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Monday, May 03, 2004

OASIS approves XML business documents specification. OASIS has approved Universal Business Language (UBL) 1.0 as a Committee Draft, meaning the XML business documents specification is ready for implementation in commercial and open source efforts. [InfoWorld: Top News]
6:23:45 PM

IRS Warns Taxpayers of Fraudulent E-Mail (AP). AP - The Internal Revenue Service on Friday warned consumers about an identity theft operation that tries to elicit personal information from taxpayers by sending e-mails alleging they're the subject of a tax investigation. [Yahoo! News - Technology]
9:04:16 AM

Sasser worm expected to hit hard on Monday. A new series of worms released onto the Internet exploits a critical security vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP and Windows 2000 OSes and does not need users to open e-mail attachments in order to propagate, experts said Saturday. [InfoWorld: Top News]
8:53:21 AM

May 2004 Web Server Survey Finds 50 Million Sites. The number of sites found by the Web Server Survey exceeded 50 million for the first time this month. The milestone caps a period of revived growth for the Internet, coming just 13 months after the survey crossed the 40-million mark in April, 2003. [Netcraft]

That's a lot of websites! I still remember when all of the websites in the world were listed on a single page and that was only a little over 10 years ago.

8:33:06 AM