Word: browser
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...longer advocate the "turn your cookie off" solution to Web browsing. Cookies--data strings in your browser that identify you--can be used to determine when you last visited a website and what you saw there. Unfortunately, if you disable them (through your browser's preferences menu) you can't get into websites that require cookies. And if you opt for the middle ground--warn me if anyone wants my cookie--you end up going crazy since many sites request them dozens of times. Fortunately, there's Anonymizer...
...computers, making it impossible to intercept and trace back. Note, though, that you can't receive replies. By summer, Cottrell hopes to improve the service with something called a Nym (for pseudonym) Server that allows you to maintain untraceable, two-way e-mail under multiple aliases. The anonymous Web browser and Mixmaster are available for free tryouts on the company's website at www.anonymizer.com (though there's a 20-second delay on the browser to encourage people to pay for the service). Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go order some books, wine and pharmaceuticals online...
...course, there?s nothing the media -- or the prosecution, for that matter -- likes better than a little doctored tape. The videotaped demonstration was intended to demonstrate that removing Microsoft?s Internet Explorer web browser from a computer running the Windows 98 operating system would make that machine run significantly more slowly. This would support Microsoft?s point that the browser was an integral part of the operating system, and thus that Microsoft couldn?t be accused of leveraging its near-monopoly on operating systems to gain market share for its browser. MORE...
...week that if it were a monopoly, Microsoft would charge at least 16 times as much for Windows as it actually does. Microsoft makes much of the fact that the government's economist, Franklin Fisher, testified that consumers weren't being hurt by Microsoft's actions in the Internet-browser market. Of course, Fisher also said he believed there will be harm--just that it hasn't happened...
Microsoft also contends that the government's factual case--those e-mails about dividing up the Internet-browser market, the deals that reward companies for using Microsoft's browser--is based on a fundamental misunderstanding about how the computer industry works. When the company leans hard on rivals, it says, it's playing typical high-tech hardball. Oracle, Intel or Apple, Microsoft insists, would do no differently. And meetings that look collusive to lawyers in Washington are required in an industry where rival products must fit together. "There have to be some standards," says Neukom. "That means collaboration, that means...