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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

Wednesday, September 15, 2004

All About SPAM and Virus Overload
We love stats and Postini is a great website for getting the official lowdown on SPAM senders, email viruses, and all the statistics you could ever hope for concerning the current state of email adbuse and overload. For example:

--10 out of 13 messages are Spam
--1 in 27 messages is virus infected.

# Posted at 3:59 PM

Apple-Beatles Music settlement Could Be Huge

First came the Beatles and their Apple Corps. record label. Then came Apple Computers and a lot of legal fighting began over the name. The settlement in 1991 gave the usage of "Apple" to Apple Computer as long as it did not go into the music business.

Uh oh....

With the success of the iPod and the iTunes online music store, Apple Computer is in the music business in a big way. According to Arstechnica, "Word is circulating within the legal community that the proposed out-of-court settlement would be enormous: One lawyer told Daily Variety, 'People are expecting this to be the biggest settlement anywhere in legal history, outside of a class action suit. The numbers could be mind boggling.'" Stay tuned...

# Posted at 3:59 PM

Zanware In-Wall PC Controller

As more and more devices are networked in the home, and as more and more music, photo and movie files are located in a media server and then viewed or listened to someplace else, there has to be a way to get access to that PC from all over the house.

That's the concept behind the Zanware PC controller, a $330 unit that fits in a 3-gang UL electrical box (bet you didn't know I knew what one was? --Alice) and connects to your network via an ethernet cable.

Cool idea, but the cable part is what won't work for me at least. Maybe the ZanWare people can join the ZigBee folks (see a few stories down) and come out with a well-needed wireless version.

# Posted at 3:56 PM

Guido the Talking Worm

Sounds like it's out of a Disney movie, huh? Not quite. This new worm is part of a not so subtle attack on your PC. It talks to you just after Windows stops playing its intro music and then deletes files from your hard disk.
# Posted at 3:56 PM

Yahoo Buys MusicMatch for $160 Million Dollars

Source BBC: Yahoo is taking on iTunes and Napster by adding MusicMatch to its arsenal - hoping to double traffic from 13 million listeners to 24 million after the deal is complete. MusicMatch has about a quater of a million subscribers and 700,000 song titles.

The one puzzler is what we thought Steve Jobs said many times: there is no money in selling songs. The money is in selling the song players, but maybe Yahoo can scale things and turn that notion upside down. Interesting.

# Posted at 3:55 PM

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