Blue Security Waves White Flag on Spam Attack

Blue Security Waves White Flag on Spam Attack

Israeli anti-spam firm Blue Security is ceasing operations after a crippling series of attacks launched against its services earlier this month by a Russian spammer named PharmaMaster.

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-read full story from InternetWeek.com, May 17 2006


AOL Introduces Video Social Networking Community

AOL Inc. quietly rolled out a video social networking community on Monday. The site called AOL UnCut, which has thousands of beta users, will officially launch "end of June or beginning of July," the company said.

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-read full story from InternetWeek.com, May 16 2006


AOL Gives Free Phone Numbers To Users Over 18

A day after Skype inaugurated a free North American calling plan, AOL began its AIM Phoneline service Tuesday with a free phone number for AIM users who can receive free unlimited incoming calls and free voicemail.

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-read full story from InternetWeek.com, May 16 2006


Will video break the Internet?

Every day, it seems, a new service pops up offering to send you video over the Internet. "Desperate Housewives," Stephen Colbert heckling the president, clips of bad dancers at wedding parties: It's all there.

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-read full story from CNN.com, May 17 2006


Web attacks end anti-spam effort

A series of web attacks by spammers have forced a security firm to end an initiative to curb junk mail.

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-read full story from BBC.com, May 17 2006


Official: Africa Charges More for Net Use

African Internet users pay on average 90 times what Americans pay, crippling efforts by the world's poorest continent to become competitive, a senior Kenyan official said.

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-read full story from Yahoo!News, May 18 2006


Geek to Live: Fast, one wire network (IP over FireWire)

Recently I wanted to transfer a ripped season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer from my desktop to my laptop for some entertainment on the road. All told the files turned out to be several gigabytes. An attempt to copy them over my home Ethernet network gave me flying documents, an unmoving progress bar and a completion estimate at about 10 hours.

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-read full blog from Yahoo!News, May 18 2006


Symantec client to do network policy, security policework

Symantec is readying a new application for enterprise PCs that will integrate security and network policy enforcement technology the company picked up from recent acquisitions.

For more on this:-read full story from PCWorld.com, May 17 2006