Spam, AOL pushers, flash memory, Madagascar, and more...
Alex and Curt argue about spam: Alex Scoble says you should use a hosted provider to save bandwidth; Curt Monash says hosting blows and false positives are the issue. Ferris Research agrees with Curt that false positives are bad, but says the major vendors achieve roughly 1 false positive in every 5,000 emails scanned. Ferris also examines which consumer ISPs do a good job. I've written before about suspicious vendor claims of "zero false positives."
Why does AOL think we care that US consumers are addicted to email? Should it really be telling us this? Wouldn't AOL be part of the problem? Isn't it setting itself up to be on a par with tobacco companies? Tom Keating thinks that a strong sign of email addiction "is when your Blackberry fails and you wait exactly 22 seconds before calling your IT Department." Dan Shafer concludes that AOL has metaphorically "just stumbled out of a cave somewhere in the outer reaches of Mongolia."
You didn't think the price of flash memory was ever going to increase, did you? 4GB iPod Shuffles ahoy.
The technology behind Madagascar, Dreamworks' new animated flick. Ars links to other articles.
Buffer overflow:
- Security for free
- MySQL Migration Tool
- Linux vs Windows on the Desktop
- Kazakhstan's spaceship junkyard
- Stallman Unimpressed by Nokia Patent Pledge
- WiFi Phone Coming From Skype
And finally... Dogbert diagnoses a bad case of computer rot.
Richi Jennings is an independent technology and marketing consultant, specializing in email, blogging, Linux, and computer security. A 20 year, cross-functional IT veteran, he is also an analyst at Ferris Research. Contact Richi at blogwatch@richi.co.uk.
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