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...rich, if isolated life, with regular visits from an aerobics trainer to keep him from physically merging with his couch (bought online, of course). "I was able to go shopping in bed last night," he says. How long voyeurs will be willing to log on and watch him click his mouse is questionable. Then again, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire continues to receive high ratings...
...Islamic terrorists anywhere in the world, and it's pretty much guaranteed that they'll be separated by no more than three degrees from Osama Bin Laden. But rather than proving that the Saudi superterrorist is a global mastermind able to wreak havoc anywhere in the world at the click of a Send button, this ubiquity says more about the diffuse nature of his operations. U.S. investigators were reported Thursday to have uncovered links between Bin Laden and the bomb plot foiled last December by the arrest of a number of Algerian militants on U.S. soil. The suspected head...
...pager chirps from time to time, and Levin pops it from its slate-gray plastic case, uses a thumbwheel to scroll through a few messages and then slips it back into its case. Occasionally, he pokes out a quick message on the device's Chiclet-size keys. Chirp. Pop. Click-click-click. It's almost a Macarena rhythm. 1-2-3-4-5. Lou Gerstner, the CEO of IBM, sends Levin a congratulatory e-mail. Chirp. Pop. Click-click-click...
Calling his bluff, eUniverse declined to pay and instead contacted the FBI. Maxus, it turned out, wasn't kidding: on Christmas Day, the so-called Maxus Credit Cards Datapipe went into service, offering Web surfers thousands of free, pilfered card numbers at the click of a mouse. It was only last week that a Web-security company alerted eUniverse to the existence of the site, which was quickly shut down. By then, though, 25,000 credit-card numbers had been given away. "Of the card numbers the FBI pulled off the site," says eUniverse vice president Brett Brewer, "a majority...
...JUST FOR KIDS Until now, cute digital cameras have been playthings for children who don't mind jaggy snaps. Now Samsung's SDC-80, due out in March, combines style with substance. Available in translucent blue, green, orange and white, this $299 point-and-click sports a respectable 1024 x 768 resolution and stores pictures on removable smart media cards. And that bulb on top? No, it's not a mushroom; it's a removable flash...