Interesting post, and subsequent discussion, at Tomas Jogin’s blog, on the Real Player — which does streaming audio and video, and was once the bee’s knees. Now it ain’t so, mainly because of its very invasive way of installing itself on your computer, and then being very, very hard to get rid of. I’ve hated… Read More »
Online fraud and other forms of Internet crime is a business, openly sold over the Internet. British-based Internet security company Netcraft says they’re receiving spam advertising dozens of “fraud hosting” websites that offer services and gather together those interested in such pursuits. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, most are Russian. But not all. Carderportal.com resolves to… Read More »
Russia’s image as Spam (And Other Bad Stuff) Central is beginning to hurt. CNET reports thats customers of high-speed Internet service provider Comcast were unable to email anyone in Russia for four days last week after the company’s spam filter blocked any emails to an address with the Russian suffix ‘ru’. Although CNET called the block… Read More »
More evidence, if it were needed, that RSS is moving mainstream. eWeek reports that InfoSpace – who also own the dogpile, WebCrawler and metacrawler search sites — will add RSS feeds to the next release of its search toolbar. A setup feature called “Search Page” will scan an open Web page for RSS or Atom… Read More »
The guys at X1, one of the best search programs I’ve seen, say the program is now official. Mark Goodstein, founder of X1, says the software is now officially out of beta and is available at a 50% discount for those in the know (i.e. people who read this blog, among a few others.) It’s looking in… Read More »