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Like MacGregor, Greg Schmergel is a serial entrepreneur. If his company, Nantero, in Woburn, Mass., is successful, it will eventually add about five minutes to everyone's day. The company wants to build an "instant-on" computer that doesn't need to boot...
...often abusive nuns. "What really astonishes me about the church's very vocal outrage is that I think being in one of those places was a lot worse than you see in the film," he says. "I can't believe how stupid the church has been, to give instant condemnation before even seeing the film. They made us front page on every paper in Italy." It is not Mullan's first time in the spotlight. His role in Ken Loach's My Name is Joe won him the 1998 best actor award at Cannes and made him a sought-after...
...March 2000, the Arizona Democratic Party experimented with online voting through election.com and had a 600 percent rise in voting, with rises of up to 1,000 percent in heavily Hispanic districts. The system was very convenient—it was secure, provided instant returns and minimal rejected ballots...
...meantime, these concerns represent an opportunity for companies that are developing IM systems geared to business users. In contrast to the consumer-oriented instant-messaging systems operated by AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft, IM systems for the workplace are being designed to cut down on the technology's intrusiveness and link it to phone, fax, e-mail and videoconferencing...
...make no mistake: security is the most important reason that demand is growing for customized IM and group-chat tools. Unlike corporate e-mail systems, which typically use networks and servers controlled by the client company, instant messages on the consumer-oriented IM systems move across public networks and through servers controlled by AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo--an arrangement in which sensitive business information is considered more vulnerable to eavesdropping by hackers. Says John Tang, an engineer at Sun Microsystems: "Companies don't feel comfortable sending messages out through their firewalls to a server that somebody else has control over...