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...cure, in computing as in health, is prevention-stopping the stuff from ever being installed on your system. The National Cyber Security Alliance recommends that all computer users have a secure firewall, anti-virus and anti-spyware protection. And yet an alliance study, conducted last December in conjunction with AOL, found that 81% of home PCs were missing at least one of these three security components. Four in 10 lacked spyware protection...
...secret that every network is exploring ways to deliver content via other platforms, be it the Internet, cell phones or iPods (this week Survivor producer and reality TV impresario Mark Burnett announced he's working on an Internet project with Yahoo! and AOL, a division of Time Warner, the parent of TIME). But NBC is hoping that ?StarTomorrow? can marry the best of the old and new mediums, giving younger audiences the kind of interactive online experience they like with the already popular music competition format. Viewers will be able to go to NBC.com and watch ?StarTomorrow...
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...your cable provider leaves you panting for even more reruns, take a look at AOL's new online-TV network, In2TV. Starting in February, it will offer some 4,800 episodes of 100 old TV series--3,400 hours of programming in all, delivered over six virtual channels. Each 30-minute episode will include one to two minutes of advertising...
...interested in knowing what the dining halls will be serving tomorrow—but too lazy to check page 4 of this newspaper or the Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) web site? An anonymous user of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) has come to the rescue. An AIM user who claims to be a Leverett House computer science concentrator has created a program that places menu at the tips of hungry students’ fingers. The program, called “YummyFoodBot,” automatically responds to instant messages by spitting back information obtained from the HUDS website. It comes...