All anti-spam solutions should give you a basic feature of blocking bad e-mails. However, increasingly better spam attack techniques force us to continuously improve the anti-spam solution capabilties. Here are 4 key features that should be used to counter future spam attacks.

1. Administration of underlying OS: Relevant only for software-based solutions. Whether when using Windows or UNIX, someone will need to spend some time updating the operating system: making configuration changes, installing patches from time to time, and tracking resource performance and consumption.
2. Enterprise policy administration: When using centralized spam blockers, whether it is a software-, appliance-, or ASP-based system, will require certain amount of organization-level administration, including quarantine management and white-list management for adjusting the degree of filtering, should too few or too many messages are tagged as spam.
3. Performance upgrades monitoring: As the company and/or the e-mail capacity grows, someone has to watch resource utilizations over time so that an upgrade to network capacity and server hardware can yield better results
4. Automatic algorithm and signature updates: In order to stay completely effective, an anti-spam solution must have the most recent rules (ways to determine whether an e-mail is spam or not) and signatures (characteristics of all known spam messages). Spam filters do this by periodically downloading and installing updates from the spam filter’s website. Someone must watch this diligently to make sure that the updates work properly.

Apple launched its disappointing and, arguably, flawed iPad and yet all of a sudden everyone is piling on the “anti netbook” bandwagon. The netbook’s days are numbered, claims an expert. The iPad is killing the netbook, says another.

It’s like a huge chunk of the IT industry decided to temporarily shelve their respective intellects and allow themselves to be swayed by Steve Jobs’ words. However, avid netbook users tend to think the iPad is less flexible and less functional than a netbook, and worse it comes with a long laundry list of missing features and compromises.

Multitasking: Of course, iPad can multi-task, a limited multi- tasking and reserved only for its native apps. It’s not a complete multi-tasking power for opening and switching between dozens of 3rd party applications. By multitasking, you can do a lot more in a single device. For example, with a typical $375 netbook (Intel Atom and WIndows XP Home), you can do your works with your word processing software while downloading a virus definition update and playing a song in the background. And after you finish your works, you can unwind by blasting some Nazis in the oldie-but-goodie Call of Duty 1. Throw in a 3rd-party video chat (oh no, the iPad doesn’t have a camera right?) while playing multiplayer games and we are already way beyond what even the most expensive iPad model can do.

Media support: After installing the necessary codecs, netbooks can support all media formats, from any conceivable sources. With a 10″ and 16:9 aspect ratio screen, you can enjoy HD-formatted videos in all its borderless glory. For those who hunger for more, they can bring new media contents into the netbook via a wide range of well-supported conduits: USB, gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi, media card reader, and so forth. With iPad, you have iTunes and well, that’s about it.

Connectivity: A typical netbook comes with bristles of connectivity options, USB, Ethernet, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and many more. In addition, even a cheap netbook is equipped with an ExpressCard slot and 8-in-1 media card reader. You can also get HSDPA connectivity easily by buying a 3G adapter. By contrast, Jobs’ new tablet is just a wireless-only device, and the absence of a built-in USB port or media card reader really hamstrings its users.

Mobility: Thanks to their compact size and weight, people can set netbooks down on nearly any surfaces, including their laps, and type away comfortably. You never need to worry about stabilizing it or propping it up while you are on a moving train, taxi, or bus. It is about as close to mobility flawlessness as you can experience. With iPad you are wasting one hand only for holding it. A few newer netbook models are now using  touch-screen display, which improve its versatility (Windows-based netbook/tablet convertible Asus Eee PC T91 with touchscreen display is only $445 on Amazon).

In the long run, it’s doubtful that most netbook users will ditch their netbooks in favor of an iPad. For netbook fanatics, the new tablet is missing a lot of useful features and just a jumble of ill-conceived ergonomics design while offering netbook owners nothing in the way of versatility and real innovation; instead, it forces consumers to discard functionality and features in order to squeeze the whole thing into very restrictive confines.

It is actually possible that introduction of the iPad could boost netbook sales as consumers revisit the market for “more flexible” solutions and find that an ideal gadget had sit there all along between the traditional notebook and the smartphone.

Yes, it’s a netbook and Apple doesn’t have it.

If you are planning to launch your very own online business website, than you have to think a little harder on the strategies to market your website intelligently. Today, cyberspace is getting really competitive as more and more websites are being launched every minute that promises to provide better services and products. With so many websites available at a click of a mouse it becomes a battle for survival for the website owners as customers have a wide variety of choices before they can actually buy a product or a service that they are looking for.

A good SEO copywriter is really essential if you want to bring your site among the top sites on Google or any other major search engine. SEO copywriting is all about a better content and a combination of good keywords that will help you get more traffic and target audience. Though, many website owners don’t believe it but a good content can really boost the overall ratings of your website because web surfers are always in search of unique content that would answer their queries and curiosity and if you can explain them in a better way than you have won their loyalty and they will come back to your website without a doubt.

With good SEO copywriting you can really take your website to a wider audience as it will be mass appealing and people will be attracted with the good titles that you have posted on your website. Remember that as more and more people are visiting your site, it will automatically increase the chances of your site being shown among the top sites on Google. SEO copywriting can also project a better image of your website in the minds of your readers and online customers and they will always remember your website and come back every now and then.

To be fare, the unsecured credit bill did help consumers in a number of ways. While some critics claim it didn’t go far enough, it did offer more protection than consumer had previous to the bill passing. For example, the federal bill banned hidden fees that the industry had become notorious for. It also banned the practice of “universal default” which allowed companies to dramatically raise interest rates on a credit card if the consumer was more than a month late on a payment.

Other positives that came out of the bill include: credit card companies must honor payments made in a bank the day of the payment; it banned credit card companies from charging fees when users exceed their limits; and it prohibits credit card companies from setting early morning deadlines for payments. Each of these is a step in the right direction and providers consumers with far more protection than existed in the past. Unfortunately, some of the most notorious practices of lenders was not prohibited in the credit card bill, which led many critics to lash out in anger.

Some of the major problems with the federal credit card bill include:

No cap on the fees or interest rates a lender can charge – Credit card companies use interest rates that would be astonishing if used in any other lending situation (such as a mortgage or car loan) yet this behavior was left unchecked. Cards with 30%+ interest rates were allowed to continue, and since many lower class families are stuck with such cards, it will surely lead to more debt by lower and middle income families.

Arbitration was not ended. When you sign a credit card contract, you agree to go to arbitration if there is a disagreement. Problem is, the credit card companies run the arbitration meetings. The federal unsecured debt bill did nothing to stop this practice, leaving some major companies with an unchecked, and some would argue illegal, advantage when disputes arise.

These are two major issues which leave the consumer behind the proverbial “8 bal” when dealing with credit card companies. While the federal credit card bill does go a long way towards protecting borrowers, it does little to curb the power that companies yield. As President Obama’s term continues, hopefully more consumer protections will be offered and Congress will help lower the outrageous interest rates that have caused nightmares for consumers across the country.