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  • Privacy group shines light on Web bugs

    The Privacy Foundation has released free software that helps consumers detect when a site or email contains a Web bug--a barely visible tracking tag used mainly by marketers to monitor consumer habits online.

  • Don't regulate RFID -- yet

    Not many people may remember this, but Phil Donahue was one of the digital age's first technophobes.

  • Yahoo and Google attempt to improve the browser

    A year after Google launched its Gears project, Yahoo has decided to make your browser better, too.

  • EU votes to ban cookies

    Privacy advocates have won the first stage of a battle to ban cookies, but advertisers say it will have a damaging effect on industry.

  • Web bug swarm grows 500 percent

    New research shows that the use of the surveillance technology is on the rise, putting online companies in a precarious position with the consumers they're snooping on.

Features and Case Studies (4)

  • Mozilla: More bugs mean Firefox is more secure

    The Mozilla Foundation is perhaps best known for its Firefox web browser, an open source offering that was first developed to go head-to-head with Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

  • Internet VPNs: the WAN and the light?

    They promise low-cost connectivity that could make conventional, expensive WANs a thing of the past. But can roll-your-own Internet VPNs really deliver?

  • Sun's Hassell: Straight to the source

    Managing Director of Sun Microsoystems Australasia Jim Hassell talks about future directions for the company in the face of tough markets and increased competition.

  • XML: Great hope or great hype?

    XML has been called everything from the technology that will revolutionise the Web to a nuisance. What's really the story?

Reviews (12)

  • Google Analytics

    If you're wary of Google knowing everything about your business and your web site, then Google Analytics is not for you. But for most, it's a useful ally in a challenging business climate.

  • Microsoft tweaks its browser

    Unlike the last update of archrival Netscape’s browser package, which represented a major redesign, the Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 Public Preview makes less than earth-shattering changes. That said, Microsoft did enhance the Search Companion, tweak error reporting and integrate additional online privacy information.

  • Microsoft Office Standard 2007

    If you need to make sleeker-looking documents and presentations, Microsoft Office Standard 2007 is a worthy upgrade. But stick to your current software if you don't feel that it lacks anything.

  • Steganos Security Suite 5.0

    Steganos Security Suite's excellent collection of heavy-duty encryption and Internet cleanup tools is best suited to small business and corporations.

  • The broadband route: 12 routers tested

    Looking for an easy way to extend that broadband connection to more of your organisation's PCs? One of these broadband routers could be the solution.

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