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The All-Season SPAM Harvest For the past two years I have had a closely guarded yahoo account that I've used for personal business. I gave it an esoteric name to thwart spammers from guessing the account. Imagine my surprise when a couple of weeks ago I opened my inbox and was greeted by a torrent — Continue reading »

Trusting the Trustworthy It’s been over two years since Microsoft announced plans to make their products secure. Since then continuous stream of new and increasingly vicious viruses and worms have crawled their way into our computers and the trend doesn’t appear to be stopping (or even diminishing) any time soon. Okay, so we knew all — Continue reading »

My Wal-Mart Story I've been to a Wal-Mart a total of only three times. Each time I have come away with a feeling that I wasted my time and should have gone elsewhere to get what I needed. My last trip was to purchase gym shoes for my children. After wading through isles of "cheap" — Continue reading »

A9, Is it How Search Engine Is Done? A couple of weeks ago a new search engine went online. There wasn’t much fanfare and reaction was equally muted. It was a9.com and it’s amazon.com’s latest move to muscle in on the search engine industry. A9.com is merely a shell around google’s index. What’s added is — Continue reading »

Cablecos, What Are You Waiting For? Word has it that DSL is fast catching up to cable in terms of market penetration. Perhaps as early as a few months ago, estimates were that cable users trumped dsl users by almost 2 to 1. Now the gap has narrowed considerably thanks to marketing efforts, price breaks, — Continue reading »

Reality Fatigue I'm not sure about you, but no matter where I turn these days I seem to find Donald trump's face plastered on everything. From TV shows to newspapers to online media, trump is all the rage. Enough already. The reality TV phenomenon is by no means exclusive to the apprentice. Island castaways, jilted — Continue reading »

Taking the phish out of water It was bound to happen. Earthlink has announced their new anti-phishing product called ScamBlocker, and they are making it available to all for free. Phishing is a technique used by hackers in which a spam sent to users contains links to fraudulent sites mimicking authentic sites such as ebay, — Continue reading »

caught between a rock and a soft-ware place some people are never satisfied. take the microsoft crowd as an example. the buzz in the industry is that microsoft is losing its focus because their release cycles are now getting too long. their next version of their much anticipated windows, code named longhorn, has slipped several — Continue reading »