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Ontario police use the popular video sharing site YouTube to help catch a killer.

Sales of M-rated titles to minors happened more frequently at local and regional videogame retailers than national chains.

A flaw with Internet Explorer's handling of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) could lead to information theft from Google Desktop and other programs.

Earlier in the week, I received a copy of the galley proofs of Naked Conversations, the business blogging book by Shel Israel and Robert Scoble, due to hit the bookstore shelves next January.

Verizon recently announced the March launch of a pay-per-click product for sale from their SuperPages site. Curious about the PPC newcomer, I wrote to Troy Perkins of PayPerClickAnalyst.com to get his preliminary thoughts on Verizon and the viability of their new product.

Google recently made far-reaching changes to the way it ranks search results, and the search marketing community has been abuzz with tales of woe ever since. Some have speculated that the key to understanding Google's latest is that they've applied some sort of test of "commerciality" to certain phrases, roiling the waters for sites ranked well on those phrases, and leaving non-commercial phrases more or less alone. The idea is that this would cause a stampede of site owners over to the paid AdWords program, or at least making the point that Google isn't up for providing a free lunch to clever "SEO-ized" sites indefinitely.

How many of you made as much money as you wanted to last year? Don't be shy; raise your hands. Hmm, I don't see too many hands out there. What would you say is the cause of this gap between your goals and your earnings?

While the clarity on your cell phone may be increasing, the overall picture of wireless technology is becoming progressively murkier. New terms and services seem to spin off of the presses every day, and it’s hard to separate what you need to know from what you don’t. What do all those acronyms mean? Most are specific ways of transmitting what amounts to the same kind of signals. Different phones depend on different technologies, and many of these are manufacturer-dependent.