Use Disposable E-Mail Addresses to Shut Down Spammers

23 March 2007

Use Disposable E-Mail Addresses to Shut Down Spammers
PC World – Mar 22, 2007

Anyone who has ever had an inbox full of penny-stock tips, pharmaceutical offers, and phishing attempts has had two fantasies: To turn off the spigot, and to find out who gave the spammers their address. Throwaway e-mail addresses can make both fantasies come true, at least for some of your spam.

NBC, News Corp. in Online Video Venture
Forbes, NY - Mar 22, 2007

In Big Media's latest attempt to combat Google Inc.'s YouTube, NBC Universal and News Corp. are banding together with AOL, MSN and Yahoo Inc. to form an ad-supported online video network for full-length TV shows, video clips and movies.

News Corp., NBC Plan Answer to YouTube
PC Magazine - Mar 22, 2007

News Corp. and NBC Universal said on Thursday they will jointly launch an online video site this summer, in a move to compete directly with Google Inc.'s YouTube.

The site will feature full-length television shows, movies and clips, including popular shows such as "Saturday Night Live" and "The Simpsons," and hit films like "The Devil Wears Prada" and "Borat."

Trojan Roaming Skype Network
Information Week Weblog, NY - Mar 22, 2007

Skype users are being hit with a Trojan that using the infected machine to reach out and infect the user's friends and colleagues.

Websense issued an alert on Thursday afternoon warning that the malicious code, known as both Warezov and Stration, is spreading through the Skype network again. An earlier version initially attacked late in February.

Trojan roaming skype network

iT News, Australia - Mar 22, 2007

Websense issued an alert on Thursday afternoon warning that a malicious code, known as both Warezov and Stration, is spreading through the Skype network again. An earlier version initially attacked late in February.

The advisory noted that Skype users can receive a message that says, "check up this," with a URL containing a hyperlink. When users click on the link, they are redirected to a site hosting a file named file_01.exe. If the user runs the file, several other files are downloaded and run.

Analyst: Google building software, not mobile phone
iT News, Australia - Mar 22, 2007

Google isn't building its own mobile phone, as many have speculated, but software to run services on mobile phones, a Wall Street analyst said Thursday..

Google is building software to run services on mobile phones rather than gearing up to build its own phone, as many industry sources have speculated, one Wall Street analyst said Thursday

Google building software, not cell phone: analyst
Reuters – Mar 22, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) is building software to run services on cell phones rather than gearing up to build its own phone, as many industry sources have speculated, one Wall Street analyst said on Thursday.

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said in a research note to clients that Google appears to be building software for Web search on cell phones and location-finding services to work with Apple Inc.'s (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) iPhone and other cell phones.