Quick Links for Apr 25th

Here are some interesting links from today:

  • Microsoft’s piracy problem could grow
    In the newly released Service Pack 1, however, Microsoft is softening its stance somewhat. The reduced functionality mode is gone, and in its place, a series of warnings and visual indications that a computer is not running a genuine copy of Windows. I wo
  • Global Warming, Financial Crisis, etc.
    Let me throw out a few facts. In 1900, the average life expectancy for an American was 47 years. In 2004, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, it was 78. In 1900, Americans devoted 50 percent of their incomes to putting food on the tabl
  • GPS market at turning point with sliding prices, demand off
    The experience of Netherlands-based TomTom NV — which saw earnings fall 83 percent in the first quarter — suggests the market for stand-alone global-positioning systems is at a turning point. "What we saw for the first time is that selling prices fell
  • Happy spamiversary! Spam reaches 30!
    Thirty years ago next week, Gary Thuerk, a marketer at the now-defunct computer firm Digital Equipment Corporation, sent an email to 393 users of Arpanet, the US government-run computer network that eventually became the internet. It was the first spam em
  • FBI wants to move hunt for criminals into Internet backbone
    give us the ability to preempt that illegal activity where it comes through a choke point as opposed to the point where it is diffuse on the Internet
  • AT&T Charges $2 to pay bill with cash!
    Rhonda Payne went to an AT&T Wireless store in Calhoun, Ga., recently to pay her phone bill in cash. When she arrived at the store, she was in for a surprise. Paying in person, she was told, costs extra — $2 extra. Payne objected to the "administrative c
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