McAfee released on Tuesday the results of a monthlong spam experiment. The security company provided 50 people worldwide with a clean laptop armed only with antivirus protection (no anti-spam protection) and a brand new domain for e-mail. McAfee then asked them to surf the Net and blog about their experiences.
Over the course of 30 days, [...]
Brian Ussery, a technologist at an interactive marketing agency who moderates a Google forum on SearchEngineWatch.com, wrote a recap of the talk on his blog and has made the presentation available in PDF form.
The gist of the presentation is that Google’s flat management structure fosters innovation and good ideas get percolating faster [...]
Which was charming of him, so much so that Alina has now chosen to reveal details of how the deal enjoyed closure.
Alina would like to see her benefactor again. And she promises that if he agrees to see her, she won’t make him pay. I think she means “not for the sex, anyway”.
So, perhaps [...]
“Ads are important,” Ito said. “It’s always harder to add ads later. So we’re launching with them in Japan.”
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Joi Ito)
Digital Garage invested in Twitter as part of the localization arrangement.
He pointed me to a site that aggregates the most frequent location of Twitter posters, and, at least in the 24 hours between April 21 [...]
A joint venture between Toyota and Panasonic EV Energy plans to begin production of lithium ion batteries next year and move to full-scale production in 2010. Using the battery, Toyota plans to introduce a small electric vehicle for mass production.
Toyota disclosed on Wednesday its plug-in hybrid production plans at a company-sponsored environmental forum [...]
Overstock.com has filed a lawsuit challenging a New York law that expands the state’s requirements for online retailers to collect sales taxes.
The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, tax commissioner Robert Menga, and Paterson are named as defendants in the suit filed with the New York State Supreme Court.
CNET News.com’s Anne [...]
Also, a new report from security services provider ScanSafe finds that companies are at increasing risk of having employees inadvertently download backdoors and password stealers onto corporate computers from Web sites that have malicious software hidden on them. One company in ScanSafe’s focus group faced a nearly 500 percent greater risk of exposure to those [...]
You knew this was going to happen eventually–Bill Gates prepares to step away from full-time work at Microsoft and suddenly he is on the slippery slope to the poor house.
Buffett, who runs a holding company whose stock price closed up Wednesday at $139,000 per share, announced in 2006 that he would give away the lion’s [...]
Censorship by those folks at NBC who would prefer you to watch what they want you to watch and, most specifically, when they want you to watch it.
Ah, NBC has heard my pleas and an overlay has appeared to tell me that we are watching a men’s road race. The overlay, however, only stays on [...]
The Fisker Karma will be a luxury plug-in hybrid sedan the company intends to start selling in the fourth quarter of 2009 to North American customers with an expected price of about $80,000.
In an interview with CNET News earlier this year, Henrik Fisker said that the company intends to follow the Karma with a sedan [...]
