing sites, IE 8 now highlights the main domain of any Web site you visit. IE 8 also contains a cross-site scripting filter, one of the first in a mainstream browser. Cross-site scripting allows an attacker to execute script on users&#8217; browsers without them knowing.
</p>
<p>
The unprecedented decision is definitely favorable to Google, YouTube, and all user-generated sites, but it doesn&#8217;t mean that Google will necessarily prevail in the $1 billion copyright suit filed against it by Viacom, parent company of MTV and Paramount Pictures. </p>
<p>
Another closely watched copyright infringement case seems to have been resolved over charges of evidence tampering by the defendant. Judge Neil Wake reportedly ruled that Jeffery Howell, a defendant in Atlantic v. Howell, had willfully and intentionally destroyed evidence related to his peer-to-peer activities after being notified of pending legal action by the Recording Industry Association of America. Furthermore, since it was done in bad faith, it &#8220;therefore warrants appropriate sanctions.&#8221; </p>
<p>
Meanwhile, Google brought the open-source Gears technology to Apple&#8217;s Safari, augmenting some browser abilities such as using Gears-tailored Web sites while offline. Gears extends a browser so, for example, some Google Docs can be edited or viewed while the user isn&#8217;t connected to a network. It also can speed up use of the WordPress blogging software and some operations at MySpace, and Google is expanding its scope to geolocation services and other areas, too.
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<p>
Copyrights in court<br />
Video-sharing site Veoh defeated a copyright infringement lawsuit filed in 2006 by the Io Group, an adult entertainment company. Veoh defended its actions by citing provisions within the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that call for a party to remove copyrighted material from its Web site, when notified by the copyright holder.
</p>
<p>
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have released an extension for Firefox 3 that can protect wireless network users from so-called man-in-the-middle attacks. The software, dubbed &#8220;Perspectives,&#8221; is available for download for free. </p>
<p>
In April, the judge seemed to agree with the defendants&#8217; arguments that the RIAA&#8217;s &#8220;making available&#8221; position &#8220;amounts to suing someone for attempted distribution, something the Copyright Act has never recognized.&#8221; However, the RIAA accused Howell of uninstalling Kazaa and reformatting his hard drive after being served with the lawsuit.
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<p>
Ubiquity grew out of Firefox&#8217;s new Smart Location Bar, or &#8220;awesome bar,&#8221; which helps resolve incomplete URL entries into browser address bars. Ubiquity doesn&#8217;t replace the awesome bar, but a separate command line is generated by typing Ctrl-Space for Windows or Command-Space for Macs.
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What&#8217;s different about Io and Viacom is that Io didn&#8217;t notify Veoh of the copyright infringement on the site before filing suit. In contrast, Viacom sent more than 100,000 &#8220;take-down notices&#8221; to YouTube prior to filing its $1 billion copyright complaint. </p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo to announce reorg, Google ad deal Full Road Trip 2008 coverage Microsoft gets bipartisan support Cities take lead in climate change What&#8217;s in the future for Funny or Die? Plus, Yahoo loses a couple of high-level employees&#8211;and it&#8217;s getting set to announce a deal with Google. And Microsoft might inspire raging debates in tech [...]]]></description>
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Full Road Trip 2008 coverage</p>
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Cities take lead in climate change
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What&#8217;s in the future for Funny or Die?
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Plus, Yahoo loses a couple of high-level employees&#8211;and it&#8217;s getting set to announce a deal with Google. And Microsoft might inspire raging debates in tech circles, but as far as our nation&#8217;s politicians are concerned, the vote for Redmond is unanimous. </p>
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Algae farm in Mexico to produce ethanol in &#8217;09
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Study: U.S. retains lead in science, tech
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<p>City governments&#8217; response to climate change ranges from cutting-edge distributed energy to adding more bike lanes and trees. Climate change experts from four cities&#8211;London, Toronto, Chicago, and New York&#8211;spoke at the Mass Impact Symposium Monday in Cambridge, Mass., and CNET News.com intern Holly Jackson had the chance to chat with reporter Martin LaMonica about what they said.
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Mobile broadcaster Flixwagon hitches to iPhone
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<p>Cities&#8217; green action plans; Yahoo loses a couple of prominent employees; and Republican and Democrats cast a vote for Microsoft.</p>
<p> Listen now:</p>
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Prominent open-source developer bids Yahoo adieu
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<p> Also, Charlie Cooper checks in with News.com reporter Daniel Terdiman, who is now a few days into his Road Trip 2008 through the South.</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s stories:</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this week&#8217;s EIC Squared podcast ZDNet&#8217;s Larry Dignan and I discuss Google&#8217;s latest disruption in the Web 2.0 field, the Chrome browser, as well as Apple&#8217;s product launch event on September 9. In addition, Larry explains his idea that Dell and Salesforce.com could merge. Dell is trying to be more of a software company [...]]]></description>
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<p><p>On this week&#8217;s EIC Squared podcast ZDNet&#8217;s Larry Dignan and I discuss Google&#8217;s latest disruption in the Web 2.0 field, the Chrome browser, as well as Apple&#8217;s product launch event on September 9. In addition, Larry explains his idea that Dell and Salesforce.com could merge. Dell is trying to be more of a software company and is using the Force.com platform, and Salesforce.com is a major Dell customer. But, it&#8217;s unclear how Salesforce.com, its shareholders and customers, would hugely benefit from a union.</p>
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		<title>Use SEO to optimize your recession</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you are coming up with these blog posts and new content, take a step back and look at what you have to offer from a different angle. Focus less on up-selling from competitors or lesser products, and identify how your products serve as an ideal step down from something else. As an added bonus, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As you are coming up with these blog posts and new content, take a step back and look at what you have to offer from a different angle. Focus less on up-selling from competitors or lesser products, and identify how your products serve as an ideal step down from something else. As an added bonus, a little creativity can go a long way here and lead to intriguing, eye-catching headlines that draw people in.</p>
<p>This may affect the words they use to search, so now is an excellent time to refresh your keyword research. Especially look for modifiers that connect with your target audience&#8211;what drives them normally: price, quality, selection, reliability, etc.? To do this, you can turn to the free versions of tools like Keyword Discovery, Wordtracker and Google Trends.</p>
<p>Next, reach out and connect with your existing customers, and hopefully win new ones. If you don&#8217;t have an RSS feed for your products, or deals, now would be an excellent time to implement one. Get creative, e.g., offer one hot deal every day or week that is only announced through your RSS feed&#8211;when it&#8217;s gone, it&#8217;s gone. Of course, don&#8217;t forget to optimize the subscription page for this feed to begin with.</p>
<p> Rather than buying a new home, some may decide to fix-up or renovate what they currently have with new window treatments, carpeting, or paint. Or maybe they&#8217;ll add a home theater to not only enhance their home while also reducing the costs of going out for entertainment.<br />
Businesses might forgo expanding into new office space, but invest in new office furniture that better maximizes the current space, or convert unused space into offices or meeting rooms.<br />
Those who eat out a lot may cut back, but may invest in new kitchenware and a cookbook or two to maintain the excitement.<br />
Others might cut back on their daily coffee run by buying a new coffee maker, a couple travel mugs, and a coffee grinder, and instead, buy coffee beans from their favorite java joint as a way to cut back without feeling deprived. </p>
<p>There will be firms and people within the industry that will feel the same pains of a recession that everyone else will. I&#8217;m certainly not claiming that you can sit back and coast in to success. In fact, the statement is less about SEO firms and practitioners, and more about SEO as a tool.</p>
<p>When you create the best guide on &#8220;How to select the best laptop for business travelers,&#8221; for example, you&#8217;ll naturally attract links from others, and some of those who come to read your guide will decide to look at your selection of laptops, hopefully you&#8217;ll have some of them tagged or designated for &#8220;business travelers.&#8221; And you&#8217;ll probably find it much easier to weave in these powerful search phrases that are less specific to a product and more about a problem your site visitors have or the specific solution they are seeking.</p>
<p>Earlier this week I talked about how a recession may be the best thing for SEO. Let&#8217;s revisit that bold statement and also how to make the most out of a downturn in the economy using SEO.</p>
<p>Once you have your target phrases, be sure to integrate them into title tags and on-page content to optimize for searches, as well as in the meta description for that extra call-to-action within the search results. Along with optimizing current content, now would be an excellent time to create a section that calls out to searchers based on these types of searches if you don&#8217;t have it already, e.g., Discount Electronics, Reliable Laptops, and Fuel Efficient<br />
Cars.</p>
<p>Every site should be doing this all the time anyway, but now more than ever, create useful information that helps all users of your type of products. Make sure that the content isn&#8217;t just specific to your products, but to the category in general. The goal here is to create the best, hopefully the definitive, guides on how to select, use, maintain, or anything else related to your category of products.</p>
<p>Finally, use this as a time to gain free advertising. The various media will of course be reporting on the impact of a recession on those within the community. Be the go-to expert in your field with your creative ideas to help people stretch their dollars, which may also earn you some media time and a link back to your site for the rest of your tips from their site.</p>
<p>A recession or economic downturn will lead consumers and businesses to reduce their spending as their confidence in the economy, their business, jobs, investments and/or retirement weakens. While there may be a subset of the market that &#8220;quits buying,&#8221; what we are really talking about is a reduction in spending. There will still be necessities and essentials that must be purchased. Beyond that, we may expect to see purchase adjustments or a scaling back.</p>
<p>Along with a reduction of spending and a re-prioritization on necessities, businesses and individuals alike will more likely become more selective in the purchases that they make. Depending on the specific needs, they may look for the best deals or a certain level of quality, and in either case, may take longer to make a purchase decision and undergo more pre-sales research than normal.</p>
<p>If you are in-house and have been struggling to get the resources or attention you need to make SEO a priority, then this may help to increase the urgency of SEO. Or if your firm provides SEO services, then you may be able to use the concerns and challenges that will come with a recession to get the attention of the decision makers to illustrate how SEO may be a more cost-effective solution.</p>
<p>After all, when things get tight, we know it, so we also try to find a happy medium to lessen the pain.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t forget blogging. If you don&#8217;t have one, get your blog up and running, and provide great tips on how to get the most out of your products or even how to extend the life of them. Use it as a way to create blog posts around heavy searched-for phrases, but keep them relevant to your area of focus. Most of all, keep it fun and upbeat when times get tough.</p>
<p>For instance:</p>
<p>Ironically, most of these are the same ideas that I&#8217;d offer up under any economic condition. It&#8217;s all about using your Web site in an optimal manner to connect with those who are most interested in what you are offering. Online, those are the people who are searching&#8211;they&#8217;re actually telling you &#8220;here I am.&#8221; Seems pretty simple, doesn&#8217;t it? It&#8217;s also about creating a dialogue with your customer and providing additional value, before and after checkout&#8230;and that&#8217;s good anytime.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Credit: Apple) Riverturn&#8217;s VoiceCentral has been available in the App Store for the past four months. The app integrates Google&#8217;s GrandCentral and Google Voice with the iPhone. In a blog post on Riverturn&#8217;s Web site Tuesday, the developer paraphrased the call. At one point the developer asks the Apple rep if there&#8217;s something he can [...]]]></description>
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Riverturn&#8217;s VoiceCentral has been available in the App Store for the past four months. The app integrates Google&#8217;s GrandCentral and Google Voice with the iPhone.
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In a blog post on Riverturn&#8217;s Web site Tuesday, the developer paraphrased the call. At one point the developer asks the Apple rep if there&#8217;s something he can change in the app so it can be resubmitted to the App Store. The response: &#8220;I can&#8217;t say.&#8221;
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As if that wasn&#8217;t enough, The Unofficial Apple Weblog is reporting that the developer is now being flooded with refund requests from customers. The problem is Apple keeps its 30 percent commission, but the developer has to refund the entire amount to the customer.
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The story doesn&#8217;t end there. Apple then proceeded to remove third-party apps from the App Store that it said duplicate features of the<br />
iPhone. One of those apps is called VoiceCentral, and the developer is understandably upset.
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The developer then asks, &#8220;if we can&#8217;t figure out the issue then how will we know whether to resubmit the app. And how will we know whether to invest in any other development efforts? Future apps could be impacted.&#8221;
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<p> The mystery surrounding Apple&#8217;s approval process on the App Store is legendary. What gets approved or rejected on any given day can be a source of bewilderment for developers and consumers alike. But the company still surprised everyone when it rejected Google&#8217;s Voice app for the iPhone on Tuesday. </p>
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What seems to be the most upsetting part of the whole situation is that the developer can&#8217;t get any answers from Apple. In a telephone conversation with the Apple representative who was tasked to inform him the app was being removed, the most common answer from Apple seemed to be &#8220;I can&#8217;t say.&#8221; </p>
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The response: &#8220;I can&#8217;t help you with that.&#8221;
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Until this week, everything was going fine for the developer. He submitted the app and was approved by Apple. He released updates and they were approved by Apple. Then, all of a sudden and without warning, his app was pulled from the store.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if that wasn&#8217;t enough, The Unofficial Apple Weblog is reporting that the developer is now being flooded with refund requests from customers. The problem is Apple keeps its 30 percent commission, but the developer has to refund the entire amount to the customer. The developer then asks, &#8220;if we can&#8217;t figure out the issue [...]]]></description>
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As if that wasn&#8217;t enough, The Unofficial Apple Weblog is reporting that the developer is now being flooded with refund requests from customers. The problem is Apple keeps its 30 percent commission, but the developer has to refund the entire amount to the customer.
</p>
<p>
The developer then asks, &#8220;if we can&#8217;t figure out the issue then how will we know whether to resubmit the app. And how will we know whether to invest in any other development efforts? Future apps could be impacted.&#8221;
</p>
<p>
Riverturn&#8217;s VoiceCentral has been available in the App Store for the past four months. The app integrates Google&#8217;s GrandCentral and Google Voice with the iPhone.
</p>
<p> The mystery surrounding Apple&#8217;s approval process on the App Store is legendary. What gets approved or rejected on any given day can be a source of bewilderment for developers and consumers alike. But the company still surprised everyone when it rejected Google&#8217;s Voice app for the iPhone on Tuesday. </p>
<p>(Credit: Apple)</p>
<p>
In a blog post on Riverturn&#8217;s Web site Tuesday, the developer paraphrased the call. At one point the developer asks the Apple rep if there&#8217;s something he can change in the app so it can be resubmitted to the App Store. The response: &#8220;I can&#8217;t say.&#8221;
</p>
<p>
Until this week, everything was going fine for the developer. He submitted the app and was approved by Apple. He released updates and they were approved by Apple. Then, all of a sudden and without warning, his app was pulled from the store.
</p>
<p>
The response: &#8220;I can&#8217;t help you with that.&#8221;
</p>
<p>
What seems to be the most upsetting part of the whole situation is that the developer can&#8217;t get any answers from Apple. In a telephone conversation with the Apple representative who was tasked to inform him the app was being removed, the most common answer from Apple seemed to be &#8220;I can&#8217;t say.&#8221; </p>
<p>
The story doesn&#8217;t end there. Apple then proceeded to remove third-party apps from the App Store that it said duplicate features of the<br />
iPhone. One of those apps is called VoiceCentral, and the developer is understandably upset.</p>
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