In an expansion of the anititrust law suit started early this week, Advanced Micro Devices filed two suits against Intel in Japan seeking more than USD$50 million for alleged anticompetitive acts.

AMD filed the claims through its AMD Japan unit on Thursday, June 30, 2005.
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AMD Takes CPU War To Japan

Click Defense Inc, a click fraud protection firm, filed the suit in California in the name of an unknown number of plaintiffs for an amount not less than $5 million. This law suit was filed in US District Court against Google alleging breach of contract, negligence, unjust enrichment, and unfair business practices due to the click frauds suffered by their advertisers.

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Colorado-based Click Defense, a company that specializing in procuring rebates for advertisers, says the average cost per click is 50 cents. Disputing the 20% estimations, Click Defense alleges that click fraud on Google is as high as 38%.

The 18-page documented lawsuit claims that since 99% of Google’s revenue comes from advertising, Google has a huge financial interest in doing little about the instance of fraudulent clicks and criticizes the search giant for failure to disclose its own estimate of the number of fraudulent clicks.
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Google Got Sued For Click Fraud

Microsoft has just announced on Friday, June 24, 2005, that Longhorn will incorporate RSS (Really Simple Syndication) as a core technology. This will open new attack sources for spammers, phishers and malicious hackers, security experts say. Well, of course, I think this will only happen if there is any lack of prepor RSS integration, because the integration of RSS will be available to applications through Windows APIs,

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“It is inevitable, without a doubt. When Longhorn comes out, attackers will pounce on every new thing to see if Microsoft did it correctly. You can bet RSS integration will be one of those things attackers will want to exploit,” said John Pescatore, senior vice president of research at Gartner Inc.

Microsoft will make RSS more understandable to the average, non-technical end user in Longhorn, but experts believe once the technology reaches critical mass as widespread as e-mail or instant messaging, it will surely become a lucrative target for malicious hackers.
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Pitfalls Of RSS In Longhorn