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Teen Hacker Pleads Guilty to Computer Fraud

2008-08-19T13:00:00-04:00

A 19-year-old Cheyenne, Wyoming man pleaded guilty in a federal courtroom Wednesday in connection with the development of software to take over thousands of computers and gain access to financial information.

The case against Jason M. Milmont marks the first time someone has been prosecuted for using peer-to-peer software in such a way, federal prosecutors have said. ... Go to source

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SEO-PR president shares Video Search Engine Optimization (VSEO)

2008-08-13T23:41:00-04:00

San Jose, CA (Gawkwire.com) Greg Jarboe, the president and co-founder of SEO-PR, will share two case studies during the Video Search Engine Optimization (VSEO) session on Monday, Aug. 18, 2008, at 2:45 p.m. during Search Engine Strategies (SES) San Jose. Jarboe will also ask the search engine marketers attending the SEO conference a provocative question: "Is YouTube the top video search engine or the top video sharing website?"

According to comScore Video Metrix, Google Sites once again ranked as the top U.S. video property in May 2008 with a 35 percent share of the more than 12 billion online videos viewed by Americans that month. YouTube accounted for more than 98 percent of all videos viewed at Google Sites, attracting 82.2 million viewers, who watched 4.1 billion videos.

Jarboe says, "YouTube is now hosting about 83.4 million videos and receiving another 13 hours of new video from users every minute. In addition, 57 percent of online video viewers share links to the videos they find online with others. So, we've developed a new and useful process along with some inventive tools for two of our clients to enable people to discover, watch and share our originally created videos with the leading online video community."

STACK Media case study:
The first case study that Jarboe will share at SES San Jose features STACK Media, the nation's leading producer and distributor of sports performance, training and lifestyle content for high school athletes. SEO-PR has optimized and uploaded 137 videos to the STACKVids, STACK Football, STACK Baseball, and Stack Basketball channels on YouTube, which presents expert sport workout tips and inside stories from the world's premier athletes.

For STACK, John Mulligan of SEO-PR invented the Program Director. Co-developed with Joe Christopher of Blast Advanced Media, the SEO-PR Program Director is a video SEO tool, an upload scheduler and a YouTube batch uploader that enables users to optimize and upload videos all at once or at staggered days and times.

Nick Palazzo, STACK Media's Co-Founder and Co-CEO, said, "The Program Director lays out multiple videos on a grid so you can organize your best keywords and structure your video optimization program. We also save time by uploading in batches and scheduling our uploads - letting us test the days and times of day to maximize success, just as with our other online marketing efforts."

Search Engine Strategies (SES) case study:
The second case study that Jarboe will share features SES, the leading global conference and expo series that educates delegates on search engine marketing (SEM), including optimization (SEO) and advertising strategies, tactics and best practices. SEO-PR has optimized and promoted 131 videos on the SES Conference Expo Channel, which features video interviews from SES London 2008, SES New York 2008, SES Toronto 2008 and other marketing events.

For SES, Mulligan invented the Online Publicist. Also co-developed with Blast's Christopher, the SEO-PR Online Publicist is an automated email notifier that lets users individually contact lists of friends and colleagues and direct them to a customized micro-site featuring a user's newest videos. It is also a video widget that encourages online publishers and popular bloggers to embed SES videos on their sites and offers them the option of upgrading to a video player widget that can be tailored for their viewers.

Matt McGowan, Global VP of Marketing for Search Engine Strategies, an Incisive Media property, said, "The Online Publicist uses email marketing best practices to help users send a truly personal note to someone they've interacted with notifying them that a new video specifically of interest to them has just been posted. It also increases YouTube views by encouraging online publishers and popular bloggers to give greater visibility to your online video content, or to make you one of their ongoing video content providers. We're excited to be integrating online video and social media relations so seamlessly into our online media relations campaign."

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8 ways to fight spam filter frustration

2008-08-07T00:27:00-04:00

(Gawkwire.com) Spam. It fills our in-boxes, wastes our time and spreads malware -- and it's only getting worse. According to Ferris Research, which studies messaging and content control, 40 trillion spam messages are expected to be sent in 2008, costing businesses more than $140 billion worldwide -- a significant increase from the 18 trillion spam messages sent in 2006 and the 30 trillion in 2007.

In theory, e-mail filtering software and appliances allow "good" or "true" e-mail messages to pass through while prohibiting spam. But the filters can err in either of two ways: They can mistakenly allow spam to pass through, believing it to be true e-mail (known as a "false negative" situation), or they can mistakenly block true e-mail, believing it to be spam (a "false positive"). ... Go to source

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iMergent Reaches Settlement with the State of North Carolina

2008-08-06T10:28:00-04:00

OREM, Utah- (Gawkwire.com) iMergent, Inc. (AMEX:IIG), a leading provider of eCommerce software for small businesses and entrepreneurs, announced it agreed to a Consent Judgment with the Office of the Attorney General of the State of North Carolina on Monday, August 4, 2008. The judgment, when entered by the court will allow iMergent to immediately schedule workshops in North Carolina.

In 2007, the Attorney General of North Carolina filed an action claiming iMergent sold a business opportunity and violated Consumer protection statutes. The State received a temporary injunction prohibiting iMergent from transacting sales and requiring iMergent to issue refunds to any North Carolina customer who requested a refund. The following is a result of the July 2008 agreement.

    * The injunction is lifted, and iMergent is permitted to schedule workshops.
    * There is no finding iMergent is a seller of a business opportunity and no finding of wrongdoing. The settlement does not limit iMergent’s ability to conduct business in the state.
    * iMergent agreed to certain actions intended to clarify its business practices.
    * iMergent agreed to pay fees totaling $90,000 and refund any customers in North Carolina who may file claims within 60 days given the claim includes a declaration issued under penalty of perjury that the customer has been unable to activate a web site and get it fully operational. Management does not expect the refunds will be material as it has refunded all customers who have made a request under the terms of the injunction.

Jeff Korn, iMergent general counsel, said, “I want to thank the Attorney General of North Carolina, who took the time to learn and understand our business. The Office operated in good faith to recommend changes to our presentations, which helped to clarify our business practices. We are always willing to take any reasonable action that assists in making our sales practices transparent to regulators and, most importantly, our customers. We believe our StoresOnline™ Express model has substantially helped in our ability to negotiate the agreement, which lifts the injunction previously in place. Customers who purchase StoresOnline Express have the opportunity to test our best of breed software and award winning customer service before purchasing an upgrade to StoresOnline Pro. We are hopeful our continued improvements in our presentations and service will assist in resolving any other outstanding disputes.”

Don Danks, CEO, stated, “Once again, after study of our business model with StoresOnline Express and Pro, we have been able to resolve a long standing dispute. We are pleased this matter has been resolved, and we intend to return to North Carolina shortly.”

Before the stock market opened today, the company filed an SEC Form 8-K.

Safe Harbor
Statements made in this press release regarding (1) iMergent transacting business in the State of North Carolina and scheduling workshops (2) the settlement resolving outstanding matters with the State of North Carolina, (3) the lifting of the injunction (4) the settlement not affecting continued operations in the State of North Carolina, (5) iMergent addressing issues to clarify its business practices, (6) iMergent refunding any customers in North Carolina who may file claims within 60 days given the claim includes a declaration issued under penalty of perjury that the customer has been unable to activate a web site and get it fully operational (7) the expectation that the refunds will not be material, (8) changes to iMergent presentations, which help to clarify business practices, (9) iMergent being willing to take any reasonable action that assists in making sales practices transparent to regulators customers, (10) that the StoresOnline™ Express model has substantially helped in the ability to negotiate the agreement, (11) that customers who purchase StoresOnline Express have the opportunity to test the best of breed software and award winning customer service before purchasing an upgrade to StoresOnline Pro, (12) continued improvements in presentations and service will assist in resolving any other outstanding disputes, (13) that study of iMergent business model with StoresOnline Express and Pro have resulted in the ability to resolve a long standing dispute and (14) the Attorney General of the State of North Carolina taking the time to fully understand Company presentations are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. For a more detailed discussion of risk factors that affect iMergent's operations, please refer to the company's Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2007, and Forms 10-Q for the periods ended September 30, 2007, December 31, 2007, and March 31, 2008.

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Project to rebuild Internet gets $12M, bandwidth

2008-08-02T12:19:00-04:00

By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer

NEW YORK (AP) - A massive project to redesign and rebuild the Internet from scratch is inching along with $12 million in government funding and donations of network capacity by two major research organizations.

Many researchers want to rethink the Internet's underlying architecture, saying a "clean-slate" approach is the only way to truly address security and other challenges that have cropped up since the Internet's birth in 1969.

On behalf of the government, BBN Technologies Inc. is overseeing the planning and design of the Global Environment for Network Innovations, or GENI, a network on which researchers will be able to test new ideas without damaging the current Internet.

The $12 million in initial grants from the National Science Foundation will go to developing prototypes for the GENI network.

To test these prototypes, the Internet2 organization is contributing 10 gigabits per second of dedicated bandwidth, so researchers won't have to worry about normal Internet traffic interfering with their experiments. National LambdaRail is offering another 30 gigabits per second of capacity, though it won't be dedicated to GENI at all times.

The bandwidth is thousands of times faster than standard home broadband connections _ enough to run 30 high-quality movies into your home simultaneously.

Craig Partridge, chief scientist at BBN Technologies, said the commitments amounted to an important endorsement of GENI by two organizations that run ultra-high-speed networks for universities and other researchers to conduct data-intensive projects.

Construction on GENI could start in about five years and cost $350 million. Congress still has to approve those funds.

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Priviam, Inc. Files Lawsuit Against Former CEO

2008-08-02T11:44:00-04:00

Irvine, CA - Priviam Inc., f/k/a Encryptakey, Inc., a New Jersey corporation (the "Company") announced today that it has filed a lawsuit (Orange County Superior Court, Central Justice Center, case number 30-2008-00109638) against its former CEO, Kelly Owen and his related entities, Owen Consulting LLC, a California limited liability corporation and Encryptakey, Inc., a Nevada corporation (collectively "Owen"). The complaint alleges the following:

Breach of Fiduciary Duty
Conversion of Monies
Fraud -- Intentional Misrepresentation
Fraud -- Concealment

The Company is seeking both compensatory and punitive damages from Owen along with declaratory relief. "We intend to pursue this matter vigorously for the benefit of the Company and its shareholders." stated Jack Musetti, president and CEO. Furthermore, the Company vehemently denies any rumors that this action against Owen or any other steps in this process now or in the future have been taken in order to raise any funds from the investing public. "My responsibility is to our shareholders. The facts will come out in this litigation and we firmly believe that judgment will be strongly in our favor." Musetti further stated.

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