28 March 2007

Yahoo Mail to offer unlimited storage
ZDNet – Mar 28, 2007

Yahoo will begin offering unlimited storage for its free Web-based e-mail in May, the company announced late Tuesday. The move makes Yahoo the first of the major free e-mail providers to offer unlimited storage, but it likely will not be the last.

Yahoo currently offers 1 gigabyte for its free mail service and 2GB for its premium fee-based service. Google's free Gmail service offers more than 2.5GB of storage, and Windows Live Hotmail offers 2GB for free.


Yahoo to offer unlimited e-mail storage
Reuters – Mar 27, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. plans to offer unlimited e-mail storage to its roughly quarter of a billion users, starting in May, it said on Tuesday.

The world's biggest e-mail service is scrapping its free e-mail storage limit of 1 gigabyte, or about a billion bytes of data, responding to explosive growth in attachment sizes as people share ever more photos, music and videos via e-mail.


Open-source bug hunt project expands
ZDNet – Mar 27, 2007

The effort, supported by a research contract from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, is now scanning code of 150 open-source projects, up from the original 50.

"This allows open-source developers to find and resolve defects introduced into the project," David Maxwell, open-source strategist for Coverity, said in a statement. Coverity makes source-code analysis tools and shares the DHS contract with Stanford University and Symantec.


Department of Homeland Security ups its investment in open source ...
InfoWorld, CA – Mar 27, 2007

A year ago the Department of Homeland Security contracted with Coverity, a maker of a source code analysis tool, to harden open source software. (Stanford University and Symantec are also involved.) Basically, developers at open source projects (not primarily affiliated with a corporation) can submit their code to scan.coverity.com and have it scanned for security vulnerabilities. The project, as announced today, has been very successful.


Adobe Sets Creative Suite 3 Ship Date For April
InformationWeek, NY – Mar 27, 2007

Adobe Systems today said that its Creative Suite 3 design and development software would begin shipping in April.
"Creative Suite 3 is the biggest launch in Adobe's 25-year history and a milestone for the creative industry," said Bruce Chizen, CEO of Adobe, in a statement. "This release reflects the powerful integration between Adobe and Macromedia and how our products bridge the gap between designers and developers."


Adobe overhauls suite for design professionals
InfoWorld, CA – Mar 27, 2007

Adobe Systems on Tuesday unveiled details about how it has completely revamped its tools suite for high-end graphics and Web designers by combining for the first time products from both the former Macromedia and its own portfolio.


MySpace wants to bar 'spam king'
CNET News.com, CA – Mar 27, 2007

MySpace.com on Tuesday said it has filed suit against Sanford Wallace, seeking to bar the "spam king" and his affiliated companies from the social-networking site.

In the suit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles, MySpace accuses Wallace of violating state and federal laws including the federal Can-Spam Act and California's antispam and antiphishing statutes, the company said in a statement.


MySpace sues 'Spam King' for phishing
SC Magazine US – Mar 27, 2007

Social networking site MySpace announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against "Spam King" Sanford Wallace for spearheading a phishing scheme to steal login credentials.
Wallace, who claimed in 1998 that he was quitting the spam business, allegedly used that information to create profiles, groups and forums to spam users into visiting deceptive websites, according to a statement..