Some interesting stories on the neverending quest to eliminate junk from our inboxes: first, the New York Times reports on the Diverging Estimates of the Costs of Spam; although some companies estimate the loss to businesses could be $10 to $20 billion this year, those calculations may not include the hours of time lost
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A Swiss-army knife for your search arsenal
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Posted in Software
Today’s SearchDay reviews Copernic, one of my favorite search tools. There are three versions of the product to choose from:Basic(free), Personal ($29.95), and Professional ($79.95). Check one of them out.
Watch that bottleneck online
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Posted in Mobile Technology
The New York Times reports that the Internet is making it easier to monitor traffic conditions from the comfort of your desk. I loveDallas’ online traffic services, but I wish we had something like the TrafficGauge, a handheld device being used in the Seattle area — it can give you real-time information on
Read weblogs like a demon
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Dennis and I have both (unknown to each other) been testing out a new news aggregator, FeedDemon. It’s still in beta, and I have noticed it has a fair number of bugs, but in general I share Dennis’s satisfaction with the product. I know it’s a heck of a lot faster thanNewzcrawler.…
You can’t download MP3s P2P from a DVR
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Posted in Technology
The BBC thinks that all the high-tech babble the technology companies use is confusing to many people. Regular readers of this site should pass this jargon quiz with flying colors.
The week’s spam news
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Posted in Email
What would a week be without more news on that scourge of our inbox? (a good week, that’s what) First, the MIT Technology Review presents a nice overview of the epidemic in Spam Wars. And the BBC provides more information on a troubling trend: spammers are hijacking our computers to send spam.
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RSS Legal News Feeds
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in RSS
This is old news (I’m still catching up!), but Genie over at Virtual Chase has a page of RSS news feeds for law. There’s a link to a helpful article explaining RSS (for those of you who need a refresher), and a great list of sites to add to your newsreader.
RSS feeds are…
Michigan passes anti-spam law
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Posted in Email
Michigan Senate Bill 357 (as amended) creates a “do not e-mail list” — under the new law a plaintiff could recover $500 per e-mail, or $250,000 for each day the spam is received.
When you really, REALLY need to send e-mail NOW
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Posted in Email
United Airlines plans to offer two-way e-mail capability on all of its domestic flights by the end of the year. The service will cost $15.98 per flight, plus 10 cents per kilobyte for every data packet over 2 kilobytes (about 2 pages of typing). Kinda pricey, eh?
Upgrade your firewall
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Zone Labs has announced the release of its new Zone Alarm Pro 4.0 firewall, which includes improved e-mail protection, hacker tracing, and a new cache cleaner for internet browsers.