BT, Britain's telecoms incumbent, which in 2000 announced that it had a patent on hyperlinks, a technology that allows people to click on a web-page link to go to another web address.
The offer was fake, and included a link that installed Web-hijacking malware.
These then link to a web-based dashboard where survey data can be tracked on Google Maps and Google Earth, according to Water for People.
In Safari, for example, you can Tweet a link to a Web page, send it via Messages or e-mail it as a link, a PDF attachment or inside the message's body.
For instance, said Mr Hogan, filtering out e-mail messages that contain a web link can stop about 75% of spam.
Since Google ranks results based on the number of Web pages that link to them, cyber-criminals added thousands of links to their pages on forums and blog comment sections around the Web, pushing their pages to the top of the search engine's results.
The fine was levied on the 40-year-old because he paid for the web link over which the songs were downloaded.
In addition, users will be able to link to most non-optimized Web sites, although the quality of the content displayed on the screen will vary from site to site.
He'd like to give his clients the fastest possible link to the rest of the Web world--but he can't.
These customers will be sent an e-mail invitation with a link to a special web site.
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The hope in viral marketing is to create something that is so much fun that it will propagate by itself, as people e-mail it to each other or put the web link on their blogs.
That means users don't need to reveal financial information themselves, only click on a link that directs them to a malware-infected Web page.
At the bottom of that page is a link to the web browser, continuing the proud e-reader tradition of completely hiding the feature away.
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The rest are automatic, such as clicking a pre-configured link or having the browser execute request within a web page (for example, requests to call images and additional content from third party sites).
The dispute spawned an industry self-regulatory group that pledged not to link personally identifiable information to Web browsing unless the person opted in.
But he only offers vague assurances of "pull-through, " as the customers who load up on Compaq's industry-standard Web-servers and related equipment also turn to Compaq's services arm to link it all together.
When the student applies for a loan, he gets an e-mail from the bank with a link to the document on a new web page.
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