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The FBI hunts for the origins of a
password-stealing program that came
in a new strain of the infamous "Love"
bug, but security experts say operating
systems, applications and even consumers
are the real danger.
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IPO time for Transmeta
Transmeta, the processor start-up that
hopes to take on Intel in the lucrative
market for notebook chips, filed yesterday
to raise $200 million through an initial
public offering.
DVD crackdown
A federal judge handed the motion picture
industry a legal win yesterday in its battle
to keep DVDs from being copied and
distributed online.
eBay faces international checkpoints
eBay's intention to sell products around the
world using language translation software
has made its stock take off faster than a
transcontinental jet. However, many
business and translation software experts
say that eBay CEO Meg Whitman's vision
of convenient e-commerce worldwide is
a pipe dream, at least for the foreseeable
future.
Viacom may be reorganizing MTVi Group
Media giant Viacom is considering reorganizing
its MTVi Group now that the prospects of an
initial public offering for the Internet division
have dimmed, according to sources close to
the company.
High-tech manufacturers add brains to brawn
The contract manufacturing business, once
just a cheap source of labor for assembling
electronic equipment, is undergoing a radical
transformation, becoming not just the
screwdrivers and soldering irons behind
the high-tech economy but the brains as
well.
