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More evidence of why Microsoft, AOL, Google, and Yahoo must work together on spam

More evidence of why Microsoft, AOL, Google, and Yahoo must work together on spamSpam can be eliminated with signed certificates and cryptography!Signed certificates of authority with encryption will end spam.I've mentioned in your blog more than once [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP]OpenPGP[/url].SMTP doesn't need overhaul. If the message body is encapsulated with encryption and...

Tags: E-mail, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., OpenPGP, SMTP, spam, Yahoo! Inc., America Online Inc., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-10-30

More evidence of GroupThink at Digg.com

More evidence of GroupThink at Digg.comReminds me of something I wrote 5 minutes agohttp://www.zdnet.com/5208-11515-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=16586&messageID=328964&start=-1These Digg folks sound like Slashdot people, but worse because at least Slashdot people tend to actually understand what they're talking about, albeit through the distorting lens of fanboyism...J.JaThanks Richard.Thanks for the post Richard. My formal...

Tags: Digg, Groupthink, More Evidence, Richard

Discussion threads 2006-01-09

Report on Sept. 11 finds home on Net

Report on Sept. 11 finds home on Net9/11 coverupWhy was WTC buildings rigged with explosives on September 11th? And why did the owner of the Trade Center complex, Larry Silverstein, personally give the go ahead to "pull" (read: demolish) those two buildings? It takes some time to rig a building...

Tags: steel, wreckage, fighter jet, Andrews Air Force Base, More Evidence, Sept. 11

Discussion threads 2004-07-22

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Saying that Windows "Workstation" 2008 is faster than Vista doesn't make it so

Saying that Windows "Workstation" 2008 is faster than Vista doesn't make it soPar for the course wrt anti-Vista bashers.They believe that repeating something ad nauseum will somehow make it true.Journalism or Rant?I'm afraid you've followed suit rather than taking the high road on this issue. By even responding to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, RAM, workstation, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

AMD on road to recovery, says research firm

Technology Business Research says Opteron and Puma are boosting AMD's chip business, but the company could be hurt by the economic downturn. While AMD's processor business is showing strength, the company is still in a worse position than Intel to face a dip in demand for the rest of...

Tags: Recovery, Technology Business Research, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, AMD, Opteron, processors, servers, PCs, Victoria Ho, ZDNet Asia

News items 2008-07-21

DIRECTV: Well HERE's Your Problem, Ma'am...

Shortly after I posted my diatribe on my problems with my DIRECTV HD receivers and the company's horrible customer service, I was contacted by Stuart Sweet, a moderator on a popular Satellite TV forums site, DBSTalk. Apparently, my post had created quite a stir  and I was asked to register...

Tags: Digital Video Recorder, DirecTV, Satellite, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-20

Spam coming from free email providers increasing

After analyzing three weeks of spam data between June 13 to July 3, 2008, Roaring Penguin Software Inc. found evidence that spam originating from the top three free email providers (Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail) is increasing, with spammers in favor of abusing Gmail's privacy preserving feature of not including...

Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Gmail, Free Email Company, Anti-spam, Spammer, E-mail Company, IP, Service, Cyberthreats, Spam, E-mail Providers, E-mail, Phishing, Viruses And Worms, Security, Networking, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-18

EMC connects the Iomega-Mozy storage dots

EMC is connecting two of its more recent acquisitions--Iomega and Berkeley Data Systems' Mozy online backup storage--to target small businesses and consumers. On Wednesday, EMC will roll out a storage bundle that includes Iomega's external hard drives with a software bundle that combines the Mozy online backup...

Tags: Iomega Corp., EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-15

European telcos squeal: should we care?

European telcos squeal: should we care?Dennis is a true European!His blog makes it perfectly clear. He talks about the "charges we're forced to pay by telecoms operators" sic when traveling internationally. That verbiage could have come right out of Brussels. Who is forcing Dennis to pay those charges? Nobody! If...

Tags: Government, Telecom & Utilities, Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Regulations, Dennis, telecommunications company

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

Apple to Psystar: See you in court

Apple to Psystar: See you in courtPredictable......This was predictable everyone knew Apple was going to sue it was just a matter of when.I think Apple played this just right...If Psystar was just fly-by-night, why waste the time and energy? It would just risk bad press and make apple look heavy-handed....

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Litigation, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Psystar

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

eBay wins big in federal court, but Europe is a different story

eBay wins big in federal court, but Europe is a different storyMeanwhile, Back at the ranch..Viacom sifts through Google for evidence of somewhat the same.. interesting..

Tags: eBay Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

First MISO, then GISMO, next GOAT?

Awhile back my Irregular chums came up with MISO as the acronym to describe the main enterprise players of the time: Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle. We also quipped that could change to include Google and so with a little creative thought we ended up with GISMO. Last week's Apple...

Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Steve Gillmor, Apple Inc., 3G, Operational Planning, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-14

Google's iPhone app is really good

Google's iPhone app is really goodOMG! How many iPhone stories can ZDNet pump out in 36 hours???C'mon ZDNet this is ridiculous...how many more iPhone / Apple stories are you going to bombard us with??????Then stop reading them!What's so difficult about that concept? There seem to be a lot of things...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Google Inc., Microsoft strategy, Apple iPhone, Donnieboy, Google iPhone app, people like, Google iPhone

Discussion threads 2008-07-12

iPhone 3G: Initial reaction (updated 2x)

iPhone 3G: Initial reaction (updated 2x)I'm hearing the activation process is a total disasterCNN is reporting that all users are being told to go home to complete the activation. I can't even fathom what type of problem would make activation work at someone's home and not an Apple or AT&T...

Tags: Cellular phones, WIRELESS, Handhelds, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., iPhone 3G, 3G, GPS, 2G, phone

Discussion threads 2008-07-11

Vista To Win in the Enterprise, The Ugly Way

I came away from this week's Microsoft Worldwide Partner WPC conference convinced, finally, that the future of Vista is assured in the enterprise. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't because of anything Microsoft said -- the combined mea culpa/back atcha delivered by Microsoft's Brad Brooks, the Corporate Vice President in...

Tags: Desktop, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-07-11

At ease, Americans, your government is resting easy on global warming

At ease, Americans, your government is resting easy on global warmingMaybeGeorgie was confused and thought he was in China, . . the "from" was probably his nod to them, . . . though aren't they just second place? Oh well, pollution control is within each persons' grasp to impact...

Tags: global warming, government

Discussion threads 2008-07-11

At ease, Americans, your government is resting easy on global warming

It is going to be announced today (Friday, when the news cycle goes into snooze control) that the Environmental Procrastination Agency will take no further action on auto emissions or greenhouse gases during the George W. reign. In fact, they will seek much more comment and public input in...

Tags: President, Government, Greenhouse, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, Healthcare, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-07-10

Senate, Web ad titans joust over behavioral targeting

A U.S. Senate panel on Wednesday picked apart behavioral Web advertising as executives from the likes of Google, NebuAd and Facebook touted their privacy controls and even went as far as noting that ads are good for you. The hearing before the Senate Committee on Senate Committee...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Advertisement, Privacy, Internet Service Provider, Behavioral Targeting, Service Provider, U.S. Senate, Online Advertising, Internet Service, NebuAd, Privacy Law, Tom, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-09

Broadcast or communicate?

When the Czarist autocracy was overthrown in the 1917 Russian revolution, fundamental changes in Russian society under the new political structure occurred. A fascinating example for me is that while most of the world was busy building out telephone communications infrastructure, the Soviets chose to focus on installing...

Tags: E-mail, Collaboration, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-07-08

Stolen: Google employees' personal data

Names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of pre-2006 staffers were taken from offices of Colt Express Outsourcing Services. Google has confirmed that personal data of U.S. employees hired prior to 2006 have been stolen in a recent burglary. Records kept at Colt Express Outsourcing Services, an external...

Tags: Google Inc., Social Security, Sales Channel, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Government, Sales, Finance, ZDNet Australia, Privacy & data protection

News items 2008-07-03