by Alex Eckelberry | May 24, 2006 | Uncategorized
No big surprise, Gary Krakow at MSNBC wrote today about his experiences testing Vista:The stuff that works on Vista seems to work well. But getting the Beta on to a computer was another matter. Installing Vista Beta 2, for me was one of the worst operating system...
by Alex Eckelberry | May 24, 2006 | Uncategorized
Georgia school implements strict spam filter, and a low-bid is marked as spam… Whoops.A Georgia school, eager to avoid a large volume of junk e-mail, recently installed an aggressive anti-spam system. Unfortunately, the filter stopped a message from a...
by Alex Eckelberry | May 23, 2006 | Uncategorized
This was a company that had been in business for less than a year with a relatively small staff, but had a great idea. The (rumored) back story on the deal is that a fairly short time after they went live with the service, there were approached by two interested...
by Alex Eckelberry | May 23, 2006 | Uncategorized
Earlier today I wrote about Scandoo. But based on a user’s report, the product is perhaps not ready for prime time. For example, a search for Kazaa yields this result:Since Kazaa bundles Direct Revenue, one would think that it would not be rated...
by Alex Eckelberry | May 23, 2006 | Uncategorized
SiteAdvisor, a service which rated sites based on a number of criteria, was recently bought by McAfee (for about $70 million). Now there’s a competitor, Scandoo, which promises similar results as SiteAdvisor, but with no software needed on your system....
