Do You Have True Courage?

“To see what is right and not do it is a lack of courage.” — Confucius, philosopher

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Running Risks

“It is impossible to win the great prizes in life without running risks.” — Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president

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Apple’s iPhone Debuts on June 29

If you were watching television Sunday night, you might have seen the commercials for the highly anticipated Apple iPhone. The commercials indicate the official launch date is June 29.The iPhone, which rolls a mobile phone, widescreen iPod, and Internet connectivity into one device, will retail in two models for $499 and $599, depending on the amount of memory. AT&T has an exclusive five-year deal to peddle the phone to its customers.

When the company unveiled the phone at Macworld in January, Apple CEO Steve Jobs called it “revolutionary and magical.” Apple’s stated goal is to sell 10 million of the devices in the next 18 months. Analysts aren’t ruling out that possibility.

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Sony Slashes Blu-ray Player Prices

Sony is slashing the price of its new BDP-300 Blu-ray disc player, which will be available in retail outlets for $499. That’s $100 less than originally announced.In fact, just six months since its market debut, Sony has cut the price of its Blu-ray player from $999 to $499, a 50 percent reduction that took traditional DVD players about two years, according to Envisioneering Group data. When DVD players launched about 10 years ago, the price tag was $1,000. A year later, it was still $800. Two years later, retail cost finally dropped to $500.

Sony’s advantage is that it manufacturers its own blue laser diodes, a key part of the next-gen players.

“Sony is passing on some of the manufacturing savings to customers,” said Richard Doherty, an analyst at Envisioneering Group. “The inability to manufacturer enough diodes was a headache for the PS3 last winter, but now Sony has enough to allow these half-price players.”

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Soloway’s Arrest Spotlights Malicious Spam

The arrest of “Spam King” Robert Alan Soloway might not reduce the junk mail in your inbox, but it has certainly raised awareness about the strategies spammers are employing these days.The U.S. Attorney arrested Soloway, the 27-year-old mastermind behind a large volume of world’s spam, on Wednesday last week. With the arrest, authorities made public some of the strategies and tactics of a notorious spammer who sent tens of millions of e-mail messages to advertise his company’s products and services.

According to the U.S. States Attorney’s office, Soloway constantly moved his operation from host to host and domain to domain. It was hosted on a minimum of 50 different domains. Since 2006, Soloway registered the domain names through Chinese ISPs in an apparent effort to hide their true ownership. And, in at least one instance, Soloway used another person’s credit card to pay for the domain name used to host the Web site for his firm, Newport Internet Marketing Corporation.

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