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While technology has greatly expanded the telemarketers' reach, it has also given consumers weapons to fight back. Caller ID--which is used by 38% of U.S. households today, up from 30% in 1998--at first allowed users to detect calls from salespeople and other pests. But telemarketers learned to mask their numbers so that they read as UNAVAILABLE or OUT OF AREA on caller-ID displays, and users often answer because they think the call might be an urgent one from a friend or colleague--an impulse that's especially prevalent in these days of orange alerts...
...Privacy Manager. A more aggressive approach is touted by Privacy Technologies, based in Glenwillow, Ohio, which developed the TeleZapper. A small black box that connects to any phone, the $40 TeleZapper greets each incoming call with shrill tones that resemble the sound of a disconnected phone. When automatic dialers detect this sound, they often interpret it to mean the number is disconnected and hang up. A downside of this device, though, is that it might cause your mom to do the same. Another problem: some telemarketers have either changed their software or bought new dialers that stay on the line...
...mergers among France's Total and Elf and Petrofina of Belgium. The firm is trying to keep a low profile while the trial continues, and senior management isn't commenting. Still, it's a sign of the times that the corporation recently put in place audit controls to detect possible corrupt payments and is implementing a code of ethical conduct for its employees. Is that enough to prevent a repeat of the abuses of a decade ago? Maybe not. Amid the diplomatic fallout of the war in Iraq - and with that country's oil industry in play - the French...
...Theoretically, the achievement should lead to better diagnostic tools, treatments and perhaps even a vaccine for SARS. Germany's Artus Biotech has already released what it claims is a highly accurate test kit that can detect SARS in less than three hours. But as has been shown in AIDS research, knowing your enemy is merely the first battle in what is likely to be a lengthy war. AIDS and SARS (and the common cold, for that matter) are caused by viruses?and viruses are notoriously hard to kill. Although doctors have a huge arsenal of drugs and antibiotics capable...
...little bit of cough and no fever; some may just feel a little tired for a day or two." In another small piece of good news, doctors at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta announced late last week that they had developed two tests to detect the presence of the suspected virus in blood and tissue samples of possible SARS victims. They plan to distribute the diagnostic test to hospitals in the U.S. shortly. (Physicians in Hong Kong are already using a different version of the test...