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Daily Archives: December 14, 2004

Percentage of CAN-SPAM Compliance Still in Single Digit

According to a press release from MX Logic, Inc., an “email defense solutions” provider, in November, CAN-SPAM compliance reached a record high of 6% of total traffic subject to the law.

  • “…our data indicate that the act has had little impact on sophisticated spammers, who continue to leverage networks of hijacked PCs, as well as other tools to disseminate unsolicited and often fraudulent email.”
  • NLM’s Medline Plus Receives High Score From Public on New E-Gov’t Survey

    The American Customer Satisfaction Index Scores for U.S. Federal Government, December 14, 2004 ranked the National Library of Medicine’s MedLine Plus as the top Information/News website in a field that included the DOJ, National Archives, the Dept. of State, the CDC and the GSA. Related news: Agencies reach all-time high in customer satisfaction Continue Reading

    Mixed Decision in Blackberry Patent Case

    From Findlaw: “NTP, INC. v. RESEARCH IN MOTION, LTD. (December 14, 2004), A Federal Appeals Court Upholds Most Of NTP’s Patent-Infringement Claims Against Blackberry Maker Research In Motion (a/k/a RIM), And Remands The Case Back To A Lower Court To Determine, In Part, If Plaintiff’s $53.7 Million Damage Award Should Be Modified Opinion (PDF), and… Continue Reading

    Google to Partner With Major Libraries on Digitizing Collections

    From the press release: “…Google Inc. today announced that it is working with the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the University of Oxford as well as The New York Public Library to digitally scan books from their collections so that users worldwide can search them in Google…Today’s announcement is an expansion… Continue Reading