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Now We Know: Spam Sells

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Recent FBI prosecutions suggest the going rate for spammers to send a million spam messages is as little as US $5 -10. And now a security company with the convenient name of “Marshal” says 250 million customers are buying from spam mail. 29% of internet users purchased goods from spam emails, says Marshal.

The most commonly purchased items include sexual enhancement pills, software, adult material and luxury items such as watches, jewellery and clothing.

GO Marshal Study on Spam

MOJAVE: Cheaper than Re-Writing OS

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MOJAVE: Cheaper than Re-Writing OS

Microsoft still believes Vista's problems are mainly ones of perception. To prove this, Microsoft put Windows XP users who had negative impressions of Vista on video. They were asked about their impression of Vista, and then shown a "new" OS, code-named Mojave after the Sahara-like desert in USA. More than 90% gave positive feedback.

        Then the Vista-haters were told that "Mojave" was actually Windows Vista. Oops, bet that was Continue reading...

Microsoft: Making a Real Mesh of It

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Microsoft: Making a Real Mesh of ItLive Mesh is the new “software-plus-services” platform from Microsoft to enable PCs and other devices to be aware of each other via internet, so individuals (and organizations) can manage & share their files and applications seamlessly on the web (across the world of devices).

Is this the power of cloud services we’ve been waiting for?  Besides a whole list of potential security issues, we want to quote from Joe Wilcox at eWeek. "Live Mesh is Microsoft's attempt Continue reading...

Microsoft Wins Open-Format Web Standard

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Microsoft Wins Open-Format Web Standard

Reversing a loss in first-round voting, the International Organization for Standardization approved Microsoft’s Office Open XML as an international standards designation for its open-document format.

A 157-country NGO based in Geneva, ISO approval will influence software spending by governments and large companies.

Ten countries opposed the standard: Brazil, Canada, China, Cuba, Ecuador, India, Iran, New Zealand, So. Africa and Venezuela.

IBM and Sun Microsystems (with a rival interchangeable Continue reading...

Quaero Gets Google-Killer Funding

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The EC green-lights France to fund a €298 million project over the next five years for developing European web technology that will search by using a "query image", i.e., "image mining" software that recognises shapes and colours to find and retrieve still images and video clips The 23 European members in Quaero (means “I seek,” in Latin) are led by Thomson.  Germany also will invest €120 million over five years in next-gen search tech in mainly Continue reading...

Microsoft Hears a Hoo

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 Yahoo will move its Euro HQ from UK to Switzerland after rejecting $45 billion from Microsoft.

Yahoo’s defense in the boardroom is their business forecast predicting (without full detail) revenue is (after two slump years) suddenly poised to jump 70% by 2010. Yahoo must be demonstrating confidence this prediction as it boldly moves HQ to famously expensive Lake Geneva.  

Go to Geneva, So ’Hoo Cares

EC Fines Microsoft €899 million

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EC Fines Microsoft €899 million

“Do we have your attention now?” The EC fines Microsoft €899 million for non-compliance. That’s ½ of what Exxon was fined for the famous Valdez 11 million gallon oil spill.

“Microsoft was the first company in fifty years of EU competition policy that the Commission has had to fine for failure to comply with an antitrust decision", says European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes. "I hope that today's Decision closes a dark chapter in Microsoft& Continue reading...

“We Remove VISTA”

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“We Remove VISTA”

A&D Computer shop earned their 15 minutes of fame by hanging this sign out outside their PC shop in New Hampshire.

The manager says out of all the signs they’ve ever hung to attract customers, “WE REMOVE VISTA” got the most response.

Probably because so many people were (are) having problems with Windows Vista, with compatibility issues for older software, and having trouble adjusting to the interface.

Microsoft is buying Yahoo to attack Google, squeezing into the mobile phone Continue reading...

Adobe’s Breath of Fresh AIR

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Adobe’s Breath of Fresh AIR

AIR, a new software development system from Adobe will power tens of thousands of new applications to connect internet and PC (and also PCs and new mobile devices like smartphones).

AIR will help developers create apps that exist in part on a user’s PC or smartphone and in part on servers. Applications will look and run the same whether the user is on his notebook, at his desk or using a mobile device or at an internet kiosk. The AIR applications can mimic the functions of a Web browser but Continue reading...

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