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  • Are Paid Online Dating Sites Dead? Monday, January 5, 2009 @ 4:59AM A recent launch suggests that the web’s love affair with paid dating sites may be coming to an end. DowntoEarth is a new, completely free dating site with an interesting pedigree. According to DowntoEarth’s Privacy Policy, this new, free entrant is “part of the IAC/InterActiveCorp family of businesses.” IAC, of course, acquired Match.com in 1999, and is also behind Match.com’s spin-off ...
  • Yummy new year: Twelve food predictions for 2009 Tuesday, December 30, 2008 @ 10:13PMTime once again to look into our crystal bowl and predict the food trends of the new year.
  • Tough Love For Microsoft Search Tuesday, December 30, 2008 @ 10:25AMBack in June, I spoke at Microsoft as part of a regular series for those involved with its webmaster tools group and anyone generally interested in search.
  • Government Computer News Monday, December 29, 2008 @ 4:01PMTWO OF THE NATION’S largest counties are coming to grips with one of the primary challenges of online government: providing Web-based services while managing sensitive information securely.
  • Komputer Klinic: Online help for a tough job market Monday, December 29, 2008 @ 2:03AM  Unemployment is at a 14-year high. So, if you’re looking for a job, you’re not alone. Unfortunately, the competition makes landing a job more difficult.
  • How to sign up for email alerts Saturday, December 27, 2008 @ 11:22PMInside Housing offers a range of free email bulletins. To subscribe, follow these steps:
  • Entrepreneur Advice: 10 Words to Avoid in Your 2009 Advertising Wednesday, December 24, 2008 @ 5:28PMThe economy, unemployment, companies folding, people losing their homes--2008 has left consumers wary of businesses. And that lack of consumer confidence requires straightforward, honest advertising messages to regain marketplace security.
  • Internet Institute Tells Email Senders How to Keep the Email They Send from Getting Lost in a Sea of Spam Wednesday, December 24, 2008 @ 7:01AM With reports that 90% of all email is spam, ISIPP SuretyMail helps legitimate senders steer clear of the junk folder.
  • 27,000 Urge Mormons to Support Civil Unions in Utah Tuesday, December 23, 2008 @ 8:52PMMore than 27,000 letters have been sent to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints headquarters in Salt Lake City urging the church to publicly support gay rights bills Utah legislators are expected to consider in 2009.
  • Letters to the Editor Articles Tuesday, December 23, 2008 @ 6:42AMAs you noted in your recent editorial, public relations professionals are responsible for protecting and enhancing the reputation of client organizations or individuals for whom they work.
  • Phone, e-mail requests for personal information a scam Tuesday, December 23, 2008 @ 2:54AMMore than two dozen northern Nevadans received an unwelcome message on their cell phones and in their e-mails Monday asking for their personal financial information. Minutes later, several area residents who responded to the request took significant fraudulent hits to their bank accounts.
  • 27,000 letters urge LDS leader to back rights of gay Utahns Tuesday, December 23, 2008 @ 1:54AMPresident Thomas S. Monson: You have mail - boxes of it. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) delivered 27,000 letters to LDS Church headquarters Monday - all of them asking the Mormon leader to support legal protections for gay and transgender Utahns.
  • Montreal real estate firm cans spam with Google Message Security Monday, December 22, 2008 @ 11:09AMIT director Lance LeBlanc balks at the notion that he would ever even consider turning off his Google Message Security spam filter – to do so would overwhelm his 250 employee real estate company with a daily mass of e-mails a company of 10,000 might receive.
  • How to sign up for email alerts Wednesday, December 17, 2008 @ 8:37PMInside Housing offers a range of free email bulletins. To subscribe, follow these steps:
  • 5 Best Linux/BSD Firewall Tools Wednesday, December 17, 2008 @ 11:12AM Intranet Journal: "Over the course of recent years, some people have found the quality of most out-of-the-store firewall appliances either lacking functionality or worse, set at a price that has made them generally out of reach. Because of this issue, I thought it would be beneficial to write an article to better highlight what works and what does not with regard to turning an older PC into a ...
  • Canada source of over 9 billion spam messages a day: study Tuesday, December 16, 2008 @ 6:47PMCanadian computers - many of them unwittingly - send out over nine billion spam e-mails a day, almost five per cent of all global spam traffic, according to a report from network and internet security firm Cisco.
  • Please Excuse Our Dust Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 1:51AMAs you may have noticed, there have been a few changes here. We’ve switched to the WordPress blog platform and while we’ve tried to make the change as seamless as possible, you’ll probably notice a lot of upcoming changes as we clean up and add new features. For example, the huge list of [...]
  • Ask AP: Petroleum Products, the Cuba Trade Embargo Saturday, December 13, 2008 @ 7:02AM What do jet fuel, bubble gum and the bristles in your toothbrush have in common?
  • McAfee, Inc. Upgrades Award-Winning SiteAdvisor Technology Thursday, December 11, 2008 @ 1:00PM SANTA CLARA, Calif.----McAfee, Inc. today announced an upgrade to its landmark McAfee® SiteAdvisor® Web security software, the free program that helps consumers know what is safe and what may be risky on the Web.
  • Cybercriminals profiting from global recession, distracted governments Thursday, December 11, 2008 @ 12:09PMCyber-criminals are using the global economic recession as bait for malware attacks and as a tool to distract governments from taking a closer look at their growth, according to a new report.
  • Proposed Bill Aims to Crack Down on Spam Thursday, December 11, 2008 @ 5:50AMThe suspension of Parliament in the ongoing political crisis is not likely to interfere with a much-needed anti-spam bill tabled earlier this year.
  • Red Condor Appoints Technology Industry Veteran to Drive Sales Wednesday, December 10, 2008 @ 5:35PM Red Condor, a leading provider of fully managed email security solutions, today announced the addition of Kip Quackenbush as vice president of sales. For more than 20 years, Quackenbush has served in a variety of management and executive sales leadership roles, most recently as vice president of worldwide sales and marketing for Akonix Systems where he helped grow the business from 100 to more ...
  • Vasco revamps aXs Guard package Wednesday, December 10, 2008 @ 3:40PMVasco Data Security International (Nasdaq: VDSI), a leading software security company specializing in authentication products, announces that it has ...
  • TAIWAN: Chunghwa Telecom told to clear junk e-mail mess Wednesday, December 10, 2008 @ 2:36AMTAIPEI, Taiwan --- Mao Chi-kuo, minister of transportation and communications, instructed yesterday Chunghwa Telecom to take concrete steps to weed out the rampant pornography and other junk e-mails sent to its customers.
  • Chunghwa Telecom told to clear junk e-mail mess Tuesday, December 9, 2008 @ 1:44AMTAIPEI, Taiwan -- Mao Chi-kuo, minister of transportation and communications, instructed yesterday Chunghwa Telecom to take concrete steps to weed out the rampant pornography and other junk e-mails sent to its customers.
  • Peggy Drexler: The End of Normal: Is Trust for Suckers? Monday, December 8, 2008 @ 4:42PMWho is the more dangerous fraud -- the Nigerian bank spam and its comically brazen attempt to relieve me of $100,000, or the US bank whose ads ask for my business and my trust?
  • SonicWALL licensing snafu short-circuits protection Wednesday, December 3, 2008 @ 7:41PM Reset to FAIL SonicWALL has apologised for a license server outage that left some customers without firewall or email filtering protection for hours yesterday.…
  • Nokia Closes Symbian Acquisition, Releases New Services and Touchscreen Device Wednesday, December 3, 2008 @ 5:55PMNokia has made a series of announcements at the Nokia World 2008 show. The long-expected response to the Apple iPhone will have been the most eye-catching, but news on operating systems, messaging applications, and other services was also...
  • Monthly MDA Clinic Offers Experienced Neuromuscular Specialists Wednesday, December 3, 2008 @ 4:09PMPediatric Specialty Clinic
  • Search the Archives Tuesday, December 2, 2008 @ 4:48AMUniversity officials may redesign the my.pitt.edu portal based on students’ feedback. Student Government Board and Computing Services and Systems Development completed the last in a series of three focus groups aimed at reworking my.pitt.edu earlier this semester.
  • Cyber Monday Safety Tips Monday, December 1, 2008 @ 4:58PMIf you plan on shopping online today, cybercriminals could be waiting for you to make your first purchase. But there are several things you can do to protect your money
  • Online Security Vidcast is the Latest Move in Fraud Fight Monday, December 1, 2008 @ 8:18AM Barclays release new video highlighting the risks of online fraud that their customers may face when using the internet. (PRWeb Dec 1, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/barclays/onlinesecurity/prweb1641914.htm
  • Online Security Vidcast is the Latest Move in Fraud Fight Monday, December 1, 2008 @ 7:01AM Barclays release new video highlighting the risks of online fraud that their customers may face when using the internet.
  • SonicWall extends family of email threat protection solutions to Windows small business server users Saturday, November 29, 2008 @ 11:39AMSonicWall, Inc., a secure network infrastructure company, expanded its family of email security solutions with the release of SonicWall Email Security for Windows Small Business Server 2008 (SES for SBS).
  • How to sign up for email alerts Thursday, November 27, 2008 @ 12:07AMInside Housing offers a range of free email bulletins. To subscribe, follow these steps:
  • Aussie government muffs plans for internet filtering Wednesday, November 26, 2008 @ 1:27PM Greens borrow Sex Party clothes Plans for filtering of all internet content in Australia could well backfire on the Labour Government, with talk of "socialism" banned, and muffins off the menu entirely.…
  • PeerMatrix re-brands P2P-disruption tech as an ad platform Tuesday, November 25, 2008 @ 2:16AMA patent described in a WIPO filing as a "method, apparatus and system for interfering with distribution of protected content" over peer-to-peer networks is now being pitched to businesses large and small as an ad-delivery device.
  • Startup Of The Week: Purewire Saturday, November 22, 2008 @ 5:23AMPurewire offers a cloud-based Web filtering service, including a unique reputation-based component.
  • Two New Star Trek Posters: Uhura And Nero Friday, November 21, 2008 @ 10:44PMParamount has just sent us two new Star Trek character posters in the same vein as the black and white Kirk & Spock posters that came out recently. These two feature Eric Bana as the Romulan movie antagonist Nero and Zoe Saldana as Lt. Uhura. Check them out below!   Eric Bana as Nero Star Trek poster Zoe Saldana [...]
  • A Big Pile Of New Movie Posters Friday, November 21, 2008 @ 4:44PMToday we have a pile of new posters we’ve been collecting throughout the week from a variety of sources. These include the final poster for The Spirit, the first posters for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and new posters for Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Lost: Season 5, Red Sonja, and Ice Age: Dawn of [...]
  • Sign up for the Desserts Newsletter Friday, November 21, 2008 @ 5:38AMSign up for the Desserts newsletter on BellaOnline to be notified of new articles and updates to the site.
  • A Small Business Search Marketing Thanksgiving From A-Z Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 7:15PMThanksgiving is almost here, and as the McGee family sits down at a table full of turkey, stuffing, and potatoes next week, we’ll do our regular Thanksgiving tradition: From A-Z, each family member takes a letter and shares something s/he’s thankful for this year.
  • Red Condor Names Dr. Thomas Steding as Chief Executive Officer Wednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 6:56PM Red Condor, a leading provider of fully managed email security solutions, today announced the appointment of Dr. Thomas Steding as President and Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Steding brings nearly four decades of technology industry experience to Red Condor, including serving as CEO of eight high-tech companies and active Chairman of several others.
  • The Home Finance Newsletter Tuesday, November 18, 2008 @ 10:53PMGet informative articles and updates about Home Finance at BellaOnline.
  • Sendio Adds Pechanga Resort & Casino to Growing List of Casino Gaming Customers Tuesday, November 18, 2008 @ 1:00PM IRVINE, Calif. & LAS VEGAS----Sendio, Inc., an innovative e-mail security company with solutions that incorporate the human element to totally eliminate spam and e-mail threats in the enterprise environment, today announced Pechanga Resort & Casino, California’s largest casino, is the latest to join a growing list of gaming organizations to deploy Sendio’s E-mail Security Platform .
  • Don’t give spam a chance Monday, November 17, 2008 @ 1:58AMMinimising the flood of spam is possible, though, through the use of intelligent filters and a few basic conduct rules. Discreet handling of one’s own personal contact data is one good way to make life more difficult for spammers.
  • How to sign up for email alerts Monday, November 17, 2008 @ 12:00AMInside Housing offers a range of free email bulletins. To subscribe, follow these steps:
  • Cure for the Common Question: OU inboxes crammed with university-sponsored spam Sunday, November 16, 2008 @ 2:07AMStop spamming me. Now. Why am I getting so much unsolicited spam from Ohio University? Since the beginning of November, I’ve received 30 unsolicited mass-e-mails from the university or from a department within.
  • Top 10 Ways to Speed Up Your Web Browsing [Lifehacker Top 10] Saturday, November 15, 2008 @ 5:37PMEven in a world where high-speed internet is just a tall house blend away, anyone can get stuck with a slow or uncertain connection at home, in the office, or at the worst possible time while...
  • No. 2: Sergio or Phil? Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 2:52PMOur readers are still weighing in with their pet peeves, but now there is something else on their minds.