AT&T Released Details of Anti-Spam Filter, Hopes For Long-Term Benefit
AT&T received a U.S. patent earlier this month that will give intellectual property (IP) attorneys ground on which to stand when pursuing spammers.
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Google tweaks search engine many drop from top spots
Seems Google is trying to stay ahead of the search engine optimization people by tweaking there search engine code to get rid of sites that where making it into the top spots artificially. [SearchEngineGuide]
Most Americans Aren’t Tech Hip
Americans seem to be in love with their high-tech gadget. Cell phones with customized ring tones, personal digital assistants with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless networking, high-speed broadband Internet connections, and software applications that provide greater processing power and accuracy than our parents ever dreamed about are available to us 24 hours a day, 365.242199 days a year.
The Big Gorilla Project
Spam is an ever-increasing annoyance for e-mail users. Most people have some form of spam filtering application that reduces the instances of the frequently offensive unsolicited commercial messages. Many of these filters seek to identify spam based on the address from which the message is sent, but spammers are already wise to this trick, and spoofing is now commonplace. By hiding or misdirecting their transmission source, spammers make it exceedingly difficult for most users to determine from where the spam message actually came.
What to do if you Internet connection fails
This is a essential guide that will help you prepare for an Internet failure ;) [The Toque]
Is Spyware revealing corporate secrets
I run a spyware cleaner on my computers 3 times a week but I suspect some of you have never run one. A British Credit Card company is claiming that a e-mail that was sent to the company earlier in the year carried a payload that allowed desktops to be monitored and calling home to mama. This is the first
FCC to expand wireless range!
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]