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"What They Know"
For this series, The Wall Street Journal developed its own "proprietary data and analytical methods" to expose how Internet use of individuals is being tracked, and how the information is being used by certain companies to develop explicit files about the users' lives. The Journal went on to reveal surprising ways in which the data "are being used."
Tags: tracking, Internet; database; cookies; beacons; Microsoft; Flowing Data
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I-95 Speed zones are not most dangerous
This investigation found that speed zones in Brevard County, FL, were established not necessarily because of high rates of speed-related accidents, but merely in areas where people who supported the law lived. Some of the zones are actually in places with very low rates of speeding-related crashes.
Tags: traffic; transportation; highways; department of highway safety; microsoft access
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Bugs on the Border
The Department of Homeland Security's screening for foreign nationals entering the U.S. was crippled for about five hours due to a computer security failure. However, they claimed that the problem was a result of glitches, not a virus although a Morocco-born computer worm had actually been the cause of the computer failure. It entered the system when government administrators had delayed installing a security patch. “The stories provided a concrete example of the management issues and technical problems surrounding US-VISIT – a lynchpin of the United States’ border protection efforts.â€
Tags: computer security; computer worm; computer virus; Microsoft Office; security patch; US-VISIT; Homeland Security; national security; screening foreign nationals
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Almost Haven: The Increasing Globalization of Financial Crime and Tax Evasion
Four years after 9/11, dirty money is more prevalent than ever. Tax cheats use the same methods that terrorists use to hide money. Everyone is playing the game, including big respected companies like Microsoft, our biggest banks, law firms and accountants. The ability of the US government to combat this traffic is remarkably weak- - probably in part because much of the problem originates in the US itself.
Tags: illicit cash; tax shelter; tax cheats; banks
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I'm Outta Here: Why Microsoft is losing some key talent
This piece is an inside look at problems gripping Microsoft. The author talked with current and former employees, and found that as the company grows, morale seems to fall.
Tags: computers; industry; technology; internet; computer science; business; Mini-Microsoft; Microsoft
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v. Goliath
For two years, Karen Donovan had complete access to David Boies, the attorney for many high-profile cases, including Bush v. Gore, Napster against the recording industry and the Justice Department against Microsoft, among others. Donovan's book provides details of legal cases that Boies was involved with, his strategies and skills, and many other details about the mind and works of this infamous man.
Tags: David Boies; Bush v. Gore; trials; trial lawyers
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Hidden text shows SCO prepped lawsuit against BofA
News.com uses a feature in Microsoft Word (viewing document under 'original showing markup' or 'final showing markup') to track changes made to SCO Group's documents. The final document showed that SCO filed a lawsuit against DaimlerChrysler, but the original document was prepared to sue Bank of America.
Tags: Microsoft Word; computers; SCO; technology; Unix
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An Empire Built on Bargains Remakes the Working World
This investigation shows how Wal-Mart as a corporation has both positive and negative effects on the world. The corporation is huge, it is the world's largest corporation and does more than eight times the sales as Microsoft. The article shows how the company prospers by cutting costs in any way possible, but also how its low costs affect the global economy. Factory workers overseas have wages cut down to pennies so Wal-Mart will buy their products, local grocery chains are forced out of business by Wal-Mart superstores and employees who are prohibited from unionizing don't make enough to support a family, even when working forty hours a week. Wal-Mart managers use illegal tactics to keep employees from joining unions and sometimes coerce employers to work overtime without being paid for it.
Tags: corporations; labor unions; wages; retailers; business; workers
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After Further Review: The public - private deal with Paul Allen to build Seahawks Stadium was a lose - win situation. Guess who won?
This story tells the real cost and true backstory of how the world's third richest man, billionaire pro sports mogul and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, "partnered" with taxpayers to build himself a stadium the public ended up paying for.
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Browser Bruiser. Microsoft and Justice end a skirmish, yet war could escalate. Company agrees to unbundle internet software; will regulators widen case? Why Netscape still frets.
This article talks about Microsoft's struggle with Netscape and the Justice Department. It also includes some background information which explains how Microsoft got into antitrust problems, and what the company is doing and has done to resolve those problems.
Tags: Microsoft; Justice Department; Netscape; Bill Gates; Internet; Internet Explorer; antitrust; monopoly; computers; software