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| - GM
executive: E-commerce, IT won't be affected by cuts
- Free
E-Mail Gone Without a Trace
- Gnutella
swaps cookies, too
- Ex-Los Alamos
Computer Whiz Jailed
- One year
After DoS attacks, Vulnerabilities Remain
- French
Activists Ask U.S. Court To Throw Out Yahoo! Suit
- Making
Tech Less Tacky
- Programmer
Shortage Slows Wireless Development
- Is
Amazon's Honor Plan Honorable?
- Sens.
Shelby, Dodd Resubmit Privacy Bill
- U.S.
Shuts Down Web-Site Name Scam
- Are
Napster's days numbered?
- Outrageous
Fortune
- Ready for Fiddler on
the Web?
- Oracle's first applications
conference on tap next week
- Web
Content Filters Fail
- Trouble
rushes the Net
- Hiring start-ups
help ease pink slip blues
- A
Not-So-Typical Valley 'Divorce'
- Are
Unions Strangling E-Commerce?
- "Onthefly"
worm uses Anna Kournikova ruse
- This
time Stephen King gives it away for free
GM
executive: E-commerce, IT won't be affected by cuts
The president of the
automaker's e-GM division, which is responsible for GM's Web-based consumer businesses,
says he's optimistic that a projected economic downturn won't affect IT initiatives.
Free
E-Mail Gone Without a Trace |
ZDNet U.K. and Australia shuts down its
free e-mail service without notice, and that's only the half of it. Users find
themselves unable to retrieve messages or information they'd previously saved
to their folders. Gnutella
swaps cookies, too
Web surfers trading free music and other digital goods
over one of the Web's most popular file-swapping networks are sharing much more:
sensitive data files that could expose them to identity theft. Ex-Los
Alamos Computer Whiz Jailed
The 21-year-old computer whiz accused of causing
more than $1 million in damage by hacking into eBay, Qualcomm and other prominent
high-tech companies was jailed Thursday after missing a deadline to make bail.
One
year After DoS attacks, Vulnerabilities Remain
A year after distributed
denial-of-service attacks blasted the likes of Yahoo!, eBay, CNN.com and eTrade
offline, no one has found an easy way to defend against a flood of unwanted IP
packets French
Activists Ask U.S. Court To Throw Out Yahoo! Suit
Another legal volley
was fired in the international battle over Yahoo! auctions of Nazi memorabilia.
Making
Tech Less Tacky
'Workspheres,' a look at new products and designs for
work spaces, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Programmer
Shortage Slows Wireless Development
Recruiters, analysts and some users
say a shortage of programmers and technical architects trained in developing wireless
applications is making some companies cautious about launching projects.
Is
Amazon's Honor Plan Honorable?
Amazon's new honor system gives the company
new power to track customers. It's saying "trust us, we won't peek." Critics smell
a fox near the henhouse. Sens.
Shelby, Dodd Resubmit Privacy Bill
Sens. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., and Christopher
Dodd, D-Conn., today reintroduced privacy legislation that would require schools
to get parental consent before collecting personal information from students for
commercial use. U.S.
Shuts Down Web-Site Name Scam
The U.S. government said Thursday that it
shut down a scam that duped at least 27,000 Web-site owners into needlessly registering
variations of their online addresses. Are
Napster's days numbered?
Napster had its day in court this week, but the
future of the popular file-swapping service is still up in the air. Outrageous
Fortune
CommerceNet, a nonprofit booster of e-business, won respect throughout
Silicon Valley because it was an honest broker. So how did a few of the group's
executives make millions for themselves? Ready
for Fiddler on the Web?
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and New York
University are collaborating on an online musical. Actors and musicians will perform
together, yet be located in different places. Oracle's
first applications conference on tap next week
The software vendor will
hold the first U.S. version of its new Oracle AppsWorld conference, which has
caused a major rift with the independent Oracle Applications Users Group.
Web
Content Filters Fail
A Consumer Reports test of Web filters found that
most allowed access to as many as one in five objectionable Web pages.
Trouble
rushes the Net
A virus posing as a photo of Russian tennis star Anna Kournikova
spread aggressively across the globe. Hiring
start-ups help ease pink slip blues
Ailing dot-coms in the Bay Area may
be firing workers, but newly funded technology companies are scrambling to hire
them. A
Not-So-Typical Valley 'Divorce'
The longtime partner of the former COO
for E-Trade up and left to be with another woman and is suing for equal assets.
It's not only the talk of the town in Palo Alto, Calif., but of the Bay Area's
legal and gay and lesbian communities. Are
Unions Strangling E-Commerce?
The news of labor strife at Amazon.com,
Webvan and Etown has industry observers asking this question: Are unions responsible
for the struggles of online businesses, or do e-tailers only have themselves to
blame for the dot-com union movement? "Onthefly"
worm uses Anna Kournikova ruse
A stealthy e-mail worm that hides itself
with encryption slipped onto the Net, using LoveLetter tactics and traveling in
an attachment named for pro tennis star and media darling Anna Kournikova, online
security company F-Secure warned. This
time Stephen King gives it away for free
Three excerpts of the author's
novel Dreamcatcher will be available for download at no charge on Time.com.
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