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From the Globe and Mail: First came Google. Then came MySpace, Facebook and Second Life — all created by hip young techies from California. But the biggest new Internet innovation comes from an unlikely place: a Toronto-based company best known for cheesy giftware and stuffed toys. If you have a kid in elementary school, chances …
From TechRepublic: Microsoft has come under attack for the way it advertises the Vista operating system. A lawsuit, filed in Seattle, alleges that the company advertised systems as “Vista capable,” when in fact the systems were not able to run Vista properly. The suit alleges that the marketing around Vista was designed to deliberately mislead …
From Vnunet: Nearly half of companies globally have suffered a business disruption owing to malware, according to Webroot Software’s latest State of Internet Security report. The organised nature, rapid growth and severity of cyber-crime has pushed it to the FBI’s number three priority behind counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence. Webroot’s research discovered that 4.2 million, or 1.7 …
From Reuters: Warm up those thumbs. What’s billed as the first text messaging competition will take place in Los Angeles on Saturday, pitting scores of players in a race to determine who is the fastest. The snag is that popular text shorthand will not be allowed.
From BusinessWeek: It’s the year 2014, and Googlezon, a fearsomely powerful combination of search engine Google Inc. and online store Amazon.com Inc., has crushed traditional media to bits. Taking its place is the computer-generated Evolving Personalized Information Construct—an online package of news, entertainment, blogs, and services drawn from all the world’s up-to-the-minute knowledge and customized …
From Reuters (via CNN): Until two weeks ago, Ruth Ebert never had the slightest interest in the video games favored by her one and only granddaughter. “I’m 82 years old, so I missed that part of our culture. Soap operas, yes. Video games, no,” chirped Ebert, who recently started playing a tennis game on Nintendo …
From Reuters: Bombarded by spam, e-mail users are eager for tools like a “report fraud” button that would help weed out unwanted messages that litter inboxes, according to a survey by the Email Sender and Provider Coalition released on Tuesday. More than 80 percent of e-mailers already use tools such as “report spam” and the …
From the Niagara Falls Review: The world was asked to shut down its computers Saturday. The world apparently didn’t listen. At least that’s what can be gathered from stats offered on the official Shutdown Day website, which showed no noticeable decline in global Internet traffic. Even so, the Montreal-based site says 86 per cent of …
From ComputerWorld: Automaker BMW schooled Hewlett-Packard Co. in IT system design. Sun Microsystems Inc.’s co-founder and chief architect designs server boxes largely based on the stereo systems of his youth and wants his company to be more like Apple Inc. when it comes design innovation. So, if you think it’s all for technology’s sake and …
This is from a press release I received from 3CX: 3CX a developer of a software-based IP PBX for Windows, today announced that it will give away 100,000 free phone systems. Companies are encouraged to take advantage of this offer to experience first handedly the benefits of an IP PBX when compared with traditional proprietary …