Spammers hit for $1 billion+ lawsuit
Project Honeypot looks to take a bite out of spam.
Microsoft, Google tangle over copyright
Microsoft plans to blast Internet search giant Google for their “cavalier approach” to copyright at the Association of American Publishers.
Mid-day update
Today’s mid day update, we’ve got the Wii selling like gangbusters, Ashcroft selling out, Windows is probably cracked and conservatives convinced wikipedia is cracked in favor of liberals.
Tuesday, February 27th
Estonia holds first national elections allowing internet voting… YouTube’s CBS deal falls through, plus pundits weigh in on YouTube’s future post content filtering… and surprise surprise, next gen optical falls victim to another hacker opening up the medium to less restrictive uses.
Feb 12th’s Morning Edition
Microsoft isn’t too happy with the five year development cycle on Vista, now they’re promising a much shorter time between Vista, and the next OS. Neither Microsoft nor Apple are too happy with the idea of blanket virtualzation thanks to parallels either. Wikipedia is pretty happy though, because contrary to popular belief, they’re sticking around longer than four months. In about two months, we’ll see the world premiere of Wii-Jayin’.
Vista speech, human rights and internet liars
PDF to become standard
Hey hey hey,
Unfortunately (for you!) no show today, because I was working on both biz projections and a new backend system through the wonderful folks at CastFire. We’ve got an alpha going now, but i’ll be sure to let you know when the beta happens. Better yet, continue checking out our site, and YOU’LL know when the beta happens.
The script follows:
Adobe’s PDF format has long been consdiered the standard for moving print-quality documents around the interwebs… and now it looks like the successor to the Fax machine will be heading away from Adobe’s stable, and will become a standardized format.
Everyday users won’t notice a true change… since most people use the format without thinking regardless. The real change could come when the next version of the PDF spec is released. By giving up the real rights to matininance of the spec, Adobe loses rights over what the spec can and cannot do. Now, it’s up to the International Standards Organization to decide how PDFs will evolve and continue to change.
As a side note, PDFs are the image and document format that OSX is based on now, and are going to play a crucial role in Vista. Speaking of vista, we’ll have our vista launch show tomorrow, and tell you exactly which version of vista is right for you. Thanks for watching, check us out tomorrow.
Spammer faces 101 years
A spammer could face 101 years in jail, thanks the 2003 can-spam act.