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Microsoft Unimpressed With Massachusetts Policy

The company behind the ubiquitous Office productivity suite has no intention of supporting the Open Document format.

Google Blogs Response To Geico Ruling

Apparently, the ability to make lemons into lemonade is one of Google’s strong points, or it could be they are living by the whole “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” thing.

Microsoft Releases RDP Security Advisory

Windows versions 2000, XP, and 2003 could be vulnerable to a Denial of Service condition via the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).

Author Blames Google For Ad Censorship

Once again failing to understand the Google AdWords TOS agreement, another person is attempting to make a misguided connection between an AdWords campaign denial by Google and a liberal political bias.

Yahoo Publishes Employee Blogging Guidelines

Yahoo has publicly published its employee blogging guidelines (version 1.0, no betas) and they are concise, intelligent, and actually quite helpful.

eBay Suffers Power Outage

The online marketplace has experienced outages in the past, notably a 22 hour shutdown that cost the company heavily.

New AdWords Policy Affects Content Publishers

A new AdWords policy enacted by Google could have long-ranging, perhaps negative affects on content providers and publishers, blogger or otherwise.

Feedster Shares Its Blogging Policy

Even though it seems like I’m moving a million miles per hour these days, I can always find time to check my feeds.

Cisco Breaks New Ground With Government Affairs Blog

Networking company Cisco Systems launched their first public blog last month. It’s a very interesting blog as it’s not the type of blog that would immediately spring to mind.

Blog linking policy: Develop one today
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Blogs link to one another.

Link Policy and Building Traffic
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I’m getting enough emails for reciprocal link exchanges that I thought I’d take a moment to write out my link policy here on my blog.

Plain Speaking Blog Comment Policy

Here’s a plain-speaking description of a blog commenting policy that no one could possibly misunderstand …

Amazon Invests in 43 Things Folksonomy Project
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Amazon.com has invested in the start-up behind folksonomy project 43 Things. Another company, called 37 Signals …

Network Security and Cisco SAFE

While implementing a functional network design that meets an organization’s business and technical goals is critical, it is imperative that the design is properly secured.

Google Changes Stance on Affiliates in AdWords

After much speculation, Google has announced that they will be changing their Affiliate Policy for AdWords.

Twelve Horses Implements Sender Policy Framework

Twelve Horses announced it has implemented the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) standard.

Google Updates Gmail Policies

In what seems to be a response to Gmail invitation auctions, Google has updated their Gmail policy page to reflect these activities. The changes now make it a violation to “sell, trade, resell or otherwise exploit for any unauthorized commercial purpose or transfer any Gmail account.”

Trademark Dispute Causes Geico To Sue Google And Overture

Ever since Google and Overture have allowed competitors to bid on trademarked keywords, legal trouble have not been far behind them. Google is facing lawsuits in Europe and the US because of its trademark policy. Add auto insurance company Geico to the list of companies that have filed suit for improper trademark use.

Google In Court Over New AdWords Policy

Google’s newest policy concerning bidding on trademarked slogans for AdWords purposes has come under fire. French insurance company AXA has filed suit against the search engine for allowing others to bid on keywords that AXA has trademarked.

Virtual Private Networks (VPN) the Insecure Solution

Many organisations have deployed VPN’s as a quick win solution and have suffered as a result of not implementing a full solution. Trinity Security Services’ Consultants have worked with a wide array of customers to solve security issues as a result of hastily rolled out VPN solutions.

Customer Service: Beyond Company Policy

There’s more to customer service dealing with order fulfillment, returns, complaints and questions. Good customer service is based on respect and concern — qualities that can’t be spelled out in a company policy.