I found Panda Security Malaysia in the exhibition of Microsoft Tech.Ed 2008.

Now I am using the Panda Internet Security 2008 with Mega Detection, thanks to Panda for the complimentary 1 year user license.

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Yahoo has struck an agreement with LucidMedia in a move to enhance contextual display advertising on its Right Media Exchange, the companies announced Tuesday.

The arrangement comes as Yahoo and its competitors, which rely heavily on ad revenue, face a challenging environment as the economy softens and advertisers pull back. With the agreement, Yahoo is seeking to grab market share from Google and Microsoft.

Under the agreement, Yahoo’s Right Media will support buyers and sellers that use LucidMedia’s contextual advertising engine ClickSense. The arrangement will allow Right Media users to categorize their display advertising inventory, using targeted tags for any of Yahoo’s more than 60 vertical channels, such as automotive, finance, and sports.

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AOL in US is shutting down some of its Web and mobile based services because it is not gaining enough attention in the US.

I think that AOL should look in other parts of the world for new business opportunity. For an example, service like Xdrive and AOL Pictures that it plan to shut down will work in Asia since there are not many such services based in Asia.

If AOL could launch services such as Xdrive and host it in Asia, users will definitely use it since it is localized and the files that users are uploading and downloading don’t have to travel across the other part of the world(US), thus ensuring good user experience.

The world is changing, even bigger companies like Yahoo! is trying get attention in Asia with localized services and partnership.

It is time for AOL to look out the box, if not, AOL will disappear within the next few years.

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Malaysia’s local daily newspaper, TheStar, now serves video ads on its website.

TheStar.com.my has about 50 million pageviews a month, according to Alexa.com, and it serves video ads. As far as i know, Malaysiakini.com, the most visited news portal in this country has 100 million page views but I have not seen any video ads on it.

The problem with video ads is that, it requires a lot of bandwidth and even broadband users in this country will have to wait longer to load a page with video on it. Plus, the video ads on TheStar’s website plays automatically, it is even more super(hebat) than Google’s Video Ads which requires users to click on it before it plays.

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In announcing a new service for media buyers on Tuesday, Google said that its Ad Planner was meant to make life easier for the people whose job it is to identify Web sites where their clients’ messages will have the most impact.

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Will Google and Yahoo come together on a search advertising partnership? The two companies have been discussing an agreement under which Google would deliver some ads alongside Yahoo’s search results. Since Google on average earns much more than Yahoo for every search, the deal, at least in theory, would boost Yahoo’s revenue. The two companies conducted a two-week experiment to make sure that was indeed true and both companies have called the test a success.

No deal has been announced yet, and the reasons the companies have not come to terms are unknown. But a person with knowledge of the discussions said Google has been thinking about a conundrum: deal or no deal, the company could end up with something of a public relations black eye.

If the companies reach a deal, Google is certain to face antitrust scrutiny. Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, said Thursday that he was confident that the companies could structure an agreement in a way to avoid it being blocked by regulators. That may be true. But it doesn’t take a public relations expert to realize that coming under scrutiny as a powerful monopoly, whether or not it ultimately leads to a deal being blocked, is not good for a company’s image.

If Google, on the other hand, pulls away from the deal, it could face some criticism too. Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin said Thursday that Google’s offer of a search ad deal to Yahoo was not an effort to scuttle Microsoft’s takeover attempt, but rather an attempt to give Yahoo options in the face of a hostile takeover attempt. The possibility of a search deal emboldened Yahoo’s board to hold out for a higher price. Rather than fight, Microsoft decided to walk away.

But if Google walks away, essentially cutting off the lifeline it had offered Yahoo, it won’t be seen as playing nice.

Spokespeople for Google and Yahoo declined to comment.-NYTimes

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