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- MySpace plays more spam Whac-a-Mole; Wins $6 million settlement
- MySpace has won a $6 million spam settlement against an affiliate network called Media Breakaway and its CEO Scott Richter. The MySpace victory comes a month after it won a $230 million settlement against well-known spammers Stanford Wallace and Walter Rines. In its latest victory,...
- Tags: Settlement, MySpace, Cyberthreats, Spam, Litigation, Security, Spam And Phishing, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- The MacBook's mysterious WiFi dropout problem is still unsolved
- Despite Apple's recent spate of Airport updates, complaints on discussion boards keep climbing over long-standing problems with MacBooks and MacBook Pros holding their WiFi connection. While the WiFi technology chain is complex and problems can be transient, Apple is taking a quality-assurance beating on this issue. Several...
- Tags: Router, Network, Problem, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Wi-Fi, Wireless, Wireless LANs, Routers & Switches, Networking, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- (Photos: San Francisco in 2108)
- (Photos: San Francisco in 2108).Let's be more realistic alright? Since S.F. will most likely be underwater in 2108, the city will either not exist in the same location if at all or it will be covered by a dome. ]:)Lies!"Since cars will be airborne..."I've been waiting for this to happen...
- Tags: IPCC Report, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-01-25
- The Crunchies: And the winners are...
- Last night the San Francisco Web 2.0 crowd filled the high society Herbst Theatre for the Crunchies, a people's choice award program hosted by my friends from TechCrunch, GigaOm, Venture Beat and ReadWriteWeb. You can watch a replay of the event here, courtesy of Mogulus. The...
- Tags: Start-up, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-19
- The 2007 IT top ten list
- If I had to pick one word to describe 2007 it would be "emergence" - lots of things that were building up to change, changed. In politics George Bush got his mojo back: from stem cells and Iraq to his policies on Russia, climate change, and oil devaluation...
- Tags: Game, Apple iPhone, Processor, Marketing, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, IBM Corp., Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2007-12-27
- So what's an application, anyway?
- So what's an application, anyway?Unix Museum - Exhibit AConfiguration files that are only validated at run time - even for being syntactically correct, never mind type or any other kind of consistency checking.This applies both to Unix itself and to many Unix system applications or utilities (or whatever you want...
- Tags: essay, Bach, Unix Museum, Unix, compilation
- Discussion threads 2007-11-07
- Is the HTC Advantage really the most powerful mobile office?
- Is the HTC Advantage really the most powerful mobile office?HTC has very sound software qualities in the products I've used w/ XP SP2;The service ready tools built into the XP product were worth extracting to regain BIO's. This may apply to Vista currently being used in the demo here on...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, mobile, Matthew, High Tech Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-28
- Is Amazon getting into the Flash media streaming business?
- Interesting post over on Beet.tv about Justin.tv and Amazon. According to Andy, Amazon is the company that is "distributing" the Flash video on Justin.TV. I put it in quotes because I'm not 100% sure what distribution means in this case, but the gist from Andy's post is that Amazon is...
- Tags: Media, Amazon.com Inc., Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2007-08-03
- Why Facebook is scarier than Google
- Is Facebook really on track to be the next Google? YES, but that is NOT a good thing!Think Google wants to be YOUR "Big Brother"? Watch out, Facebook is there, already.While the blogosphere acknowledged a 24 hour Facebook time out for air, the new wave of Facebook frenzy doubles down...
- Tags: Facebook, Google, Privacy
- Blog posts 2007-05-28
- Why WPF/E is a big deal: BBC on Flash Video
- I caught this post by Stefan Richter about changes to the BBC website and how despite a lot of public comment, BBC chose not to use Flash Video for news stories. As Stephan notes, the reason seems to be that the cost to add Flash Video to their infrastructure was...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Flash, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Online Video, Flash Video
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
- MySpace sues 'Spam King' Richter
- MySpace sues 'Spam King' Richterwhat does justice look like?Thank God that guy is getting some justice. I clear out thousands of phony myspace spams from my customers' mail every day. I once asked some programmers at a big ISP what "justice" would look like for a spammer, and...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Richter, MySpace, spam, Spam King
- Discussion threads 2007-01-23
- MSDN Webcast: MSDN geekSpeak: .NET Garbage Collection With Jeffrey Richter (Level 200)
- The presenter of this webcast gives new insights into garbage collection in Microsoft .NET.
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Garbage Collection, Microsoft Corp., .Net, Application Servers, Digital Media, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts 2006-11-01
- Boost programming productivity: Define re-usable algorithms with interfaces and generics in CLR and C# 2.0
- Generics, a new feature in version 2.0 of the C# language and the common language runtime CLR, has the power to make programmers extremely productive via code and algorithm re-use. Generics also provides the following big benefits to developers: source code protection; type safety; cleaner code; and better performance. Discover...
- Tags: Algorithm, Microsoft Press, CLR, Programming, C#, .Net, Programming Languages, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software
- Book chapters 2006-08-10
- Writely: Great changes, same paradox
- Writely: Great changes, same paradoxCommon sense, thank youMr. Ratcliffe makes clear everything that concerns me about Google, and why I simply do not trust them at all. I also appreciate the fact that he isn't blinded by the Google hype, and is taking a good long look at the reality...
- Tags: Portals, Google Inc., Writely, Prozac, advertisement, security
- Discussion threads 2006-03-10
- Can great software live in 130 kilobytes?
- Can great software live in 130 kilobytes?Very, very good blogAnd a breath of fresh air in comparison to the controversial ones.I tried utorrent and was not only impressed, but also happy to see that there still exist people resisting today's Java and .NET hypes. I even tried compressing with upx...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Development tools, software
- Discussion threads 2006-01-31
- Microsoft to fight crime with spammer's money
- Microsoft to fight crime with spammer's moneyHmmm I wonderI know I know, I trolling but I wonder how many "Talkbacker's are gonna take this point of view?"Then, Richter said: "We told them where they could go stick it. It's nothing but harassment. It's free publicity for them. They pay a...
- Tags: Spam, Microsoft Corp., spammer
- Discussion threads 2005-08-10
- Former spammer to pay Microsoft $7 million
- Former spammer to pay Microsoft $7 millionIt wasn't enough, but..better than nothing. Follow my logic.A settlement means that it's a good agreement for both sides. To settle with a spammer, means that the spammer can live with the settlement. Since they were initially trying to declare bankruptcy, probably...
- Tags: Spam, Litigation, way spam, spammer, Richter, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft $7
- Discussion threads 2005-08-09
- From Ingres to EnterpriseDB
- From Ingres to EnterpriseDBCheaper perhaps but not very innovativeIt would be much more interesting to see an open source implementation of the ideas for the future of relational systems put forward in Date and Darwen's "Third Manifesto". However we need the courage to abandon SQL. (Glad to see Quel getting...
- Tags: Databases, Fyracle, EnterpriseDB, Firebird, Ingres
- Discussion threads 2005-06-14
- Gates proves real resolve in bringing spammers to justice
- Gates proves real resolve in bringing spammers to justiceHere's the scary part about MicrosoftWhile the bankruptcy notice of Richter is good news on one front, it should also send a warning flag up for everyone who uses the Internet for business purposes.What happened to Richter was not the result of...
- Tags: Spam, Litigation, spammer, Richter, bankruptcy, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-04-01
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