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...growing area for Internet spying is the home. SpectorSoft, a leading manufacturer of spyware, at first marketed its products to parents and employers. Sales jumped fivefold, however, when the company changed its pitch to target spouses and romantic partners. "In just one day of running Spector on my home PC, I was able to identify my fiance's true personality," a testimonial on the company's website trumpets. "I found all 17 of his girlfriends...
...involved the high price of American CDs in Iceland. And he pointed out that he had not added to the snarky e-mail about our co-worker. All he did was read it. Then he told me that for the good stuff I should have spied on his home PC. That's where he does his most interesting web surfing, he said. He went off on a brief discourse about the various kinds of hard-core pornographic pop-ups that show up when he visits soft-core sites. Joel also told me that he keeps all his financial data...
...Recycle Bin. Then I went to the Web for guidance. Cursing myself for not using an antivirus program on my home computer (I use McAfee.com's at work), I learned that the Homepage virus is the most common bug--technically, it's a "worm"--out there. It afflicts only PC users of Microsoft Outlook and would not damage my computer. But it would immediately mail itself to everyone in my address book--that is, everyone to whom I've ever sent a Reply message. The worm also resets your browser's home page to one of four porn sites. This...
...could scarcely have found a more muscular partner in China than Legend. The computer maker dominates the country's home-PC market, with a 40% share. (Sales totaled $2.2 billion last year.) Legend's chief financial officer, Mary Ma, the company's main negotiator on the deal, says the Chinese firm initiated the courtship. Legend, she says, was convinced that, with the WTO's open market pending, it needed a sophisticated foreign partner to help differeniate itself in the market...
...process will be as voice-controlled as any face-to-face interaction: you talk to him, he talks back. In theory, it sounds like the perfect pet trick for curious technophobes; a way into the Internet without pressing a key. Using a wireless link to your PC, AIBO downloads your new mail as it comes in and uses his hard drive and a special Sony memory stick to convert the text to voice. He even recognizes certain words and does the appropriate action -waving his paw when someone writes (and he speaks) hello. That rustling noise you will no doubt...