Info Tech

I received a Spam message through Friendster today and was very upset because it was the first Spam I have seen there. I first questioned why one of my contacts would ‘invite’ a spammer into their network knowing fair well the effects would ripple out at least three degrees.  But after further examination I found that the spammer had no ...

This Wired article has some interesting vignettes on this year’s tech stories. From Wired: "It was the year corporate and university data spills just kept coming, and the Supreme Court decided technology companies can be held responsible for the bad behavior of their users. Big firms lined up to help repressive governments; governments helped themselves to private phone calls and ...

This Search Engine Journal article focuses on the most successful in the industry with news of its 2005 winners. Editor Loren Baker says, "We are all members of a vibrant and cutting edge industry which happens to also be quite entertaining and full of enjoyment, there are not very many people who cherish the work that they do as much ...

Yahoo! News is carrying a story that could ripple through the blogging world – not so much that a blog has claimed another entity’s name, but more about the willingness of a group to seek legal recompense. The story says, "Christian evangelical group Jews for Jesus is suing Google Inc., saying a Web log hosted through the Internet search leader’s ...