Fifteen years ago this month, the age of spam began. Like so many things, it started innocently enough, when a couple of immigration lawyers in Phoenix pitched their services to pretty much everyone who was on the Internet at the time, via the 6,000 newsgroups in existence then.More...

Every morning’s paper and every local news show seem to be offering tips lately on dealing with this dismal economy. Ten ways to cut your grocery bill! Eight ways to save on your kids’ clothes! This is truly helpful information for these tough times, and in that spirit, I’d like to offer up five ways that you can reduce your company’s networking costs. More...

From the walled cities of medieval Europe to the forts of colonial America, our ancestors accomplished their objective: keep bad things out by limiting access to just one safe entry and exit point. Today we may not have to worry about roving hordes of vandals, or hungry bears or wolves, but for the electronic threats – the ones that can really damage a business network – it calls for a new breed of “fortress.” More...

The Official Google Blog has published a series of entries about how the company uses its collected data to make its services better. One post talked about reducing “webspam”, essentially irrelevant search results caused by people working the search ranking system. Google has a whole team devoted to weeding webspam. More...