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From scraper sites, to click fraud to trojan horses, looks like the most profitable money making mechanism, aka AdSense might be facing some tough times. Paul Kedrosky predicts that the situation will come to a head in 2006 sometime.
With some estimating that in certain categories click-fraud accounts for as much as 20% of fees, this [...]

Mike Rundle, the dude who designed Gigaom.com is Best Designer of the Year! I knew I had good taste, but this good… Oy!

With SBC gulping AT&T without as much as a gulp, one could feel a tad sorry for some of the executives from the “old” Ma Bell who were shown the door by King Ed The First. For example, David Dorman, the former CEO of AT&T, whom we have always liked for being a bit of [...]

If you have seen those annoying IBM ThinkPad ads on television, then you kinda have a clue about biometrics, which is a way to authenticate a user using finger prints. But that’s so 1990s!
Apparently, that security technique can be hacked (literally) and that is why folks at Fujitsu have developed something called “Contact Less [...]

Quanta and Asustek will be the main manufacturers of Apple’s Intel based laptops, according to a news report in EMSnow. Apparently, the big ramp on production is likely to come sometime in the first quarter of 2006.
Quanta and Asustek are the main ODM notebook partners of Apple. Quanta is responsible to high level model, Power [...]

Earlier this week, Niall and I got together to record the latest edition of Om & Niall Pod Sessions. There has been an increase in the focus on two-tier Internet, and network neutrality has become one of the hot button issues, we are likely to hear more of in 2006.
In recent months large cable companies [...]