A recent article from the Guardian Unlimited states that the UK police cannot cope with the amount of online if they had to look into every internet crime that was reported. "The scale is such that the police service would fall over if it tried to investigate every case," she said. "I would hate any member of the public to feel that they can't report a crime, but people need to understand that each individual e-crime can't be investigated."

 

Full article here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2065600,00.html

Microsoft has admitted that up to 98% of messages sent to Hotmail addresses are spam.

The company's own research found that between 40% and 98% of messages sent to users of Hotmail, now being rebranded as Windows Live Hotmail, are unsolicited or fraudulent in nature.

So, apparently this problem arrived to stay and is growing each year as opposed to Bill Gates prediction back in 2004 when he was saying the spam problem will be solved in 2 years time.

I think a radical approach should be applied here if you want to solve the problem of spam... some sort of pay-per-message sent or something like that (as similar to an SMS) if you want to get rid of this problem.. otherwise our mailboxes are going to be filled with rubbish for a long time.

Full article here: http://www.rte.ie/business/2007/0423/hotmail.html

Today I am very happy for two reasons:

 

1) Obviously is friday, so weekend is very near and promising with good weather. :)

2) Google had opened its Latin American Operations Centre in Buenos Aires (my home town).

 

This is very good for the economy of my country and the region. In an interview with Eric Schmidt, local newspaper La Nacion, pointed out the reason being is for the quality of university students in Argentina and the prosperous area which is becoming for the Internet industry Latin America.

 

So, good weather around Dublin and new jobs for Argentina... that;s a fantastic way of starting the weekend!

 

Fabio

 

Ah, you could find the interview in Spanish here: http://www.lanacion.com.ar/EdicionImpresa/economia/nota.asp?nota_id=899645&pid=2370435&toi=5256