Jeff May 11th, 2007
You would think the government wouldn’t be so ridiculously stupid when it comes to protecting our personal information. My favorite part about this article is the part where the author thinks that people wont voluntarily submit their taxes; I didn’t know we had a choice!
| IRS Found Lax in Protecting Taxpayer Data |
| Thousands of taxpayers could be at risk of identity theft or other financial fraud because the Internal Revenue Service has failed to adequately protect information on its 52,000 laptop computers and other storage systems, a new government report concludes. |
| did not begin to adequately correct the security problems until the second half of 2006, despite being warned about them in 2003 and again in February 2006 |
| If taxpayers don’t feel their personal information is protected, that could make them less likely to voluntarily file their taxes, |
| Nearly 500 IRS laptops were lost or stolen during that 3 1/2 -year period, many from the homes or cars of IRS workers but a significant number — 111 — from IRS offices, the report found |
| In one instance, “an employee wrote user account names and passwords to the computer and various systems to which the employee has access on a piece of paper that was taped to the laptop,” the report says |
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Jeff May 10th, 2007
It is getting easier and easier for someone to put up a website that doesn’t know a div from a header tag. Wonder if being a web designer will be a hard market to be in after a few years?
| SiteKreator, the business solution for designing and hosting feature-rich websites, is introducing a new platform for site creation, Aurora. SiteKreator has also restructured its small business packages to offer a better pricing program for their features offered. The Aurora design concept was officially presented at the Under the Radar conference earlier this year. |
| Making this service inexpensive is key, especially for individuals and small businesses who would otherwise not have their own design team, or be able to afford a design firm to provide site creation services. Others in this space include bravenet and eZ, and to some extent, sites like Shozam, as well as the free guys like Freewebs and me.com. |
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Jeff May 10th, 2007
I am hoping that I can watch rugby games through Joost. Oh please oh please! If you want an invite, leave a comment and I will invite you.
| Joost is a new way of watching TV on the internet. With Joost, you get all the things you love about TV, including a high-quality full-screen picture, hundreds of full-length shows and easy channel-flipping. |
| Now showing at Joost: hundreds of full-screen shows from your favourite channels. |
| With Joost, you’re in charge. No more schedules - watch what you want, as often as you like. |
| You get great internet features too, such as search, chat and instant messaging, built right into the program - so you find shows quickly and talk to your friends while you watch. And with no schedules to worry about, you can watch whatever you want, whenever you like - as often as you want. Joost is completely free, and works with most modern PCs and Intel Mac-based computers with a broadband connection. Get Joost today! |
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