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What's the worst-case scenario? For Gates, it would be the court-ordered breakup of his company, but the investor might not fare badly. AT&T's spin-offs have consistently beaten the market since the government split that company. Forcing Microsoft to make its Windows source code available...
It turns out that the program--used by more than 13 million people around the world, including me--has been tracking our music-listening habits, recording the titles of the CDs we play and beaming the information back to headquarters. Whenever we go online, a sneaky little subroutine has been...
"We screwed up," says Glaser. The problem started when people in Real's marketing department decided they needed a better sense of who was using the service and what they were using it for. This is what every website wants to know. If it serves up 300,000 pages of...
Last week Real released a patch on its website to prevent users' personal IDs from being transmitted; you can download it from www.real.com or wait for the next version of RealJukebox. Meanwhile, the company is undergoing an internal privacy-policy review, and an outside auditor will be brought in for...
The initial reason for my skepticism was that colds are caused by hundreds of different kinds of viruses. Finding a single treatment that is cheap, as well as safe and effective against all of them, is a daunting task. (Today's cold remedies treat only the symptoms and not the...