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...only downside is that before you can look inside the books, you have to either have an account already or give Amazon a credit-card number for "security purposes," which might keep a lot of kids and teens away. While this is a nod to publishers worried about people gaining too much free access to their literature, it's a shame. What Amazon would lose in sales by being used as a kind of gigantic Cliffs Notes, it would gain 10 times over by becoming widely known as a search destination (just ask the highly profitable Google how important that...
...software (included in iPod's free 2.1 update) automatically launches, letting you make voice recordings that you can play back through the tiny speaker. The Media Reader ($99) is a lifesaver for photo buffs who travel light. Plug it into the iPod, slide in your camera's memory card and dump your pics onto the iPod's huge hard disc. When you get home, your "rolls" of film are ready for offloading...
...Conn.--or crisp advocacy of an apple-pie issue like education. This ad not only highlights Lieberman's unpopular vote for the $87 billion but also reminds voters of his even more controversial (among Democrats) support for the war. Why do it, then? Because integrity is about the only card Lieberman has left to play in his droopy, if honorable, campaign...
...more advanced intruders leeching your computing power to launch a cyberattack on someone else. Despite the spate of devastating viruses this year--Slammer in January, Blaster and Sobig in August--the threat has evolved past the 17-year-old hacker, past the lone thief who steals and reveals credit-card data. Businesses must now watch for organized-crime groups adept at lifting valuable, private information and extorting money with it. The Federal Government and key industries must keep aspiring cyberterrorists from busting open dams or shorting out our electric grid from a keyboard in Pakistan. Reason: al-Qaeda and other...
...software industry is learning from the credit-card industry, which has digitized crime watching based on card users' behavior. Basically, the credit-card companies monitor your card patterns, and when something out of the ordinary happens--a card is used overseas, yet the cardholder rarely travels, for example--the alarm goes off. Is the cardholder really in London? It sounds creepy and intrusive, but tracking exceptions to detect intruders is the basis for several new security approaches. And it has already become an invisible part of our lives. Stolfo has a start-up called System Detection, a two-year...