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Image Spam: By the Numbers - CSOonline.com
A year ago, fewer than five out of 100 e-mails were image spam, according to Doug Bowers of Symantec. Today, up to 40 percent are.
(tags: spam email security image news reference images)

Linus Torvalds Responds To Microsoft Patent Claims
The holder of the Linux trademark suggests Microsoft should name the patents it alleges have been violated so the claims can be tested in court.
(tags: linux microsoft patent)

Twice: Microsoft announced today at its WinHEC engineering conference that Gateway, LaCie and Medion will develop products based on Microsoft’s Windows Home Server operating system.
 
Technorati tags: winhec, home+server, windows

 
Technorati tags: NASA, Sun, Video

Microsoft demands royalties for open-source software
MS reportedly believes open-source software users owe the company royalties on 235 alleged patent violations.
(tags: microsoft open+source)

RSS Feeds and the Media - Research Shows You Don’t Always Get What You Want
RSS feeds are all the rage with the news media. But a new study from the University of Maryland’s International [...]

NASA has put together some amazing pictures of Jupiter Via the New Horizons probe.

Technorati tags: NASA, Jupiter, New+Horizons

New tool from Electric Rain due out this summer. It is designed to help you convert your legacy Flash SWF files to Microsoft WPF and Silverlight based XAML.
Harmony v1.0 goes beyond frame-by-frame conversion by converting complete Flash SWF files focused on graphical shape definitions and simple animations into native XAML animations. Note that Harmony does [...]

Last night was retro night at the ol’ ball yard. The Padres and Cardinals wore uniforms that were similar to the ones the teams wore back in ‘72. All I can say is thanks be to God the Padres have a new color scheme.
Here’s staff ace Jake Peavy sporting the hideous duds. The pants matched [...]

rss2twitter.com
Posts your RSS feeds to your twitter account.
(tags: twitter rss mobile Web2.0 feed sms blogging)

Google Maps Mobile Update With GPS [Web Worker Daily]
(tags: maps mobile gps google)

Microsoft Releases Free Viva Pinata Candy Flash Game
(tags: game flash)

A high school student has studied the effects of iPods on the electromagnetic equipment of 100 pacemaker patients. Interference was detected half of the time if the iPod was 2 inches from the chest for 5 or 10 seconds. The interference caused the equipment to misread the heart’s pacing.
[via: ZDNet]
 
Technorati tags: ipod, heart, pacemaker