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...Skimming is the biggest problem in bank fraud today," says Gregory Regan, head of the Secret Service financial-crimes division. "It's the bank robbery of the future. It's technically simple, point-and-click technology. And the equipment is cheap. If you skim 15 or 20 accounts, you can generate $50,000 to $60,000 worth of fraud, and nobody is going to know about it till the victims get their bills, 30 to 60 days after the crime. So the odds of getting caught are reduced...
...hold of a Logitech WebCam ($79, after a $20 mail-in rebate). The cigarette-pack-size camera has begun shipping bundled with software that makes it easy to create a Truman Show--starring you. A CD that installs the camera also helps you create your own point, click and broadcast site at SpotLife.com which will host your exhibitionism for free. Of course, as is always the case online, free means you have to register and give up some of your privacy. But do we exhibitionists care...
...advertised. In about 15 minutes. I created my own site, Little Al's Video Horror Show, within a channel called Warp ("Avant-garde, urbane, sci-fi, beyond"), which is one of 14 channels on SpotLife. I also tweaked the performance of my site; I could tell my Webcam to click an image of me once a minute, or every few seconds, then upload it to my site. Or I could send live video out to the Net; users are limited to 240 "live" minutes a month. I could make my own short video (up to 15 megabytes...
...Bluetooth protocol (named for a 10th century king who unified Denmark). Bluetooth, whose first stages will be rolled out this summer by a consortium of industry titans including Nokia, Ericsson, IBM and 3Com, will eventually let all your devices talk to each other and work together. Click on a name in your Bluetooth-enabled PDA, and it will find your cell phone (even if it's still in your briefcase) and place the call. If you have a Bluetooth-enabled earphone, you won't even need to touch your phone. The goal is to link all devices, from laptops...
...administrators are hoping the page will enable the University to get information to students with the click of a mouse...