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The Dangers Of Location Tracking

The Dangers Of Location Tracking

Having government and big companies track our locations is a horrific invasion of privacy. We can be sure that big companies will be careless with private information about us, allowing it to be misused by bad actors. The government will almost certainly weaponize it...

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COMCAST CABLE INTERNET

Comcast claims to be moving forward to roll out Internet service on its cable systems in Sonoma County. If you're in a rural area and you haven't checked out cable or DSL...

AMERICA ONLINE WOES

The online-advertising market is beginning to rebound, and profits are on the rise at Yahoo and MSN. Meanwhile, things keep getting worse and worse at AOL. Ad sales were down 50%...

MORE URBAN LEGENDS

Time for our annual reminder that most e-mail warnings of bad things are false, ranging from the intentionally harmful to benign urban myths. An e-mail message is circulating...

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Microsoft has put together a rich source of information about digital photography on this page. It includes a fair amount of advertising for Microsoft products and partners, but...

NEW LOOK FOR HOTMAIL

Hotmail got an overhaul yesterday, including a new interface that resembles Microsoft Outlook 2003. Theoretically the junk mail filter keeps improving, grouping and viewing of...

SPAMMERS HAPPY WITH FEDERAL LAW

As you watch Congress and the President congratulate each other over the new federal anti-spam legislation, keep in mind that the spammers are thrilled with the new law. Here's...

MASTER & SLAVE

I'm a fan of politically correct speech. I think it's important to avoid using expressions that perpetuate stereotypes, even if it's reasonably clear that the words are meant...

YAHOO AND PRIVACY

Here's a good description of why Yahoo just sent out millions of notices about its "privacy policy." "One time Pac-Bell (now under SBC name umbrella) users were promised...

WONDERFUL WORLD

The Guardian reports that a media watchdog group is investigating a new ad from Intel showing mountaineers on Mt. Everest accessing the Internet using a Centrino wireless...

CAMERA PHONES

Here's an article about cell phones with cameras, which are the fastest-growing consumer technology ever, according to a recent study. Eighty million camera phones have been sold...

MICROSOFT VS. GOOGLE

Microsoft has begun testing a news service to aggregate headlines from a variety of publications. The new service, MSN Newsbot, is currently targeted at the UK and three European...

WEB BROWSER HIJACKING

I just ran into a browser hijacking that wasn't repaired by AdAware. "LuckySearch" came up as the browser home page and default search engine every time the system rebooted, even...