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Spam and the RBL

Author: JT Smith

The Boston Globe brings us up to date on the current going ons in the war against spam, the unsolicited email type.

Needlepoint industry at real risk from online trading

Author: JT Smith

NandoTimes claims the online swapping of needlepoint patterns is killing the needlepoint designing industry.

TRUSTe privacy group tracked users

Author: JT Smith

CNN is carrying an Associated Press story about TRUSTe privacy advocates tracking their users.

Category:

  • Linux

Mormon missionaries answer tech support call

Author: JT Smith

Mormon missionaries have the kind of world experience and multilingualism that a tech support company has been looking for, according to this ZDNet article.

Category:

  • Open Source

DoJ releases bidding guidelines for Carnivore evaluation

Author: JT Smith

ZDNet has a Reuters article up on the US Department of Justice’s guidelines for the bidding on the review of FBI’s carnivore e-mail tap software.

Category:

  • Linux

Lotus makes first business move with wireless

Author: JT Smith

Australian IT talks of Lotus’ WAP technology.

Category:

  • Unix

Information on Microsoft’s .Net project

Author: JT Smith

Microsoft released a little information about Microsoft.Net and ZDNet has interepreted it for us.

Markup languages at Seybold conference

Author: JT Smith

ZDNet discusses various markup languages and other related topics to be discussed at the Seybold conference.

Chinese software company tests firewall

Author: JT Smith

People’s Daily has a story of a Chinese software company challenging computer users throughout the world to break through their firewall, for a cash prize of 500,000 yuan.

Category:

  • Linux

When will the DVD take off?

Author: JT Smith

ZDNet asks the question of why DVD’s haven’t taken the market by storm.

Category:

  • Unix