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Monday, January 27, 2003
Internet Recovering From Slammer
"Internet performance was returning to normal late Saturday in the wake of one of the fiercest cyber-assaults in recent memory, but security experts said the vast number of vulnerable machines means it will likely be some time before things are truly back to normal. And as IT administrators patched up their remaining unprotected servers, investigators worldwide began the hunt for the source of the damaging attack.
"Dubbed the Sapphire Worm, or SQL Slammer (so called because security engineers were called out of bars just after midnight Friday to begin the detection and clean-up work), the malware took advantage of known vulnerabilities to exploit a flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s SQL Server 2000. "
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9:08 AM
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Friday, January 24, 2003
Teoma, an Ask Jeeves search company, unveiled Teoma 2.0, introducing new functionality including Subject-Specific Popularity (SSP) and a Web-based spell checker.
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Thursday, January 23, 2003
24/7 ACQUIRES WEB ANALYTICS FIRM
24/7 Real Media has acquired Web analytics firm Insight First for an undisclosed sum, the New York-based ad technology company said Wednesday.
The addition gives 24/7 all of the online tools and strategies necessary for publishers and advertisers to manage three key components of interactive marketing communications: technology, content and audience, said company chairman and chief executive officer David Moore.
As a part of the deal, Insight First founder and CEO Tony Schmitz will join 24/7 as chief technology officer. He is based in New York and reports to Moore. Before founding Insight First in 2000, Schmitz was a managing partner at marchFIRST (formerly USWeb/CKS), a chief technology officer at Gray Peak Technologies and a principal at Reach Networks.
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2:48 PM
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Thursday, January 16, 2003
ONLINE AD SPENDING EXPECTED TO RISE
Adweek IQ Daily Brief, Jan. 15, 2003
Internet ad spending is expected to rise more than 7 percent in 2003, according to a full-year forecast from CMR/TNS Media Intelligence.
Overall ad spending is expected to increase 3.3 percent in 2003 to $117.5 billion, according to CMR. "The spending growth seen in the last half of 2002 was clear evidence of a market rebound, and we believe the current economic upturn, while not robust will continue to be reflected in the modest growth of advertising," said Steven J. Fredericks, president and chief operating officer of CMR/TNS Media Intelligence.
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Wednesday, January 15, 2003
According to NetRatings data, nearly three million surfers ages 55-64 accessed the Web via cable, DSL, ISDN or other high-speed connections, surging 78% year-over-year. More than 3.1 million Internet users ages 50-54 logged online using faster connections last month, up 75%, while seniors ages 65-99 recorded a 67% increase to nearly 1.3 million.
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11:39 AM
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Friday, January 10, 2003
Nielsen//NetRatings reports that more than 72 percent of the total U.S. online audience is using Internet applications. This suggests that nearly three quarters of all Web surfers have incorporated Internet applications, including instant messengers, peer-to-peer file sharing and media player viewing, as part of their daily online experience.
Internet Application Unique Audience(000) Active Reach%
1. Windows Media Player 41,452 31.20%
2. AOL Instant Messenger 27,848 21.00%
3. RealOne Player/RealPlayer 27,226 20.50%
4. MSN Messenger Service 22,721 17.10%
5. Yahoo! Messenger 15,595 11.70%
6. KaZaA 14,095 10.60%
7. Apple QuickTime 14,004 10.50%
8. Gator 11,628 8.80%
9. WhenU 10,304 7.80%
10. AOL Companion 10,095 7.60%
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Thursday, January 09, 2003
EXTENDED BAN ON NET TAXES PROPOSED
WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- Two lawmakers are mounting a fresh effort to bar sales taxes on Internet commerce. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Chris Cox (R-Calif.) have proposed the Internet Tax Non-Discrimination Act to make an existing moratorium on Net taxes permanent. The bill, which was introduced on Wednesday, is similar to one they proposed in 2001. "Given the continued softness in the tech economy, this is hardly the time for new taxes on the Internet," Cox said in a statement. "Rather, providing long-term certainty about tax policy is one of the necessary ingredients for a tech rebound."
The National Governors Association is on record opposed to extending the Internet sales tax exemption, which expires in November. The governors group said, "Increasing sales over the Internet threaten to significantly compound this revenue loss for states and localities."
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2:09 PM
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A group of IT vendors, including Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC, Oracle, and Sun, announced the publication of the Web Services Reliability (WS-Reliability) specification working draft. The consortium promises that WS-Reliability will help provide a more reliable transport infrastructure, making Web services relevant for an even wider range of enterprise applications than is currently envisioned.
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1:55 PM
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Content management startup bets on open standards DESIGNED WITH SIMPLIFIED enterprise integration in mind, newcomer Montara Software this week broke into the content management scene with a Web-based CM system that is built from the ground up to embrace open standards including J2EE, Web services, and ColdFusion.
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9:29 AM
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Wednesday, January 08, 2003
Darwin Executive Guides - Website Traffic Analysis During the dotcom heyday, companies slapped sites on the Web and waited for traffic to pour in. They counted "eyeballs" and measured their site's "stickiness" as a way to convey the online real estate's value to advertisers. When the Internet bubble burst, "sticky eyeballs" seemed suddenly worthless. Now, as the Web has moved from being a technology pipe to a sales channel, companies need to update their Web measurement strategy with new metrics and analysis tools that can help them analyze customer behavior and improve their site's business success.
Posted by Kelly Abbott
5:14 PM
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2003 BOOSTS TRAFFIC TO DIET, ASTROLOGY SITES
Adweek Online, Jan. 8, 2003
As the new year approached, Web surfers logged on to diet and fitness sites to gear up for their health-related resolutions and astrology sites to see what was in store for 2003.
During the week ending Dec. 29, more than 3.5 million people logged on to various health, fitness and nutrition Web sites at home, according to the latest report from Nielsen/NetRatings. Leading the pack was AOL Health, which attracted 805,000 unique visitors during the week, and WebMD, which welcomed 521,000 visitors. Of the diet and weight management sites, eDiets.com drew the most visitors, 480,000, while Weight Watchers garnered 302,000.
In the same period, the top two astrology sites attracted more than one million unique visitors. iVillage Astrology recorded 754,000 visitors, while MSN Astrology posted a unique audience of 689,000 visitors. Yahoo Astrology claimed 377,000.
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3:08 PM
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Tuesday, January 07, 2003
Dear Valued Customer,
I am writing to share some important news with you. The division of VeriSign® that provides you with domain names has changed its name to Network Solutions®. You may remember we started as Network Solutions and were the first company to provide Internet domain names.
The new Network Solutions embodies the fundamental changes we have made to our business in the past year — including improved customer service, upgrades to our product lines, and simplified customer account management — along with the promise of many more improvements to come. We have made these changes because we want to improve the level of service we provide to our customers and make doing business with us easier.
Network Solutions remains a wholly owned subsidiary of VeriSign. Be assured you will continue to experience the stability, reliability, and trust you've come to expect. You have my commitment that Network Solutions will provide the highest level of service and deliver the best quality products — now and in the future. Below are some ways that we are delivering on that promise today:
Newly Designed Web Site. Our new Web site, www.networksolutions.com, is now more user friendly and organized to make it easier for you to complete purchases, renew services, and find information.
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10:30 PM
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Apple - Safari - Download
Apple releases a beta for its new mac-only browser. The browser wars just got more interesting. Let's hope they are web-standards compliant.
Posted by Kelly Abbott
11:40 AM
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Macworld: Macromedia touts Java server for Mac OS X
SAN FRANCISCO -- Boosting Java development for Apple users, Macromedia at the Macworld Conference & Expo here on Tuesday is announcing availability of JRun 4 for Mac OS X, a J2EE-compatible application server.
The company also is adding Apple and BEA to its list of environments that support the ColdFusion MX Internet development, although Apple can only be used for developing and testing and not for application deployment. In addition, Macromedia is sprucing up ColdFusion support on IBM WebSphere and Sun ONE (Open Net Environment) application servers.
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8:42 AM
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Monday, January 06, 2003
Accessibility is now a "Standard." AS covered by e-Week.
Since this comes from e-Week, it begs the question, "Why should my IT department care?" Well designing for accessibility is not only a legal necessity but one that often tasks the resources of in-house webmasters. As the browsers become compliant, so will web developers. As the process of making your web presence accessible trickles down to IT managers, the results could mean upgrading your CMS, complete site re-design, CRM-patches, etc. Before that, you will need to do an audit with a third party who specializes in accessibility standards.
Posted by Kelly Abbott
11:37 AM
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Friday, January 03, 2003
According to technology historians, the Internet was born 20 years ago this week, on New Year's Day in 1983. That was the deadline for the Defense Department's Arpanet to begin using TCP/IP technology to link computers worldwide, which was the antecedent of the Internet we know today.
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2:09 PM
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NET'S NO. 1 WEBCASTER PULLING PLUGS
SAN ANTONIO (CBS.MW) -- Clear Channel Worldwide has begun turning off Internet streams of some of its music stations. The company has offered simulcasts of several hundred broadcasting properties.
For example, the company's Houston-based KTBZ dropped its stream, blaming "costly fees now required from online broadcasters by the music licensing organizations BMI and ASCAP." Other Clear Channel (CCU) stations in Los Angeles, Miami and Dallas also halted their Net casts, according to Radio and Records, a trade publication.
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10:17 AM
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Thursday, January 02, 2003
AOL SAID READY TO BOOST 'BLOGGING'
(CBS.MW) -- America Online reportedly will furnish subscribers the tools through which they can publish diaries and commentaries on the Web. Known as "Blogs," or Weblogs, they are easily produced one-page Web sites, popularized by entertainment artists and journalists.
Rick Robinson, AOL's vice president of community products, told an interviewer, "There will be a significant (software/feature) release probably in the February time frame ... which will fundamentally alter the way people currently interact in threaded discussions." Essentially confirming a recent Washington Post report, Robinson told Mark Hurst of Creative Good that the AOL Time Warner online unit has been looking at offering Weblogs. "It's natural that the blog and the home page would combine. And when you remember that AOL has the largest collection of home pages in the world, it kind of gets interesting," he said.
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2:27 PM
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Register.com, a domain name registrar, announced that the US District Court for the Southern District of New York put an injunction on Domain Registry of America, Inc., a reseller of domain names, from committing any acts calculated or likely to cause customers of Register.com to believe that the Domain Registry of America is their existing registrar when it is not in fact the case.
Register.com's lawsuit was filed in August 2002 and alleged that the Domain Registry of America used deceptive marketing tactics, including misusing the Register.com name and trademark and employing misleading marketing materials to confuse Register.com customers into believing they were renewing their domain names with Register.com, which turned out not to be the case. The complaint further alleged the use of misleading and deceptive e-mails, web pages, and misrepresentations by Domain Registry of America customer service personnel.
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2:05 PM
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INTERNET USERS MORE TRUSTING OF FINANCIAL ACTIONS
Brandweek Online Newsletter, Thursday, January 2, 2002
NEW YORK - U.S. consumers are more trusting when conducting online transactions than they were a year ago, with the most dramatic surge in trust associated with conducting financial transactions online, according to the "Consumer Internet Barometer," a new quarterly report on Internet activity. The report is produced jointly by NFO WorldGroup (a division of The Interpublic Group of Cos.), Forrester Research and The Conference Board.
More than 33% of consumers surveyed expressed trust that their online financial transactions are safe, up from 27.5% a year ago. Consumers also expressed a greater degree of trust when purchasing products online with 25% saying that their personal information will be safe when purchasing products online, up from 21.9% a year ago. Satisfaction levels for online financial transactions and purchases also improved over the past year.
"Lack of trust has long been a major barrier to engaging in online transactions," Lynn Franco, director of the Consumer Research Center of The Conference Board, said in a statement. "Consumers' concern about privacy of their personal information has a significant influence on their willingness to engage in business exchanges online. But this trust barrier is beginning to erode."
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10:46 AM
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