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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Time Inc. Chairman-CEO Ann Moore addressed advertisers, agencies and members of the publishing community this morning at the Audit Bureau of Circulations annual conference in New York, and tried to dispel some of the more moribund feelings swirling around the industry.

(TrendHunter.com) A new diet wonder drug has just been tested and shown that it can double the weight loss in obese people when compared to other approved drugs. These promising findings were carried out by Danish researchers…

So Yahoo, after so much as dropping out of the Search race, refocuses its attentions toward the ever popular and exciting world of application developers – the new super heroes of the internet. Y!OS (Yahoo Open Strategy) is essentially Yahoo opening its API’s and back ends to developers so they can build cool applications for […]

Its been eight long years since the boys said wassup to each other. Even with the effects of a down economy and imminent change in the White House, the boys are still able to come together and say…

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The so-called Browser Wars are just starting to get interesting.

Ubiquity: “An experiment into connecting the Web with language” was quietly released into the Mozilla open-source community, in late August. Essentially a command-prompt add-on to Firefox 3.0, Ubiquity reduces 1-2 minute web based functions such as looking up a map to paste into an email into […]

MINNEAPOLIS (AdAge.com) — Wednesday night has a new hit! It's part drama, but mostly reality, with a moving score and even more moving supporting characters. And in the end, the hero appears not in a scripted, stilted format, but live, to the applause of an awed audience. Unfortunately for the networks, it's a one-episode wonder. That is, unless a President Obama is running for re-election in 2012.

(TrendHunter.com) The Pentagon is looking for a contractor to come up with a “multi-robot pursuit system to search for and detect an uncooperative human.” Yes, packs of robots will be sent to hunt down people like packs…

Netflix will place its Watch Instantly streaming-movie service on TiVo’s Internet-connected set-top boxes.

Yesterday, a spy e-mailed us to say,

“Please take a look at the bizarre subway brand train campaign that posted for Remy Martin &#151 it’s like lesbian & threesome innuendo with the tagline ‘things just got a little more interesting.”

We’re pretty sure this is what the tipster was referring to, and we’d have to agree that there’s definitely some sexy-times being inferred. This writer is astounded that some people get all upset about the word “porno” while ads like this float around all the time. What gives?

In case you’re in RSS, the ad consists of four bill boards. Three of them show two or three women (it’s hard to tell), presumably at some kind of social event (though they’re all we see). One has the other’ necklace in her mouth, while the other’s head is tilted back. The tag line, “Things are getting interesting.” Do they mean that a game of Cranium is about to break out, because that’d be interesting &#151 the hottest game of Cranium of all time.

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Portland ad agency, Borders Perrin Norrander isn’t about to let Goodby have all the fun this political season.

BPN and their digital arm, Pollinate Media, are saying that Things Are Fine, but they don’t mean it.

[via Communication Arts]