Security
ZDNet, 5/25/04: Spam now two thirds of all e-mail
By Munir Kotadia
There is no sign of relief for companies already overwhelmed by the sheer volume of unsolicited and unwanted e-mail messages clogging their mail systems. E-mail security firm MessageLabs' filtering statistics for April, which were published on Monday, show that 67.6 percent of all global e-mail traffic is spam.
MessageLabs said it scanned 840 million e-mail messages in April and found that 97 percent of spam is aimed at five countries: the United States, the U.K., Germany, Australia and Hong Kong. The United States has the worst problem, with 83 percent of messages being classified as spam, while in the U.K. that figure stands at 53 percent.
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Storage
Internetnews.com, 5/24/04: HP Looks to Help SMBs Store and Manage E-mail
By Dan Muse
E-mail is the communications medium businesses love to hate. According to The Radicati Group, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based research firm, the average corporate e-mail user processes 10 MB of e-mail a day. That is expected to increase to 15.8 MB per user, per day by 2008.
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Open Source
The New York Times, 5/25/04: R.I.P.: The Counterculture Aura of Linux
By STEVE LOHR
Linux, the free operating system once seen as a symbol of a computing counterculture, is becoming a mainstream technology and is being forced to behave more like one.
A step down that path of maturity came yesterday when Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, announced that software developers making contributions to the operating system would have to sign their work and vouch for its origin.
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Microsoft
Internetnews.com, 5/24/04: Ballmer Beats Security Drum
By Ryan Naraine
SAN DIEGO -- Microsoft's (Quote, Chart) all-out "securing the enterprise" message took center stage on the opening day of TechEd with a string of security assurances from chief executive Steve Ballmer and confirmation that ISA Server 2004 will be generally available between July and September this year.
As expected, Ballmer's opening keynote included several references to security as the software giant's "number one priority" and the announcement of Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 2.0, a security-centric tool upgrade that uses the latest Web services protocol specs.
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C|net, 5/24/04: Microsoft to show off ID federation
By Robert Lemos
Microsoft will display on Tuesday software that lets customers sign in to a Web site and then take their identity with them as they browse the Web to other federated sites, a representative said.
The technology, which won't be available until the software giant releases Windows Server 2003 R2 in the second half of 2005, will interoperate with other companies' identity management software, said Michael Stephenson, lead program manager for Windows Server 2003.
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Otherwise
Wired News, 5/25/04: Virtual Dopers Crave High Scores
By Daniel Terdiman
The world of massively multiplayer online games is often a dangerous place, what with constant threats from bloodthirsty monsters and murderous non-player characters. But now players have even more peril to contend with: addictive drugs that can incapacitate or kill their characters.
The designers of Achaea, one of the biggest online text-based games, have recently introduced a virtual addictive drug -- known as gleam -- as part of a story line in which a crime ring has been attempting to infiltrate the game's cities. And some players can't take it fast enough.
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