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  • July 2008

    • Miley Spread Jams VF's Inbox

      newser  |  Women's Wear Daily  |  Jul 15, 08 1:00 PM CDT

      Miley Spread Jams VF's Inbox

      Readers really responded to Vanity Fair ’s now-infamous Miley Cyrus photo spread—but not in a bad way. The 915 letters were by far a record, but editor Graydon Carter tells Women's Wear Daily he's seen much worse on the outrage scale: “They were much kinder than the letters we got when Christopher Hitchens took on Mother Teresa. I got angry letters from staff members on that one." More »

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      email  • Miley Cyrus  • Vanity Fair  • photographs  • letters  • hate mail  • Graydon Carter

    • US Surfers Get Biggest Bite of Spam

      newser  |  San Francisco Chronicle  |  Jul 2, 08 5:35 PM CDT

      US Surfers Get Biggest Bite of Spam

      Internet users in the US get the most spam, security-software firm McAfee finds after a study. McAfee gave 50 people across 10 developed countries laptops and instructed them to sign up for as much stuff on the internet as possible, and to reply to every spam message. The resulting volume of spam surprised even the researchers, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. More »

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      Internet  • fraud  • email  • spam  • computer security  • capitalism  • McAfee

    • HP Exec Busted for Passing IBM Secrets

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Jul 2, 08 6:21 AM CDT

      HP Exec Busted for Passing IBM Secrets

      A former Hewlett-Packard vice president faces federal charges for sharing trade secrets from IBM, the Wall Street Journal reports. The exec requested confidential pricing information while he was working for IBM. Two months later, he got a job at HP and emailed the info to an HP executive, according to investigators. Hewlett-Packard fired the new hire and reported him to IBM and authorities. More »

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      email  • IBM  • Hewlett Packard  • espionage  • corporate governance  • federal indictment  • corporate crime

  • June 2008

    • Tech Firms to Fix Monster They Created

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jun 14, 08 11:25 AM CDT

      Tech Firms to Fix Monster They Created

      Google, Microsoft, Intel, and IBM are partnering are on a new initiative to help workers distracted by emails and instant messages improve their productivity, the New York Times reports. The Information Overload Research Group, a nonprofit launching next month, will devise cultural and technological solutions to reduce the digital deluge that’s costing firms $650 billion a year in productivity. More »

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      Google  • Microsoft  • Intel  • email  • IBM  • work  • instant messaging  • office  • productivity

    • MySpace Takes Aim at Yahoo

      newser  |  BusinessWeek  |  Jun 13, 08 2:08 PM CDT

      MySpace Takes Aim at Yahoo

      Myspace is retooling itself to become a more direct competitor to web portals, specifically Yahoo, BusinessWeek reports. Starting Wednesday, the popular social networking site will unveil changes to its homepage such as news headlines, local weather apps, and entertainment links. More »

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      Internet  • Yahoo  • MySpace  • email  • Jerry Yang  • web portal  • Internet portal

    • Site Will Email Buddies After You Depart in Rapture

      newser  |  ABC News  |  Jun 10, 08 3:58 PM CDT

      Site Will Email Buddies After You Depart in Rapture

      A new website will email godless friends and family left behind after you’ve been taken to heaven in the Rapture. For $40 per year, Youvebeenleftbehind.com will store any emails and documents for you, ABC reports—then send them about six days after the Lord hath taken away. The server will know the time has come when its employees don’t log on. More »

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      Internet  • email  • evangelism  • computer servers

    • In One Domain, Anyway, Man Still Conquers Machine

      newser  |  Time  |  Jun 9, 08 4:53 PM CDT

      In One Domain, Anyway, Man Still Conquers Machine

      Every web user has come across CAPTCHAs: wavy-lettered depiction of words you must retype as text. Most pay them no mind, but, Lev Grossman writes in Time , we should reflect upon completing one. They're one of the rare visible skirmishes in the largely invisible war between spammers and security programmers. But besides that, they are quite literally tests of our humanity. More »

    • Separation of Powers? Leave Prez's BlackBerry Out of It

      newser  |  Weekly Standard  |  Jun 9, 08 4:28 PM CDT

      Separation of Powers? Leave Prez's BlackBerry Out of It

      The 44th president will almost certainly kick off his term by quitting email cold turkey, Jamie Sneider writes in the Weekly Standard . With executive-branch communication subject to public-disclosure law, President Bush hasn't send a single message, the former White House aide says—a coping mechanism that "fails to strike the right balance." More »

  • May 2008

    • Comcast Hackers: Company Dismissed Our Warning

      newser  |  Wired  |  May 30, 08 3:10 PM CDT

      Comcast Hackers: Company Dismissed Our Warning

      Two teens who wrested control of Comcast’s homepage and webmail for 5 hours yesterday say they warned the company before the hijacking but were brushed off. In an interview with Wired , the two anonymous teens were triumphant about their assault on the ISP but expected to be arrested. “I wish I was a minor right now because this is going to be really bad,” said 19-year-old Defiant. More »

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      Internet  • email  • Comcast  • hackers  • high-tech security

    • Yes On Phones, No On Talking: Poll

      newser  |  PC World  |  May 23, 08 4:30 PM CDT

      Yes On Phones, No On Talking: Poll

      Americans want wireless service on airplanes, but not voice calls, PC World reports. A survey finds 60% would use silent features like texting and email, but 74% think that no matter what, conversations shouldn’t be allowed. Americans "don't want to be forced to listen to the conversation of the passenger sitting next to them," a pollster says. More »

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      cell phones  • privacy  • airplane  • email  • wireless service  • texting  • inflight

    • Web, Key in Obama's Rise, Twists Public Views of Him

      newser  |  Politico  |  May 22, 08 3:32 PM CDT

      Web, Key in Obama's Rise, Twists Public Views of Him

      Barack Obama built his candidacy on the internet, but now the wild web is his biggest problem, Politico reports. A nigh-unstoppable wave of viral e-mails continue to spread false information about the candidate—and it’s working. One in 10 voters still believes Obama is a Muslim, and many quote the fake “facts” found in these e-mails. More »

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      Barack Obama  • email  • Muslim  • smear campaign

    • Secret Service Bosses Shared Racist Jokes

      newser  |  New York Times  |  May 10, 08 11:45 AM CDT

      Secret Service Bosses Shared Racist Jokes

      Secret Service supervisors exchanged racist remarks in emails made public yesterday in a lawsuit filed by black agents, the New York Times reports. The messages were shared between at least 20 top agents between 2003 and 2005. One anecdote jokes about assassinating Jesse Jackson. And, according to the lawsuit, the head of the Presidential Protective Detail sent a crude joke about interracial sex to a colleague. More »

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      racism  • email  • discrimination  • Jesse Jackson  • Secret Service  • racist

    • Crucial White House Emails Remain Lost

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  May 7, 08 10:57 AM CDT

      Crucial White House Emails Remain Lost

      White House emails from March-September 2003—the first few months of the Iraq invasion—still have not been found, the Washington Post reports. An advocacy group is suing for the release of the emails, and federal law requires such high-level communications be preserved. Officials, still searching, say the data might have been mislabeled, and could yet be retrieved from disaster-recovery tapes. More »

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      Iraq war  • White House  • email  • disaster recovery  • servers

    • Spam, Curse of Web, Turns 30

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  May 3, 08 11:06 AM CDT

      Spam, Curse of Web, Turns 30

      Spam turns 30 today, but don't break out the champagne just yet: The junk e-mail is as healthy as ever, frustrating tech experts desperate to blow out its candles. It all started on May 3, 1978, with a pitch for a new computer on a government-run precursor to the Internet. Even then, the reaction was fierce, the Washington Post says. More »

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      Internet  • email  • Bill Gates  • spam

  • April 2008

    • Email Mining Software No Slam-Dunk

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Apr 21, 08 7:31 PM CDT

      Email Mining Software No Slam-Dunk

      Software that allows co-workers to share customer and client information without the initial contact's explicit permission is catching on, overcoming worries about privacy that initially kept the applications from gaining traction, the Wall Street Journal reports. One exec who saw "a very harsh reaction from people who viewed it as a Big Brother-type system" at his previous job is having less trouble this time around. More »

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      privacy  • email  • software

  • February 2008

    • Do We Need A New, Safer Internet?

      newser  |  Ars Technica  |  Feb 29, 08 12:35 PM CST

      Do We Need A New, Safer Internet?

      Online debate exploded after former FBI agent Patrick Dempsey said Wednesday that a second, safer Internet is needed. "The same positives that the Internet provides for information sharing, also create negatives in terms of ‘bringing to task' those that wish to use the Internet for illicit purposes," wrote Dempsey. But Nate Anderson in Ars Technica argues security and accountability are software and human problems, not Internet ones. More »

    • Dems' Advice on Reading: 'Blah Blah Blah'

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Feb 28, 08 5:24 PM CST

      Dems' Advice on Reading: 'Blah Blah Blah'

      Your Democratic congressional representative may do well to avoid the advice from Nancy Pelosi's office regarding “Read Across America” day next Monday, writes Washington Post blogger Mary Ann Akers. An email on how to deal with the big day urges Dems to stress the damage done to education programs by Bush—then offers these words on the importance of reading: "blah, blah, blah, blah." More »

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      Nancy Pelosi  • email  • reading

    • BlackBerry Service Down in US and Canada

      newser  |  PC World  |  Feb 11, 08 6:45 PM CST

      BlackBerry Service Down in US and Canada

      Blackberry's wireless service is down across the US and Canada today, PC World reports. Blackberry-maker Research in Motion, at a loss to explain the outage, first reported it at 3:30 p.m. EST and called the outage "ongoing." Only half of Blackberries are currently without email, RIM added. More »

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      cell phones  • email  • Wi-Fi  • BlackBerry  • Research In Motion

    • Europe Now Spam King

      newser  |  Ars Technica  |  Feb 6, 08 5:17 PM CST

      Europe Now Spam King

      More spam is sent from Europe than any other continent, Ars Technica reports. Symantec systems’ latest “State of Spam” report said that European IP addresses are now responsible for 44% of all junk emails sent. Only three months ago, North America produced 15% more of the world’s spam than Europe. More »

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      Europe  • email  • broadband Internet  • spam  • Symantec

  • January 2008

    • Mistake Wipes Out 14,000 Email Accounts

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jan 25, 08 12:34 AM CST

      Mistake Wipes Out 14,000 Email Accounts

      Embarrassed executives at Charter Communications have given $50 credits to each of 14,000 customers who had their email accounts accidentally wiped out, the AP reports. A company spokeswoman apologized for the technical error that saw active accounts erased in a routine clearout of unused email accounts.The cable company didn't realize their mistake until complaints started flooding in. More »

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      Internet  • email  • ISP  • cable operators

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