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In what only can be described as an attempt to have there cake and eat it too, Acxiom is refusing to take bulk opt out request from consumers. Wired reports that "Acxiom calls itself the premier source of addresses and phone numbers for telemarketers and mass mailers. But when it receives a list of names of people who want to
A statement from the main man at Microsoft will put this to bed. ""We've never been in any talks with Google about any acquisition thing in any way, shape or form," Gates told USA TODAY last week."" [USAToday]
This has got to be the dumbest thing I have read in the form of protest in a long time. You have to read the homepage I am betting this was put together by some 13 year old kid. [www.sendthemback.org]
The following article is Re-posted in it's entirety with permission from Sunbelt W2KNews Electronic Newsletter which is published by Sunbelt Software who is the creator of great software tools like IHateSpam. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was surprised to learn that a few websites that position themselves as independent resource & review sites, are really a hidden marketing vehicle for one of the
My father told me something about 5 years ago when he heard the news that Walmart was coming to a local town. He lives in a rural community who up to that point did not have a Walmart. At the time there where several dozen grocery stores and small convenience stores. In those short 5 years since Walmart opened it's
Over the past several months I have deleted nearly 500 comments that when looked it with face value are generic comments but when you click on the URL you end up at some spammers site. We have taken some serious steps to stem the issue and have some new tools in place to clean up the mess they leave. Not
I read an article tonight that talks about Microsoft's plans to go to a vectored graphics in Longhorn. The poster made some good points about what Apple has in works and were screen technology is going to have to go. I am still using CRT monitors here at the house and will probably keep on using them till they blow
Seems there is a company that are going to be selling some x-ray glasses. Sounds like something out of a 70/80's comic book to me. I just wonder how many of these $2400.00 devices they will sell. [Gizmodo]
For those of you that have certain versions of Exchange server running you need to disable the Guest account. [ZDNet]
God Bless the Brits for being so damn smart or maybe not Seems you can go down to the pub enjoy some dinner have a pint or two or three and check e-mail and surf the net all the while away from the nagging wife. Why is it that most WiFi Hot Spots in the US are in coffee shops
If you have been reading here for a while you will remember my rant on these RFID tags that companies are claiming will not violate your privacy. But a recent test that Walmart did still have some people skeptical. My take on it is that when the cost of the devices makes it worthwhile and as technology improves someone could
In some very good news the FCC is going to expand some wireless frequencies into the 5 gigahertz range which will increase range dramatically helping make wireless available for rural areas. [SFGate]
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