Wednesday, June 02, 2004

The Online Universities Weblog "Finding the right online college you need": The Survey of Distance & Cyberlearning Programs in Higher Education, 2004 Edition:"From Market Research, a report on distance education for 2004. It's quite pricey for a student, but for student centers, student programs and other resource centers like school libraries, it is probably affordable; for those in the online education business or getting into it, this report looks like a must have. "

This report looks to be if interest for CODEC.


10:11:06 AM    

Yahoo Gives Adware a Second Chance. Yahoo's anti-spyware tool, now in beta, lets software from companies such as Claria and WhenU.com go undetected by default, while its paid search division helps Claria reap revenue as part of a 2003 paid-listings agreement. [eWEEK Technology News]
9:46:25 AM    

McAfee Granted Far-Reaching Spam-Control Patent

McAfee Granted Far-Reaching Spam-Control Patent
Patents
Spam
Technology/IT
News
Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 02, @08:01AM
from the what-the-system-isn't-meant-for dept.
Titusdot Groan writes "Infoworld is reporting that Network Associates, makers of McAfee, have been granted a broad anti-spam patent. The patent covers "compound filters, paragraph hashing, and Bayes rules" and was filed in December of 2002. The patent appears to affect Spam Assassin, Spam Bayes and many other anti-spam products and services. As an aside Paul Graham's "A Plan for Spam" was published August 2002."

 [Slashdot]


9:44:58 AM