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30 years have passed since the first spam message was sent and 15 years since for the first time it was coined. Today spam continues infecting e-mail. Joel Furr the one who came up with the term. He works as an administrator on the Usenet, which is a net discussion system. Spam served as the term that referred to spontaneous bulk messages.

Spamhaus, which is an anti-spam body, states that about 90 percent of all e-mail represents spam. According to Mark Sunner, who holds the position of a chief analyst at Message Labs, an online security firm, spam represents a real life arms race.

According to some rumors Dell and Google look forward to create the world's worst android-based phone. There were also certain assumptions that at the end of January 2008 the so-called Android-Dell mobile phone had already been developed and soon is going to be presented to the public.

World largest mobile phone manufacturer, Nokia, developed a new concept handset created entirely from recycled materials. The handset was presented at the Mobile World Congress, which was held in Barcelona, Spain.

The representatives of Google concentrated on Microsoft's attempt to purchase Yahoo in hostile terms, pointing fingers and blamed the software giant of a hostile bid, considering possible problematic legal aspects. This somewhat resemble the actions of Microsoft when Google announced the purchase of DoubleClick. At that time the Mountain View corporation was firm about its actions and its officials mentioned that the number one search engine does not have the goal to go for monopoly, they mentioned that the company just strengthening its forces. However ironic it may sound but the software giant may use the mirror-like arguments in its defense.

X48-Based motherboards of Gigabyte and MSI were never launched into the market, which is a cruel example of checkmate for the popular chipmaker Intel.

The two companies are considered to be world's biggest motherboard producers (not including Asus). This is why there was no big surprise after public found out about the fact that the two giants decided to develop brand-new motherboards, which would be powered by the approaching X48 chipset, developed by Intel, with complete support for the quad-core powerhorses.

After losing the battle to Google over the regular advertisements that appear next to web search, the number two search engine Yahoo! makes a great push in the field of mobile Internet advertising. The company continues registering more partners in the domain. It is worth mentioning that the company has already been applying the same strategy for some time, which maker it one of the biggest competitors in mobile Internet advertising.

Advanced Micro Devices recently announced a bigger quarterly loss which occurred after the chip producer paid $1.68 billion charge for having acquired the ATI, which is a Canadian company that manufactures graphics chips.

Despite the fact that the chip maker was able to realize revenue of $10.1 billion, plus operating income $2.2 billion and net income $1.9 million, Advanced Micro Devices could only generate its quarterly revenue of $1.770 billion, having a net loss of $1.722 billion and registering an operating loss of $1.678 billion. The whole picture looks as follows: the chip manufacturer registered revenue of $6.012 billion along with a net loss of $3.379 billion. Together with AMD, ATI also showed some negative results. Analysts say that the company is currently valued 30 percent less that the money the CPU paid for it 2 years ago. It is worth mentioning that in 2006 CPU acquired the company for $5.4 billion.

This time Samsung is the one to fill in the United States a countersuit against Sharp.

The patent-infringement lawsuit that Sharp filed some time ago against Samsung Electronics presumably served as the reason why the biggest producer of semiconductors recently decided to fill a patent-infringement lawsuit against the manufacturer of LCD panel. The lawsuit is filled with the U.S. International Trade Commission and the Tokyo District Court.