Microsoft announces anti-spam product

Microsoft has announced it has built anti-spam products in-house - early versions of which have already been deployed in Outlook, MSN 8 and Hotmail. However, anti-spam vendors can breathe a sigh of relief - the company says the patented technology is complementary as part of the arsenal of products needed to effectively counter spam. 'Spam is our email customers' number one complaint today, and while there is no single solution that will solve the problem by itself, Microsoft is committed to innovating and contributing on a broad spectrum of approaches to help put spammers out of business,' said Ryan Hamlin, of the Anti Spam department at Microsoft. ...more

Web creator regrets addressing system

Tim Berners-Lee has said that if he had his time again Web addresses would be simpler, and arguably more logical, than the http://www.name.com we are all familiar with. ...more

Yahoo.com Nazi memorabilia case will not be heard in US

Yahoo! has failed in its request to have a case involving the sale of Nazi memorabilia heard in the US. A US appeals court has ruled that the case which will decide whether such material should be offered for sale on Yahoo.com is not within the US jurisdiction. ...more

Yahoo! crawls the Web from new address

Yahoo! has finished moving its Web crawler to a new domain. Slurp, which indexes pages for Yahoo!'s search engine, will now operate from crawl.yahoo. ...more

City of Bath to host wireless experiment

The City of Bath, more famous for its Roman Spa and Jane Austen than the cutting edge of the information society, is to host a series of experiments to test new city-wide services based on wireless technology. The University of Bath is to conduct a research project which will see the historic city offer a range of technologies that could affect the direction of future wireless applications. Costing $1. ...more