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...from 26 of his customers' chief information officers. The majority, he claims, were indignant enough to consider switching from Oracle Database to its Microsoft and IBM rivals. The idea of Oracle splashing out $5.1 billion on PeopleSoft also unnerved investment analysts at Moody's, who downgraded the firm's outlook for Oracle from stable to negative; however, few investors followed suit. Oracle's stock rose to $13.48 at the end of the week, up 3% over the previous week's close...
...ROLL YOUR OWN All the major e-mail programs (Microsoft's Outlook, Apple's Mail, Qualcomm's Eudora) provide software tools for building personalized junk-mail filters. The Mail program that comes with Apple's OS X is probably the best. It learns to separate the wheat from the e-chaff during a training session, and then lets you fine-tune the results with JUNK/NOT JUNK buttons. Like Outlook and Eudora, Mail also lets you write your own specific filtering rules, but that's a tedious and potentially endless exercise. Outlook users might be better off buying a third-party...
...blacklist. For $4.99 a month, SpamNet www.cloudmark.com checks your incoming mail against its own ever expanding database. The service's 475,000-plus members contribute by "voting" on what's spam and what isn't, using the BLOCK and UNBLOCK buttons that the SpamNet program adds to your Outlook task bar. Enough votes from individual members and a message is blocked for all. With thousands of reports coming in every second, it can be pretty effective...
...next 40 years. The result; as state budgets shrink, Europe's consumers will have to rely more on themselves for things they once took for granted - like retirement benefits and comprehensive health care. For some, that will mean entering the investment culture for the first time - just when the outlook is bleak. For others, it will mean holding their noses and forging ahead despite lousy market conditions. Not even large corporations are safe - in the U.K., the government is drawing up plans for compulsory insurance for some corporate pension schemes, many of which currently face huge deficits. A few simple...
...longer is Lentz known only for the “pop” of his throw. Though he did not showcase his arm in 2003 as he once did, Lentz became a more complete player this year with a new outlook...