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Running the Risk of Insurance Ignorance According to a survey of 282 small and midsize companies with fewer than 500 employees, 80 percent of respondents said they had no idea if their current insurance policies covered such specific cyber-risks as e-mail viruses, Web site business interruptions, online copyright infringements or privacy violations. The national study, […]

Jerry Bermans old row house sits in the center of Washington, D.C.s Capitol Hill, the thumping heart of the nations body politic. Books, alphabetized and divided into fiction and nonfiction, plaster the walls, swamp the basement, emblazon space with titles promising existential doubt, historical analysis, mystery. The grand brass chessboard looms on the coffee table. […]

Despite plummeting profit margins, Dell Computer Corp. has no intention of backing off from an aggressive PC pricing strategy that it initiated earlier this year. At its annual analysts meeting in New York last week, Chairman and CEO Michael Dell repeatedly sidestepped questions about how low hes willing to go in the current price war. […]

Sina.com is one of the biggest Chinese-language portals on the Web, with 16 million registered users. The publicly held company, headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., operates four localized Web sites — targeting users in China, North America, Hong Kong and Taiwan — that offer news, financial information, e-mail and other services. Hurst Lin, vice president of […]

Sex.com, one of the oldest and most lucrative adult sites on the Internet, is under new management. The change in control comes after years of legal wrangling by the domain names original owner, Gary Kremen. Kremen won a landmark $65 million judgment last week against Stephen Cohen, who stole the name shortly after Kremen registered […]

The goal of laptop security is threefold: Protect the laptop, protect the data and keep it all easy to use. eWeek Labs believes Caveo Technologys forthcoming Anti-Theft system takes a smart path that competitors will likely follow. Caveo Anti-Theft is an internal device whose workings are transparent to the user. The daughtercard adds less than […]

AskSam Web Publisher 4.0 is a useful companion to the AskSam 4.0 database, letting you make the database searchable in any browser. The well-respected free-form database software has for more than 15 years helped those who need to store and organize data that does not bend easily to a rigid structure. These users often are […]

It seemed like a good idea at the time, but now Amazon.coms enormous investments in partner online retailers are proving to be lead weights around its ankles. In its bid to become king of the e-commerce hill, Amazon funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into e-commerce start-ups. Many of those investments have gone sour, including […]

Over the past two years, Freddie Mac has aggressively used the Internet to lower the cost of marketing its securities and increase its profile among mortgage brokers. But critics now insist that the government-sponsored corporation has gone too far, and they are calling on federal authorities to force the company to rescind a $2.5 million […]

Steve Raymund has always had the knack for making the right bet. Even with the current state of economic uncertainty, Raymund is betting to grow market share from distribution competitors. “We think weve got what it takes to outpace the competition regardless of the market climate,” says Raymund, chairman and CEO of Tech Data Corp. […]

Developers welcomed Microsoft Corp.s decision last week to scrap some of its planned changes for Visual Basic.Net but said the decision may fall short of selling them on the .Net version of the programming language. The first beta version of VB.Net, released last fall, contained more than 70 changes from the way Visual Basic had […]

Designers looking to publish their work in multiple media will get help with the newest version of Macromedia Inc.s FreeHand design tool. FreeHand Version 10 will include tighter integration with the companys Flash animation tool as well as other productivity and illustration enhancements. It will enable users to create content once and publish to different […]