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Spam Overload Dept:
According to a recent survey, about 65 percent of Net users spend 10 minutes or more a day dealing with spam. About 37 percent of respondents get 100 junk messages a day, and 63 percent get 50 or more.
Source: Symantec and Insightexpress

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Saturday, April 17, 2004

Wi-Fi on Steroids Heads for U.S.
Wired News has a great piece on a technology developed by Marty Cooper (father of the first cell phone) called iBurst. It is 100 times faster than a cellular connection, and works up to five miles away from a base station. Broadband One Networks is doing a trial in the San Diego area. If it works, the company plans to roll out the service nationwide.
# Posted at 7:44 AM

Handheld Karaoke and MP3 Player

Move Over iPod Dept: Thankfully this device is only available in Korea, but it does look like that the MP3 player is starting to morph into other music-related devices, in this case a sing-along Karaoke machine.

With the M-Bird, now everwhere you are is an instant Karaoke bar, and that is a scary prospect indeed. Reminds of the old Mr. Microphone from Ronco.

# Posted at 7:43 AM

Thursday, April 15, 2004

iPods Outsell Macs For The First Time

It's office, the iPod is now outselling the Mac. Apple sold 807,000 iPods this quarter alone - a 900% increase from the year before.

Steve Jobs claims that the iPod has now captured 40% of the MP3 market.

# Posted at 5:57 PM

Wednesday, April 14, 2004

Amazon Launches Search Engine?
According to the Associated Press: "Amazon's A9.com Inc., a Palo Alto, Calif.-based subsidiary, was released in test mode Wednesday but will compete for clicks not only with Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc and others, when it launches its own search technology later this year. Like its competitors, A9.com offers both a Web site and an Internet Explorer toolbar from which users can enter search terms and block annoying pop-up ads."

Our question: what does the 9 in A9 mean? Where they will rank?

>>> Try the sneak preview of A9 here!

# Posted at 10:38 PM

Tuesday, April 13, 2004

Virus Rocks AOL Staff

You've Got a Virus Dept: AOL employees were duped by a virus allegedly from the HR Department telling them they qualified for a raise. The message gave instructions on filling out at attached form and returning to HR no later than April 6th. Cash-hungry staffers clicked on the attachment and it caused instant pandemonium.
# Posted at 9:00 AM

More USB Oddities: The Bathroom Scale

Next on the USB block is a scale that will store information about your fat levels and historical weight over time, and then upload the info to a PC for even more charting and data manipulation.

Don't you think this cries out for a WiFi interface so you don't have to haul the thing to your PC every few days, and maybe a voice prompt telling you that things are dangerously out of control?

# Posted at 8:29 AM

Google's Gmail May Face Legal Opposition
Source Ireland Online:" Google's planned free email, set up as a rival to Microsoft's Hotmail and to Yahoo!, may be facing strong legal opposition after a Calfornian state senator said she was drafting legislation to block the Gmail service. Democratic Senator Liz Figueroa has said that Gmail is 'an invasion of privacy', referring to Google's plan to make revenue from users agreeing to their incoming email being scanned for targeted advertising. Google is being asked to rethink the product, which plans to offer 100 times the storage offered by some rivals."

Have the waves of love for Google suddenly soured?
# Posted at 8:28 AM

Monday, April 12, 2004

PC Used on "The Apprentice"

Reality TV may not be your thing, but any geek hooked on NBC's The Apprentice cannot miss the giant PC the gang uses on the show. Wonder about it no longer: it's the Tek Panel 300 and it boasts an all-in-one design, a 30 inch TFT/LCD panel with built in TV tuner, on board DVD recorder, and a Bose sound system. Drool.

# Posted at 9:35 AM

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