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One giant step against spam
Insight Non-proprietary, interoperable and easy-to-adopt anti-spam standards have all fallen short, said David Berlind, until now.
Dell faces class action lawsuit from workers
News The lawsuit claiming the computer company underpaid call center workers could draw as many as 5,000 plaintiffs now that it's been given class-action status in Oregon.
Tags: Legal, Lawsuits, Personal Computers, Desktops, Notebooks and tablets, Class Action, Worker, Tennessee, CNET Networks Inc., U.S.
Commission silent on details of Vista probe
News European Commission keeps mum about its ongoing discussions with Microsoft, amid claims that some of Vista's features are anti-competitive.
North Korea restricting cell phone use
News The government is clamping down on cell phone use to prevent citizens from reporting the current food crisis, according to a news account.
Tags: Cellular phones, North Korea, Thailand, Cell Phone, phone, food, Times Story, News.com, blog, Web Site
Sun co-founder Bechtolsheim makes start-up move
News Andy Bechtolsheim, who helped get Sun Microsystems off the ground, is going part time at Sun to help with a new Ethernet switching start-up.
Tags: Ethernet, Cisco Systems Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, co-founder, CEO, 10-Gigabit Ethernet, financial, Kealia, data center
Microsoft pushes for single global patent system
News Redmond wants to see a single world patent body established to "promote innovation, enrich knowledge, and encourage competition".
Tags: Business applications, Patents, Patent, Innovation, Intellectual Property Right, intellectual property, Texas, Free Software Foundation, Patents, XML
Spam fighters open up
Insight Yahoo and Microsoft each have put the interests of all Internet e-mail users ahead of their own by not only inventing techniques that could lay the necessary foundation for ending spam, but by making those techniques freely available to competitors.
