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About 17% of FORTUNE 1,000 companies, along with half a dozen federal agencies, now have so-called monitoring software, according to International Data Corp., a research firm in Framingham, Mass. The figure is expected to jump to 80% by 2001. And about 12% of companies in an American Management Association survey said they do not notify their employees of their monitoring activities...
...moment, monitoring for most companies means tracking e-mail and Net use. Elron Software of Burlington, Mass., makes Message Inspector, a program that sniffs out inappropriate terms--as defined by whoever owns it--from incoming and outgoing e-mails. When it finds one, the program obliterates the e-mail or records it in a company database. San Diego firm Websense offers Websense Enterprise, a Trekkie name for a program that blocks access to inappropriate Web pages and logs every minute employees spend on each site...
...processing like constructing drafts or writing in a diary. The most far-reaching programs keep a log of every letter you type and delete. "Scanning for key words and websites is not rocket science," says Jonathan Penn, analyst at Giga Information Group, an e-business advisory firm in Cambridge, Mass. "We're talking about something that's soon going to approach a billion-dollar market...
...dubbed "Ford Valdez" by critics--he has expressed fears that auto companies could be scorned like tobacco companies if they don't clean up their act. Similarly, GM has sought to position itself as the greenest car company, beginning in 1996 when it launched the nation's first modern, mass-produced electric car, the EV-1. But both companies, which account for half of the SUVs and other light trucks sold today, rank lower in fuel efficiency than Asian companies such as Toyota and Honda...
...HARWICH, Mass.--This here is Napster country. Harwich, on the elbow of Cape Cod, is home to cranberry bogs, pristine New England shore and Shawn Fanning, founder of Napster Music Community. Last winter, at the beginning of what has become a Napster media blitz, I squealed with pride when I first saw my high school classmate pictured in U.S. News and World Report. I knew Napster--and the sweet kid I suffered through high school calculus with--had made it to the big time early last spring when he was featured in Rolling Stone. They don't just put anybody...