However, the spammers appear to be using new techniques that are more resilient to ISP shutdowns, such as using peer-to-peer technology to send instructions between computers rather than having one command-and-control computer communicate with botnets, he said.
“Spammers have essentially spent this time rebuilding their botnets,” Adam Swidler, Postini product marketing manager, said [...]

The ATA, as it’s called, opened in late 2007 with these first 42 antennas. Designed to work in pairs, the antennas are intended to work together to mimic the stellar investigatory capacity of far larger single dishes. And the ATA is hardly finished. In fact, it is planned to eventually be made up of 350 [...]

Of course all this truce talk is just temporary, until broadband is available to a majority of American consumers and downloading is as easy as popping a disc into a player.

It’s one of the reasons some content makers are trying out the Digital Copy initiative, where consumers buy a movie, and they get two discs: [...]

The idea of piping audio files from your computer to your home stereo or other audio devices is valid: I’m a big fan of the Sonos Multiroom Audio system, and Logitech and Apple have also made a go at it. But all three of these companies specialize in consumer products. They understand–nay, live and breathe–the [...]

Google Operating System, which spotted the change, offers some more useful suggestions for alternative services.

In a statement, Google said it decided to remove Shared Stuff “because few people are using this service. Instead, we find people are much more familiar with sharing through e-mail or through other shared services, like the sharing links on YouTube [...]

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Maybe it was a slow day for some, but I cringed at the invidious comparisons drawn between the “mainstream media” and Twitter. By now, that’s simply a cliche observation. Any news-gathering organization with any hope of surviving is reorganizing its operations around the best technology possible–and Twitter naturally figures into a successful plan.

Eventually, though, we grew out of it. How long before we outgrow the Twitter obsession? Beats me. It’s just too easy a headline for

Box.net's new Web document creator is simple and easy to use. It's lacking real-time collaboration though, meaning only one person can edit at a time.

Oddly enough though, you can’t send collaboration invites from a virgin document; something I’m assuming will be fixed in short order. In the meantime you need to do this from the folder where the document resides. Here you’re given the option to send an invite either as a viewer, or an editor.

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