atmaspheric | endeavors

A class-action lawsuit filed yesterday against Nestlé contends that Poland Spring bottled water, described on the label as natural spring water found deep in the woods of Maine, is little more than tap water that comes from ground water sources surrounded by “asphalt parking lots.”. [New York Times: Business]
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The Federal Trade Commission will soon take requests from consumers who want their phone numbers made off-limits to telemarketers. [New York Times: Technology]
Good news for us all…
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In checking my logs, I realize that quite a few people are following links that no longer exist based on search refers from google and yahoo. I think my problem is that I imported then nuked and re-imported posts from my previous host and MT remembered the numbering scheme from the first install. [...]

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Instead of tunes that were able to dodge the traditional commercially oriented gatekeepers by being attached to other tunes that did follow the rules of the game, each individual iTunes will be subject to the pressures of mass appeal. Consumers will likely purchase songs they know from radio, and thus become subject to the whims [...]

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Calling for up to a year in prison and maximum fines of $1 million for spammers, Burns-Wyden measure goes to full Senate for consideration. [internetnews.com]
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All is good… on the new host now with domain name. Please let me know if there are issues with archives or any other details. In theory this should be exactly the same (but infinitely more responsive) than the previous home. I rebuilt the MT install after tweaking a few options for [...]

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DVD Recorders Reviewed
Sony has the potential to make this device the be-all for creating DVDs from existing video content, but the standards mess gets in the way.
For example, you may have to “finalize” the disc before playing it on normal DVD players - a one- to 60-minute process in which the deck seals [...]

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TCS: Tech - Worse Than Spam
Perhaps the most dramatic illustration of the way that Internet architecture supports self-reliance rather than regulation is the persistent problem of unsolicited commercial email, commonly known as spam. There are solutions to spam based on self-reliance that are reasonably effective. Other solutions, which threaten the architecture of Internet email, are [...]

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As it prepares its own algorithmic search engine, MSN quietly launches software that will index Web sites, a move that raises questions about MSN’s deal with Yahoo unit Inktomi. [CNET News.com]
Here’s Microsoft’s about page for MSNBot. [Scripting News]
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What do the following have in common?

New versions of IE/Mac are available, so long as you pay monthly for MSN
New versions of IE/Win will be available, so long as you pay for a new OS version

If you answered that what they have in common is that they’re tied into the OS, you’d be (a) Microsoft, [...]

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PalmSource’s CEO says its new partnerships with IBM and Novell will help expand the operating system outside of the handheld sector. [internetnews.com: Top News]
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Handspring’s latest Treo device has analysts excited and talking. In fact, industry observers say the new Treo 600 was the driving force behind the Palm-Handspring merger two weeks ago. By Elisa Batista. [Wired News]
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The Digital Home Working Group, whose members include Microsoft, Sony and Intel, will harmonize efforts on wireless networking of consumer electronics devices, PCs and mobile gadgets in the home. [CNET News.com Personal Technology]

“There is a dearth of connectivity capabilities between consumer electronics and PC products,” said Stephen Baker, an analyst with NPD Techworld. “Getting these [...]

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The Senate, Washington state, an organization of 30 countries, Microsoft and other software makers look to slice and dice unwanted e-mail. [CNET News.com]
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Just another test
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Everything is here at the new host and hopefully will last and play nicely…
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just testing
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I am in the process of moving things… found a good (I Think) host and have almost completely migrated the site over. DNS will have to update as well so if you experience any outages, that is the reason…hopefully everything will resume as we last left it with addressing the same and archives all [...]

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Handspring just sent out an email directing people to the early site for the Treo 600. It is much smaller than I thought it would be and looks absolutely killer!! The small video is not as revealing as you might like but still good stuff to watch.
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The chipmaker ushers in three new chips for wireless and mobile thin-and-light and full-size notebook computers. [internetnews.com]
The new mobile chips are the first to take advantage of the 802.11g standard, which was formally approved last week. 802.11g is the high speed (54Mbps) wireless networking technology that is backward compatible with the slower 802.11b (sometimes referred [...]

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