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Fine-Tuning Spam Filtering

Because the volume of spam has increased from about 10 percent of all e-mail in 2001 to more than 50 percent today, corporations and ISPs have been trying to find ways to keep the junk mail from overwhelming users' inboxes. Filtering products, which rely on several techniques to separate needed mess...

TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL REPORT

Twilight of Barcodes and the Dawn of RFID

Barcodes, those familiar sets of lines on items from DVDs to refrigerators, eventually may go the way of the typewriter, the black-and-white television and the dodo. Radio Frequency Identification technology promises to replace bar coding and make it easier for suppliers, distributors and retailers ...

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Instant Messaging Opens New Security Holes

Instant messaging has become the latest employee productivity tool. A customer-service representative can use it to answer a customer inquiry, whereas a salesperson can inform a busy vice president about a new account. In fact, research firm Gartner estimates 70 percent of corporate employees rely o...

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3G Networks Ready To Take Hold

Faster, more flexible, less expensive and more functional has been the telecommunications industry's mantra. As soon as one networking technology takes hold, vendors begin pushing another that promises to deliver more functionality, and such a scenario is now unfolding with wireless wide area networ...

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Passwords Fail the Security Test

Passwords are the first line of defense in almost every company's security scheme. But sometimes they are the weakest link because they can be easily guessed, stolen or otherwise compromised. If a firm wants to keep its information secure, then it needs to put additional security checks in place. Pa...

Online Shopping and the Future of Comparison Buying

The volume of goods being purchased via the Internet is rising. However, while certain consumers know what they want and feel comfortable making an instant purchase, many have questions about product pricing, availability and quality. Increasingly, the latter group is turning to online comparison-sh...

CONSUMER REPORT

Camera Phones and the Future of Digital Photography

The mall's latest fashion trend is not carried at Liz Claiborne, Tommy Hilfiger or J. Crew. Instead, young adults are flocking into Best Buy and Circuit City for the latest accessory: camera phones. The product's low price and convenience have sparked a sales boom: Market research firm In-Stat/MDR, ...

INDUSTRY REPORT

Search Engines Prepare for New Battles

When the Internet first emerged into the mainstream, companies like Yahoo evolved rapidly from startups into successful corporations by helping users sift though mountains of information to find the data they needed. But as the Internet grew, many of those companies shifted their attention away from...

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Can Lessons from the Common Cold Help Us Defeat Computer Viruses?

Through the years, some malicious computer programs have come to be known as viruses. Dr. Fred Cohen, a principal analyst with market research firm Burton Group, coined the term when he was working as a graduate student at the University of Southern California in the early 1980s. "There was a resemb...

INDUSTRY REPORT

WiFi Standards Compete for Market Dominance

A general rule for IT departments is no matter how much bandwidth a network offers, users want more. So as soon as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers completed work on the 802.11b specification, which supports 11 Mbps wireless LAN transmissions, the 802.11 working group began to w...

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The Future of P2P File-Sharing Networks

The debate about whether peer-to-peer applications, which were first made popular with the Napster file-sharing network, should be legitimate or illegitimate continues to rage. On one side are applications like Morpheus and Kazaa, whose makers claim their products have many uses. On the other side a...

INDUSTRY REPORT

The Most Destructive Viruses of All Time

Hackers and security vendors are engaged in a never-ending game of leapfrog, with the former constantly devising clever viruses and the latter feverishly trying to concoct antidotes. As a result, through the years hundreds of thousands of malignant programs have infected networks around the world. M...

VoIP’s Guerilla Effort To Supplant Traditional Telcos

Rather than move for an all-out frontal assault, voice over IP (VoIP) service providers are flanking the traditional telecommunications companies. In building their businesses, the VoIP providers -- which develop products that let customers make telephone calls over the Internet -- are not trying to...

TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL REPORT

The End of .Zip Compression as We Know It

Software constantly evolves, and change often sparks controversy. Such is the case with Zip, a popular file-compression technology that almost every computer user has run into at one time or another. One reason why the technology, developed back in 1986, has gained such widespread acceptance is that...

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Postal Service Moves Toward Intelligent Mail

The U.S. Postal Service would like to add a new word to the mix of adjectives like "slow" and "inefficient" that have been used to describe it in the past. The new word is "intelligent," and it symbolizes the high-tech spark that is energizing this old-line government agency. A confluence of factors...

WiFi – To Free or Not To Free

The WiFi hot-spot concept has been gaining acceptance, and analysts expect the number of U.S. locations to grow from the current 10,000 to more than 40,000 in five years. As hot-spot services become more popular, corporations are experimenting with various business models to justify their deployment...

TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL REPORT

Challenges Remain for High-End Router Suppliers

New growth in scorched earth might be the best metaphor to describe the state of the high-end router market at present. When the Internet was booming, a bevy of startup suppliers rushed to build the top-of-the-line network devices called core routers. It was thought that products operating at gigabi...

TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL REPORT

GPS Lost: Can the Satellite Technology Find Its Way?

You are walking past a coffee shop one morning, your mobile phone beeps, and up pops a coupon for a free croissant. You are driving on the highway when your computer screen displays a message telling you that an accident has occurred 10 miles up the road, so you take an alternate route. Zealous vend...

TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL REPORT

IBM’s Future Strategy: Grid Computing Everywhere

A sense of deja vu is sweeping through IBM's executive offices. Hardware, a category of computer technology that has been commoditized over the past several years because of falling prices, once again has become sexy -- so sexy, in fact, that it has become the linchpin in IBM's quest to maintain its...

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