| MarketBuddy 1.0 eases internet marketing
Excel Software today began shipping MarketBuddy 1.0 for Mac OS X and Windows systems. The software is designed to reduce human effort required to market any product or service using the internet, both by storing as well as organizing marketing contact information and automating common marketing activities. MarketBuddy 1.0 posts news to websites as well as press release distribution sites, lists items in product directories as well as white papers, and fills in Web forms or uploads trial/shareware to software sites automatically. The application also manages email lists, sends newsletters, and enables users to support customers while tracking sales leads. MarketBuddy 1.0 is priced at $200 and requires Mac OS X 10.1 or later. MarketBuddy presents a window with panels for groups, contacts, documents, emails, and setup.
Want to advertise your business online? Beware of click fraud
PORTLAND, Ore. - Click fraud has been called the dark side of online advertising, a type of Internet crime aimed at running up bills and cutting down the competition - one click at a time. Every time you use Google or Yahoo, there are always links at the top of the list for sponsored sites and they do not pop up there by mistake. Business owners pay for those links. It's called pay-per-click advertising and for many small businesses, it's a great way to attract new business. However, there is a down side. Scott Hendison used pay-per-click advertising for an insurance business. One day, he noticed his bill was increasing, but there was no increase in actual leads. Someone had been fraudulently clicking on his ad and running up his bill, with no intent on using his services.
Trains, Bloggers Are Threats in Drill
After mock electronic attacks overwhelmed computers at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, an unspecified ``major news network'' airing reports about the attackers refused to reveal its sources to the government. Other simulated reporters were duped into spreading ``believable but misleading'' information that worsened fallout by confusing the public and financial markets, according to the government's files. The $3 million, invitation-only war game simulated what the U.S. described as plausible attacks over five days in February 2006 against the technology industry, transportation lines and energy utilities by anti-globalization hackers. The government is organizing another multimillion-dollar war game, Cyber Storm 2, to take place in early March. The upcoming exercise in March will simulate electronic attacks against chemical plants and communication lines, and include targets in California, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia.
Hidden victims of mortgage crisis: Pets abandoned by their owners ...
STOCKTON, Calif. - The house was ravaged — its floors ripped, walls busted and lights smashed by owners who trashed their home before a bank foreclosed on it. Hidden in the wreckage was an abandoned member of the family: a starving pit bull. The dog found by workers was too far gone to save — another example of how pets are becoming the newest victims of the nation's mortgage crisis as homeowners leave animals behind when they can no longer afford their property. Pets "are getting dumped all over," said Traci Jennings, president of the Humane Society of Stanislaus County in northern California. "Farmers are finding dogs dumped on their grazing grounds, while house cats are showing up in wild cat colonies." In one such colony in Modesto, two obviously tame cats watched alone from a distance as a group of feral cats devoured a pile of dry food Jennings offered.
Dispatches From the Terror Front: Can Terrorism Be Tamed in Pakistan?
Well, there's election fever in Islamabad ... even if there is virtually only one candidate standing, the outcome is known, and half the voters are sitting it out. Also, even if the result won't be formally ratified until the Supreme Court decides if Musharraf is fit to run! Still, this was the main event, so we dragged ourselves out of bed after a late night preparing a story for "Special Report" and headed over the Pakistan National Assembly, where the electoral college-style vote was taking place. The place looked similar to the way our Congress often looks: seats empty, pols confabbing, endless roll calls. We were the only Western TV team up to make it up to the press gallery taking in the action. After we had our fill, we were outside, where Pakistan media was giving blanket coverage to this non-event event.
Protein Solutions subject of two more odor complaints
With the change in the season, houses will be more shut up,'' he said. "The winds will shift to northerly and the odor will bother someone else other than me.'' Johnston said there have been other times when the odor from Protein Solutions has been noticeable, but that he did not think it would rise to the level where enforcement action was needed. "This one time on Oct. 18 I thought it might," he said. "But, if they got there 24 hours later, it might not have been at the actionable level when they got there." After the petition was filed, Joplin City Manager Mark Rohr met with officials of the company, which agreed to provide periodic information to the city about its effort to correct or diminish the odor problem. Matt Wojnowski, assistant to the city manager, on Wednesday said the company has kept the city abreast of developments at the plant, which is operating in the former Herrod Packing Co.
Kansas abortion doctor ordered to show records
It's an unprecedented encroachment upon a woman's right to privacy," attorney Dan Monnat said. Monnat was joined in court by a lawyer from the Center for Reproductive Rights, who filed affidavits from three patients demanding that their medical records remain private. Tiller spent three years battling a subpoena for a much smaller group of medical records sought by former Attorney General Phill Kline, an opponent of legal abortion. The Kansas Supreme Court eventually forced Tiller to hand over 60 records on the condition that an independent lawyer review them to redact names, addresses and other information not relevant to the criminal inquiry. After Kline was voted out of office, his successor — a supporter of abortion rights — charged Tiller with the misdemeanors.
USA Elite National Track Championships - CN
The trio of world pursuit champion Sarah Hammer, newly crowned national pursuit champion Dotsie Bausch and national sprint champion Jennie Reed is not a long-standing pursuit team. Bausch is still in her first year on the track and Reed, though she started as a pursuit rider, has made her mark more as a sprinter. That is why they called their team '2 Queens & a Fred' for the race on Saturday. And in the final two laps the lack of specific pursuit laps together showed, but it did not matter, as the three easily beat the best time for the win. "We are all training partners, not really for pursuit, but it's great to race with your friends," said Hammer. The final few laps saw Bausch leaving a bit of a gap when she swung off her pulls, and in the final two Reed filled the gap by taking extra pulls along with Hammer.
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