atmaspheric | endeavors

Alan Ralsky has long been one of the most prolific senders of junk e-mail in the world. But he says the new spam law’s potential penalties are making him rethink his business. [New York Times]

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Fedex is acquiring Kinkos for $2.4 Billion! This certainly gets Fedex a strong retail footprint and extends their service offering. Mailboxes / UPS can’t be too happy with this…

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In the next year, not one, but two shopping magazines will begin publishing what they hope will function as catalogs. [New York Times: Business]
In my mind this is ridiculous. I think these magazines and Lucky for women would be better off as consumer controlled circulation issues. Why do I want to pay for [...]

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Despite the fact that Apple executives have said several times that their company won’t be making a handheld, rumors persist. Now there is one that says Apple has put together a prototype handheld and is showing it around. [Brighthand]

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It’s hard to believe that the end of the year is here already…. so much has happened and there is so much to look forward to. One significant piece of unknown for me, is what’s next career-wise. Since I can’t earn a living as a stay-at-home dad, I need to get this [...]

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mmmm, no. But I am sure they will take credit the success of the pay services once they launch.

USA Today: “This will be the year downloadable music goes legitimate,” says Dave Fester, general manager of Microsoft’s digital media division. [Scripting News]

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Members are sending out hundreds of thousands of unsolicited messages to constituents although they unanimously approved a law aimed at reducing the flow of junk e-mail. [New York Times]

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This is an area where there seems to be plenty of action of late. Bloglines, myFeedster, FastBuzz, MyWireService and Kinja coming up. I still use our Info Aggregator, with all the feeds delivered to an IMAP mailbox and which I then read in my mail client. [E M E R G I C . o [...]

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Our lamentations have been heard.
[Blogcritics]
Highly recommended.

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The Guardian profiles Apple’s star designer, Jonathan Ive. [MacInTouch]

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A new whisper-quiet (or so they claim) digital audio server from Hush Technologies. The AVX Music Server connects to both your stereo and your home… [Gizmodo]
Looks good… love the PDA remote skin! Would love to see that kind of development for the SliMP3 on either PPC or Palm platform. The handheld skin is [...]

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The maker of Blackberry devices further expands its reach by securing another pact with a handset maker. [internetnews.com]

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Jack Black and Will Ferrell as Liza and David in Entertainment Weekly. [Gawker]
Absolutely Hilarious!!

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In an article about the Can-SPAM Act, The Washington Times reports that Professor Lessig’s spam bounty proposal has found its way into the legislation, which is set to go into effect January 1st. Read the details here.
[Lessig News]

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Take a cell phone/ multimedia device – the Nokia 3300 which can be expanded through MMC cards and add a pre-packaged MMC card to the mix, but charge $28.95 for the privilege. Don’t forget that unlike a Palm, Pocket PC or Gameboy, this phone uses the same convenient system for changing cards which requires [...]

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This is an amazing development which should serve as quite the equalizer…
The Sorenson videophone is a breakthrough, said Genie Gertz, an assistant professor of deaf studies at California State University at Northridge, because it enables the deaf to use what many consider to be their native language – American Sign Language – with unprecedented simplicity [...]

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Sony Ericsson announced today that its testing online gaming between mobiles. It looks to be open to all consumers, but certain carrier restrictions apply…. [MobileTracker]
Very cool!!

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Families and employers are adopting surveillance technology once used mostly to track soldiers and prisoners. [CNET News.com]
I have mixed feelings about this technology… While I think location services are cool for personal use (driving directions, friend finding, store locations, etc…) and tracking of children for parental piece of mind is great, the potential for [...]

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I tried to search this one out as I read it yesterday, but was unable
to actually track down the source…
With my setup, I POP multiple accounts through Spam Intercepter, which pulls mail from 2 different accounts. I have the second (my .Mac) account disabled in Mail since the messages come through when I [...]

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Hoping it all works as advertised… It will be cool if it does and
should actually be the easiest way to moblog since I’ll be able to do
it from an email client which will work on my Palm as well as any
connected device!
Totally worked – here’s the URL for the service: http://new.bastish.net/cgi-bin/mfop2/index.cgi?rm=about

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