Internet Sieges and Cybercrime

Is the goverment doing all it can to deal with internet crime? 

In extortion e-mail’s broken English, someone identifying himself as Tony Martino proposed a classic organized-crime protection scheme. "You should pay $10,000," Martino wrote. "When we receive money, we stop attack immediately." The e-mail even promised one year’s protection from other attackers for the $10,000 […]

Google Talk

Google comes out to compete with Yahoo and Skype, offering a free, minimalistic IM client that integrates VoIP. Requires a GMail account. Need a GMail account? Anyone that joins LinkedIn and adds me as a contact (search on Stan Shinn with email can email me and I’ll send you one. 

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Google planning IM service

Should be interesting! 

Google is set to introduce its own instant-messaging system, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday. Such a move would mark an expansion by the Web search leader into text and also voice communications. Citing unnamed sources "familiar with the service," the Los Angeles Times said that Google’s instant-messaging program would be called Google […]

Zoomerang and Survey Monkey

Don’t let the odd name fool you—this is a nice survey package that is free for limited use. It competes well with other well known survey packages such as Zoomerang.
Survey Monkey offers a free limited account that stores 100 responses. The “Professional” subscription ($19.95 per month) allows 1,000 responses. If you exceed that amount […]

Double-Click and Wikiwyg Your Wiki

Wikiwyg is a very cool way to add Wysiwyg editing to your existing Wiki frameworks. Check out the demo — very nice!

Draw Freely

I’ve long used OpenOffice.org’s robust Draw tool (too bad they don’t have a better name!). Now comes Inkscape, another cross-platform, free, open source drawing tool with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, and CorelDraw that uses the W3C standard scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, […]

How To Be Productive Working From Home

A very nice article for all those telecommuters out there. My favorite tips:

Stick to a schedule. Treat your days like a “regular” work day. Many people have found that a 9-5 or 10-6 schedule really helps keep them on track and productive.
Separate your “work” area from your “living” area.
Get out and about as often as […]

gVisit.com - Track visitors to your website using Google Maps

A really cool way to showcase the wide audience which visits your site. gVisit.com shows a map of the last few visitors that came to your site.
How it works…

Register your website.
Copy and paste a single line of JavaScript to your website. It is easy and doesn’t change the way your […]

Dell customer rating plunges, Apple leads pack

People are starting to complain about the quality of Dell’s customer service, although not its products. In this recent study, Dell’s customer satisfaction is no simply on par with other PC vendors, while Apple has shot to the top of the consumer satisfaction list.

U.S. consumers lambasted Dell Inc. for poor customer service in a […]

IDC: IT Growth Healthy Through 2009

It’s not quite as nice as the days of double-digit growt, but worldwide IT spending is showing a healthy, steady growth that will be sustained through 2009, IDC predicted Tuesday.

Worldwide IT spending will grow at a compound annual rate of 5.9 percent through the end of 2009 to reach $1.34 trillion, up from […]