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8th August 2009 Archive

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  • US appeals court cans CAN-SPAM suit

    A farewell to litigation factories

    In a decision that could make it harder for internet users to take spammers to court, a federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit against a company that sent a man more than 13,000 unsolicited emails. A three-judge panel from the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a lower-court judge that under a …

    Spam 8 Aug 04:43

  • Will Google regret the mega data center?

    Microsoft's lesson in cloudonomics

    In the wake of Microsoft's decision to remove its Windows Azure infrastructure from the state of Washington - where a change in local tax law has upped the price of building out the proverbial cloud - the company's former director of data center services has warned that Microsoft and other cloud-happy giants may soon find that …

    Servers 8 Aug 06:50