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Monday, February 14, 2005 |
Lots of anti-spam new this week. The news this week is loaded with anti-spam stories. The new Microsoft anti-spam software is already under attack. Microsoft also suffered attacks on its Instant Messenger this week.
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Stars Take a Shine to Apple. Celebrities are a fixture in Apple's Los Angeles retail stores. Apple forbids sales associates from talking to the press, but a couple of associates have broken ranks to dish some Tinseltown dirt. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]
12:03:12 PM
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Outsourcing High-Tech Jobs to Rural America. In the past decade, an increasing number of U.S. companies have been radically cutting costs by sending manufacturing and customer service jobs overseas. NPR's Howard Berkes profiles a firm in Arkansas hoping to reverse that trend, connecting local high-tech workers with global clients. [NPR News: Business]
12:02:19 PM
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IBM rolls out five 64-bit Xeon servers. IBM on Monday rolled out a handful of beefed-up 64-bit Intel servers that feature a 2MB cache, adding 18 percent to the systems' overall performance. The additions also contain support for two new technologies, namely Demand Based Switching (DBS) and Execute Disable Bit (XD). [InfoWorld: Top News]
12:01:31 PM
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Antivirus, e-mail vendors up ante in malware fight. Technology to fight spyware, remotely controlled bots, and other threats will dominate news from the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week, as antivirus and e-mail security companies offer new products and features to protect companies and Internet users from sophisticated, malicious code.
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12:01:24 PM
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MySQL 5.0 beta slips. MySQL, which had planned to ship the beta version of its MySQL 5.0 database by the end of January, is now planning to ship the database within the next few weeks. [InfoWorld: Top News]
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IT execs seek weapons to fight spyware. Spyware tools will be a hot commodity at this week's RSA Conference, as companies look for products to help fight the growing menace. Users and analysts say spyware has become more of a corporate threat than spam or identity theft. [Computerworld News]
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© 2005 Michael J Much
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