atmaspheric | endeavors

It has been talked about before on other blogs, but I guess they finally found me…
I received my first referral spam from a company in Colorado called Clutch Interactive (no link will be provided). As I was browsing, blogdex in Net News Wire, I realized that they have figured out a way [...]

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Sony Music wants to entertain you. Sony Electronics wants to equip you. The problem is that when it comes to digital media, their interests are diametrically opposed. [Daypop Top News Stories]

As a member of the Consumer Electronics Association, Sony joined the chorus of support for Napster against the legal onslaught from Sony and the other [...]

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Unfortunately I think this has been the cause of my connection issues…
A rapidly spreading computer worm infests networks and bogs down Internet traffic across the globe. [CNET News.com Enterprise Computing]

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I had to run a few errands in SoHo this morning and made a stop at the Apple Store. They had a single 12″ PowerBook on display and it was amazing!
The size has been bothering me until now. I was not sure that I would like the screen size / resolution, but now [...]

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Are you having a more difficult time reaching the site? I am… My email seems to be having trouble as well as my connection to the site. I can’t figure out whether it is the DNS on my domain or whether my Host is having some issues. Any thoughts would be [...]

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This is sick. Yet another confirmation that cigarette companies are completely evil.
how tobacco companies targeted gay and homeless customers in SF
[anil dash's daily links]

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As I have written earlier, I am getting much more serious about getting the spam out. It seems to be a tough challenge on many levels and involves a few steps which make things more complicated than they should be.
Discussing SpamFire on the mailing list has been an interesting. It seems that I [...]

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The Senate has voted to put the brakes on Total Information Awareness and the Dread Real Admiral Poindexter’s plan to spy on every American just in case someone does something suspicious. This is great news, and now we just need to make sure that the objections raised by the Senate stick.

By a voice vote, the [...]

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I think I finally found the solution for fighting Spam.
While the Junk Mail filter in OS X Mail.app works quite well, the learning seems to reach a limit, at least with me. Prior to switching to Mail, I had actually purchased SpamFire to use but decided that I did not like having [...]

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Accelerating its pace of innovation, Apple offers PowerBooks that should appeal to IT buyers.

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Apple’s new Safari Web browser has taken off faster than a brushfire on the Serengeti Plain. Within 24 hours of its January 7th introduction, Apple counted more than 300,000 downloads. But how many people are actually using Safari for everyday Web browsing, and what do Mac community gurus think of it?
[osOpinion]

In terms of everyday [...]

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In a statement Sarah B Deutsch, VP and associate general counsel for Verizon said: “The court’s decision has troubling ramifications for consumers, service providers and the growth of the Internet.
“It opens the door for anyone who makes a mere allegation of copyright infringement to gain complete access to private subscriber information without the [...]

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The possibilities of something like this could be world shifting…

Of course, pay phones represent an excellent solution. They can be upgraded with DSL technology. And they already are installed in high traffic public areas, like airports or hotel lobbies.
[Smart Mobs]

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This is unreal news….

Hilary Rosen has resigned from the RIAA, citing her desire to take care of her kids. I’ve heard rumors that she’s been frustrated with the intransigence of her employers at the RIAA, their unwillingness to adapt to new circumstances — certainly, that sounds more plausible to me than “I want to take [...]

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I rip a CD to MP3 in iTunes, then try to burn a Music CD of the tracks to share with someone and iTunes tells me that there is not enough room on the CD for all of the songs?

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The crew from Red Herring as well some “celebrity” business types have formed the AlwaysOn blog. Officially launches on Monday, but you can check it out now if you like.
The AO Proposition
In the next wave, media companies will have to share control with the audience they serve. eBay taught us the power and profitability [...]

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“In new technologies, adult services usually account for 80 percent of traffic. It has been so with video, the internet and DVD. It is natural to assume it will be the same with mobile internet,” Charles Prast told Reuters in an interview. Experience shows that the share of such content later falls to around [...]

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Go Verizon! This does not bode well for the consumer if they are finally forced to give.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that in “a victory for entertainment companies,” a federal judge has ordered Verizon to disclose the name of an Internet service subscriber accused of illicit online music filesharing. Verizon has so [...]

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Wow - Today in the midst of keeping up with a array of work responsibilities, my email got completely messed up. Apparently Mail can get a bit finicky if you transfer messages back to the inbox from other folders.
I created a new rule to filter messages based on a client domain and then inadvertently [...]

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[Google Top Stories]
I used to search for the Ninas every weekend as a kid. Amazingly he was still working in such detail right up to his death at the age of 99.

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