SharewareRadio.com Broadcast - March 30, 2006

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News Reports

Microsoft may get in on Registry cleaning act. European Commission
says wait a minute..

eBay Buy Now
The US Supreme Court yesterday heard arguments Wednesday over an eBay
Patent infringment case. .

CopyCat of the Week
Lycos is coming out with their own VoIP service to compete with Skype
and Yahoo.

Mac site that is causing some stir
They have a "MysteryZOT" sometimes offering.
http://maczot.com/discuss/?p=24
A MysteryZOT is a bundle of a few shareware apps for a really low
price. The catch is that you have to place an order before you get to
find out what you're ordering.

.xxx domain could be canned
Plans to establish a .xxx adult domain may be dropped after a
committee representing governments around the world made it clear that
several countries strongly opposed it.

The Kiss My *** award of the week.
This weeek it goes to the US-China Economic and Security Review
Commission (USCC) boss Michael Wessel.
The US agency boss is calling for an official probe into Chinese
computer firm Lenovo's contract to supply 15,000 computers to the US
State Department.

News from Henk Devos of SharewareBlogs.com.
ISC, the developers of BIND, the software that runs most DNS services,
have announced the launch of the DLV registry. DLV stands for Domain
Lookaside Validation. The registry makes it possible to begin using
DNSSEC on a wide scale. DNSSEC is a secure extension to the DNS
protocol, based on cryptographic proof of identity, making spoofing
impossible.
A Russian developer saw a pirate selling illegal copies of his
software and challenged him in the boxing ring. The developer won.
Sounds like an effective way to deal with software pirates.
An interesting software release is GroupSurveys by the Irish company
Infacta Software.
http://www.infacta.com/
GroupSurveys makes it easy to set up surveys and find out what
customers, employees or web site visitors really want

News from Dave Collins of SharewarePromotions.com
Dave is going to be putting out a new monthly newsletter: Competitive
Edge - another Microsoft product has been delayed to 2007 - Matt Cutts
answers questions - PC Magazine have put together a list of their
favourite, most-useful utilities. - Dave reports that he has found a
great app called AdwordsReporter - Dave has many other interesting
items on his blog.

Our guest this week is Dave Gjessing of WaverlyStreet Software.
Dave's company has been producing practical, easy-to-use programs for
small business since 1996. Try before you buy - download
fully-operational programs and try them out for a period of time while
deciding whether or not to purchase.
His website is at:
http://www.waverlystreet.com/


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Mike Dulin
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