The International Herald Tribune reports that the House of Representatives was scheduled today to vote on legislation that clarifies the law barring for-profit companies from using names that sound like official government agencies. The vote comes on the heels of Internal Revenue Service commissioner, Mark Everson, warning twice in the [...]
In an article entitled “Business leaders say climate for startups worse than ten years ago”, the Guardian points out that, according to the British Chambers of Commerce, “British business thinks it is harder to start a new venture now than 10 years ago in spite of the government's talk of [...]
Yahoo!News warns that “[a] huge virus surge of a new Storm Worm variant is flooding e-mail inboxes and evading many antivirus programs. In my tests of 31 programs, only four reported a virus.” According to FT.com, “[t]he world’s biggest music companies are expected to ask Apple to introduce a music [...]
InfoWorld reports that “[t]he latest research report from McAfee's Avert Labs paints a frightening picture for enterprise IT administrators and end-users, predicting continued maturation of cyber-crime and the technological means being used to carry out external attacks.” CNetNews.com writes that “[a]t a morning Senate Commerce Committee hearing [in Washington DC], [...]
The Washington Post reports that “[a] Canadian company has developed new technology to capitalize on that impatience [of spammers] to cut the volume of unwanted e-mail messages flooding the Internet.” More specifically, “MailChannels of Vancouver […] found that by forcing e-mail programs to wait a few seconds before being allowed [...]