Startup Labs joins other, seemingly similar projects, housed within specific business units, including Live Labs, adCenter Labs and Office Labs.

I’ve asked Microsoft for more info and will update if I learn more.

As noted by ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft is launching yet another “Labs” effort.

This one is called Startup Labs, and according to a job [...]

Online pharmacies will face stricter regulations under new legislation Congress is considering.

The bill is named after Ryan Haight, an 18-year-old who died from an accidental overdose of Vicodin, Valium, and a trace of morphine, which he acquired with prescriptions over the Internet.

The Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act would ban the sale [...]

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April Fools’ Day passed with much angst over and little action from the
Conficker worm, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a threat.

Firefox users can check if image loading has been disabled under Tools/Options and the Content tab. Load Images Automatically should be checked. Internet Explorer users will find it under [...]

In most cases, that page also contains the account’s bank balance. This is so that after running the test, the hackers have a picture of what the highest dollar amounts are, he said.

So the story of Lopez is significant. It’s a tangible event about how online criminals are actually affecting people. It illustrates how [...]

Yahoo is also testing the use of Google ads on a small percentage of its search pages. This could lead Yahoo to outsource its core ad search business to Google. As you might recall, Google and AOL have a connection. Google invested $1 billion in AOL in 2005 for a 5 percent stake, and it [...]

Comes With Music customers will have total access to the music of Alicia Keys as well as every other Sony BMG artist free for a full year.

During the 12 months of the offer, users will be able to transfer their Comes With Music library to a PC as well as to a new Nokia handheld, [...]

And within the smartphone market, here’s a ranking of which device grabbed the largest share of Internet traffic, according to AdMob:

“If Coca-Cola buys a Superbowl ad, Nielsen can say how many people watched it,” Chamberlain said. “But there are no independent third parties to audit mobile applications.”

Update at 2:52 p.m. PDT, with a report from [...]