Robert Soloway the one they call the “King of Spam”, and we don’t mean the meat made of mixed intestines, but rather the guy that has made huge money off of spamming people. Why was this guy still around? Especially with the fact that he already was convicted back in 2005. He seemed to have gotten away without paying any fines, but not this time.

Robert Soloway has now pleaded guilty to the charges brought against him for fraud and Tax evasion now. Looks like hes not getting out of this one. But guess what? He wants to talk now about his assets. Especially when he may be spending 26 years in prison.

Google announced that it has just acquired DoubleClick. Well I am sure we all thought that a year ago, isn’t that old news? not really, considering that the all powerful Google even had to follow the regulatory approvals mandated by law.

But now that they do have double click, how will that affect advertisers? Google says it has plans of integrating its own ads with DoubleClick in the coming weeks, and that we will get news how thats going to be done.

Google also spoke of a headcount being reduced. It looks like there will be some layoffs, and Google is trying to be nice in the way it describes the reduction of jobs most likely overseas and locally as well.

This is just another move in Googles step forward towards world domination as it seems sometimes.

By keeping your computer memory super cooled with liquid nitrogen, you can basically keep the data ‘fresh’ for a long time.

Long time in the sense of computer memory is roughly anything longer than a minute. These four students at Princeton University have experimented with cooling the memory cards to preserve the data. Submersing the card into Liquid Nitrogen for a full hour, returning it to the computer and powering it up showed them that no data had been lost.

Read the full article here.

Microsoft announced that they are lowering the prices on several consumer editions of Windows Vista. FiringSquad reports that Vista Home Premium’s price will now be $129, down from $159, and the Vista Ultimate Edition will drop from $299 to $219.

Microsoft’s press release implies that Vista sales have been strong through the sale of new PCs, but less than stellar when it comes to individual consumer purchases. They hope this price drop will encourage more XP users to upgrade.

Expect retailers to update their prices in the weeks before Microsoft releases the Vista Service Pack 1 in mid-March.