Microsoft purchased Giant Software Company on Thursday. Giant Software Company is a startup that has created a popular anti-spyware program. Most people know the program by the name of I Hate Spam, although this is not the program that is marketed by Giant Software. They licensed the product to another company that sells it under that name. In fact there is now a legal battle going on between Microsoft and the other company. It seems that the other company owns partial rights to various components of the program. This should be interesting.
Last year Microsoft purchased an anti-virus company. It is expected that they will introduce an anti-virus, anti-spyware program sometime before mid-2005. I expect that it will be a paid product instead of a free add in. The anti-monopoly thing will probably insure that. Besides, Microsoft could use another revenue stream!
Saturday, December 18, 2004
Friday, December 17, 2004
Sprint To Purchase Nextel
First it was Cingular buying AT&T Wireless to form the largest wireless carrier and now Sprint is purchasing Nextel (as long as all the regulators agree), to form the third largest wireless carrier. Verizon is in the middle.
I thought the Cingular/AT&T deal was probably a good idea. They have compatible systems and AT&T is really lost lately. Unfortunately, the merger will be a negative for us in Connecticut as part of the deal was a requirement that they divest some of the properties. Connecticut was one of those. In Connecticut AT&T Wireless was sold to AllTel .... Who? .....Great!?
Sprint/Nextel is a different story. They do not have compatible systems and really have totally different clients. Sprint is mostly consumer oriented and Nextel is business oriented for the most part with its push to talk function the biggest feature for its business customers. Sprint has been unable to get its push to talk functions to gather steam. Time will tell but Nextel customers better keep their eyes open, this is going to be a rough ride.
Verizon will not stay idol. Keep your eyes on them.
I thought the Cingular/AT&T deal was probably a good idea. They have compatible systems and AT&T is really lost lately. Unfortunately, the merger will be a negative for us in Connecticut as part of the deal was a requirement that they divest some of the properties. Connecticut was one of those. In Connecticut AT&T Wireless was sold to AllTel .... Who? .....Great!?
Sprint/Nextel is a different story. They do not have compatible systems and really have totally different clients. Sprint is mostly consumer oriented and Nextel is business oriented for the most part with its push to talk function the biggest feature for its business customers. Sprint has been unable to get its push to talk functions to gather steam. Time will tell but Nextel customers better keep their eyes open, this is going to be a rough ride.
Verizon will not stay idol. Keep your eyes on them.
Thursday, December 02, 2004
Spam The Spammer?
Lycos Europe (an internet Service Provider) is offering its customers a free program that bombards known spam servers with a stream of garbage that is intended to slow the server down enough to make it difficult to send the quantity of messages that it needs to send out. The idea is that if enough people do this the spammers will give up I guess.
It won't work, and I suspect that some legal action could be generated by this. I don't think you'll see this program available for long. I do think you will see Lycos's own servers bombarded by spammers and hackers.
The best way to stop spam? Stop buying the stuff! Did I tell you the story of the spammer that made $24 MILLION in 4 years?
It won't work, and I suspect that some legal action could be generated by this. I don't think you'll see this program available for long. I do think you will see Lycos's own servers bombarded by spammers and hackers.
The best way to stop spam? Stop buying the stuff! Did I tell you the story of the spammer that made $24 MILLION in 4 years?
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