Filtering spam messages is a thankless job for software. For every 100 spam emails, one message usually gets through, an irritating pitch with links to Web sites selling questionable drugs or sketchy Rolexes.

The links contained within spam are one indicator in determining whether it should be blocked. Often after a large spam run, the addresses of spammy Web sites will be added to blocklists that are used by antispam software to cull future messages with those links.

To get around it, spammers construct emails with links that can’t be identified by filters but still are valid in the messages, said Christopher Fuhrman, a professor of software engineering in the Department of Software and IT Engineering at the University of Quebec.

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IBM is scrubbing clean the silicon wafers it uses to manufacture microprocessors, recycling the silicon to reuse in its fabs or sold for solar panels. IBM began the recycling program Oct. 30 at its manufacturing facility in Essex Junction, Vt., where it is estimated to save $1.5 million in production costs in 2007 alone, IBM said. It will expand the program to its East Fishkill, N.Y., facility by the first quarter of 2008.

The process uses the excess microprocessors from a silicon wafer, those deemed imperfect, which are usually discarded during production to preserve the intellectual property behind the patented circuitry imprinted on each processor. IBM’s recycling process wipes the circuitry from the sheet, returning a blank silicon wafer, said Eric White, an advisory scientist with IBM.

The House of Representatives approved legislation on Tuesday extending a moratorium on state Internet access taxes for seven years, sending the bill to the president to sign into law. The state tax ban has been in place since 1998 and is scheduled to expire on November 1.

Internet service providers say the price of Internet access could rise by as much as 17 percent if the moratorium on state taxes was allowed to expire.

The House approved by 402-0 the bill, which includes a longer moratorium extension than the four-year extension the chamber earlier endorsed. The latest version of the House legislation is identical to that already approved by the Senate, so the bill next goes to President George W. Bush, who is expected to sign it into law.

Windows Mobile devices offer many benefits to enterprises, but with the vast amount of information being transmitted and stored on these devices, mobile solutions need to be protected. Whether they carry personal information or handle confidential transactions at work, PDAs and Smartphones can store large amounts of data, are very portable, easy to hide and connect to a variety of networks. They pose an equally great, if not greater, security risk than laptops do.

mNotes5 addresses individuals personal, and business mobility security concerns, delivering completely secure wireless operation. Based on Immediate Transaction Exchange, CommonTime provides highly responsive two-way encrypted reconciliation from Device to Desktop–there is no decryption and re-encryption anywhere in between. mNotes5 Beta is free and available now for Wireless Lotus Notes use on Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices.

Privacy Networks, the email solutions company, announced they have made their PrivacyVault solution available for free evaluation on secure hosted systems. The hosted evaluation solution allows customers to evaluate PrivacyVault without deploying additional hardware and resources on site. Upon completion of the hosted evaluation, the customer has the choice of deployment of a PrivacyVault solution on an appliance, a hosted service or as standalone software. The hallmark elements of Privacy Networks, including simple implementation, compliance readiness, scalability and affordability are all evidenced in the new service that allows customers to quickly evaluate the fit into their business or organization.

Gartner reckoned it’s identified 14 alternative models for the delivery of IT that it said will "completely transform the IT market in the next five years."

Advancements in technology have resulted in new ways of delivering, packaging and procuring IT, said the research company, and these alternative models could dramatically change how IT is accounted for. The company recommended that IT leaders examine these models or business units may go ahead without them.

This demo is the first of a two part series that demonstrates how IBM Rational ClearQuest allows you to create and enforce a repeatable process for building and deploying applications. In Part 1, you’ll see how to define a release, define roles for that release and create an approval process.

This demo is the second of a two part series that demonstrates how IBM Rational ClearQuest allows you to create and enforce a repeatable process for building and deploying applications. Part 2 walks you though creating different testing environments, such as system test and integration test. It finishes with the creation of a build record. This build record can be used to track information about your build though your deployment lifecycle.