Diary of an Internet Marketing Junkie

Microsoft today launched its much-awaited free anti-malware service, making it broadly available following a limited three-month, three-country beta test. The service, Microsoft Security Essentials, previously code-named “Morro,” is now available for download in 19 countries and eight languages onto computers running properly licensed copies of the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems. A spokesman said additional markets and languages will be added later this year and next y

Verizon is pledging a quick start to the roll-out of its FiOS-TV service within the city of Pittsburgh following a deal announced today that brings cable competition to the region’s biggest municipality for the first time. The deal must be approved by city council and the city’s Cable Advisory Board, but if all goes well, “it won’t be very long,” said Verizon spokesman Lee Gierczynski, before the New York-based communications giant starts marketing TV to neighborhoods already wired for its fiber