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Will racket ware shift the client-server balance?
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| This is racket as in protection racket. You
| got a lot of nice data in there, shame if
| something should happen to it. And youâre
| always under threat, from viruses, from
| trojans, from programs that want to capture
| your PC and use it to shoot spam at people or
| click on ads, and just from general clutter,
| what I call desktop dust bunnies.
|
| A whole industry has risen to fight this
| menace. You canât get away with just an anti-
| viral. You need a program that fights spyware
| and one that cleans your registry, too.
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http://www.smartplanet.com/technology/blog/thinking-tech/will-racket-ware-shift-the-client-server-balance/2234/
Anti-spammers urged to gang up
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| In a comparative test, almost 200,000 sample
| emails were sent to 14 different anti-spam
| products that were required to filter out
| spam messages from legitimate smails (ham).
| The test found that no legitimate mail was
| blocked by more than four products.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/01/anti_spam_mashup_tests/
Recent:
Is Intellectual Ventures revving up its lawsuit machine? Will we know when it does?
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| Today's Recorder has a story revealing that patent-holding giant Intellectual Ventures
| appears to be connected to a patent lawsuit recently filed in Chicago against Kodak and
| CDW Corp. Picture Frame Innovations, LLC v. Eastman Kodak Company et al., 09-cv-04888,
| N.D. Illinois. Intellectual Ventures was founded by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold
| (pictured at right).
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| The Recorder reports that patent number 7,107,605, covering a digital picture frame, was
| originally filed by a small software company, but ended up being asserted by a small
| patent-holding company, Ez4media.
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http://thepriorart.typepad.com/the_prior_art/2009/09/intellectual-ventures-possible-lawsuits.html#more
The real patent threat: Not Microsoft
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| Hence, while the open-source world is up in arms about Microsoft's TomTom
| patent suit, it should be far more worried about news that Intellectual
| Ventures has grabbed another 500 patents through a deal with Telcordia
| Technologies, as TechFlash reports. Intellectual Ventures, arguably the
| world's largest patent troll, is set up to do nothing more than license its
| intellectual property, which it has done to the tune of hundreds of millions
| of dollars.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10172590-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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