Recent headlines have shed light on a growing problem, individuals who retrieve and sell personal information that a business has collected for legitimate reasons. Consider the following:
• A former help desk worker used his position at a credit checking company to obtain the personal information of thousands of individuals. The worker allegedly conspired with an accomplice […]

You’ll never hear the end of it if you decide to press charges. And besides you’re not even sure you really want to do that. They might pay you back the money. Not. The burden is on you to sort this mess out and the worst part is once a relative or friend steals your […]

Has Google finally embraced RSS with their new XML
powered Sitemaps program? Well, sort of, but it seems
more like a hug than a strong impassioned embrace!
It does use XML technology which allows for the
crawling and updating of your site’s web pages.
You can even include your entire web site (all urls)
with this indexing program. For anyone targeting […]

There are two reasons why you would want to use RSS as a webmaster and that is for publishing and syndicating your content. If you publish your content via an RSS channel then you can keep your subscribers notified of changes to your site, announcements and news. Publishing an RSS feed for syndication means […]

What is it ?
RSS is a family of XML file formats for Web syndication usually used by news sites and weblogs. The abbreviation is used to refer to the following standards:
* Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91)
* RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0)
* Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)
RSS technology allow internet users to subscribe to […]

Email is the quintessential business communication tool, so when it doesn’t work like it’s supposed to, business suffers. Anti spam software is designed to protect your inbox from unwanted messages, but unless your system is properly trained even the best software misses the mark and flags legitimate messages as spam. These messages are referred to […]

What do you do with your spam? Call the authorities? Send it back to the sender with expletive text appended? Set it to simmer with white wine sauce? When I have leftover spam, I make spam rehash. You’ll need:
1 pop3 mailbox 1 multiple message autoresponder 1 email extractor 1 email verifier as much spam from […]

For a law to take effect on the U.S. federal level, both the House and the Senate must pass the bill and then the President of the United States must sign the bill into law.
Last year we almost got a SPAM law on the books when House legislators approved their version of the SPAM bill, […]