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Host of Internet Spam Groups Is Cut Off-> 0

Submitted by cacapu on Tuesday November 18 2008, @05:26PM

cacapu writes "The volume of junk e-mail sent worldwide dropped drastically today after a Web hosting firm identified by the computer security community as a major host of organizations allegedy engaged in spam activity was taken offline, according to security firms that monitor spam distribution online. E-mail security firm IronPort said spam levels fell by roughly 66 percent as of Tuesday evening. Spamcop.net, another spam watch dog, found a similar decline, from about 40 spam e-mails per second to around 10 per second."
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Mozilla: Firefox is Faster Than Chrome-> 0

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CWmike

on Friday September 05 2008, @12:40PM

CWmike writes "Mozilla has answered claims that Google's Chrome browser outperforms Firefox with benchmark results of its own that show the upcoming Firefox 3.1 is faster at executing JavaScript. According to tests run by Brendan Eich, Mozilla's chief technology officer and the creator of JavaScript, Firefox's new TraceMonkey interpreter is up to 28% faster than V8, the name Google gave to the interpreter used by Chrome. "We're very much in the game," said Eich in his blog, where he detailed the test results. "Reports of our death are greatly exaggerated.""
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