Stata Labs, Inc.

"Bloomba™ is the first e-mail client to integrate a powerful search engine. Immediately after download, you can instantly recall valuable emails, contacts and documents."

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Better E-mail Clients—Do We Need Them? :: AO: "I'll say right away that the Bloomba e-mail client is very nice, and once you get in the habit of sampling its secret sauce—its lighting-fast search feature that works on both messages and attachments—you find that it gives you a superior experience compared to Outlook. It makes a fundamental difference in productivity when you can find any message nearly instantly, even in a huge e-mail archive. It's like Google for your e-mail."

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Amazon's Customer Service number is 1-800-201-7575 according to BusinessWeek's extensive search through Amazon's Securities filing of October 24th. Amazon wants to encourage users to use email as the media most appropriate to make customer service inquiries - makes sense... less staffing requirements as a result of less time on the phone...

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PHANTOM WEB PAGES VEX SCIENTISTS
WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - Some researchers have a problem. Often, the Web addresses in their published works' footnotes and references disappear.

Dr. Robert Dellavalle and co-workers on the faculty of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center saw it happening to their own work. "Every time we checked, some were gone and others had moved," he told the Washington Post. After exploring the idea more thoroughly, Dellavalle published an article in Science magazine last month.

The team looked at footnotes for scientific articles in three major journals over a period of 27 months after publication. As many as 13 percent of online citations were not available.

"It's a huge problem, said Brewster Kahle, of the Internet Archive in San Francisco. "The average lifespan of a Web page today is 100 days. This is no way to run a culture," he told the Post.

Web sites become unavailable for many reasons, including people moving on to other things, or changing Web addresses.

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Symantec CEO Warns of Drop in Internet Use: "If software vendors and security companies don't get their act together and start producing better products, users will begin dropping off the Internet out of sheer frustration, predicted John Thompson, chairman and CEO of Symantec Corp., in his keynote speech at Comdex here Wednesday. "

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Wired News: Gates Unveils Antispam Software

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ONLINE ADS RISE 14% IN QUARTER
WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - Online advertising sales totaled $1.6 billion in the second three months of the year, the third consecutive quarter of increase, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. That was an increase of 13.9 percent from a year ago. The Internet Ad Revenue Report also said sales during the first six months of the year were $3.29 billion, almost 10 percent higher.

"The figures mirror the reality of the marketplace," said Greg Stuart, president and CEO of the industry group. He said rising Internet usage and spreading broadband access is encouraging marketers to expand interactive advertising efforts. "Our prognosis for a continued and steady recovery is being realized and the outlook remains bright," he said.

The fastest growing type of advertising was paid search, in which companies like Google and Overture place ads near Web page content related to a marketer's product. The IAB said keyword search made up 31 percent of ad revenues in the second quarter. Online advertising accounted for almost 5 percent of all ad spending in the first half of the year, according to TNS Media Intelligence/CMR.

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Point: "VeriSign today unveiled a redesign of its ubiquitous Trust Mark seal symbol. "

Counter-Point: "On November 4, 2003, VeriSign announced a new 'trust enhancing' seal which they built using Macromedia's Flash technology. This new seal makes a connection to their server and displays, in a dynamic text field, the name of the company that bought the certificate. The seal then invites you to click the seal to verify it. This is intended to make people feel more secure about the authenticity of the site they're visiting. But that is a false sense of trust. The purpose of this page is to demonstrate how poorly designed and implemented VeriSign's approach really is."

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Microsoft Puts Bounty on Virus Writers

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