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Location Tracking: Who’s Following You? How Do They Know Where You Are?
Previously: Location Tracking: They Know Where You Are Location Tracking: LA LA LA I DON’T WANT TO HEAR YOU Our phones track our movements every minute of every day. We carry around beacons that continuously broadcast their location. Our phones are remarkably...
NETSCAPE vs. MICROSOFT
The media played up the lawsuit Netscape filed against Microsoft a couple of days ago. The allegation is that Microsoft damaged Netscape by preventing the Netscape browser from...
INACTIVE HOTMAIL ACCOUNTS WILL BE DROPPED
Microsoft is going to start enforcing its policy of deleting Hotmail accounts if they're not used at least once every thirty days. If you have a Hotmail account for convenience,...
POLITICS: ENRON AND WHITEWATER
I thought this was a particularly good discussion of the unfolding Enron scandal, well worth keeping in mind as the various players stake out their positions on the front page...
THE NEWS IS OR ISN’T AMBIGUOUS
On Saturday, the Washington Post reported that America Online was in negotiations to buy Linux manufacturer Red Hat - leading to lots of talking heads speculating about the...
LATEST NEWS IN THE COPYRIGHT WARS
The recording industry is gearing up to sneak copy-protected CDs into the marketplace - audio CDs that would play normally in conventional CD players, but that would prevent you...
SALE ON BLANK CDRS
If you need to stock up on blank 80-minute CDRs, Amazon has spindles of 50 Fuji CDRs for $14.99, with free shipping. Good deal!
WHY DSL STILL SUCKS
DSL is in terrible shape. Many people have persistent problems - lines disconnect or go down, tech support is poor or nonexistent, orders are handled slowly. Here's a good...
HOME ENTERTAINMENT HUBS
The home entertainment devices that will be hot next Christmas are taking shape. At the recent Consumer Electronics Show, a new company demonstrated the MoxiMedia Center, which...
WALLACE AND GROMIT COMING TO THE WEB
Twelve one-minute films featuring Wallace and Gromit will be available for download this autumn, according to this article. This is the first new Wallace and Gromit material...
FLAT PANEL MONITOR PRICES ON THE RISE
According to this article, prices for flat panel LCD monitors were in free fall last year because of an oversupply of glass. The factories have caught up, demand is skyrocketing...
ONLINE SHOPPING
I went shopping for a new monitor tonight and wound up buying it from an unexpected source. After checking Amazon, Buy.com, CDW, Microwarehouse, Insight, and a few others, I...
APPLE’S NEW IMAC
Look, I've got nothing against Apple, really. I think it would be fine if they did some cool things. But I can't get around it - the new iMac is ugly as sin. The original iMac...
DAVE BARRY DOES WINDOWS
In case you missed it, here's Dave Barry's column today about life with Windows. "I bring this all up because now Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to...
AOL BLOCKS HARVARD E-MAILS
The volume of junk mail has increased in the last few months, and people ask me all the time why it can't just be blocked. Implementing a junk mail filter is a difficult problem,...
WINDOWS XP SECURITY HOLE MISREPRESENTED
The press has done a terrible job reporting on the Windows XP security vulnerability that turned up a few days ago. It was widely reported that any hacker with a modem could sit...