Shutterbug magazine reports that photoblogs growing like a field of mushrooms with the proliferation of inexpensive compact digital cameras, widespread adoption of broadband Internet connections, and the advent of cell phones with digital cameras built-in.

On Tuesday, Microsoft officially entered the search engine industry with their official launch of MSN Search.

I’ve been using the new free Microsoft AntiSpyware tool released in beta last week. What impressed me in particular is it’s real-time preventative approach.

Something has been bugging me for the last few months. Though I got my nice new Mac and switched to using it has my main personal desktop/laptop machine, it’s been a frustrating experience at times.

Could this could be the new model of what the technology press should be doing – publishing only online, not in print …

Three co-hosts of a local Minneapolis radio show were honored as TIME magazine’s “Blog of the Year.”

MSN Spaces picked up a four-star review from PC Magazine. Very impressive for a new Microsoft service.

Marie Claire, the French magazine group, has chosen 24/7 Real Media’s Open AdStream Central as its exclusive ad serving solution.

ISYS Search Software’s Industry-Leading Desktop Search Tool for Business and Government Acknowledged for Its Usability, Flexibility and Market Penetration.

CRM magazine revealed the winners of its 2004 CRM Leaders awards at a gala awards ceremony held during DCI’s Customer Relationship Management Conference in San Francisco.

PeopleSoft today announced it has been named a “2004 CRM Market Leader” by CRM magazine, a leading CRM industry publication dedicated to helping companies gain and maintain profitable customers, cultivate customer loyalty, and reduce business costs.

Garner Recognized for Significant Achievements in Company and Client Growth; Leadership in Right-Shore Outsourcing Strategy is Foundation for Success.

Maximizer Software was named a ‘CRM Market Leader’ by CRM magazine.

Acxiom Corporation, the global leader in customer data management, today announced that it had been named the 2004 “CRM Data Quality Market Leader” by CRM magazine, the industry’s leading publication dedicated to helping companies become customer-focused organizations.

Oracle received top honors in two categories in Intelligent Enterprise Magazine’s 2004 Reader’s Choice Awards for Best Information Technology Products.

O.C. Tanner Recognition Company has been named one of CIO Magazine’s “Agile 100″ for the company’s ability to marry “IT agility with enterprise agility in order to move quickly, adapt intelligently and create advantage in a rapidly changing world,” according to the publication.

Anthem, Inc. has been recognized by CIO magazine as a recipient of the “2004 CIO 100 Award.”

With the rise of always-on Internet connections in homes and businesses, and the continued explosive growth of the World Wide Web and Internet-accessible applications, it is becoming more and more important for applications to be able to share data with each other. Sharing data among disparate platforms requires a platform-neutral data format that can be easily transmitted via standard Internet protocols-this is where XML fits in. Since XML files are essentially, simple text files with well-known encodings, and since there exist XML parsers for all commonly used programming languages, XML data can be easily consumed by any platform.

Metasearch engine Dogpile has won the PC Magazine Editor’s Choice Award for their search toolbar. The issue is scheduled to come out on June 8, 2004. This award marks the third major industry award won by Dogpile this year.

KANA has announced the release of its service resolution management (SRM) solutions, targeted to help reduce the costs associated with resolving customer issues through assisted and self-service applications. KANA SRM includes KANA Self-Service applications (to provide customers with multichannel tools and a service portal to help manage their relationship with the enterprise); KANA Assisted Service (to provide service agents with current and consistent knowledge); and KANA Proactive Service (for planning, automating, scheduling, and the delivery of outbound customer-service messages).

Hi Carey,
I am trying to reduce the number of emails I receive. I see under messages, there is a block senders list; however, I guess I don’t fully understand what to do. Please explain how to use this list and how it works.