April 12, 2001
Computerworld: Truste offers privacy guidelines on mergers, bankruptcies.
Specifically the guidelines call for a third party to oversee any transfer of personal information; recommend that companies give consumers notice about the transfer of their personal data and allow them to decide whether to allow that information to be transferred...
Business Week: Watch Out for This HailStorm.
But even Microsoft can't guarantee total security. Hackers have their ways, and they can be diabolically ingenious. "The more valuable the information, the harder people will try to break in and get it. And, ultimately, anything can be hacked," says Joel Spolsky...
ZDNN: Tech giants out to ambush MP3.
These companies, which have the music industry's blessing, are encouraging those who download music to use new proprietary software formats that make the audio sound significantly better but also make it harder to share copyright-protected songs.
MSNBC: As Microsoft’s Xbox debut nears, fan sites get cocky, rivals wary.
The episode illustrates the tenuous relationship between fan sites and the products they promote. Sites run by zealous video-game fans — often in their free time with their own money — are becoming a strategic link between manufacturers and potential customers.
Business 2.0: Intranets Save Time- But for Whom?
Jakob Nielsen. Thinking about the intranet as a productivity tool can prevent such mishaps. For every service or application you put on the intranet, estimate the impact on users around the company. If usability is low, then training time goes up and productivity goes down.
Wired News: Short Life, Long Death of NBCi.
For those who have followed NBC's Internet strategy from the very beginning, the mixed signals come as no surprise. The network has a history of changing course midstream, which is what analysts and people inside the industry say ultimately led it astray.
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