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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

Alice Hill's Technology Watch

Thursday, September 02, 2004

Top Download Music Chart Debuts
The BBC has a news item about the first-ever music poplarity chart based on number of downloads instead of number of sales. BBC Radio 1 will present the "Weekly Download Top 20" today, while rival Virgin Radio will begin a similar chart. Will the NY Times be far behind?
# Posted at 11:39 AM

MoreGoogle Adds Features to Google

Ok, so maybe we are a tad paranoid, but a Google fan created and launched an add-on to Google that is free, and useful, and does not contain spyware, and we are still suspiscious. Why? Because it is free and not from Google. True, developers have been doing this for years, so maybe it is a sad statement that we can't trust any good deed, but then again I downloaded it and like what it does.

Check back in a month and see if I blow up or something. Or, just try it....

Here's what their site says:

Why MoreGoogle is cool even though it's not from Google! :-)

See page preview thumbnails
"Open in New Window" Button
Live Amazon.com product information
Get accurate site access statistics
Retrieve older versions of a site
Find more related web sites
It's free :-) (as in "free beer" and "no spyware")

# Posted at 11:39 AM

Wednesday, September 01, 2004

eBay Bids for S.Korean Auction Company

Auction giant eBay Inc. raised its stake in a South Korean auction affiliate Internet Auction Co. to 86 percent from 62 percent for a whopping $530 million dollars. This is part of the company's recent decision to expand in Asia.
# Posted at 10:20 AM

P-Diddy's Diamond hPod

Just in time for this week's MTV's Music Video Awards, HP rolled out a custom, diamond-encrusted hPod for rapper/music and fashion impresario Sean John, aka P Diddy.

We predict that by the Oscars, many a celeb will be toting custom bling like this, and that means that award show freebies may bring a whole new meaning to the word "convergence", or the moment when fashion and electronics collide.

Here we go....

# Posted at 8:48 AM

Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Ultimate Mystery Spam

Alice's Rant of the Week: We all get way too much Spam to comment on it anymore. What's left to say after you've wittnessed money scams, illegal drug offers, plus the occasional porn blast that makes its way across your preview pane every day.

And yet...today I received this. (see above)

There is so much that can be said, but for starters, what the hell is this? (If you speak this language, please send a translation) And who were they hoping to snare with this grainy, ugly graphic. And most of all, why me?? Why?

# Posted at 3:28 PM

Monday, August 30, 2004

Website Offers Caller I.D. Falsification Service
How awful is this? Kevin Poulsen at SecurityFocus reports: "Overdue debtors beware: You may not be able to rely on Caller I.D. to screen out those annoying bill collectors much longer. A California entrepreneur has a plan to bring the hacker technique of Caller I.D. spoofing to the business world, beginning with collection agencies and private investigators.

"Slated for launch next week, Star38.com would offer subscribers a simple Web interface to a Caller I.D. spoofing system that lets them appear to be calling from any number they choose."
# Posted at 5:16 PM

Internet Turns 35
The Associated Press has a great piece on the Internet turning 35 this week. "Stephen Crocker and Vinton Cerf were among the graduate students who joined UCLA professor Len Kleinrock in an engineering lab on Sept. 2, 1969, as bits of meaningless test data flowed silently between the two computers. By January, three other 'nodes' joined the fledgling network. Then came e-mail a few years later, a core communications protocol called TCP/IP in the late 70s, the domain name system in the 80s and the World Wide Web � now the second most popular application behind e-mail � in 1990. The Internet expanded beyond its initial military and educational domain into businesses and homes around the world."

Happy Birthday, you don't look a day over 25!

# Posted at 4:44 PM

Intel's Chip Shrinking Milestone

Moore's Law is holding steady at the house of Intel. The company announced a new technology breakthrough that can create a 70 megabit memory chip with switches measuring a scant 35 nanometers. That's a 30% smaller than anything done to date.

Intel also pioneered a way to turn off unused sections of a memory chip in a power saving sleep mode.
# Posted at 4:44 PM

World's First Horse-Riding Exercise Machine

Yee-Haw Dept.: Anyone who has ever ridden a horse quickly discovers the world of muscle pain that awaits the next morning.

Now, Matsushita (Panasonic) has found a way to torture your muscles at home without the annoying smell of horse manure or all the post riding clean up and work a real horse demands. To some this may look more like a motorcycle seat, but when it starts bucking, we guarantee it will be pure horse.
# Posted at 9:00 AM

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