Spammers Settle Case With Earthlink
From ComputerWorld: “Earthlink claims victory in another spam case – The spammers sent out more than 250 million e-mail messages.”
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New Developments in Internet Search
From Scientific American, Seeking Better Web Searches: “Deluged with superfluous responses to online queries, users will soon benefit from improved search engines that deliver customized results.”
BBC Radio Archives Content Expanded Online
Press Release: “This week, the BBC re-launches its internet Radio Player to make almost every BBC Radio programme available live and on-demand for seven days after broadcast, creating a massive, ever-changing library of music, talk shows, dramas and documentaries.” BBC Radio Homepage
Google Joins Gaggle of Engines Offering Video Search
About Google Video: “Google Video enables you to search a growing archive of televised content…Right now we’re just testing this product, so you’ll find programs only from a limited number of channels, which we’ve been indexing since late December 2004.” These channels include PBS, C-SPAN, C-SPAN2, Fox News, and four San Francisco Bay Area stations. …
Interactive Copyright Guide for Faculty
“Baruch College, a senior college within The City University of New York, and Kognito Solutions LLC today announced the release of a free interactive guide to help faculty determine the appropriate copyright guidelines they must follow when using different types of copyrighted media in their courses. Structured as a subway map, the interactive guide asks …
Survey Says Spyware An Increasing Threat to Networks
Press release: “A poll (686 respondents) conducted by WatchGuard Technologies, Inc…reveals that two-thirds of IT managers and administrators believe spyware will be the number one threat to network security over the next twelve months. Spyware is a growing category of malicious software that installs on a computer without the user’s knowledge and it can secretly …
Blogs Are Proliferating, RSS Gains Foothold, and Internet News Sites Shine Again
From PubSub, news that they are tracking over 8 million blogs. This represents a huge increase within the past year in the number of blogs now available. Along with this increased visibility, ethical concerns about blog content. From Radio Userland, the Top 100 Most-Subscribed-To RSS Feeds (the list includes Wired, various sections of the New …
Digital Medical Records Offer Benefits and Risks
From Business Week, Between You, The Doctor, And The PC – “More physicians and hospitals are putting their medical records online.” As the digitization of health care records steadily increases, there are consequences for physicians and patients alike. As diagnositic data and patient health records are made available online via hospital intranets, they are vulnerable …
Pew Survey on Internet Users and Search Engines Yields Contradictory Results
Press release: “A new nationwide survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows that internet users are extremely positive about search engines and the experiences they have when searching the internet. But these same satisfied internet users are generally unsophisticated about why and how they use search engines. They are also strikingly unaware …
Google Increases Search Term Word Limit
Via ReseachBuzz, this posting with news that Google Search now supports queries using up to 32 words, a significant increase over the previous 10 word limit. Thanks to Tara for this information, as there does yet appear to have been an official announcement from Google.
Private Control of Government Data Funded By the Public
From the New York Times (reg. req’d), Bush Didn’t Invent the Internet, but Is He Good for Tech? James Fallows examines the continuing struggle over how and when government data, collected using taxpayer funds, is made available to the public. The fee vs. free issue resonates clearly to the public in examples such as the …
New Blog Counters Claims of Social Security Crisis
From the Pew Internet and American Life Project, this news about a new blog called Social Security: There Is No Crisis “which aims to promote the notion that there is no crisis facing Social Security and that the president’s plan is unnecessary. The blog contains links to articles and organizations that support their point of …
