An excellent way to collect news, particularly if you’re U.S.-based. The new Topix.net doesn’t look that great, but it’s simple and easy to configure. Most importantly, you can grab topics as XML feeds, straight into your RSS reader (or to your Yahoo homepage if you prefer). If you live in a U.S. town, you can … Read more
Was the recent virus war just between kids, or something more sinister? Mi2g, the British Internet security consultants, reckon not. “Upon analysing the juvenile dialogue between the malware writers of NetSky, Bagle and MyDoom it has been prematurely concluded by a range of commentators that this is a turf war between teenagers or college students seeking global notoriety. Whilst script … Read more
Here’s a new blogging tool that goes further than blogging. Developed by University of Maryland student Anthony Casalena, Squarespace is “an intelligent Internet content management system” he believes is the next evolution of publishing on the World Wide Web — for everyone. “Casalena threw HTML editors and file transfer protocol (FTP) software out the window. … Read more
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