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What Is Happening to Your Personal Data?

Some 72 percent of the businesses evaluated by a Boston-based research firm scored poorly on their policies for re-using their customers' personal data for marketing purposes, but the researchers maintain that more companies are sensitive to privacy issues than ever before and are acting on that awareness ...

New Virus Strain Spreads Swiftly Through E-Mail

One in every 74 e-mail messages on the Internet yesterday carried a new strain of the Sober virus, estimates one security analyst ...

SOFTWARE TOOLBOX

Don’t Sweat Slideshows in Flash

The software universe is teeming with programs for creating slideshows from digital images. Many of these applications fulfill their appointed task very well. But one snag for me when creating slideshows has been their file size ...

Lawsuits, Copyright Pilfering Allegations Added to Sony CD Snafu

What began as a promising way to protect CDs from piracy has become a public relations nightmare for Sony BMG Entertainment and its digital rights management (DRM) partners, First 4 Internet (F4I) and SunnComm ...

Marketers Cautioned About Web-Based E-Mail

Use of Web-based e-mail is on the rise and online marketers should be wary about it ...

Podcasts Perk Up Hosting Competition

Podcasting changed the face of audio on the Web and now it's altering the face of hosting, too ...

Less Than Half of Consumers Feel Safe Shopping Online

Less than half the consumers using the Internet feel safe shopping online, according to a survey expected to be released today by Symantec, a maker of anti-virus and security software ...

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Bringing Legitimacy to the Free Music World

The United States Supreme Court dealt online file sharing a body blow in June when it ruled that makers of peer-to-peer (P2P) software could be held liable for illegitimate uses of their applications. Since that decision was handed down in MGM v. Grokster, the P2P world has been floundering, bobbing in a sea of uncertainty over its future prospects...

PRODUCT REVIEW

This Keyboard’s Easy on the Hands – and Eyes

There aren't many tech outfits that can rival Apple Computer when it comes to industrial design, but in the keyboard department, there's one company that can give the Cupertino crew a run for their money ...

New Web Service Ties Blogs, Photos, Bookmarks Into Neat Package

As the potential of that indefinitely defined technology called Web 2.0 becomes more and more apparent, new applications seem to be appearing on an almost daily basis ...

Online Retailers Expecting Double-Digit Increase

Their numbers may not jibe but two prominent research firms agree on one thing: the holidays will be merry for online retailers ...

Rivals Unworried by Microsoft On-Demand Offensive

Microsoft's expected announcement today that it was broadening its presence in the on-demand software market isn't causing leading players in the arena to quake in their code ...

Study: Design Critical to Mobile Satisfaction

Ease of use and design -- not features -- are critical components to consumers' satisfaction with their cell phones, according to a study released yesterday ...

New Offering by Yahoo Raises Ante for Content Providers

Yahoo continued to raise the ante for content portals on the Net with the launch yesterday of a new original multimedia series by the pasha of adventure travel Richard Bangs ...

Pressure Building for Kinder, Gentler Blu-ray

Pressure to make more consumer friendly a standard for the next generation of DVDs continued to mount yesterday ...

SOFTWARE TOOLBOX

New Blogware Spans Simple to Sublime

Although Web logs, or blogs, have attracted a lot of ink and electrons, the keys totheir creation and upkeep remain a mystery to many Net surfers. That's not to say that there aren't minds at work in the electronic plasma ruminating on ways to encourage even the meekest Websters to try their hand at blogging ...

Coded Printers Enable Document Tracking

Clandestine codes used to track the output of some color laser printers have been cracked by a research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) ...

Codes Make Printers Stool Pigeons

Clandestine codes used to track the output of some color laser printers have been cracked by a research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) ...

Experts: Computer Crime Down But Caution Still Needed

Computer crimes targeted at businesses are at their lowest level ever, according to a leading expert in the field ...

High Prices at the Pump May Send Consumers Online

Rising gas prices may be withering consumer confidence these days, but online retailers see a silver lining in the disturbing trend ...

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