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Imagine the headaches some ISP's are going to go thru. A persons PC is hijacked and used to send out phishing spam and then the AOL administrators block access to the IP.. Or worse yet a whole sub-block of IP's. I like what they are doing but it is going to cause some headaches. [InfoWorld]
Legislation has been introduced that if a pirate is caught and convicted of releasing a music video, movie or song on the Internet before or up to two months after a release you will go to jail. [ExtremeTech]
NBC "Tech Guru" Corey Greenberg has been getting payola from companies, such as Apple, Creative, HP, Epson (just to name the ones we know about!). He says that they didn't pay him to talk about the products on the Today Show, but rather for public speaking appearances and the like. I say...pay me instead. [Yahoo/Washington Post]
Everyone knows that sometime in the next few years we’ll see Longhorn. Microsoft needs the time to see what the new Tiger release has and make sure they will not be out-done by Apple. In the mean time, Microsoft has launched a huge 12 month campaign called “Start Something”. It will explain to everyone why Windows XP machine is still all you need even after 5 years. So their first campaign posters and online ads came out. Microsoft so thoughtfully posted one of the new "Start Something" ads that's part of the new global awareness campaign for Microsoft Windows XP and invites users to click the image for high-res version.
Imagine your going to be doing an interview on lets say the subject of podcasting on TV and a few days before the interview someone calls you and says hey we will pay you a big sum of money if you talk about our product. Would that be fair. Well it seems a lot of people are getting paid to
For a long time I have been dealing with people around my age that simply do not understand the pitfalls of the Internet. I guess I can understand it because when I was going to school the closest I got to a computer was in the library. Times have changed radically and we know many parents are getting lessons about
If trends continue, it will not be long before people are going to be serving ads in their RSS feeds in more unique ways. Advertisements must be generating some serious cash. Personally will start removing feeds that start putting to many in and get on my nerves. for jamming them in one a day is fine but every other post
If everything is to be believed on the Six Apart website we will start to see releases now on a regular basis to add featured to MovableType. I have been wondering for months what the heck they were spending all their venture capital on it's good to see they have cleaned up the base code and are ready to move
It's nice to see the work here is appreciated! [marshallk.blogspot.com]
Hey you Mac users! The latest Security Update has been released on the heels of the 10.3.9 update! [Security Update]
Please let this happen in Hawaii the prices are out of control.Reuters: Housing Starts Plunge, Producer Prices Up. U.S. housing starts posted their steepest drop in more than 14 years in March, suggesting some cooling in the long-hot housing market
Over the last few days I've seen several stories around the release of the Firefox 1.0.3 update with ridiculous headlines like "Firefox Comes Under Attack", "Firefox Singed By Security Holes", and "Security Holes Bite Firefox"
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