Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has registered a code of practice for ISPs in order to fight and prevent spam. The new code, Internet Industry Spam Code Of Practice - A Code For Internet And Email Service Providers requires internet service providers and email service providers to provide spam filtering options to their subscribers.
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In a stunning move, BAPCo, the industry-standard Windows benchmarking consortium, announced that Apple Computer has joined up as a member.  BAPCo is responsible for the SYSmark 2004SE and MobileMark benchmark suites PC Magazine Labs use for testing PCs.  BAPCo also produces the webserver test WEBmark.
BAPCo members include AMD, Intel, Transmeta, ATI, nVidia, Microsoft, Ziff Davis Media, [...]

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Angry members of MySpace, the personal file-sharing website for young adults, are accusing Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation of censoring their postings and blocking their access to rival sites.
The 38 million subscribers to MySpace discovered [...]

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I just came accross a discussion on Digital Point forums about how Google did something rather stupid and helped spammers get hold of thousands of gmail addresses.
A little while ago Google released a new service - Google Pages. Very simple and very cool (for some) stuff but therein is the problem. If your gmail address [...]

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iPhoto will rebuild the thumbnail cache, or rather ask you if you want it to be done, every time it feels the need. Sometimes this might not happen for a while and with a huge library your scrolling can become crawling if things go bad.
I have a library of some 1800 images and after doing [...]

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There’s been a little confusion about whether the hard drive in the latest Mac Mini is 5400 or 7200 rpm.
Even though Apple’s website states it is 4500 some people pushed hard to prove it was 7200 as pointed somewhere on the web, apparently Apple website as well, that this disk is indeed 7200 rpm. I [...]

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