Microsoft, Yahoo! Fight Spam--Sort Of, Forbes.com, 14 July 2005

“Yahoo! and Cisco Systems are collaborating on an authentication technology to weed spam from legitimate e-mail. It goes by the clunky name DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), and it merges technology from both companies into one specification based on public key cryptography, a type of digital signature. EarthLink started testing DomainKeys in the first quarter of 2005 and now signs over 70% of all outgoing mail. Other companies are also testing DomainKeys. Yahoo! Mail claims to be receiving approximately 350 million inbound DomainKeys signed messages per day.”

Full Story at http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/07/14/microsoft-yahoo-spam-cx_fr_0714spam.html?partner=rss




Vonage, AT&T Top VOIP Ratings, Extreme Tech, 14 July 2005

“Vonage was found to be the most reliable VOIP vendor of those surveyed, which included AT&T CallVantage, Packet 8, Primus Lingo, Skype's SkypeOut service, Verizon, Voicewing, and Vonage, together with business DSL calls made over the AT&T, Sprint, and UUNet networks.”

Full Story at http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1837046,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532




Vonage Voicemail Vanishes During Site Upgrade, Extreme Tech, 14 July 2005

“Users trying to access their voice mail on the Vonage site were met with the message, "No Voicemail boxes found for your account," and stored voice mail messages did not show up on the site. The messages and lack of voicemail began appearing on Wednesday, and persisted through early Thursday morning. Chris Latona, a member of the Vonage DigitalVoice executive response team, confirmed the problem still required another day to resolve.”

Full Story at http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1837054,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532




Glitches hit Vonage voice mail, CnetNews.com, 14 July 2005

“Some of Vonage's customers haven't been able get to their voice mail via the Internet telephony provider's Web site since Wednesday. "We're having voice mail issues right now," a Vonage spokeswoman wrote in an e-mail Thursday. According to postings in a Vonage chat room, people attempting to get voice mail through Vonage's site got the message: "Customers may be experiencing an intermittent issue with logging into your Web account."

Full Story at http://news.com.com/Glitches+hit+Vonage+voice+mail/2110-7352_3-5788902.html?part=rss&tag=5788902&subj=news




Virus scanner bug cost Trend $8 million, InfoWorld, 14 July 2005
Trend Micro Bug Proves Costly, Yahoo.com, 14 July 2005

“Tokyo-based anti-virus software vendor Trend Micro said that a bug in its own software that affected thousands of customers has cost the company ¥903 million ($8 million). The issue has also forced it to lower its revenue and profit forecasts for the April to June quarter. The company hasn't lost many corporate contracts over the bug because it's difficult for enterprises to quickly change their anti-virus policies”

Full Story at http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/07/14/HNvirusscannerbug_1.html

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Movable Type Works to Block Blog Spam, eWeek.com, 14 July 2005

“The startup company partly hopes to address the increase in blogging among enterprise and organizational users. The company also is trying to thwart a rising menace—the rise of spammers filling blog comment sections and stuffing trackbacks with unwanted and irrelevant comments and links. With Movable Type 3.2, Six Apart has added a centralized administration view called System Overview, which administrators can use to track activity across hundreds or thousands of blogs and manage feedback and trackbacks across all the blogs.”

Full Story at http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1837322,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594