by Alex Eckelberry | Apr 26, 2005 | Uncategorized
There’s a big CNET spyware conference next week in San Francisco, and I noticed one of the panelists is a general partner from ABS Capital. I was wondering why he was on the panel, as I saw no investments on their part in either the adware or antispyware space....
by Alex Eckelberry | Apr 25, 2005 | Uncategorized
Interesting article in CMPnet (currently only in the Asia edition). Gordon Mangione, MS veep for security spoke with a group of editors at CMP. Lifted from the article: – A for-fee enterprise anti-spyware product is expected as early as the first half of 2006....
by Alex Eckelberry | Apr 25, 2005 | Uncategorized
According to this article in Online Media Daily, 27% of consumers (nearly 3 out of 10) use an antispyware program to sweep cookies off their system. I do wish some in the antispyware industry were not so alarmist about cookies, which for the most part are relatively...
by Alex Eckelberry | Apr 23, 2005 | Uncategorized
Press release from the FTC. Here’s one idea: Free legal education to help kids get through EULAS! After all, that’s one of the big justifications spyware adware vendors use when foisting off their crapware. Alex...
by Alex Eckelberry | Apr 23, 2005 | Uncategorized
Certain to appeal to the marketing wonk, DoubleClick has released a report entitled “The Decade in Online Advertising“. From the report: Yet, in this world of hyper-fragmented media and too many marketing messages, consumers are acting to avoid the...
