The company insists that its Passport authentication system can keep customers' financial data safe. But an open-source programmer is pointing out holes in that assertion.
A little-noticed detail of Amazon.com's recent deal with Target may revive an e-commerce feature once given up for dead: the online wallet.
Microsoft wants you. All of you. The company synonymous with personal computing software will soon try to convince millions of users that it should be the designated gatekeeper for all their online data.
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Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy rarely misses the opportunity to twist at least one competitor's product or technology name into a derisive pun. Take a look at these McNealy-isms and what they signal for 2002.
If you have employees using Hotmail to exchange confidential corporate information, you should be especially concerned with these new Microsoft .NET Passport flaws.
Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy rarely misses the opportunity to twist at least one competitor's product or technology name into a derisive pun. Take a look at these McNealy-isms and what they signal for 2002.
Tackling everything from security issues to open source, we put the tough questions to Paul Houghton, Managing Director of Microsoft Australia and New Zealand.
New anti-spam technology standards are on the way that promise to hit spammers where it hurts the most -- their wallets.
Columnist Tim Landgrave zeroes in on Microsoft's latest strategies and technologies relating to proposed Web services specs and standards, and ponders whether users can confidently cross the vendor's 'TrustBridge.'
Suppose, for a moment, that everything could talk to everything else. Your calendar could get information from and supply data to your documents, or your cell phone, or someone else's calendar and cell phone. Your computer's desktop could tell you that your dry cleaning is ready or your bank account is overdrawn.
Microsoft's Windows XP has received a fair amount of hype in the lead up to its release-Matt Lake and Josh Mehlman assess its usefulness for businesses.
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My name is Palm and these are my favourite downloads. Though it's barely four years old, to millions of users the Palm handheld is more than an organiser: It's enlightenment. We've tossed our little black books and notepads. Said sayonara to planners crammed with business cards and Post-it notes. Our Palm gives us instant access to phone numbers, e-mail, memos, and a calendar. It's the glue that holds our lives together in the digital age.
The mobile phone may not yet be your all-in-one communications device, but some very innovative Web sites are making the PC-to-mobile connection a very attractive way to stay in touch.
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