A new study has found that pop-up ads only account for a tiny percentage of online advertisements, but their use is likely to increase.
Pop-up advertisements have thrived for years despite numerous efforts to eradicate them, but now online marketers are seriously wondering whether the Web's most detested ad format is about to meet its match: Microsoft.
An attempt to pinch user information from banking sites using a malicious pop-up program has been nipped in the bud, says Symantec.
An adware purveyor has apparently used two previously unknown security flaws in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser to install a toolbar on victims' computers that triggers pop-up ads, researchers said this week.
Local eBay users will not be troubled by the pop-up ads that are set to infiltrate the screens of their American counterparts.
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Sydney social news start-up Streem will shut down this afternoon, according to a heartfelt notice posted on the site this morning by its founder Elgar Welch.
If the Internet is God, and the browser my shepherd, I am a lost lamb who has been waiting for the Prophet to answer my call: What are those icon-less buttons at the bottom of Internet Explorer 7?
The vision of the future BT portrayed this week at an Australian conference was so far removed from how Telstra's David Quilty has described the British telco that I wonder if they were talking about the same UK.
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Mashups involving digital maps are bridging the gap between the virtual and physical worlds, with uses ranging from local shopping and traffic reports to online dating and community organising.
A DoubleClick executive landed in hot soup recently after suggesting browser makers should toe the line when it came to online advertising.
Despite reductions in the number of computers infected by spyware applications, the troublesome software has created a billion-dollar industry that continues to plague both consumers and businesses, researchers said on Tuesday.
Of all the sinister things that internet viruses do, this might be the worst: they can make people an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.
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Fed up with pop-up ads? We review six ad-free browser apps, each with its own method of removing annoying solicitations.
Pop-up advertisements have thrived for years despite numerous efforts to eradicate them, but now online marketers are seriously wondering whether the Web's most detested ad format is about to meet its match: Microsoft.
AOL Time Warner has released a version of its Netscape browser that lets Web surfers suppress pop-up ads, a further sign of declining fortunes for a widely hated marketing format.
Secrecy seems to shroud the data centre arena -- all well and good for security's sake, but not so great when trying to pick a provider. We pull back the curtains to find what data centre options exist in Australia.
A DoubleClick executive landed in hot soup recently after suggesting browser makers should toe the line when it came to online advertising.
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