Abstract: A method and system for controlling an automatic transmission is disclosed. The method and system include obtaining positioning data using a global positioning satellite (GPS) and monitoring the automatic transmission to obtain transmission data. The method and system also include learning whether performance of the automatic transmission can be improved utilizing the positioning data and the transmission data. Moreover, the method and system include adjusting a shift threshold for the positioning data for the automatic transmission if it is determined that the performance of the automatic transmission can be improved.

Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for cooperative spam control. A cooperative spam control method can include the step of accepting an electronic spam notification received from a peer e-mail recipient in a common computing group identifying a spam message received by the peer e-mail recipient. The method further can include the step of storing the notification. Finally, if an e-mail is subsequently received which corresponds to the identified spam message, the received e-mail can be processed as spam. In a preferred aspect of the invention, the method also can include the steps of determining that a received e-mail is spam; and, communicating an electronic spam notification identifying the received e-mail determined to be spam to other peer e-mail recipients in the common computing group.