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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 35 government partners from more than 20 countries are targeting illegal spammers who take remote control of unwitting users' computers to serve as spam transmission zombies. By hijacking home and business computers, spam can be routed through them, thereby hiding the true source of the spam and making the enforcement of antispam laws more difficult.
Guess the FCC has woken up to this old story about people that are getting paid to go on TV shows and talk up products that they are not disclosing that they have been paid to talk about. Hey if your company needs some exposure you can pay me and I will talk about it here, so long as I
Apparently some Television Executives don't care if the broadcast flag that they are now shopping for a Senator in congress makes consumers angry. They want control and they want it now. They want to take away fair use and erase any freedoms you have to do with content that you subscribe and pay for out of your hard earned paycheck.
I had to laugh today when I read Dave's article. It's not necessarily because I have had to deal with any media moguls, but I was approached a month or two ago by a firm that wanted to invest in Podcast Connect Inc., the small company I have started. We had some very nice discussions, and it was a very
Seoul-based Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced that it has developed a Solid State Disk (SSD) with a capacity of up to 16GB. Using two NAND-based modules, the SSD is a low power, lightweight storage media for notebook PCs and, eventually, consumer electronic devices.
Today, in direct competition with MSN and Yahoo!, Google, Inc. announced that users may create a personalized Google homepage for news, weather, cultural tidbits, and e-mail.
I am simply amazed at the corporate world and a monster newspaper that has decided to take their oped pieces behind a for pay curtain have just slit their wrist. I think this is a real dumb move obviously but we will see how the community reacts. [NYT]