Dutch prosecutors last month arrested three young men for creating and operating a botnet allegedly used to extort a U.S. company, to steal PayPal and eBay accounts, and to install adware and spyware.

McDonald's and mobilestr33t has created a mobile marketing campaign. Cell phone users can use mobile coupons to get a free McFlurry.

Advertising from Google and its network partners sites displaying its ads accounted for most of the company's earnings. Google posted revenues of $1.578 billion for the quarter ending September 30, 2005, up 96% from the third quarter of 2004. Shouldn't its partner sites get some share of it too? Interestingly revenue from Google-owned sites grew at a rate of 20% during the quarter, faster than the 7% growth in revenue generated through partner sites.

JavaWorld has this trivial article on simulating multiple inheritance in Java software using delegation. What he explains in a big long-winded article with several examples, requires just one sentence to elucidate. It is an age old technique.

Wired News reports about a company which bans all sites containing the word "blog" in a juvenile attempt to prevent employees from accessing blogs.