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Entries from June 2003

First email client with built in POPFile

June 30th, 2003 · Comments · software, spam

The Courier Email client has code in the latest version to automatically find the X-POPFile-Link decode the link and add a “Reclassify…” menu item.
[SourceForge.net: SF.net Project News: POPFile - Automatic Email Classification (including full news text)]
If you use Windows and enable POPFile within your email client, this could be a very nice alternative to Outlook…

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Bloggers Gain Libel Protection

June 30th, 2003 · Comments · politics

An appeals court decides small-time online publishers can’t be held responsible for libel if they just republish information. The ruling is a victory for free speech advocates and bloggers. By Xeni Jardin. [Wired News]

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Comcast sets deadline for AT&T switch

June 30th, 2003 · Comments · marketing

AT&T Broadband subscribers swallowed in last year’s billion-dollar takeover by Comcast must drop their familiar attbi.com addresses or face lost e-mail. [CNET News.com]

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RCN Offers Home Networking Package

June 30th, 2003 · Comments · gadgets and technology, marketing

In growing trend, broadband operator RCN offers home networking package: They’ll install adapters and allow multiple computers on the network, while providing tech support for the basic networking function (but not file sharing or printing, wisely of them)…. [802.11b Networking News]

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creating a photoblog in MT

June 30th, 2003 · Comments · software

Just a note to self… [via anil dash's daily links]

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Coming Soon: A Horror Show for TV Ads

June 29th, 2003 · Comments · marketing

Business Week Online : TiVo Recorders Indicate the Truth About TV Advertising

TiVo’s digital recorders indicate that viewers don’t necessarily watch the ads, even on hit shows. Agencies and networks are still in denial

They are in fact tracking quite a bit of usage data on viewing behavior… time to face the music.

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How Apple’s DRM works

June 28th, 2003 · Comments · apple, music, software

The author of the excellent PodWorks iPod utility is working on reverse-engineering the DRM in Apple’s iTunes Store AAC files, documenting the ways in whcih the DRM restricts your use of the file, and how those restrictions may be defeated.Link [via Boing Boing]

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Yahoo Spam Filter Thwarts FTC

June 28th, 2003 · Comments · spam

While hundreds of thousands of Americans rush to sign up for the Federal Trade Commission’s new do-not-call service, many Yahoo users are left wondering why they haven’t received their registration confirmation. The reason? Yahoo’s spam filter doesn’t like the FTC’s onslaught of e-mail. By Amit Asaravala. [Wired News]

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PCMag looks at the Treo 600

June 28th, 2003 · Comments · gadgets and technology

PCMagazine has posted a preliminary review of a preproduction Handspring Treo 600. PCMag says the Treo 600 improves on the original in almost every way. [PalmInfocenter]

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FCC official: No need to regulate ISPs

June 28th, 2003 · Comments · marketing

There’s no reason to introduce rules to make sure that broadband access providers don’t favor one Web site over another, says an FCC official, rebuffing calls from Microsoft and others. [CNET News.com]

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Verizon Wireless sues Nextel

June 28th, 2003 · Comments · gadgets and technology, marketing

The company claims Nextel Communications “improperly obtained” prototypes of some new Verizon cell phones with walkie-talkie features. [CNET News.com]
The heat is on… guess things are getting much more sensitive now that Verizon is just about ready to launch their service…

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Kung-Log 1.5 and… WebKit!

June 28th, 2003 · Comments · software

Kung-Log version 1.5 is out and it uses WebKit! [chaotic intransient prose bursts]
Just posted this with it – seems to be quite a nice update.

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Do Not Call…

June 27th, 2003 · Comments · marketing

FCC: “Consumers can register on-line for the national do-not-call registry beginning June 27, 2003.” [Werblog]

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Will Ferrell: Class Day speech

June 27th, 2003 · Comments · fun stuff and good links

But I do know this. You’re about to enter into a world filled with hypocrisy and doublespeak, a world in which your limo to the airport is often a half-hour late. In addition to not even being a limo at all; often times it’s a Lincoln Towncar. You’re about to enter a world where you [...]

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Sun To Acquire Pixo

June 26th, 2003 · Comments · gadgets and technology

Pixo makes the OS for the iPod…
Sun executives said the acquisition will help Sun gain a toehold in digital rights management, or DRM. Pixo’s server-based software lets IT staff manage content, customize user interfaces and enable fast downloads of digital content, including Java applications. Sun expects to offer the Pixo technology to those in its [...]

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Will SupperBuddy squeeze the Butterfly?

June 26th, 2003 · Comments · marketing

America Online plans to start an online campaign on Friday to build buzz among its current subscribers for the next version of its Internet service. [CNET News.com]

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Microsoft urged to fry its own spam

June 26th, 2003 · Comments · spam

The software giant recently launched an antispam campaign, but critics say the company should be more introspective if it is serious about reducing the scourge of unwanted e-mail. [CNET News.com]
Deficiencies in Microsoft’s spam behavior range across a number of its divisions that offer e-mail services, according to Atkins and others. These include the company’s small-business-oriented [...]

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No Such Thing as Broadband

June 25th, 2003 · Comments · gadgets and technology, marketing

One way to describe Bob Frankston’s latest must-read essay is that he is saying that there is no such thing as broadband. That is, it is misleading to think about “broadband” as a defined service. [Corante: Bottom Line]

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P800, we hardly knew ya

June 25th, 2003 · Comments · gadgets and technology

This almost too meta for us: sneaked photos of the P810, Sony Ericsson’s successor to the P800, taken, appropriately enough, with the digital camera of a P800. No details available, except that the P810 should have a 1.3 megapixel digital camera built-in and a thin metal body like the T610. Read [Gizmodo]

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NewsHour on the Spam Wars

June 25th, 2003 · Comments · spam

I had missed this PBS NewsHour report on spam — caught the program Friday (with the wonderful James Gleick being interviewed on the subject), but overlooked the online transcript…. [JD's New Media Musings]
High level (it was on the radio…) but good.

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