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Cablevision Promises to Introduce Your PC to Your TV

in Media on February 23, 2010 at 9:01 pm PT

An ugly name–“PC to TV Media Relay”–for a simple idea: Moving the contents of your laptop to your plasma. You can already do this on your own, but Cablevision promises to make it even easier. (Shh! Don’t tell Hulu!)

75 Percent of All Spam Globally? On Our Backbones? Holy Cow!

in News on November 12, 2008 at 10:29 am PT

According to security experts, Web-hosting outfit McColo is responsible for enabling the broadcast of more than 75 percent of all spam globally. Its client list is a rogues gallery of bad-guy syndicates involved in everything from botnets to counterfeit pharmaceuticals and kiddie porn. So how is it that MoColo’s ISPs, Hurricane Electric and Global Crossing, were unaware of that until notified by a Washington Post reporter?