9th May 2010 Archive
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Email 2.0: Trying to catch up with the web
INET Reports of the death of email greatly exaggerated
Remember the days when you clicked on a link in an email without worrying about hitting a porn site or letting loose a virus? Well, these days could be back with us soon if the engineers at INET SF have their way. “As we moved forwards to Web 2.0, email moved backwards to 0.7,” explains Daniel Dreymann of Goodmail Systems, …
Security 9 May 2010, 07:02
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Microsoft UK researchers roll out barrel in Cambridge
Microsoft Research But it's full of fish
Microsoft invited a bunch of hacks to its UK research headquarters last Wednesday to walk us through a fairly pedestrian showcase of the software giant’s latest tech development. Unlike in 2009 when the company had its big iPhone - sorry, Surface technology - as the centrepiece of its R&D work to show off, this time around …
Software 9 May 2010, 09:02
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Jimbo Wales exiles 'porn' from Wikiland
'Spiritual Leader' in mass smut deletion
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales has launched a sweeping crusade against "pornographic images" hosted on the Wikimedia Commons, sparking the deletion of hundreds of images that "appeal solely to prurient interests." Deleted files include photographs as well as graphics of genitalia and sexual acts, and they span …
Media 9 May 2010, 22:50
