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...Technology analyst firm IDC estimates that two thirds of all PCs are infected with some kind of spyware. It's easy to check yours: a number of web sites, such as lavasoftusa.com, offer free scanning and removal of spyware. Microsoft is getting into the anti-spyware game, too, and its new technology is free during the testing period...
...retail consultant Cynthia Cohen, president of Strategic Mindshare. To earn that premium, retail consultants say Macy's has to offer more merchandise that shoppers can't get anywhere else. Private labels like Charter Club and INC already make up about 18% of Federated's sales. Deborah Weinswig, a financial analyst with Citigroup, says shoppers are likely to find more of that kind of merchandise in the months to come. The strategy has worked well for J.C. Penney. That chain, pegged to a slightly lower income demographic than Macy's, goosed its third-quarter profit 17% with lines that are only...
...stop Osama bin Laden and his ilk would have the same "consequences" as Europe's appeasement of the Nazis before World War II. Bullet points describe possible U.S. economic depression and Washington being forced into an "accommodation" with terrorists. Skeptics question the timing of such predictions. Says security analyst John Pike: "The Pentagon has a long tradition of dialing up the threat to get more dollars at budget time...
...leaders have spread their country's nuclear facilities between at least 20 known sites and buried many of them deep underground. Inflicting serious damage would require multiple surgical air strikes. "We are speaking about a large program dispersed over a very large area," says Yiftah Shapir, a military analyst at the University of Tel Aviv's Jaffee Center and a retired air force officer. Iran's facilities are also much further from Israel than Osirak, making a military strike more difficult and dangerous-and probably requiring Israeli bombers to refuel mid-operation. "There are serious operational difficulties," says Emily Landau...
...firm that created the new McD. Counter seating will serve eat-and-run customers. Those looking to linger will find soft lighting and plush chairs. Mingling teens can cram tables together in a flexible seating area. "It's something [McDonald's] should have done years ago," says restaurant analyst Howard Penney of Friedman Billings Ramsey. The design suggests a certain coffee chain, but Penney says it could give McDonald's an edge over fast-food rivals...