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From USA Today: A federal judge has awarded an Internet service provider more than $1 billion in what is believed to be the largest judgment ever against spammers. Robert Kramer, whose company provides e-mail service for about 5,000 subscribers in eastern Iowa, filed suit against 300 spammers after his inbound mail servers received up to …
This is from Michael’s Minutes. Michael Robertson is the CEO of Linspire, and he is determined to get Linux out there to the masses. Linspire has been working for months on a project that will have a profound impact on consumers and on the Linux market – a sub-$500 laptop from a major retailer. This …
From the Rays of Light blog: Last year long about November, Microsoft purchased a small Hong Kong-based software firm named Creature House. One of their principal products was a vector graphics editing program called Expressions 3. Primarily a Mac product, they also had a Windows version; both versions received very positive reviews. Microsoft’s disposition of …
Subscriber and co-worker Pat Clary sent me along a link to this Small Business Pipeline story: Microsoft Office is both popular and widely distributed, which means that there are a lot of resources available for Office users. This week, instead of focusing on one feature, I’m going to point you toward a few small but …