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...Many believe the Middle East issues won't force oil prices much higher and oil could retreat modestly fairly soon. Despite the many earnings warnings, overall corporate profits will be up about 15% this year and 10% more next year. Largely ignored last week were solid results from PC maker Gateway and optical-networking company Corning...
...city guide is a program that runs on a handheld PDA, such as a Palm or a Pocket PC, and works like an electronic travel guide. You download it from the Web, install it on your PDA, and the next time you need to find the nearest Thai food or Irish pub or French boutique, you whip it out and look up the location. Suddenly, you're the guy who knows what's going on. You're an instant hipster. (Not that PDA and hipster are phrases that necessarily belong in the same paragraph...
...with all the world watching on Friday - whither, boys? Bounce or bottom? - the Streeters punted. Some solid earnings from eBay, backing up a reassuring report on PC sales from Microsoft after the bell Thursday, floated pretty much everything tech up another couple of points after Thursday's buying hootenanny...
French microchip engineer Jean-Pierre Gloton slips a thin rectangle of plastic into a port linked to a PC and types in a code. Voila! A personalized Web navigator blossoms on the screen. "With this, I can access various e-mail accounts and websites, trade stocks, buy goods and pay bills with a single click, using personal and banking information stored in a fraud-proof way," says Gloton, 56, as he removes the "smart card" that gives him these powers and returns it to his wallet. "This card contains a microchip that makes it a veritable minicomputer--with memory...
...only real concern was the way ActiveShield, McAfee's antivirus applet, handled infected e-mail. As a test, I sent myself a live virus--it was iloveyou, which lived benignly on my Macintosh (a platform, by the way, that doesn't suffer nearly as badly from viruses as the PC world does). Disturbingly, my PC was more than happy to accept the poisoned e-mail. It even let me read the message. I'm told that had I actually clicked on the infected attached file to view it, ActiveShield would have intervened and caught the bug. A better...