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Overwhelming majority of ZDNet voters say FTC should act against Expedia.com

I just checked the online poll that were running to see whether or not ZDNets readers think the Federal Trade Comission FTC should take action against Expedia for cleverly dodging the Federal Can Spam Act. When I last checked, 87 percent of the more than 850 people who voted so...

Tags: Personal Technology, General, Security, Legal, Government

Blog posts 2007-04-04

How Expedia is fooling itself, its customers, and the FTC that its spam isn't spam. But it is

In response to my concern that the travel site Expedia is spamming its customers of which Im one in violation of the Can Spam Act as well as in disrespectful defiance of its customers elections not to receive solicitations for special travel deals, Expedia has finally responded with an explanation...

Tags: Web technology, Personal Technology, Legal, General

Blog posts 2007-03-30

'Transactional' vs. 'Unsolicited commercial': Ducking anti-spam legislation isn't the point

After two posts yesterday about whether Expedia is using misleading copy in its promotions, and then about whether a coupon offer via e-mail legally constitutes spamming (and whether the FTC should act: so far youre saying "yes"), the e-mailers and blogosphere are starting to chime in on the issue. As...

Tags: Spam, anti-spam, e-mail, Expedia Inc.

Blog posts 2007-03-27

Did Expedia violate the Can Spam Act? As a customer, I think so.

Has what started as a blog earlier today about what I thought was a baiting and switching e-mail from Expedia now blossomed into the travel sites potential violation of the Can Spam Act? Wrote one reader via email:Surprisingly, you didnt mention that this is spam even though you opted...

Tags: Expedia Inc., e-mail, SPAM Act

Blog posts 2007-03-26

Expedia offer: Misleading bold text clarified in finer print. Is that OK?

Last week, via e-mail, I received a reminder from Expedia that I had a $200 travel coupon available to and that it was about to expire. The subject of the e-mail was "Two weeks left to use your $200 travel coupon." Inside, near the very top it said "Use your...

Tags: coupon, e-mail, Expedia Inc.

Blog posts 2007-03-26

Additional Resources

How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability

The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...

Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-25

2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."

2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."My ViewFirst, no one hates Microsoft more than I do - for both practical and ethical reasons. After dealing with Microshaft's endless parade of crap for nearly two decades, I finally abandoned my PC for a Mac. It was one of the best moves of...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

NY gov signs game bill into law

New York State legislation that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed was signed into law. A bill that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed into law Tuesday by New...

Tags: Law, Minor, Games, Personal Technology, video games, video game violence, Nintendo DS, New York, Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot

News items 2008-07-23

Virtual Iron Customer Profile: Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann, LLP

I had the chance to speak with Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann's David Roden, a few questions about their use of Virtual Iron's virtual server environment. Thanks for spending time with me, David! Here are my questions and David's answers: Who are you and what...

Tags: Virtual Iron, Server Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Open Source VoIP: Asterisk or FreeSwitch?

When the time came for a new PBX, Brian Snipes chose to do something a bit unconventional. The IT manager at law firm Hare, Wynn, Newell, and Newton LLP didn't purchase a commercial PBX, nor did he settle on the open source market leader,...

Tags: Phone, PBX, Attorney, FreeSwitch, Asterisk, Telephony, VOIP, Open Source, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Telecommunications, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-07-22

2008 Pwnie Award nominees announced

Well, after getting 134 nominations, and spending countless hours pulling out nominees, the judges for the 2008 Pwnie Awards have announced the final nominees to be voted on.  From the site: The final list of nominees for the nine Pwnie Award categories is ...

Tags: Nominee, Vulnerability, XSS, Attack, Flaw, Dan, XSS Flaw, Lifelock, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Icahn says he can't

Add Carl Icahn to the list of parties trying to figure out what to do with Yahoo! who can't. If he had a solid idea of how to set Yahoo! apart from Google, in particular, or Facebook and MySpace, along the way, he would have been...

Tags: America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Icahn, Corporate Governance, Channel Management, Search, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-21

The potential fallout from Apple vs. Psystar

It's easy to think that when it comes to Apple vs. Psystar, that it's going to be a case of David vs. Goliath, only thing time Goliath pounds David into the ground like a nail. But this case could be a catalyst for questions being raised about Apple's own business...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Psystar, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-07-18

iPhone 3G GPS - Is it too small in the antenna department to be any good?

Ever since reading David Pogue's review of iPhone 3G I've been puzzling over something he said in relation to the GPS receiver. Specifically, is it too small in the antenna department to be any good? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-07-18

iPhone 3G GPS

Ever since reading David Pogue's review of iPhone 3G I've been puzzling over something he said in relation to the GPS receiver. Specifically, is it too small in the antenna department to be any good? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPhone 3G, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, iphone, 3g, gps

Image galleries 2008-07-18

Yahoo! SearchMonkey Developer Challenge illustrates diversity

Back in May Yahoo! opened up their SearchMonkey platform, and kicked off a competition in which developers could put SearchMonkey through its paces. The whole Yahoo! open platform initiative continues to grow apace and largely unchallenged by Google and Microsoft, with BOSS rolling out earlier this month,...

Tags: Developer, Yahoo! Inc., StumbleUpon, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-07-16

Seagate: Demand is swell, but we're playing catch-up on notebook drives

Seagate delivered some good news with its fiscal fourth quarter earnings: Storage demand is just swell. The bad news: Seagate is lagging with its product line--especially for notebook drives--and that's killing margins and hurting profits in the current quarter. For the quarter ended June 27, Seagate reported...

Tags: Notebook Market, Seagate Technology LLC, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-16

News to know: Apple vs. Psystar; Intel; Microsoft and multicore; Linux kernel

Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple sues Psystar Sam Diaz: Complaint: 'Invaluable good is being eroded' Larry Dignan: The end of the Mac clones? Jason D. O'Grady: Apple: See you in court Larry Dignan: Intel's second quarter delivers; Cheap laptop demand...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Larry Dignan, Linux Kernel, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, Twitter, Intel Corp., Virtualization, Linux, Channel Management, Mainframes, Open Source, Telecommunications, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Servers

Blog posts 2008-07-16

David Litchfield on details of one of the critical vulnerabilities from the latest Oracle patch

More details coming out on the Oracle patches that were released last week, see Ryan Naraine's write up here.  David Litchfield, noted security researcher from NGSSoftware, released details of one of the vulnerabilities on the Full-Disclosure email list today, and the details are staggering.  The flaw allows potential unauthenticated remote...

Tags: Oracle Application Server, Oracle Corp., Database Server, Critical Vulnerability, Application Servers, Middleware, Databases, Enterprise Software, Security, Software, Data Management, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-15

The end of Mac clones: Apple sues Psystar

The end of Mac clones: Apple sues PsystarfinallyI was wondering what was taking Apple so long to respond. I mean why Psystar even did this cloning. They don't know about infringements, or that they can get in trouble? Weird.The end of Mac clones: Apple sues PsystarI hope Psystar pulls a...

Tags: Desktops, Virtualization Technology, Apple Products, Psystar, Apple Inc., Mac-clone, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-07-15