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...applicant who agreed to speak to FM wrote in an e-mail that the security flaw in the application database allowed anyone to access the information simply by altering the URL to an available page or, in the applicant’s case, using a feature on the Firefox browser. According to the applicant, the desired information was accessed “with four mouse clicks...

Author: By Gabriel A. Rocha, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bitter HBS Rejects Sulk Over Loophole | 3/17/2005 | See Source »

...argument. And lest you think I’m a dreamer, I’d like to point out that my world, or at least some facsimile of it, exists—and you enter it every time you turn on your computer and open your web browser or instant messaging client...

Author: By Matthew A. Gline, | Title: Gender-Free Zone | 3/1/2005 | See Source »

Look out, surfers: there's a wave of controversy headed your way over the latest version of the Google Toolbar, a popular Web browser add-on that attaches a search box and an extra row of buttons onto Internet Explorer. The new version (available at google.com) includes a feature called AutoLink, which can transform plain text on any Web page into a link that sends users to a related site for more information. AutoLink, though still in beta, has many Web watchers crying foul because it gives Google--not users or publishers of sites in which links are embedded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Google Tricks | 2/27/2005 | See Source »

...software gets to work indexing files, a task that can take several hours and is done only when the machine is idle. From then on, you simply click on an icon or a toolbar to use it. Google Desktop Search (available at desktop.google .com) works inside your Web browser: type keywords into the search field, just as you would to search the Internet. Although Google's program scours Word and Excel documents, Outlook messages and more, to find matches for your queries, it recognizes audio and video only by file name. Microsoft's desktop-search program, on the other hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Digital Hide-and-Seek | 1/31/2005 | See Source »

...special feature of the Ask Jeeves desktop-search program askjeeves.com is a separate window for previewing files before opening them. Yahoo's software, which may be released as early as next week, will offer similar functionality. AOL Desktop Search, part of an upcoming AOL browser aol.com) will be free to members and nonmembers alike. Newcomer Blinkx blinkx.com has a unique approach: it automatically refers you to files that are relevant to what you're doing on your computer at that moment. The links blink in the corner of your screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech: Digital Hide-and-Seek | 1/2/2005 | See Source »

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