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A Perth-based company has been fined $5.5 million for sending millions of unsolicited emails, with a judge labelling the spam annoying, costly to combat, and a threat to the internet.
It is the first time an Australian company has been fined under the the federal government’s spam laws, introduced in April 2004.
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A salacious email inviting a female lawyer to no-strings sex has spread like wildfire to countless inboxes worldwide.
The email was penned by law clerk Craig Dale, and sent last week to female lawyer Azadeh Bashari.
They work for separate law firms in New Zealand and it is unclear how they met.
Sourced from searchenginewatch.com
By Chris Sherman, Executive Editor
Want your own Google-flavored specialized search engine for your web site or blog? With Google’s new Custom Search Engine service, it takes just minutes to set up your own unique search engine.
Google is joining Yahoo, Eurekster and many others in offering a customized search platform that makes it easy for anyone to offer a highly tailored search engine. Several weeks ago, SEW correspondent Phil Bradley wrote about customized search offerings from Rollyo, PSI, Yahoo and in Your Search, Your Way (part one and part two).
SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) — In death as in life, iconic TV naturalist Steve Irwin captivated millions worldwide and clogged the Internet as fans from Guam to Glasgow reacted with disbelief to news “The Crocodile Hunter” was dead.Some Web sites groaned to a halt within hours of the first reports Monday that Irwin had been killed by a stingray’s barb through his chest in a freak diving accident off Australia’s northeast coast.
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The deal, the first to value one of the new crop of user-participation websites at more than $US1 billion, combines two of the most popular internet brands: Google, synonymous with web search and rapid innovation, and You Tube, a Silicon Valley upstart that has spearheaded the video-sharing craze.