If only pay-per-click campaigns were as easy as a snap of the finger, then every web page could strike it rich at the first try.

Eric Schmidt told an interviewer from the Associated Press that Google is absolutely not going to release an electronic payment system to compete with eBay’s PayPal.

The Cosmos 1 blasted out of a Russian submarine yesterday but failed to reach orbit after rocket boosters shut off 83 seconds into the launch. Most fear the mission is over for the time being.

Has everyone in Congress flipped off their interior monologues? The feathers were still floating around the head of Dick Durbin as he made his apology to the Senate, the US soldiers, and anybody else who heard him compare Guantanamo soldiers to the Nazis.

Advertising is a medium that constantly evolves. It changes with the times. It adapts to new technologies. It is unrelenting in its desire to find new and better ways to reach an ever-growing consumer marketplace. But its not simply advertising that evolves.

They’ve found the biological clock. It’s really an egg timer. The latest research out of Israel found a cluster of genes that determine a woman’s ability to conceive past a certain age.

Probably the most exciting company to not only survive, but come out strong out of the dot-com crash of the late 90′s is Google Inc (http://www.google.com). Having started out small as a company operated in the garage of a friend and employing a staff of three, Google’s meteoric rise to a top name on the Internet is not really that perplexing when we analyze the core strengths and policies of this company.

Ford Motor Co. has cut down its earnings per share guidance for the year, as the company’s profit outlook for North American operations weakens.

Today, being on the first page for your most popular keyword phrase is like having the most memorable prime time television commercial in 1973. Essentially, that’s where the power of advertising is going. It’s all about Search. And Search is only going to become more important over the next ten years.

You can make your trade show experience much easier by using a portable exhibit. Since you control everything related to transporting it and setting it up, you won’t have to hire firms to for those things for you.

Apparently, the varying methods in which people use search engines are going to continue its evolution until the Sun collapses. Since inception into the mainstream, the way people use search engines has grown from a mere information and fact-finding tool to something many couldn’t imagine being without.

Ameritrade Holding Corp. is acquiring rival TD Waterhouse USA from Toronto-Dominion Bank in a $2.9 billion all-stock deal. The combined company will be called TD Ameritrade.

The board of the Screen Actors Guild overruled its membership and rejected a recently approved contract.

I bet you can’t tell me how leadership training and strategic planning work together to boost business results and energize performance improvements.

Dean Arthur Schwartzmiller, ducking courtroom cameras, made his first court appearance since his arrest on extensive child molestation charges. The alleged 63-year-old pedophile faces a maximum of 105 years to life in prison if convicted.

It just came to my attention that bloggers with TypePad Pro accounts can now earn money from their blogs via an integrated service from Kanoodle, a contextual advertising company.

It was certainly a disappointment to the privately funded US-Russian effort as their shoestring $4 million worth of revolutionary technology failed to reach its orbit, and may be laying in pieces in the Arctic.

The makers of software that allows Windows applications to run on the Linux platform will support the new Intel-based Macs.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency imagines a future where humanoid robots populate a lunar base in 2025.

Gary Price reports that the Association of American Publishers sent a letter to Google asking for a six month moratorium on scanning copyrighted books for the Library portion of Google Print.

The annual Blog Business Summit is scheduled for August 17 – 19 2005 in San Francisco, California, USA.

The Microsoft PC health service has begun accepting applications for prospective beta testers.