RSC unveils Stratford revamp plan

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Adobe Unveils Plan to Buy Macromedia

Adobe Unveils Plan to Buy Macromedia 04/18/2005 02:53 PM
DevHardware Apr 18 2005 6:15PM GMT

Sprint Unveils New Billing Plan (AP)

Sprint Unveils New Billing Plan (AP) 05/03/2004 01:04 AM
AP - Sprint Corp. introduced a plan Monday to address wireless customers' criticisms about how much they're charged for extra time they spend on their cell phones.

Kerry unveils U.S. defense plan in TV ad

Kerry unveils U.S. defense plan in TV ad 06/01/2004 03:20 PM

Iraq PM unveils new security plan

Iraq PM unveils new security plan 06/20/2004 06:33 AM
Iraqi security forces are being reordered to better tackle insurgents but still need outside help, the PM says.

EMC Unveils Storage Virtualization Plan

EMC Unveils Storage Virtualization Plan 04/29/2004 09:49 PM
The fruits of EMC's purchase of virtualization technology vendor VMware will arrive with Storage Router, an intelligent switch application due in 2005.

Microsoft Unveils Shareholders Pay Plan

Microsoft Unveils Shareholders Pay Plan 07/20/2004 05:53 PM
Microsoft will pay up to $75 billion of its cash hoard directly to shareholders through a combination of dividends and stock buybacks.

Congress Unveils Plan for Intel Fix

Congress Unveils Plan for Intel Fix 09/09/2004 12:21 PM
NewsMax.com Sep 9 2004 3:52PM GMT

Microsoft Unveils E-Business Game Plan

Microsoft Unveils E-Business Game Plan 10/11/2002 07:56 AM
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Microsoft Unveils E-Business Game Plan

Microsoft Unveils E-Business Game Plan 10/08/2002 03:25 PM

HP unveils notebook insurance plan in
Spore

HP unveils notebook insurance plan in
Spore 12/30/2003 08:37 AM
CNET Asia Dec 30 2003 7:50AM ET

TSA Unveils Plan to Reduce Airport Lines
(AP)

TSA Unveils Plan to Reduce Airport Lines
(AP) 05/14/2004 07:50 AM
AP - Federal officials will closely monitor 25 of the busiest airports this summer and send in extra help if security delays arise as part of a plan announced Thursday to minimize waits for travelers.

Senate Republican Unveils Plan for
Intelligence

Senate Republican Unveils Plan for
Intelligence 08/22/2004 07:16 PM
The plan would give the proposed national director responsibility for intelligence-gathering of the C.I.A. and the Pentagon.

Chicago Mayor Unveils Surveillance Plan
(AP)

Chicago Mayor Unveils Surveillance Plan
(AP) 09/10/2004 10:56 AM
AP - More than 2,000 surveillance cameras in public places would be tied in to a network that would use sophisticated software to spot emergencies or suspicious behavior under a plan announced Thursday by Mayor Richard Daley.

Bush unveils national health care IT
plan

Bush unveils national health care IT
plan 04/27/2004 05:17 PM
President Bush called for development of a standards-based, nationwide electronic medical record in 10 years and plans to appoint a high-level health care IT czar to oversee the process.

The Onion | Kerry Unveils One-Point Plan
For Better America

The Onion | Kerry Unveils One-Point Plan
For Better America 08/11/2004 03:33 PM
Kerry Unveils One-Point Plan For Better America .. KERRY SAID THIS, RIGHT? .. The Onion

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Kerry Unveils College-Tuition Assistance
Plan

Kerry Unveils College-Tuition Assistance
Plan 04/14/2004 02:33 PM
Senator John Kerry said today that if elected president, he would pay for an ambitious program to provide tuition assistance to half a million students by ending a $13 billion `windfall" that banks earn to back college student loans.

Chicago Mayor Unveils Surveillance
Camera Plan

Chicago Mayor Unveils Surveillance
Camera Plan 09/21/2004 10:31 AM
CNET News.com via Drudge Report Sep 21 2004 2:26PM GMT

WellPoint unveils $40M plan to furnish
doctors with free computers

WellPoint unveils $40M plan to furnish
doctors with free computers 01/16/2004 10:59 AM
WellPoint, the nation's second-largest health insurer, has launched a $40 million project to provide doctors with handheld or desktop computers to support e-prescriptions and cut paperwork.

Bush Unveils Intel Plan, Falls Short of
9/11 Panel

Bush Unveils Intel Plan, Falls Short of
9/11 Panel 09/16/2004 08:56 PM
AP via ABCNEWS.com Sep 17 2004 0:43AM GMT

PanAfrica: NEPAD Unveils Computer
Literacy Plan for Continent

PanAfrica: NEPAD Unveils Computer
Literacy Plan for Continent 11/05/2003 01:23 PM
AllAfrica.com Nov 5 2003 11:35AM ET

Bush Unveils Plan to Move Troops Home
(Los Angeles Times)

Bush Unveils Plan to Move Troops Home
(Los Angeles Times) 08/17/2004 05:23 AM
Los Angeles Times - CINCINNATI — President Bush on Monday announced his long anticipated plan to remove as many as 70,000 U.S. troops from Europe and Asia in a sweeping reorganization that he said would better prepare the military to handle crises.

Bush Unveils Intel Plan, Falls Short of
9/11 Panel (Reuters)

Bush Unveils Intel Plan, Falls Short of
9/11 Panel (Reuters) 09/16/2004 09:01 PM
Reuters - President Bush submitted a plan to the U.S. Congress on Thursday that gives a new national intelligence director authority over much of the intelligence community, but not the full powers sought by the Sept. 11 commission and key lawmakers, documents show.

Number 10 strategy team unveils 7-point
plan to sort out UK's digital divide

Number 10 strategy team unveils 7-point
plan to sort out UK's digital divide 04/04/2005 01:39 AM
PublicTechnology.net Apr 4 2005 5:59AM GMT

Date Now! Online Dating Innovator
eTwine.com Unveils Unique Tool That
Allows Members to Plan Dates & Meet
Singles According to Their Own Personal
Schedule

Date Now! Online Dating Innovator
eTwine.com Unveils Unique Tool That
Allows Members to Plan Dates & Meet
Singles According to Their Own Personal
Schedule 09/21/2004 02:44 AM
Online dating and social networking leader eTwine.com (http://www.etwine.com) is excited to announce the launch of its newest feature for singles: Date Now! This unique tool allows singles to plan their dates according to their own personal schedules. [PRWEB Sep 21, 2004]

SAP looks into Web services revamp

SAP looks into Web services revamp 01/11/2004 11:37 PM
CNET Asia Jan 11 2004 10:46PM ET

Snort up for revamp, says creator

Snort up for revamp, says creator 05/24/2004 09:18 AM

Vicar in court over church revamp

Vicar in court over church revamp 02/19/2004 06:36 AM
A vicar is accused of renovating his church without getting permission from the diocese.

MSN to revamp MSN Video & MSN Music
today

MSN to revamp MSN Video & MSN Music
today 08/16/2004 02:34 PM
MSN are due to upgrade their MSN Video and MSN Music services today. The two services have been in beta testing for around 6 months and are finally ready to go live later today.

The services are based on the new "Royale" theme-ing that is part of Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 and Windows Media Player 10. Both MCE 2005 and WMP10 are due to launch later this fall. MSN Music has been re-designed to compete with services like Apple's iTunes and Roxio's Napster. MSN Music will offer music downloads at $0.99 but it's not clear whether users will be able to use these on portable devices.

MSN Video offers the latest headlines, sports, weather and movie trailers for users of MSN Entertainment.

Check out the new services below, we'll update the post once they're live.

Screenshot: MSN Music Preview
Screenshot: MSN Video Preview

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Microsoft Bided Time for MSN Revamp

Microsoft Bided Time for MSN Revamp 10/30/2003 07:15 PM
MSN's ad sales are ahead of rival Yahoo!'s (Quote, Chart) and the company is also developing its own search engine to rival Google. ...

BEA thinks simple with WebLogic revamp

BEA thinks simple with WebLogic revamp 12/16/2003 12:27 PM
CNET Dec 16 2003 11:53AM ET

UK Orders BBC to Revamp Internet
Offerings

UK Orders BBC to Revamp Internet
Offerings 07/05/2004 04:08 PM
Techzonez Jul 5 2004 7:15PM GMT

N-Gage revamp reaps rewards

N-Gage revamp reaps rewards 06/18/2004 03:30 AM
BBC Jun 18 2004 8:00AM GMT

Red Hat shares fall on accounting revamp

Red Hat shares fall on accounting revamp 07/13/2004 01:34 PM
Red Hat Inc. warned investors on Tuesday that it will restate three years' worth of financial results to reflect a change in how it accounts for subscription revenues. Red Hat said that although the change won't affect the total revenue ultimately collected by the company, it will shave the vendor's reported sales and profits over the last few years.

IBM tools revamp targets Microsoft

IBM tools revamp targets Microsoft 12/11/2003 02:27 PM
Big Blue is boosting its developer outreach programs and its Java tools as an alternative to the software giant's Windows-only strategy.

PeopleSoft to Revamp Mexico's Tax
Systems

PeopleSoft to Revamp Mexico's Tax
Systems 08/05/2004 09:32 PM
Mexico's Tax Administration Service has signed a $50 million, two-year contract with PeopleSoft—its biggest deal yet—to have its federal tax collection and investigation systems rewritten onto a single PeopleSoft platform.

Political Parties Revamp Web Sites

Political Parties Revamp Web Sites 04/13/2004 01:58 PM
AP via Daily Press Apr 13 2004 6:28PM GMT

Political Parties Revamp Web Sites (AP)

Political Parties Revamp Web Sites (AP) 04/13/2004 11:29 AM
AP - Republicans and Democrats have revamped their national Web sites after a record-setting year for political organizing and fund raising on the Internet.

Apple to Revamp Software Update?

Apple to Revamp Software Update? 12/05/2003 12:32 PM
ThinkSecret revives rumors that Apple will open up software update to certain developers to allow 3rd party software updates to be delivered through A...

Canada decides to revamp its Copyright
Act

Canada decides to revamp its Copyright
Act 04/14/2004 01:15 PM
Lobby Now! Alan McLeod, Canadian Lawyer, writes "Make sure you are heard as Canada decides to revamp its Copyright Act." He goes on to encourage Canadians to contact the Heritage Minister and weigh in as the Copyright rules in Canada may be about to change.
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Civil servants stay out over pay

Civil servants stay out over pay 04/13/2004 11:47 PM
Almost 100,000 workers continue a 48-hour walkout in what is thought to be the biggest industrial action in civil service history.

DWP civil servants put off strike

DWP civil servants put off strike 01/28/2004 09:05 AM
Thousands of civil servants in the Department for Work and Pensions will not strike on Thursday after all.

Civil servants in new action

Civil servants in new action 07/06/2004 06:54 AM
More than 100 civil servants in Londonderry stage a second walk-out over suspension of colleagues.

Civil servants to strike over pay

Civil servants to strike over pay 04/12/2004 08:52 PM
The civil services faces what is believed to be the biggest industrial unrest in its history amid a series of walkouts over pay.

Holyrood civil servants defended

Holyrood civil servants defended 05/26/2004 05:45 AM
The role of civil servants in managing the Holyrood project is defended on the final day of the Fraser Inquiry.

Civil servants accept pay deal

Civil servants accept pay deal 09/13/2004 10:54 AM
Civil servants in Northern Ireland accept a pay offer from the government, voting against an all-out strike.

Senior civil servants to strike

Senior civil servants to strike 03/14/2005 06:04 PM
Thousands of senior civil servants vote to strike for the first time since 1981 over plans to increase the pension age.

Civil servants in Holyrood probe

Civil servants in Holyrood probe 09/18/2004 07:18 AM
An independent investigator is to rule on whether civil servants should face action over the Holyrood building project.

Fraser in civil servants broadside

Fraser in civil servants broadside 05/06/2004 07:15 AM
Officials are accused of misleading MSPs over the new parliament building's cost by Lord Fraser.

Brown axes 104,000 civil servants

Brown axes 104,000 civil servants 07/12/2004 10:38 AM
Gordon Brown announces a huge cull of civil service jobs, which he says will fund higher spending on frontline services.

Civil servants 'will be suspended'

Civil servants 'will be suspended' 02/12/2004 03:22 PM
The government says it will suspend staff who take industrial action against the terms of their employment.

Civil servants face strike ballot

Civil servants face strike ballot 09/12/2004 09:20 AM
Almost 300,000 civil servants will be balloted for a one-day national strike against government plans to cut jobs.

Civil servants make strike threat

Civil servants make strike threat 06/09/2004 09:15 AM
UK's biggest civil service union warns the government it faces industrial action over plans to cut 40,000 jobs.

Open Source Software for 500,000 civil
servants possible after OGC / Sun deal

Open Source Software for 500,000 civil
servants possible after OGC / Sun deal 12/10/2003 04:31 AM
PublicTechnology.net Dec 10 2003 3:53AM ET

Civil servants unamused by spoof terror
website

Civil servants unamused by spoof terror
website 07/28/2004 01:25 PM
Manchester Online Jul 28 2004 5:01PM GMT

UK Civil Servants download 2 Million+
Porn Images

UK Civil Servants download 2 Million+
Porn Images 08/27/2004 01:56 PM
UK tabloid The Sun is reporting that 227 UK Civil Servants in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have been disciplined for downloading pornographic images whilst at work. The Sun reports that some 2 million images were viewed, as well as some involving child pornography / abuse. Of the 227, 16 were sacked, one has been prosecuted, and the rest have been able to continue their jobs at the Government department.

Liberal Democrat Steve Webb (Lib Dem DWP Spokesperson) believed that the government should introduce a 'zero-tolerance' policy across all departments when it came to pornography. "Any public servant who accesses porn sites at work should lose their jobs" Webb commented.

A spokesperson for the DWP said that regular checks took place on staff computers for pornography; any staff caught would be investigated. However, they also commented that many investigations into pornographic material was due to staff inadvertently clicking a link that brought them to the page, rather than an intentional action. The Sun claims the most recent check was sparked off after a DWP employee was caught watching porn at work.

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Wireless internet training for Dublin
civil servants

Wireless internet training for Dublin
civil servants 08/16/2004 06:28 AM
Silicon Republic Aug 16 2004 11:07AM GMT

Where Do Dummy Email Addresses Go?

Where Do Dummy Email Addresses Go? 07/11/2004 10:58 AM

Catchall Email Addresses

Catchall Email Addresses 08/17/2004 03:18 PM

Is there a point to "catchall" email addresses anymore? You know, those addresses where misaddessed email to your domain gets routed? Let me explain —

I was having some email trouble this morning. POP3 response from the server was sporadic, and when I got a command line on the box, things were very slow. I poked around a bit and found the problem.

I had not been checking and clearing the catchall account. It had been accumulating mail for about three weeks. It contained — are you sitting down? — 582,384 emails. Yep, just over half a million. I had to delete the entire account and bounce the Qmail process to get things running smoothly again. (The mere fact that it was running at all is a credit to RedHat 7.2 — a 1.1 GHz Athlon only goes so far...)

If 90% of email is spam (as it is in our office), then 99.9999999% of the email in a catchall account is going to be spam because 99% of inbound spam has an invalid address. This was proven to me when I created a script to empty the account once per hour. Here was the log file 15 minutes after I recreated the account:

8/17/2004 12:12:54 PM: Start Processing
8/17/2004 12:13:37 PM: 276 message(s) found
8/17/2004 12:13:37 PM: Deleting...
8/17/2004 12:13:38 PM: 0 message(s) found
8/17/2004 12:13:38 PM: End Processing

Almost 300 messages in 15 minutes. One hour later:

8/17/2004 1:11:00 PM: Start Processing
8/17/2004 1:13:29 PM: 1030 message(s) found
8/17/2004 1:13:29 PM: Deleting...
8/17/2004 1:13:30 PM: 0 message(s) found
8/17/2004 1:13:30 PM: End Processing

That's right — a thousand messages an hour are coming in misaddressed. That's one every four seconds.

Now, of those thousand, how many are legitimately misaddressed emails? I'd say a fraction — I think we probably get one legitimate misaddressed email every couple days, so one of every 75,000 or so messages is misaddressed. I don't care how good your spam filter is, you just can't process that much volume with any reasonably quality.

Why not just bounce them all, you say? Because we get bounces from our bounces. Some people have their mail servers configured to bounce Message Failure messages. So a spam comes in, can't find a mailbox, and bounces to the Reply-To on the message...which is — not surprisingly — fake, so about 10% of the time the message bounces back to the server administrator email account on our box. So, once again we have a bunch of bad emails accumulating somewhere.

I'd like to bounce them so that a legitimate sender at least knows that they misaddressed the email, however, I'd have to be able to change the Reply-To on the bounce so that the bounced bounces go somewhere we don't care about. Sadly, the server management software we're working with doesn't allow that.

I've abandoned the idea of a catchall account. There's just no way we can manage it effectively. Too bad.

I hate spammers.

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HTML entities for email addresses: don't
bother

HTML entities for email addresses: don't
bother 12/02/2003 12:41 AM

I've suspected this for a long time, and now here's the empirical evidence: Popular Spam Protection Technique Doesn't Work. If you're relying on HTML entities to protect your email address from spam harvesters - for example username@example.com - your email address may as well be in plain text. Chip Rosenthal downloaded a tool called "Web Data Extractor v4.0" and tried it on some test data to prove once and for all that the technique doesn't work.

My advice is to use your common sense when analysing a potential spam protection technique. If you were a spammer, would you be able to outwit the method? Spammers aren't always very smart, but the people who write spamming tools (and get paid big bucks for them) are. Also remember to think about the payoff - unencoding a bunch of entities is a cheap operation. Embedding a Javascript interpreter to decipher email addresses that are glued together using Javascript at the last possible moment is a lot harder and could slow down a tool, so it may not be worth the effort.

I'm still pretty confident in my own anti-spam harvester technique of hiding my email address behind a POST form, but even that could eventually be outsmarted by a really dedicated harvesting tool.

Send Mail to each of a user's unique
email addresses

Send Mail to each of a user's unique
email addresses 05/25/2004 10:14 AM
I use Address Book group a lot when sending out emails. One thing that I found frustrating was that I could not send to multiple email addresses for a single user when using groups, so that they would receive the email at bo...

AOL Employee Arrested For Selling Email
Addresses To Spammers

AOL Employee Arrested For Selling Email
Addresses To Spammers 06/23/2004 07:00 PM
People have always claimed that AOL often gave out their email addresses to spammers, though many have questioned whether or not that was true. One that that's clear is they make it way too easy for employees of the company to access customer information. A few months ago we wrote about an AOL customer service rep who used the info she had access to in order to insinuate herself into the lives of celebrities who used AOL. The latest is that a 24-year-old engineer at the company has been arrested for selling a database of 92 million AOL user email addresses along with their phone numbers and zip codes. He sold this database to some spammers for about $50,000. How long until a class action suit is filed by AOL customers because the company didn't protect their info?

US Treasury to Post Previously Private
Email Addresses Online

US Treasury to Post Previously Private
Email Addresses Online 01/09/2004 09:50 PM

Schwarzenegger signs bill requiring
email addresses for filesharing

Schwarzenegger signs bill requiring
email addresses for filesharing 09/23/2004 11:15 AM
Xeni Jardin: California governor Arnold Schwarzenneger -- a man who found considerable fame and fortune in Hollywood -- signed an MPAA-backed bill into law Tuesday that requires anyone sharing a file that goes to more than 10 people outside their immediate family to provide a valid email address and title of the work.

California file sharers who trade songs or films without providing an e- mail address will be guilty of a misdemeanor, under the first-in-the-nation measure that could make it easier for law enforcement to track down people who illegally download copyrighted material. The bill is the latest attempt by film and music trade associations to combat the hard-to-police use of file-sharing software.

The signing was hailed by the bill's sponsor, the Motion Picture Association of America, whose president, Dan Glickman, noted in a statement that Schwarzenegger had "a unique understanding of the powerful impact of piracy.'' The governor remains a member of the Screen Actors Guild, which supported the bill.

Link to SF Chronicle story, link to SB 1506 bill text. (thanks Michael Parenti, Matthew Mills, Andy, and others)

MyDoom uses search engines to find email
addresses for propagation

MyDoom uses search engines to find email
addresses for propagation 07/26/2004 01:52 PM
The new MyDoom variant scans your HDD for domains (e.g. craphound.com), then hammers on search engines looking for valid email addresses at that domain (e.g., "GET /default.asp?lpv=1&loc=searchhp&tab=web&query=e-mail+examp le.com"). The traffic got so bad that it actually took Google down for a while. Link (via /.)

Barnet Council sees growth in email &
txt contact with citizens

Barnet Council sees growth in email &
txt contact with citizens 06/09/2004 02:55 AM
PublicTechnology.net Jun 9 2004 7:09AM GMT

Steve Portigal — About Steve —
Foreign Groceries

Steve Portigal — About Steve —
Foreign Groceries 11/16/2003 05:58 AM
Online Foreign Groceries Museum .. Now in Funky Soy Sauce Flavor! .. foreign snack foods .. Food for thought

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Raya Contact Centre is the certified B2B
contact centre for Intel in the MENA
region

Raya Contact Centre is the certified B2B
contact centre for Intel in the MENA
region 03/24/2005 04:18 AM
AME Info Mar 24 2005 8:36AM GMT

First Impression: Rodent(ured) Servants

First Impression: Rodent(ured) Servants 09/14/2004 05:38 AM
"If you shove people into rat mazes, then you're going to get rat-sized mentalities."

-Jocelyn Talbot , Vice President, Monster

Mailqube to Support Sender ID. Leader in
enterprise email security supports new
email sender authentication standard in
its Mailqube 2003 secure email gateway

Mailqube to Support Sender ID. Leader in
enterprise email security supports new
email sender authentication standard in
its Mailqube 2003 secure email gateway 09/05/2004 02:37 AM
Atlantic Sky has announced its support to the Sender ID standard for email sender authentication. Atlantic Sky's support will make Sender ID available to global enterprises through its Mailqube 2003 E-mail gateway. [PRWEB Sep 5, 2004]

RSC unveils Stratford revamp plan

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