Webpages concerning "Tech [5]"
The basics of privacy law come down to what you are going to do with my data, consistency of action and consent.
- Keywords:
- privacy, consent, data collection, personal information
http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/07/privacy.principles.idg/index.html
Flat-screen CRTs control nine spots on the chart this month. Of the four newcomers, Samsung's SyncMaster 700NF ascends the highest, thanks to its bright colors and reasonable price.
- Keywords:
- monitors, Samsung, Syncmaster, 700NF, CRT, flat-screen, top 10, buying guide
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/27/top.monitors.idg/index.html
New Web-authoring tool helps beginners get started online-- for free.
- Keywords:
- Lycos, tripod, Web site, home page, beginners, Site Builder, disk space, novice, free, Web authoring
http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/02/free.site.builders.idg/index.html
In the face of increasing pressure from privacy groups, business groups and Internet service providers (ISPs), the U.K. government is backing away from some of the more controversial aspects of its e-mail surveillance bill currently under consideration in the House of Lords.
- Keywords:
- U.K., Great Britain, e-mail, surveillance, bill, legislation, computer, Internet, encryption, privacy, law, Regulation, of, Investigatory, Powers, (RIP), data communications
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/26/cybersnoop.idg/index.html
The government says DoubleClick has been using the trackers to keep tabs on visitors to the Freevibe site.
- Keywords:
- government, DoubleClick, cookies, trackers, antidrug, track, visitors, Freevibe
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/23/antidrug.dealing.cookies.idg/index.html
Your Mac -- which probably entered your life as an expense -- is a great tool for saving and managing money. These tips will show you exactly how.
- Keywords:
- Mac, Excel, personal finance, money management, financial management, Quicken, Apple, iMac, G4, G3
http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/01/mac.money.idg/index.html
See how tying multiple legacy systems together gives doctors a single point of access to more than one million patient records.
- Keywords:
- medical records, doctor, healthcare, patients
http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/02/medical.unity.idg/index.html
Microsoft on Wednesday declared that its next version of Windows will be outfitted to let corporations and users work with a new privacy standard now on display.
- Keywords:
- IBM, AT&T, Platform, for, Privacy, Preferences, P3P, privacy, Windows, Microsoft
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/22/vendors.privacy.idg/index.html
Vietnam's leaders must understand the benefits of the knowledge economy and make it a part to of the country's national renovation effort to allow Vietnam to effectively integrate into the rest of the world.
- Keywords:
- Vietnam, knowledge economy, information technology, Southeast Asia, government policy
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/27/vietnam.idg/index.html
Wireless users may face increased vulnerability to viruses and other malicious attacks as devices such as PalmPilots and Internet phones become more technically advanced and are used more widely.
- Keywords:
- virus, phones, PDA, Palm, Spain, cellular, hacker, security
http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/14/wireless.threat.idg/index.html
In a bid to tap the appeal of the Internet, the Democratic National Committee is offering free Internet service to anyone with a computer and a telephone line.
- Keywords:
- Democrat, Democratic National Committee, free, service, access, ISP
http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/14/free.democratic.web.idg/index.html
Dotcom allows you to escape the poll-booth nightmare, do it all from home.
- Keywords:
- vote, online, register, poll-booth, government, election
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/23/voter.registration.online.idg/index.html
Web radio was supposed to be DJ-free, but a new generation of shows is challenging this. Can Imus.com be far behind?
- Keywords:
- Web radio, DJ, Imus.com, streaming audio, streamies, bandwidth, RealPlayer, Quicktime, Egil Aalvik, Swedish Egil, Grooveradio
http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/07/webdj.idg/index.html
DotPhoto.com offers tools to build and share multimedia albums and print your best photos.
- Keywords:
- DotPhoto.com, talking photos, photos, photography, digital photo albums, Web photos, pictures, sites, Internet, Net, Web, sites, Web services
http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/15/talking.photos.idg/index.html
The banking giant has removed portions of its site that were described as promoting racial stereotypes.
- Keywords:
- Kozmo.com, racial segregation, lawsuit, ACORN, Norwest Bank, redlining, racial stereotypes
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/26/wells.fargo.redlining.idg/index.html
Can graphics cards aimed largely at gamers also fulfill the needs of 3-D graphics professionals -- the people who make their living as architects, artists, game developers, visual-effects specialists and the like?
- Keywords:
- graphics, graphics card, graphics professionals, games, gaming, displays
http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/02/graphics.card.analysis.idg/index.html
In the wake of reports last week that the so-called Serbian Badman virus wasn't nearly as deadly as was first reported, users and analysts say it's still better to be safe than sorry where virus reports are concerned.
- Keywords:
- virus, security, alert, Serbian Badman, trojan horse
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/21/security.warning.idg/index.html
Comedian Robin Williams plopped into the chair next to Tonight Show host Jay Leno one night in April to talk about his latest gig.
- Keywords:
- audio, books, download
http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/13/unpopular.audio.books.idg/index.html
It's called PC Expo, but this year the giant New York computer show will reveal more things tiny and shiny than things big and beige.
- Keywords:
- PC Expo, wireless, handheld, PDA, WAP, Bluetooth
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/28/pc.expo.idg/index.html
Tracy Coyle has heard about the value that Web marketers place on personal information, and she's decided to cash in.
- Keywords:
- Wisconsin, personal info, marketers, privacy, questionnaire
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/16/wisconsin.info.for.sale.idg/index.html
Internet portal Yahoo has appealed a French court ruling ordering the company to block access to auction sales of Nazi memorabilia for all French Web surfers.
- Keywords:
- Yahoo, Internet, auction, Web site, France, Nazi, memorabilia
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/19/nazi.memorabilia.idg/index.html
A new Internet virus disguised as a joke
about the male and female stages of life crippled the e-mail
systems of several Fortune 100 companies, computer security
experts said.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/20/stages.virus/index.html
Computer hackers broke into a Web site run by a gun-control group and replaced it with an obscenity-laced page, organization officials said Monday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/19/gun.control.website/index.html
After producing a multitude of millionaires, a new reality is setting in the frenzied Internet economy: profit or perish. From San Jose to Manhattan to dot-com outposts across the country, the Darwinian shakeout under way has left dozens of start-ups on the venture capitalist chopping block, with more to come.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/30/dot.com.shakeout/index.html
Just what is going on here? On Monday we hear that the whole 140-strong staff of Internet crime site APBnews.com is getting pink slips (this following news of struggles at other web sites); on Tuesday, two new economic studies -- from the Commerce Department and the Cisco-funded Center for Research in Electronic Commerce at the University of Texas -- report that the Internet economy has been fueli...
http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/06/internet6_6.a.tm/index.html
A quarter century after the disillusionment of Watergate, the voting public famously cares more about portfolios than politics, more about Wall Street -- and NASDAQ -- than Washington. So it's only fitting that the coolest cloak-and-dagger scandal of the day involves not Republicans and Democrats but Oracle and Microsoft. A comparison:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/29/dotcom6_29.a.tm/index.html
Nearly half of all U.S. households have
Internet access, and suburbanites lead the way in
embracing new technology, according to a survey released Tuesday.
http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/06/digital.innovation/index.html
Despite being a cold, arid world, Mars shows signs of harboring liquid water
on its surface, according to NASA scientists quoted in news
reports.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/06/21/mars.water/index.html
The next generation of spacewalkers could fix faulty satellites and space stations without breaking a sweat, needing a meal or expecting a paycheck. Already the first one, a metal humanoid known as Robonaut, has developed an impressive level of dexterity.
http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/06/13/robonaut/index.html
Astronomers once thought stellar collisions
never or rarely happened. But new research has convinced many
that stellar mergers are commonplace and perhaps capable of
producing the most violent and energetic events observable in
the universe.
http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/06/02/stellar.collisions/index.html
New close-up images of Io document the presence of
numerous unknown volcanoes and reveal some spectacular geological
changes in familiar ones. Snapped by the Galileo spacecraft,
the new photos indicate the Jupiter moon most likely
possesses hundreds of volcanoes, scientists said this week.
http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/06/01/galileo.io/index.html
The Hubble Space Telescope has zoomed in on the
center of the Crab Nebula, producing an image with
unsurpassed detail of the convoluted celestial marvel,
astronomers said Thursday.
http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/06/01/hubble.nebula/index.html
Shooting streams of matter in opposite directions, a
supermassive black hole is creating giant bubbles of hot gas
in space, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope said
Monday.
http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/06/05/hubble.black.holes/index.html
Mission scientists this week turned off an instrument on the NEAR asteroid orbiter after it experienced unexplained power surges.
http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/06/08/near.glitch/index.html
Within the next three years, several nations will attempt to dig deeper into the mystery of liquid water on Mars with an array of spacecraft, including a European probe that could land near a theoretical wet spot on the red planet.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/06/26/mars.race/index.html
Despite its cold and arid surface, Mars displays
signs of recent liquid water activity in numerous places, bolstering theories that simple life forms could have emerged on the red planet.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/06/21/mars.water.03/index.html
NASA plans to launch one of the most advanced communications satellites on Friday, following a one-day postponement to check an engine on the rocket that will carry it into space.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/06/29/atlas.launch/index.html
NASA scientists on Thursday revealed images of gullies, channels and deltas on Mars that they say indicate the presence of liquid water near the surface of the red planet and have
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/06/22/mars.water.02/index.html
Russia and a private corporation plan to send two cosmonauts on yet another mission to the aging Mir space station later this year, according to Russian news reports. Meanwhile, two crewmen aboard the orbiter are expected to return to Earth at the end of the week.
http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/06/12/mir.mission/index.html
A rocket fueled by what some scientists consider the fourth type of matter as fuel could boost payload capacity and slash travel time to Mars, according to NASA, which agreed this week to work with a Montana company to develop the advanced technology.
http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/06/15/plasma.rocket/index.html
Mars could hold two to three times more water under its surface than previously estimated, according to a new study.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/06/29/mars.water/index.html
Despite its cold and arid surface, Mars displays
signs of water springs possibly heated by volcanism, bolstering theories that simple life forms could have emerged on the red planet.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/06/21/mars.water.02/index.html
Scientists have produced sharp photos of an uncharted region of Mercury with imaging techniques described in a scientific journal this month.
http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/06/01/mercury.pics/index.html
Of the five planets visible to the unaided eye, Mercury is by far the hardest to spot. It never strays far from the sun, so from our perspective Mercury is frequently masked by the bright glow of twilight before sunrise or after sunset. But this elusive planet is fairly easy to spot -- if you know where and when to look.
http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/06/05/see.mercury/index.html
A scientifically precise event that happens once
every six months, the solstice has inspired
mysterious celebrations and been blamed for irrational
conduct for centuries.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/06/20/solstice.wrap/index.html
Want to take a trip into space for pocket change?
All one need do is win a lottery for a seat on the
Starchaser, a proposed rocket vying to become the first
private ship in space.
http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/06/09/x.prize/index.html
The sun rose over the south pole of Eros this week,
illuminating terrain hidden in darkness since a NASA
spacecraft went into orbit around the asteroid four months
ago.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/06/27/near.update/index.html
One designed for enterprises, one for consumers, both touting greater stability and support for file formats.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/21/web.staroffice.idg/index.html
The FBI met Friday morning with representatives of a security company that said it had discovered a widespread, malicious Internet program embedded on home computers. Hours later the bureau had not issued a security alert, a move that would indicate the presence of a serious threat.
http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/09/hacker.attack.03/index.html
Computer security experts intercepted a new virus designed to attack cell phones with text capabilities, posing a threat to handheld computers, pagers and phones that are exploding in use worldwide.
http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/ptech/06/09/fda.cellphones/index.html
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