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Reader Poll: How often do you check your
email?
We’ve all got more email than we can
handle, and as a result it can be very easy to get in the
habit of checking your inbox almost obsessively for new,
unread mail. Unfortunately, being too hung up on your inbox
can be a huge drain on productivity. |
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Smallest of Nokia Eseries Phones: Nokia
E50
Nokia today revealed the smallest device in its
Eseries family of business mobile devices, the Nokia E50. The
compact device has voice, email and data capabilities for
business and leisure. |
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Email attack decision successful
appeal
The Crown Prosecution Service has succeeded
in their appeal against the decision to acquit a teenager of
sabotaging his employers system under the Computer Misuse Act
in the UK. |
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Email Delivery Neutrality Gone
Forever
Just as Net Neutrality fights for all
traffic to be equal, the fight for email traffic to be treated
equally has been lost. The increasing number of tiers for
email traffic means you will have to pay for your email to get
through |
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How to Stop Spam in your Email by Internet
Expert John Chan
Spammers commonly find email
recipients by using a spambot by searching for addresses on
websites, forums, or Usenet groups, for example. Another way
is to use a name generating type of software which produces
likely common words, names, or numerical combinations of email
addresses for the sole purpose of sending spam... |
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Consumer Reports takes RFID out to the
woodshed
Due to a mis-forwarded email, Consumer
Reports learns that RFID vendors really don't want to talk
about those niggling privacy concerns. Good article that also
details all the politicians the industry has lined up to keep
legislation from getting in the way. |
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Optimus mini-3 pushed back...
again
Just received an email from ArtLebedev,
saying the optimus mini-3 has been pushed back again - to
August 15. On the plus side, the lifetime of the OLEDs has
been pushed up to 8000 hours, and a brightness control has
been added. Also, a 5% discount on all future purchases is
being offered. |
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Open Source Software Giving Voice to the
Disabled
It's one thing relying on proprietary
technology to write a document, touch up a photograph, or send
an email. But the stakes are much higher when the technology
may be your only communication link to the world. |
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WorldSentiment.com Opens Doors To
Moderators
If you are passionate about a subject,
any subject, we want to consider appointing you as a moderator
on Worldsentiment.com. Worldsentiment.com is a public opinion
social network that allows anyone to post any question or
poll. Please send email to feedback@worldsentiment.com listing
your interests. |
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PHP Spam Injection First Aid with Apache
ModSecurity
One of the more common problems with
PHP-based applications is that they can allow the injection of
malicious content, such as SQL or email spam. In some cases we
find that over 95% of a client's ISP traffic is coming from
spam injection. The solution? Grab an industrial size helping
of Apache mod_security. |
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Friday is 'Open Discussion Day', For One Day Use
Only Open Protocal IM
Have you ever imagined what
would Internet be without an open email protocol? This is
exactly the instant messaging world we are living in. This
Friday, May 19, help promote open standards for IM. Don't use
proprietary IM such as AIM, MSN, ICQ and Yahoo. For one day,
use only IM with an open protocol such as Google Talk, which
uses Jabber. |
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Cool British Viral Marketing Email for Mini
UK
Cool British Viral Marketing Email for Mini UK
from www.aveaword.com in the style of Lock Stock and 2 Smoking
Barrels (1998). Send a personalised email to your buddy
advising them that ‘someone wants to ave a little word’.
Check out the Preview Button before you send it. |
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AJAX-Based Lyris ListManager
9.0
Lyris Technologies, provider of email marketing
solutions, unveiled Lyris ListManager 9.0 which sets a new
standard in email marketing. In addition to its new features
and advanced functions, Lyris 9.0 has been developed with the
principles of Web 2.0 in mind, using a combination of AJAX and
Flash. |
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Real But Meaningless Response: Real responds to
singling out iPods
Real responds to a reader email
concerning singling out iPod users. regular reader sent an
email to CEO of REAL Rob Glaser concerning his recent comments
that singled out iPod Users as digital music theives.
Yesterday, he received a reply from a REAL "associate" and
forwarded it for Jackwhispers readers perusal. |
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SpamAware v4.3
Sick of spam emails?
The makers of the great TreeSize app have created SpamAware.
This great freeware app is a plugin for OE & Outlook using
SpamAssassin to score incoming emails. |
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phpBB adsense being shut down
Thats
right. Within the next 72 hours, unless my old homeless
project manager logs on, phpBB adsense is going to be
shutdown. This is NOT my fault, but i find it midly amusing (i
was one of the developers sent this email) with all the
grammatical errors and a few random numbers. |
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iShowU - Handy OSX App
iShowU allows
you to capture and record anything you can see on your screen,
along with audio from any compatible source... Just record
what you're doing and what you want to say, and stick it in an
email! |
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Cyber-Crooks Target Online
Gamers
Online criminals are targeting gamers with
viruses written to steal virtual assets that can be sold to
other players. In a "new malware dynamic," cyber-crooks are
going after login details needed to install and access online
games. Trojans sent through email and chat room are the most
common forms of malware used in the thefts. |
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AOL's free phone number service blocks sales
calls!
A day after Skype inaugurated a free North
American calling plan, AOL began its AIM Phoneline service
Tuesday with a free phone number for AIM users who can receive
free unlimited incoming calls and free voicemail. |
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The Devolution of 'Cell Phone
Technology'
Here's a story of a man who lost a
voicemail and soon after took the red pill. Are features you
don't need sucking your battery life dry? Are you tired of
hearing the 40 second lady before you leave a message? Read
on. |
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Vonage uses Spam, Voice & Junk Mail Tactics
to Promote IPO
Vonage is looking for investors to
fund future growth and a tropical island for its founders
through an initial public offering...the company is
aggressively soliciting its customers to partake in the IPO
who've received spam emails, spam VoIP voicemails, and now the
old fashioned letter |
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Yahoo's new home page lets you customize
it
Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday launched a redesigned
homepage that tries to build a closer relationship to visitors
with personal features such as email, instant messaging and
localized services. |
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The best Web 2.0 websites you can
use.
Lessons how to survive in the real world with
only a computer, a browser and an internet connection. We
review web 2.0 based email, office applications, online
storage, news aggregators and much much more. Your mobile
office from anywhere, anytime anyhow using any computer, as
long as it has a browser and an internet connection. |
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The Stupidest Voicemail Message
This
would be considered a "normal" voicemail message if he
suffered from severe Mental Retardation. WARNING: Bad singing
ahead. |
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