Technology

Microsoft is finally looking at getting into the search engine advertising market for themselves. They announced yesterday the launch of a new pay-per-click service called AdCenter [press release]. Currently MSN uses Yahoo’s Search Marketing (formerly Overture) for its search advertising. The contract for this service runs through July of next year, [...]

A hacker pled guilty to charges of causing a threat to public safety and causing damage to computers and was sentenced today to six months in prison. David Jeansonne of Metairie, Louisiana, who was prosecuted in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, must also pay damages of $27,000 to [...]

Genentech, Inc. stock jumped 25% yesterday — up to $55 a share — after its announcement that its well-hyped colon and rectal cancer drug can help lung cancer patients live longer lives. The drug can prolong a person’s life by over two months. “The National Cancer Institute, under an agreement with Genentech, sponsored [...]

AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and Yahoo Messenger are coming standard on the do-it-all wireless device known as the Blackberry. Manufacturer Research in Motion announced the addition today, which will result in yet another great distraction for people who are supposed to be using the devices for work. A Blackberry is a key tool [...]

One of the great voyeuristic devices of modern America is the annual list of the world’s richest people, published by Forbes magazine. While the information is mostly trivial, the nation is fascinated with knowing just which billionaire is the richest of the rich. For the 11th straight year, the winner is Microsoft chairman [...]

Malaria afflicted 515 million people in 2002, according to figures reported in the science journal Nature, up from World Health Organization estimates of 273 million cases in 1998. The majority of cases are contracted in sub-Saharan Africa, though nearly a quarter of cases occurred in the Western Pacific and Southeast Asia. Professor Bob [...]

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. The weapons the newly-dubbed knight wields? A big heart and a philantrophic war chest that could pay the Queen’s ransom several times over. Queen Elizabeth II bestowed upon Gates an honorary knighthood Wednesday in recognition [...]