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- News to know: Outlook flaw; Ending spam; Windows to Mac; Gamemaster
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: MS Outlook flaw adds new twist to URI handling saga. David Berlind: After authentication of senders, ending spam requires a relationship managment protocol. Tech Shakedown #10: Windows Media Player's error dialog road to nowhere. Podcast: Google's search appliance 5.0 mines...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Lawmaker, ComScore Networks Inc., Spam, Microsoft Corp., Sprint Communications, Flaw, Shrep, Microsoft Windows, Thin Clients, Media Players, Microsoft Outlook, Cyberthreats, Digital Music, Operating Systems, Digital Media, Software, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Security
- Blog posts 2007-10-11
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- Romanian authorities arrest cybercrime suspects
- Well, eight days, and a joint effort to help prevent phishing and two major arrests related to identity theft, and I feel like we've made a decent attack on the identity theft culture. Score one for the good guys for once. Just a day after reading...
- Tags: Arrest, eBay Inc., Romania, Romanian, Phishing, Identity Theft, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- California to drivers: Drop the cell phone, dude
- Next week a California law will require the use of hands-free phones and ban cell phones entirely for drivers under 18--but there's a loophole that allows texting while driving. LOS ANGELES--Next week California will try to wrest cell phones from the hands of drivers, telling everyone from movie starlets...
- Tags: Phone, Cell Phone, Democratic Lawmaker, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Reuters, cell phones, legal, hands-free, text messaging, California
- News items 2008-06-27
- Latest spectrum auction could mean national wireless network
- The FCC is set to vote on rules for a new spectrum auction that would require the winner to deliver wireless Internet across wide swaths of America, AP reports. "We're hoping there will be increased interest in the proposal and for the fact that this will...
- Tags: FCC, Network, Spectrum, Auction, Wireless Network, Federal Government, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Network Solutions censors anti-Koran film site
- Network Solutions has blocked the Web site promoting an incendiary film by Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders, which presents his view that the Koran (Quran?) is "Facist," AP reports. "In this situation with the dialogue that's happening throughout the world we've made the choice to suspend the site...
- Tags: Network Solutions Inc., Web Site Development, DVD, Web Technology, Consumer Electronics, Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-23
- U2 manager takes Internet providers to task
- U2 manager takes Internet providers to taskLike blaming the government because ...This is as bombastic and idiotic as any other idea that would the government because stolen cars are moved on public highways!Hey, he is right.Nothing else worth saying, unless your a pirate that is. They will whine endlessly..."Their...
- Tags: Piracy, Internet, music industry, music
- Discussion threads 2008-01-29
- Lawmaker raps Internet-gambling enforcement
- Lawmaker raps Internet-gambling enforcementShould be enforced consistentlyIf the DOJ claims that the Wire Act bans all forms of gambling over the Internet, then they are bound to investigate and prosecute any instances of Internet gambling in the US that come to their attention.Selective enforcement is simply not acceptable.Blah!This is just...
- Tags: Internet
- Discussion threads 2007-11-15
- Lawmaker blasts U.K. government on Microsoft policy
- Lawmaker blasts U.K. government on Microsoft policyconfidentiality agreementEvery deal has a side deal in countries like England where the population still thinks its government not corruptible and more like parental units that would never harm the citizenry. The colonists in America split off from England for that exact reason. We...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-10
- Lawmaker urges FCC clampdown on access charges
- Lawmaker urges FCC clampdown on access chargesWhy are these dirty socialists so unethical?What do they have against humanity that makes them want to impoverish everyone?
- Tags: Federal government, FCC
- Discussion threads 2007-10-02
- New ads jar some YouTube fans
- New ads jar some YouTube fansThe world of unhappinessWe watch TV with commercials interrupting our favorite programs, and pop-ups around every corner. To read that a user would leave You Tube because advertising was splashed on the screen was very entertaining. I was surprised that I even read...
- Tags: Google Inc., advertisement, YouTube Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-22
- CA bill would require live operators at state agencies
- It often seems like government agencies are more interested in avoiding citizen contact than improving it. And for those purposes, automated phone answering system are a godsend. In California, at least, the sense is that the systems mostly serve to frustrate citizens and have them go away in frustration. ...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Townhall technology lets lawmakers talk to masses from DC
- Technology that can connect thousands of people on a single phone call is letting US representatives like Kansas Jerry Moran reach out and touch their constituents without having to leave Washington, the AP reports. A “tele-town hall meeting” lets lawmakers call up to 35,000 households in their district at...
- Tags: Congress, Government technology, State &, Local Govt
- Blog posts 2007-02-14
- N.Y. lawmaker hopes to ban iPod use in crosswalks
- N.Y. lawmaker hopes to ban iPod use in crosswalksWhats next fine all clueless people?That has got to be the most insanely stupid thing that I have ever heard of. If someone is so clueless as to their surroundings that they walk in front of a bus, they are going...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPod
- Discussion threads 2007-02-07
- New crime: Driving while texting
- Its hard to believe that people drive with their Blackberries propped up on the steering wheel and their thumbs clicking away even as they navigate the hazards of the freeway. But it must be so if a legislator feels the need to pass a law against it. Or maybe its...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Steve Farley
- Blog posts 2007-01-15
- After 10 years, MN's CriMNet looks like an 'expensive paperweight'
- Ten years - and $200 million - ago Minnesota started a comprehensive law enforcement technology program called CriMNet, which was to give judges and police immediate access to information from the criminal justice system. But the system is still not complete, filled with glitches and and, some say, far from...
- Tags: Law enforcement, State &, Local Govt, IT Management, Government technology, CriMNet vision, CriMNet
- Blog posts 2006-12-29
- EFF: Obscure bill could turn cache into cash for music biz
- Since earlier this summer, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is putting out the equivalent of a red alert about some language that it says has been snuck into an obscure copyright bill -- language that the EFF says could smash Internet fair use. According to the warning:The entertainment industry has...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Blog posts 2006-09-12
- Schwarzenegger PC may have been hacked
- Schwarzenegger PC may have been hackedSchwarzenegger may be a hack, but hacking into his PC is quite the no-no!Next time Californians vote, vote for a REAL actor instead -- none of the fortified-with-steroids type. Gary Coleman comes to mind.Or will he be Schwarzenegger's VP come 2008? People love...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Schwarzenegger PC, Arnold
- Discussion threads 2006-09-11
- USA Today backs off NSA database story
- Looks like USA Today did get it wrong. The paper reported in May that most major phone companies had turned over records to the NSA. BellSouth and Verizon denied the story. Now the paper concedes in a note to readers that it can't back up the charges for those two...
- Tags: NSA
- Blog posts 2006-06-30
- Qwest CEO supports tiered Internet
- Qwest CEO supports tiered InternetThinly veiled extortion.Imagine the outcry if a dock workers' union decided to 'allow' companies to pay the union for having the union's workers work extra hard to offload the goods owned by the paying company.I bet no business owner would like that.Improved services = reductionWhen Roadrunner...
- Tags: Telephony, chicken, Qwest Communications Inc., Internet, network, Verizon Communications Inc., bandwidth
- Discussion threads 2006-03-15
- A plan for true, online lobbying disclosure
- In the digital, post-Abramoff age, there's really no excuse for lack of lobbyist disclsoure, writes Jeffrey Birnbaum in the Washington Post. In the 19th century, the German Prussian politician Otto von Bismarck said, "Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made."...
- Tags: Bismarck
- Blog posts 2006-02-21
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