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May 24, 2004

Spammers Love Comcast

As per Comcast engineer network engineer Sean Lutner, (see http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107_2-5218720.html), Comcast users send 800,000,000 e-mail messages a day, of which 700,000,000 seem to be generated by bots, "a breathtaking figure that adds up to six or seven spam-o-grams for each American...

May 23, 2004

Microsoft Pays Opera $12M to Avert Lawsuit

Apparently, Microsoft has paid Opera $12 million to avert a potential lawsuit over a claim that Microsoft deliberately made pages on MSN incompatible with Opera's browser. Story on http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-5218163.html and elsewhere. Which raises two questions ... 1) So what? If I want to...

May 23, 2004

Welcome Tim Buntel to the Blogsphere

Our very own Tim Buntel is now blogging at http://www.buntel.com/blog/. Tim is the ColdFusion Product Manager at Macromedia, and in his words is "here to give you a wee look into the world of ColdFusion". For those of you who can't place the name, think back to the last two conferences ... Day 2?...

May 22, 2004

Finally, a Stowaway Bluetooth Keyboard

ThinkOutside (the maker of the Stowaway keyboards used with many PDAs, see http://www.thinkoutside.com/) announced plans for a Bluetooth keyboard back in December 2003. And since then I have been waiting for the actual device. Well, it looks like the wait is over. The Mercury News is running a...

May 20, 2004

Microsoft Wants You to Try IIS

IIS 6 has been remarkably successful since it was introduced just over a year ago. As per Netcraft (reported in May 2004), "2,100,000 hostnames were identified on Windows Server 2003, with a gain of 390,000 hostnames since April 2004. Around 50% of these are new sites, while just under 100,000 have...

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