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A New Era In Banking Begins - Business
Law will eventually end ‘float,’ canceled hand-written checks
How many checks will bounce as Check 21 takes hold is in dispute. Consumers Union suggests 7 million additional checks will be hit with overdraft charges each month

PeopleSoft Shareholders Likely To Back Oracle - Investment News
Oracle vowed to withdraw its $24-per-share offer unless a majority of PeopleSoft investors signaled a willingness to accept the money by tendering their stock before midnight EST. PeopleSoft's board has advised shareholders not to tender their stock, arguing that Oracle's current bid is inadequate.

Spamming the Big Fish - Humour
Bill Gates may be the most-spammed person in the world. The Microsoft chairman receives about four million e-mails a day, most of them spam, according to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Much of the spam is blocked by filtering technology, but even so, Gates has a staff of several people to sort his e-mail.

What Should I Do If The Internet Goes Down? - Humour
No one knows when the Internet will fail. It could happen at any time, leaving you bereft of your e-mail, your sports scores, and your Blogs. Therefore, it's important that you and your family have a contingency plan for just such an emergency.

Halloween Goes High Tech - featured Article
It's the second-largest decorating holiday after Christmas and Hanukkah and merchants are catering to the Halloween crowd with a proliferation of high-tech wizardry -- voice-activated skeletons, smog machines and gory bleeding goblins.

Search Marketing Off the Beaten Track. - featured Article
Opportunities for effective, inexpensive search marketing are abundant when you and "think outside the (Big Search) box" and look to vertical or specialized content sites.

Email Open Rates: Are Email Messages Read? - featured Article
According to a study, newsletters continue to draw higher open rates per campaign than their direct email counterpart.

PayPal service restored, company announces - Featured Article
Most members of the online payment service Paypal should be able to log on to the Web site after five days of intermittent service outages and furious repair efforts, the company said.

New Google tool poses privacy risks - Technology
NEW YORK - People who use public or workplace computers for e-mail, instant messaging and Web searching have a new privacy risk to worry about: Google's free new tool that indexes a PC's contents for quickly locating data.

Chips Coming to a Brain Near You - Technology
In this era of high-tech memory management, next in line to get that memory upgrade isn't your computer, it's you.
Professor Theodore W. Berger, director of the Center for Neural Engineering at the University of Southern California, is creating a silicon chip implant that mimics the hippocampus, an area of the brain known for creating memories.

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Google GEO says more competition means more revenue

Google Inc. faces mounting competition in the Internet search advertising market, CEO Eric Schmidt said he expects such battles to drive up prices and increase revenues across the entire industry.

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Print Newspaper Circulation Drops, Online Readers Increase

While newspaper circulation dropped 2.5 percent in the six-month period ending in March, newspaper websites had an eight percent increase in viewers for the first quarter of 2006, according to the Newspaper Association of America's analysis of data released by the Audit Bureau of Circulation.

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Can’t We All Just Get Along?

The Cpa Vs. Ppc Debate: Why Can’t Both Ad Strategies Just Get Along? Is the Pay Per Click (PPC) online advertising industry changing? Experts say that, as the PPC model changes, its natural progression will cause it to move towards the Cost Per Acquisition (CPA) model.

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Ad Network for Bloggers

Federated Media, the blog-publishing firm run by Wired and Industry Standard founder and Google-watcher John Battelle, last week launched an ad platform designed to give marketers access to its klatch of highly literate and well-trafficked blogs.

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