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From Technology News Daily: The government must have a search warrant before it can secretly seize and search emails stored by email service providers, according to a landmark ruling Monday in the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The court found that email users have the same reasonable expectation of privacy in their stored email …
From the BBC: Half of Britons could not exist without e-mail – with 30 or 40-somethings more addicted than teens, a survey finds. Fifty per cent of 25 to 34-year-olds told ICM researchers they would not be able to carry on without e-mail. Forty one per cent of teenagers said they relied on e-mail, while …
I heard about this on Download Squad… How many times have you been befuddled with a product, only to result to the dreaded 1-800 number in the manual to resolve your issue? Hours later only to find no resolution in sight. Enter Fixya, a startup that has taken on the challenge of supplying online technical …
From eWeek: No one ever said policing the Internet was easy. Bot herders control networks of compromised computers sometimes numbering into the thousands. Already, an FBI-led initiative dubbed “Operation Bot Roast” has identified 1 million compromised computers. On Wednesday, FBI officials laid out charges against three men—Robert Alan Soloway of Seattle, James C. Brewer of …
From eWeek: Google’s continuously raked over the coals regarding the massive amounts of PII (personally identifiable information) it collects, what it does with it, how long it retains that data and what the company might do with it if its merger with DoubleClick goes ahead. That’s all been ratcheted up to fever pitch over the …
From Yahoo! News: Eastman Kodak Co. said on Thursday it has developed digital camera technology that nearly eliminates the need for flash photography, part of the company’s effort to make money from its deep patent portfolio. The world’s biggest maker of photographic film says its proprietary sensor technology significantly increases sensitivity to light. Image sensors …
From Yahoo! News: When Will Nickelson and his daughter want to spend some quality time together, they fire up Nintendo Co.’s Wii and play a few rounds of “Wii Sports” or “Mario Party 8.” “It’s kind of difficult picking a game for a 7-year-old girl, but she really likes to beat her dad at bowling,” …
Paragon Software (the makers of Partition Manager) have released a new hard drive defragmentation utility called Total Defrag 2007. I received a press release with some of the details: Paragon Software Group, the technological leader in innovative data security and data management technology, announced the release of Paragon Total Defrag 2007, the most advanced hard …
I received this press release the other day from Moleskinsoft: Moleskinsoft today announces the release of version 2.3 of Moleskinsoft Clone Remover – an efficient utility designed to search for various duplicate files in your PC and delete unnecessary file copies. Moleskinsoft Clone Remover 2.3 finds duplicate files of different types, including music (mp3), image …
If you have a web site, then you want to be listed high in a search engine. Google uses a formula called PageRank that determines the quality of a page (and thus its ranking) based on the quality of the links that point to it. The formula seemed to be remarkable effective, and that’s why …