Day: June 27, 2006

MICHAEL BLOWEN TO BE WEDNESDAY’S GUEST ON “TALKIN’ HORSES”

Lexington, KY — Join Michael Blowen, founder and president of the Thoroughbred retirement farm Old Friends, as he shares his thoughts on the past, present and future of Old Friends, as well as his ideas on the plight of the retiring Thoroughbred on the next edition of bloodhorse.com “Talkin’ Horses.” Blowen will be the guest live online on Wednesday, June 28 beginning at Noon ET (9:00 a.m. PT); online at http://www.bloodhorse.com/talkinhorses. Michael Blowen discovered his unique bond with Thoroughbreds while working as a volunteer groom at Suffolk Downs during the 1990s, eventually buying and racing a small

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FTC laptop theft puts 110 people at risk – CNET News.com

FTC laptop theft puts 110 people at risk | CNET News.com For more info click on above link The Federal Trade Commission, responsible for protecting Americans from fraud and identity theft, reported on Thursday the theft of two of its own computers with personal information about 110 people. The incident was the latest in a series of recent thefts and data breaches involving government computers. The Department of Veterans Affairs said last month an external hard drive containing information on 26.5 million veterans was stolen. The Department of Energy discovered that personal information of about 1,500 employees

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Border patrol for Internet Explorer – CNET News.com

Border patrol for Internet Explorer | CNET News.com For more info click on above link A security start-up is borrowing a technique from the research labs to try to give Internet Explorer PCs relief from Web-based attacks. GreenBorder Technologies, a venture-backed start-up, plans to release on Tuesday a consumer security tool that puts Microsoft’s IE in a virtual sandbox. Called GreenBorder Pro, the product uses virtualization technology similar to what researchers at antivirus companies have been using for years. In a virtual environment, malicious software is allowed to execute, but it can’t touch the underlying operating system.

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‘RFID’ fabrics and surfing for porn, the Israeli way – CNET News.com

‘RFID’ fabrics and surfing for porn, the Israeli way | CNET News.com For more info click on above link reporter’s notebook TEL AVIV, Israel–Why attach an RFID chip to a shirt when you can identify the shirt through undetectable, invisible chemicals mixed into the fibers? That’s the question CrossID CEO Moshe Glickstein is posing to potential customers. The Israeli company has devised a way to put a chemical signature into fabrics, labels, inks, boxes and other materials. When a hand or door scanner tuned to a specific frequency is pointed at an item, chemicals mixed inside the

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State governments push for Net neutrality laws – CNET News.com

State governments push for Net neutrality laws | CNET News.com For more info click on above link As a U.S. Senate panel prepares for a vote on Net neutrality legislation this week, state attorneys general in New York and California are joining Internet companies in saying that network operators must not be permitted to prioritize certain broadband content and services. In a letter sent Friday to the leaders of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, a Democrat, urged the adoption of a proposal called the Internet Freedom Preservation Act. This is the first time

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Net companies pledge child porn crackdown – CNET News.com

Net companies pledge child porn crackdown | CNET News.com For more info click on above link update In an attempt to forestall potentially intrusive new federal laws, a coalition of Internet companies has launched a campaign against child pornography that they say will tip off police to illegal images. The Internet companies–AOL, EarthLink, Microsoft, United Online and Yahoo–are pledging $1 million in cash and technical assistance to develop technology that can “detect and disrupt the distribution of known images of child exploitation” on the Internet. The coalition’s effort will take place under the auspices of the National

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