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Police Cameras Spark Privacy Debate, Citizens Seek to Block Photos

"We continue to receive increasing numbers of sales from motorists there who tell us they are concerned about cameras in nearby states," said Joe Scott of PhantomPlate, maker ofPhotoBlocker spray, being used by motorists there and in other eastern states to combat the invasion of privacy...

AOL, Yahoo Take Heat for Fee-Based E-Mail Plan

"If the protesters succeed with a targeted campaign to get 300,000 AOL users to sign the petition, then I think AOL would launch a more concerted effort to explain to their customers how this all works and why some of the fears are unfounded," Jupiter Research Analyst Joe Laszlo told TechNewsWorld...

Microsoft Targets Variety of Users With Six-Version Vista Strategy

The marketplace will ultimately judge, said Jupiter Research Analyst Joe Wilcox. Microsoft's challenge with the Vista strategy is the evolution in the way people use computers, he noted, pointing to workers who receive calls and e-mails at their home computer, but still respond as husband and father when children come into the room. Thus, uses for the same machines might change rather quickly on a regular basis...

Microsoft Goes ‘Live’ With New Parental Controls

In a sense, Windows Family Settings is not an original idea, said Jupiter Research Analyst Joe Wilcox, in another sense it is a new idea because of its wider distribution "Microsoft is introducing a number of disparate properties, including MSN Spaces," Wilcox told TechNewsWo...

Vista Beta Aims to Beef Up Security, Lower Costs

There are multiple benefits to this kind of system, says Joe Wilcox, senior analyst at JupiterResearch. "Ultimately, Microsoft is trying to give IT administrators more control over who has access to what. Companies want to give different degrees of access to different employees," he told TechNewsWorld, "but a benefit of that approach is deterring stealth installation."

OPINION

OSDL Sacrifices Credibility to Make a Point

If you want to get a scary sense of all this, pick up More Damned Lies and Statistics by Joel Best (a sequel to the excellent Damned Lies and Statistics), which focuses on how governments manipulate us with statistical reports Furthermore, if you are going to conduct a study, ...

Document Management Challenges Put Companies at Legal Risk

"Without the right technology and strategies in place, any company or organization can be at serious risk," said Joe Fantuzzi, chief executive officer of Workshare Technology, Inc., a document management company based in San Francisco U.S. judges are increasingly ruling agains...

Google Launches New Tools in Bid for Desktop Dominance

"When you own a shopping mall and someone sets up a small business alongside of it, you still own the shopping mall," Joe Wilcox, senior analyst at Jupiter Research, told TechNewsWorld Google has done a good job of co-opting the desktop with its toolbar products and desktop se...

British ISP Blocks 35,000 Child Porn Requests Daily

"These figures may suggest that people are becoming more brazen about what they are looking for online. It may also just suggest that BT is keeping a closer eye on this, and so they are noticing more than they were before," Jupiter Research Analyst Joe Laszlo said If British T...

IT Employees Recapturing Power of 1990s

"A key component of the technology economy is IT employment, and it's going through a major transition," Joel Dibble, a spokesman for Menlo Park, Calif.-based Robert Half Technology, an IT hiring firm, told TechNewsWorld. "Slowly but surely, it's turning back into a market in which the employee wields much more power -- a huge change from the last 5 years."

Google Tightlipped About Ubuntu Linux Plans

Perhaps, but Jupiter Research Analyst Joe Wilcox is not so sure anybody could pull it off. "I would be surprised if Google is seriously working on a desktop Linux," he told LinuxInsider. "I don't see an advantage for Google trying to take on an entrenched competitor like Microsoft."

Security Firms Collaborate to Fight Spyware

The companies are trying to come together on some parameters for identification and disclosure of spyware data, McAfee Avert Labs Director of Operations Joe Telafici told TechNewsWorld. While the effort is initially focused on identifying and removing the spyware already on users' machines, it will likely evolve to prevention of spyware infections down the road, he said...

AOL Makes Broadband Friends, Pushes High-Speed Service

"We're starting to let AOL members know about this opportunity now to strongly encourage them to improve their online experience with a better, faster Internet connection," said Joe Redling, President of AOL's Access business A Multimedia Campaign...

ANALYSIS

SOX Compliance Is Worth the Effort

When the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) was originally passed in 2002, many companies were less than enthusiastic about it. Concerns about the additional accountability and the internal changes that would need to take place weighed heavily on the minds of many company executives. These concerns turned out to be well founded. Some companies struggled to make the deadlines, and others missed them completely. Reasons included the high cost and enormous effort involved. In some cases, department directives were even changed to focus on meeting compliance...

Microsoft Embarks on New Internet-Tech Research Initiative

Essentially, it is a rebranding of MSN to deliver more value around the Windows product, Joe Wilcox, senior analyst at Jupiter Research told TechNewsWorld. In short, anything offered on MSN today will be an enhanced feature on Windows Live "Windows Live is just the first step,...

Congress Takes Aim at ‘Analog Hole’

The legislation places an onerous burden on hardware makers according to Joe Born, CEO of Neuros Technology International, a maker of portable digitial media players and recorders in Chicago "It's asking us to justify our existence and prove that our devices won't be used for ...

BEST OF ECT NEWS

SMBs Hesitant When it Comes to VoIP

The 10 percent figure is a number expected to grow substantially, however. While the technology is still in its early stages, Joe Porus, chief architect for Harris Interactive's technology research practice, said, "I am encouraged to see how quickly businesses are moving toward adoption." Asked to predict the rate of adoption a year from now, Porus said it appeared to be "steadily climbing" and he expects that "2007 might show VoIP as a dominant technology."

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Microsoft’s Strategy May Change Shape of CRM for SMBs

Joe Horvath is sales director at iFusion, one of those Microsoft CRM resellers. He said customers are already seeing the benefit of Microsoft's product, but that many businesses are still not sure of how CRM will benefit them "A lot of customers are a lot more savvy and becomi...

Nessus 3.0: The End of the Age of Open-Source Innocence?

Shimel said it is similar to the Google discussion. Google makes US$60 billion a year, much of which comes from every day Joes clicking on ads for search words. Shimel believes some in the open-source community will be left with a bad taste in their mouths in the wake of Nessus 3.0.0

‘Tis the Season for Holiday Spamming

Of special note this year are the sober variants AppRiver is tracking. Over the past several weeks, sober virus writers have been sending batches of new variants hoping one of them will do the trick, says AppRiver CTO Joel Smith AppRiver has tracked dozens of Sober variants ea...

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