Microsoft on Tuesday plans to release five security bulletins, four of which
will address Windows flaws. The bulletins, part of Microsoft's monthly patch
cycle, will provide fixes for an undisclosed number of security vulnerabilities,
Microsoft said on its Web site Thursday. Earlier this week, the company rushed
out a "critical" patch for Windows that fixed seven flaws in the operating
system, including one that is being used in cyberattacks.
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Online advertising services giant DoubleClick Inc. has launched its Advertising
Exchange Service, an online marketplace that connects buyers and sellers of
online display advertising. The move comes in response to the needs of buyers
and sellers for new methods to generate additional revenue. The exchange service
is currently in limited testing with a select group of buyers and sellers in the
United States and live in the third quarter.
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Verisign, the master-keeper of Internet addresses ending in ".com" and ".net"
said Thursday it would raise fees charged to register those names. The annual
levy for ".com" will increase 7 percent to $6.42, and the ".net" fee will go up
10 percent to $3.85. The per-name fees are collected from companies that sell
domain names on Verisign's behalf, and are generally incorporated in the prices
companies, groups and individuals pay to register names.
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Google has done more to facilitate local online advertising than anyone could
easily quantify. When an advertiser creates a free local business center listing
(which consists of the business name, address, phone number, hours of operation,
payments accepted, relevant business categories, and the like), he becomes
eligible to promote his services through a special location-targeted Sponsored
Link. Why pay for an ad?
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My recent Websites: You've Only Got 3 Seconds column got a great deal of
response One reader, Jan Limpach of Cleveland-based search engine optimization
firm Keyphrase-Marketing, emailed me with some confusion. He followed the links
to NextStage Evolution's website and was...uh...unimpressed. Was this the site
used by the company behind those incredible articles? "Well, uh...yeah," I said,
my head hung in shame.
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