Computerworld articles from September 2008

Computerworld archives from September 2008

Gig 'em, Aggies!(EDITOR'S NOTE)(Editorial)
September 1, 2008... AS I WRITE THIS, a group of Texas A&M University students is gathered in College Station to make plans for the coming year. Like many college students across the nation, they're talking about drinking and partying. Unlike the vast majority,...

Response to: The grill: Avi Rubin.(ONLINE CHATTER)(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2008... Aug. 18, 2008 The good news is there is a growing awareness among ordinary citizens, who understand that their votes are at risk with today's election systems. The bad news is that in Florida, we're no better off than we were in 2000. Why?...

Response to: Gag order against MIT students gets another day in court.(ONLINE CHATTER)(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2008... Aug. 18, 2008 Freedom of speech is primarily for keeping government in check. But it does not grant the right to say anything, anytime. You can't yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater and call it freedom of speech; you'll go to jail. Try...

Response to: IT schools to watch.(ONLINE CHATTER)(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2008... Aug. 18,2008 I was surprised to see innovative programs left off the top 10 list. Northwestern and Princeton, for example, offer programs that provide innovative thought leadership and house quite well-noted successes--both business- and...

Response to: A third of new PCs being downgraded to XP, says researcher.(ONLINE CHATTER)(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2008... Aug. 18,2008 Regardless of the accuracy of the Devil Mountain Software estimate, if end users were knowledgeable enough to perform the downgrade process, and if machines sold with Windows Vista Home were eligible for downgrade, the...

The week ahead.(News Digest)(Brief article)(Calendar)
September 1, 2008... TUESDAY: Hewlett-Packard plans to announce a variety of technologies supporting virtuaiization, including a blade server designed specifically to host virtual machines. WEDNESDAY: The Office 2.0 Conference 2008 begins in San Francisco,...

AT&T adds overseas data plans for iPhone users.(MOBILE & WIRELESS)
September 1, 2008... AT&T INC. last week began offering two new international data plans for iPhones in an effort to soften the blow on users who can rack up hundreds of dollars in overseas roaming charges per month. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] But the new data...

Microsoft ups notices to XP pirates.(OPERATING SYSTEMS)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Microsoft Corp, said it is updating one of its antipiracy tools to take a harder line against users fingered for running bogus copies of Windows XP Professional. Alex Kochis, senior product manager for Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage...

Malware infects space station laptop.(SECURITY)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... MALWARE has once again managed to get from Earth onto the International Space Station, a NASA spokesman confirmed last week. The attack code infected at least one laptop used on the station, an international operation led by the U.S. and...

Federal Aviation Administration.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... * A network failure at a Federal Aviation Administration facility in Georgia caused some 650 flight delays at U.S. airports last Tuesday. The FAA said the glitch was likely caused by a software problem.

European Court of Human Rights.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... * The European Court of Human Rights agreed to allow accused hacker Gary McKinnon tobe extradited to the U.S. McKinnon, who is accused of breaking into NASA and U.S. military computers in 2001, appealed his extradition. He contended that, if...

Microsoft Corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... * Microsoft Corp. released a second beta of Internet Explorer 8, meeting a promise made by Chairman Bill Gates that it would be ready by August.

Cisco Systems Inc.(Short Takes)(PostPath Inc.)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... * Cisco Systems Inc. has agreed to buy PostPath Inc., a maker of e-mail and calendaring software, for $215 million. Once the deal closes this fall, Cisco plans to add the PostPath tools to its WebEx Connect line.

Hardware flaw caused Netflix shipping woes.(INTERNET)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Netflix Inc. last week blamed a faulty hardware component for seriously disrupting its ability to mail out DVDs for several days earlier this month. After initially suspecting a corrupted database, Netflix engineers eventually discovered...

New Mets ballpark offers unified communications.(NETWORKING)(New York Mets)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... THE NEW YORK METS are installing a new networking and unified communications system at Citi Field, a stadium that is slated to open for baseball next spring. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Joe Milone, the team's senior director of information...

Between the lines.(Cartoon)
September 1, 2008... THERE WILL BE AN ADDITIONAL FEE IF YOU WANT THE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM TURNED ON. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Target Corp.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Target Corp. agreed to modify its Web site and pay $6 million in damages to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by the National Federation of the Blind. The NFB will test the site's accessibility annually for three years.

Hewlett-Packard Co.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Hewlett-Packard Co. completed its $13.9 billion purchase of Electronic Data Systems Corp., a deal that doubles HP's annual IT services revenue to $38 billion.

17 Years ago.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... 17 YEARS AGO: Linus Torvalds announced in a Usenet post that he had written the kernel for a new operating system, which he later named Linux.

Infosys to buy U.K. SAP services firm.(Global Dispatches)(Axon Group PLC)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... BANGALORE, India-Infosys Technologies Ltd. last week agreed to acquire Axon Group PLC, an Egham, England-based services firm, for [pounds sterling]407.1 million ($747 million U.S.). The deal is expected to close in November. Infosys...

Laptop holding personal data lost by bank.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... EDINBURGH-The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC last week disclosed that a laptop containing personal data on about 1 million customers was sold on eBay Inc.'s online auction site. The laptop's hard drive contained customer names, addresses,...

Briefly noted.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Personal data on about 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales was contained on a memory stick lost in transit by a contractor hired by the U.K. Home Office. London-based PA Consulting Group Ltd. transferred the unencrypted data onto a memory...

Wanted: skilled workers - but only those with the right skills need apply: as the U.S. economy has tightened, so have IT job prospects. But there are still some hiring bright spots.(NEWS ANALYSIS)
September 1, 2008... As the U.S. economy has tightened, so have IT job prospects. But there are still some hiring bright spots. DESPITE HIGH energy prices, rising inflation, falling retail sales, a rough housing market and a host of other troubling economic...

Best Western forced to play defense on breach disclosure; the hotel chain disputed a newspaper report that it had been hit by a massive data breach. But could it have done a better job of defusing the issue?(NEWS ANALYSIS)
September 1, 2008... THE HEADLINE in the Glasgow Sunday Herald--"Revealed: 8 Million Victims in the World's Biggest Cyber Heist"--was a grabber. And it certainly got the attention of Best Western International Inc., which found itself scrambling to do damage...

Anne Mulcahy: the Xerox CEO talks about wielding power, making tough decisions and bringing the company back to life.(THE GRILL)(Interview)
September 1, 2008... Dossier Name: Anne Mulcahy Title CEO Organization: Xerox Corp. Location: Norwalk, Conn. Favorite movie of all time: The Shawshank Redemption Role Model: "In business, Warren Buffet." PC or Mac? PC In high...

Can web 2.0 save BI? Mashups could be the answer to BIs problems. Here's how organizations are connecting the technologies to make better business decisions.(SPOTLIGHT)
September 1, 2008... CHIEF JON GREINER recently expanded his staff of crime analysts from one to 11 without hiring a single new officer at the Ogden Police Department in Utah. Instead, Greiner equipped his existing force of eight lieutenants and two assistant...

Boyne Resorts: marketing staffers can view customer behavior patterns at each of the company's ski and golf resorts.(Better BI)
September 1, 2008... These five organizations are using Web 2.0 technologies to dig deeper into their data, helping them calculate risk, map customer behavior and even fight disease. * BI PROJECTS are frequently driven by the demands of executives who want to...

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: researchers can view genetic information from multiple databases with a specially designed Web portal.(BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE)
September 1, 2008... * A CANCER that strikes white blood cells and eventually bone marrow, multiple myeloma can be difficult to treat. Now, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston is harnessing the dual power of business intelligence and Web 2.0-based scientific...

Erlanger (Ky.) Police Department: by mashing together search, BI and mapping, police officers can view real-time crime data along with past records.(BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE)
September 1, 2008... * BY COMBINING business intelligence and two foundations of Web 2.0- search and mapping--a police department in Kentucky has built a brand-new window into crime. This Web-based BI portal allows patrol officers to enter data--or even pieces of...

Guy Carpenter & Co. this reinsurance company pairs location intelligence with risk management data to prepare for bad weather.(BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE)
September 1, 2008... * RATHER UNPREDICTABLY, hail pounds U.S. crops and property to the tune of about $1 billion worth of damage each year, according to the National Weather Service. These icy agents of chaos account for just one of many catastrophic scenarios that...

Harris Corp: a BI-Web 2.0 mashup allows engineers to search for parts information in a Google-like format.(BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE)
September 1, 2008... * BY THE TIME Leon Shivamber was hired in 2004 by Harris Corp. as vice president of supply chain and operations, the company had already shifted out of its semiconductor and printing businesses and was focused squarely on building...

Get smashed, not mashed.(OPINION)
September 1, 2008... I HATE TO BE the teetotaler at the mashup party, but someone has to take a sober look at the security implications of this emerging approach to business intelligence. Mashups let you take data from an outside source and combine it with...

Do you know your type? Personality can determine which job you prefer and how you communicate.(Q&A)(Interview)
September 1, 2008... Does your personality type have relevance for your career? To answer that, we turned to Kip Parent, CEO of Keirsey.com Inc., which markets the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, and Edward Kim, managing director of Keirsey's professional services...

SharkTank: true tales of it life as told to Sharky.
September 1, 2008... The Color Purple Reseller has just installed a mainframe for this client, and the senior systems tech gathers the client's technical staffers to make sure they understand the importance of proper shutdown procedures. "He said, 'You must...

Counterintuitive.(FRANKLY SPEAKING)(Column)
September 1, 2008... ON THIS LABOR DAY 2008, what's the state of IT work? Paradoxical. Here, look: A survey released last week by ChangeWave Research says that 30% of U.S. IT shops are spending less than they planned this quarter--and 29% plan to keep cutting their...

The next wave; You have to wonder whether Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of HTTP and the Web browser, had a sense of where it all would lead. All these years later, does anyone know? The Web is the invention that keeps on giving.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(Editorial)
September 8, 2008... The conception of the Web browser was brilliant, but the browser was a relatively simple piece of software. All the more remarkable, then, that it's been at the heart of a series of transforming trends in computing. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]...

Responses to: Vista may still have its day - just like XP (eventually) did.(ONLINE CHATTER)(Letter to the editor)
September 8, 2008... Aug. 25, 2008 I've been in IT since 1976; you name the crunch, and I've got the scars. I've been through this again and again with Microsoft: Release a half-baked piece of alpha software because you have a marketing need. And because...

The first true Web 2.0 browser.(COMPUTERWORLD.COM)(Brief article)
September 8, 2008... REVIEW: Google's Chrome uses simplicity and some clever new features to bring Web surfing into the 21st century.

When linkedln knows where you are.(COMPUTERWORLD.COM)(Brief article)
September 8, 2008... A convergence of social networking and mobility is under way worldwide among teenagers and young adults. Soon, the phenomenon will spread to corporate users for business purposes, says columnist Mike Elgan. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Apricorn's 160GB aegis mini hard drive.(COMPUTERWORLD.COM)(Brief article)
September 8, 2008... REVIEW: Apricorn's diminutive external drive lets you carry 160GB in a shirt pocket, with no need for a power brick. But its small size is matched by a large price. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Video games are poised to boost corporate training.(COMPUTERWORLD.COM)(Brief article)
September 8, 2008... Games can help companies cut costs, meet the needs of younger workers and fulfill "green IT" requirements, according to a new report from Forrester Research. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Gustav finds IT execs prepared for the worst.(DISASTER RECOVERY)
September 8, 2008... HURRICANE GUSTAV didn't hit the Gulf Coast as hard as had been feared last week. But some IT managers in New Orleans said they were ready for whatever the storm brought, having upgraded their disaster recovery capabilities since Katrina and...

The week ahead.(Brief article)(Calendar)
September 8, 2008... MONDAY: Microsoft launches its Hyper-V hypervisor and other virtualization products at an event in Bellevue, Wash. MONDAY: SAP's TechEd 2008 (Las Vegas) and Computer-world's Business Intelligence Perspectives (Phoenix) open. TUESDAY:...

Microsoft adds virtual Vista options.(VIRTUALIZATION)(Brief article)
September 8, 2008... Microsoft Corp. last week announced several software licensing changes that give IT managers and end users more options for running Windows Vista in desktop virtualization mode. Effective Jan. 1, Microsoft will expand its Vista Enterprise...

Schwarzenegger gets softened version of vetoed breach bill.(SECURITY)(Arnold Schwarzenegger )
September 8, 2008... CALIFORNIA'S STATE legislature has sent Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger an amended version of a closely watched data breach bill that he vetoed last October. The Consumer Data Protection Act, or AB 1656, would require retailers and other...

Atom chip stymied by testing bottleneck.(HARDWARE)(Brief article)
September 8, 2008... A TESTING BOTTLENECK is slowing the manufacture of Intel Corp.'s Atom processor, just as computer makers are looking to plug more of the chips into small laptops called netbooks. The chip maker's chief financial officer, Stacy Smith, first...

CA Inc.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
September 8, 2008... In an affidavit filed in federal court, former CA Inc. CEO Sanjay Kumar implicated company founders Charles Wang and Russell Artzt and former board members Alfonse D'Amato and Lewis Ranieri in an accounting fraud scandal at the company. Kumar...

Oracle Corp.(Short Takes)(ClearApp Inc.)(Brief article)
September 8, 2008... Oracle Corp. has agreed to buy ClearApp Inc., a maker of software for managing the performance of SOA-based applications, for an undisclosed sum.

Open Text Corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
September 8, 2008... Open Text Corp. plans to purchase Captaris Inc., a maker of document management and data capture software, for about $131 million. The deal is set to close by the end of the year.

Red Hat Inc.(Short Takes)(Qumranet Inc.)(Brief article)
September 8, 2008... Red Hat Inc. has acquired Qumranet Inc., for $107 million. Red Hat said Qumranet's embedded Kernel Virtual Machine platform will let its Enterprise Linux software natively support virtualized Windows machines for the first time.

U.S. Army, iRobot sign $200M pact.(ROBOTICS)(Brief article)
September 8, 2008... THE U.S. Army last week awarded a five-year, $200 million contract to iRobot Corp. to supply it with military robots and spare parts along with training and other services. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The pact was signed about four months...

Between the lines.(NEWS DIGEST)(Cartoon)
September 8, 2008... OH LOOK. A GIFT. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

BT Grouph PLC.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Ben Verwaayen and Philippe Camus)(Brief article)
September 8, 2008... Alcatel-Lucent tapped Ben Verwaayen, a Dutch national who was CEO of BT Group PLC until June 1, to be its CEO, and it named Philippe Camus, a French native who lives in the U.S., chairman. The positions had been open since July 29.

Google Inc.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
September 8, 2008... Google Inc. added a You-Tube-like video-sharing tool to Google Apps Premier Edition, its fee-based suite of online applications.

Stanford University.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
September 8, 2008... 10 YEARS AGO: Google was incorporated by Stanford University graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin after they raised $1 million in start-up funds.

U.K. Airport tests facial recognition.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
September 8, 2008... MANCHESTER, England - The Manchester Airport last month started testing a facial recognition system that was installed as part of the [pounds sterling]1.2 billion ($2.1 billion U.S.) U.K. e-Borders program, which is designed to better control...

Sony recalls 438,000 laptops.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
September 8, 2008... TOKYO - Sony Corp. last week recalled 438,000 Vaio TZ laptops because of a possible manufacturing defect that may cause them to overheat. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said some of the computers have been found to have a...

Briefly noted.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
September 8, 2008... Mphasis Ltd., an outsourcer based in Bangalore, last week announced plans to open a new software development and services facility in Hyderbad, India, that will employ 1,000 people within a year. The company currently has about 28,000 workers....

Google adds a weapon in its battle to kill Windows; Chrome browser promises to provide a significant performance boost to online apps.(NEWS ANALYSIS)
September 8, 2008... LAST WEEK'S unveiling of a new browser is the latest in a series of moves by Google Inc. to rid the world of Microsoft Windows, according to analysts. In fact, said Matt Rosoff, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft in Kirkland, Wash., the...

Feds finally put teeth into HIPAA enforcement: three years after the federal law's rules on securing health care data took effect, HHS has issued its first 'corrective action plan.'.(NEWS ANALYSIS)
September 8, 2008... A DATA SECURITY audit that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services conducted at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta last year was widely viewed within the health care industry as a harbinger of further actions by the federal government to...

Norman Matloff; The longtime H-1B nemesis talks about what's wrong with the program, why it's tough to be 40 in IT, and what he tells computer science students.(THE GRILL)(Interview)
September 8, 2008... When Norman Matloff warned Congress about the H-1B visa program in 1998, he was one of the first to do so. His testimony, titled, "Debunking the Myth of a Desperate Software Labor Shortage," helped frame the national debate over the H-1B visa....

Let's impeach e-voting.(OPINION)
September 8, 2008... WERE SOFTWARE PATCHES that didn't fix problems but instead changed results applied to electronic voting machines in two Georgia counties? Were the patches applied at the instruction of a top Diebold executive, without informing local election...

Gathering green; Low-hanging fruit for today and stretch goals for tomorrow, to save you green by going green.
September 8, 2008... CHIEF Technology Officer Arvind Thapar wants to bring new green technology to his company, but his proposed initiative--installing wind turbines to generate power--is decidedly outside the usual realm of IT. Thapar is still preparing his...

Cloud-enabling your software licenses; Here's how to move forward while keeping your feet on the ground.(IT MENTOR)
September 8, 2008... THE PROMISE of moving your company's software and data systems into the cloud grows more enticing by the day. Virtualization, cloud computing and grid networks have a lot to offer enterprise users. But you could put your company and your job at...

The power of one; Creating a single billing system from 13 saves Verizon Wireless $20 million annually.(SOFTWARE)
September 8, 2008... "LESS IS MORE" is the IT philosophy in operation at Verizon Wireless. In fact, the telecommunications company's 2008 Premier 100 Best in Class project was a study in the benefits of slimming down. By consolidating 13 billing systems into a...

How to save your job; Your intuitive response to a layoff threat may be exactly wrong.(CAREERS)(Interview)
September 8, 2008... The smell of fear is getting stronger as the "R" word pops up more frequently in business discussions and layoffs loom in many companies. In this month's Harvard Business Review, Janet Banks and Diane Coutu assert that workers who feel that...

Building a security org from scratch; Coming in as the security guru in a company with no infosec program at all is an opportunity. Doing it twice is even better.(Personal account)
September 8, 2008... I HAVE THE rare good fortune of being in a position to help build an information security organization from scratch. I'm especially lucky because I've done it before. At my previous job, I spent six years building an information security...

What is a job, anyway?(OPINION)
September 8, 2008... WITH THE economy ailing, the U.S. presidential election in full swing and surveys showing cuts in next year's IT budgets, get ready to hear more and more about jobs. People will lose jobs. Evil corporations will export jobs. We will need more...

Carrer watch; The CIO at the McGraw-Hill Cos. answers questions about becoming a leader, the economic outlook and working things out with a difficult boss.(ASK A PREMIER 100 LEADER)
September 8, 2008... 84% Percentage of large companies that don't support single-payer universal health care. In a survey conducted this spring by Watson Wyatt worldwide Inc. and the National Business Group on Health, 380 of 453 respondents, who were...

SharkTank; True tales of it life as told to Sharky.
September 8, 2008... It Would've Helped This pilot fish writes custom software for his company and supports its users at remote sites. So when a user contacts him to say the software has suddenly stopped working, fish is right on it. "Fortunately, the user...

Under the Chrome.(FRANKLY SPEAKING)(Column)
September 8, 2008... GOOGLE CHROME? Hold that thought. First, let's say your organization has confidential data--Social Security numbers, credit card transactions, customer sales information, anything like that. Would you rather keep it in your data center or have...

An itSMF chronicle.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(Information Technology Service Management Forum)(Editorial)
September 15, 2008... IT'S SUNDAY MORNING, and I'm heading to San Francisco for the Fusion '08 conference organized by the IT Service Management Forum, or itSMF USA. My main objective is to find out why the organization renders "IT" in lowercase italics in its...

Response to: can web 2.0 save BI?(ONLINE CHATTER)(Letter to the editor)
September 15, 2008... Sept. 1, 2008 If IT is scared, it's because careers have ended after taking a chance on a small vendor. The geniuses in charge still perceive IT as pure overhead. Until they understand the importance of IT and reward risk-taking, CIOs...

Responses to: counterintuitive.(ONLINE CHATTER)(Letter to the editor)
September 15, 2008... Sept. 1, 2008 Here's more paradox for Frank Hayes to consider: When company loyalty is at an all-time low because of belt-tightening, corporations need IT people with knowledge of the business. Such knowledge is a result of years of...

The week ahead.(Brief article)(Calendar)
September 15, 2008... MONDAY: VMware opens its VMworld 2008 conference for virtualization users, in Las Vegas (see story, page 14). MONDAY: Hewlett-Packard holds an analysts meeting on its enterprise IT plans, including the integration of EDS. THURSDAY:...

Worldwide grid evaluating collider test results.(GRID COMPUTING)
September 15, 2008... THE SUCCESSFUL test run of a massive particle collider brought scientists a step closer to finding answers to a question that has haunted people for centuries: How was the universe created? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The $9 billion Large...

Tab for lockup of city's WAN may reach $1M.(NETWORK SECURITY)(Brief article)
September 15, 2008... San Francisco officials estimate that IT costs stemming from a network administrator's alleged hijacking of the city's WAN will total $1 million or more. Ron Vinson, chief administrative officer in the city's Department of...

Social Security numbers exposed on Iowa Web site.(PRIVACY)
September 15, 2008... IN YET ANOTHER example of a data privacy controversy affecting county governments across the U.S., documents containing the Social Security numbers of Iowa residents have been posted since January 2005 on a Web site maintained by the Iowa...

CEO Steve Jobs and 12 other Apple Inc.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
September 15, 2008... * CEO Steve Jobs and 12 other Apple Inc. executives have agreed to pay $14 million, plus nearly $8.9 million in attorney fees, to settle a lawsuit filed by shareholders that alleged the company was harmed by its backdating of stock options.

Microsoft Corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
September 15, 2008... * Microsoft Corp. has released patches for eight bugs in various products, including "critical" flaws in the Windows desktop operating system. The update fixes five bugs in the Graphics Device Interface+ software and a flaw in Microsoft Office....

The Center for Internet Security.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
September 15, 2008... * The Center for Internet Security plans to release guidelines for measuring the state of IT security efforts. The nonprofit group also launched a service to help companies compare their security performance with similar firms'.

Lenovo Group Ltd.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
September 15, 2008... * Lenovo Group Ltd. has halted online sales of Linux-based desktop and laptop computers after failing to meet sales expectations. The company plans to continue direct sales of the systems.

Google bends to privacy critics on Chrome tool.(INTERNET)(Brief article)
September 15, 2008... REACTING TO criticism that its new Chrome browser was essentially acting as a keylogger, Google Inc. last week said it would render data anonymous within 24 hours of collecting information from the browser. Google had been taking heat from...

Big advertisers protest Google-Yahoo search deal.(INTERNET)(Brief article)
September 15, 2008... THE ASSOCIATION of National Advertisers has called on the U.S. Department of Justice to reject a planned point search advertising program by Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. The New York-based trade group--which represents 400 companies that...