Microsoft is launching a Google killer. The new Internet Explorer has a privacy button that makes it impossible for Google and other advertisers to track your surfing record. Google Adsense and Google Adword need these records to check what customers are doing.

Microsoft is with the launch of IE 8 putting a stop to that if the customer wants. Google needs to do something fast since IE rules 70 % of the market and Google needs those surfing records.

One of my favorite things to do every day is to write on the Digital Point forum that is owned by Shawn Hogan. According to a press relase ebay have now sued Shawn and friends for cookie stuffing. The law suit did not say if they did the stuffing on Digital Point or some other website.

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Three men defrauded eBay in a “cookie stuffing” scheme that made it appear the men’s companies should be paid commissions, eBay claims in Federal Court. It sued Shawn Hogan and Digital Point Solutions, Todd Dunning and Kessler’s Flying Circus, and Brian Dunning and Thunderwood Holdings.
eBay says the men devised software programs that, “unbeknownst to the [computer] user, redirected the user’s computer to the eBay Web site without the user actually clicking on an eBay advertisement link, or even becoming aware that they had left the page they were previously viewing. As a result, the eBay site would be prompted to drop an eBay cookie on the user’s computer even though the user never clicked on an eBay advertisement or even realized that their computer had ever visited the eBay site.”
The complaint continues: “once the cookie was stuffed on the user’s computer by one or more of the defendant’s any future revenue actions initiated by that user when the user later visited eBay intentionally, and not as a result of any advertisement places by defendants, appeared to be eligible for commissions payable to one of the defendants”.
eBay claims the defendants also used deceptive means to prevent it from discovering the fraud, and to conceal it. eBay demands compensatory, treble and punitive damages.

The Thai government is blaming violent video games for the killing of a taxi driver. A 19 year old student that thought he not got enough money from his parents to play more video games tried to rob a taxi driver.

The 19 years old that is way over his age to stay in school sits all day and play video games. He thought he would do a quick robbery like in Grand Theft Auto and then play some more. Unfortunate for him the taxi driver fought back and the 19 years old killed him with some knifes he brought from home. He then took the car and even he never drove in his life he tried to do as the video game. The police found him stuck behind the wheel and the rest is history.

The Thai government answer was off course swift and totally of target and they blamed the video game instead of the big problems that they have in the Thai society right now.

Thailand has also a new cyber law that demands every company to record and ID all internet users on the company computer and that includes hotels and internet cafes. So next time they offer free WIFI in the hotel think about that they save your information for 3 month.

The SMS Thailand website has upgraded their system to be able to take more then 50 character in one translated SMS.

The service has been running for one year and had loads of customer using the service but the wish from the customers to send longer SMS made website do an upgrade.

SMS Thailand translates SMS that are sent from their website from English to Thai language. Work is on the way to make is possible for the people to answer in Thai and send the Thai SMS back in English.

For more information please visit the sms-thailand.com website.