Brian Livingston

Brian Livingston has more than 30 years' experience as a computer manager and technology writer. His latest book is Muscular Portfolios. He is also the author or co-author of 11 books on Windows software.

Can You Prove Your E-Mail Isn’t Spam?

There are some simple steps your company can take to demonstrate that the e-mails you're sending aren't spam. If you're not taking them, many recipients are now...

How Trustworthy Is the TRUSTe Logo?

TRUSTe.org, a nonprofit organization that sells "privacy seals" to Web sites that prominently post their data-acquisition policies, says its seals mark "companies that adhere to TRUSTe's strict...

Hundreds of ETFs Are Heading Your Way

As I wrote in this space last week, ETFs are the fastest-growing investment vehicles in global markets today. A little more than 250 exist today, but within...

How ETFs Are Changing the Market

Whoever said, "There's nothing new under the sun," obviously never worked on Wall Street. High-powered trading institutions spend a great deal of their time dreaming up ever-stranger...

MyGOP Tries to Leverage the Internet

Can social-networking sites motivate volunteers to raise money and recruit activists for major U.S. political parties? That's what the Republican National Committee had in mind earlier this...

The Democrats Finally Get the Web

The Democratic National Committee is rolling out this week a Web 2.0-like service that may grow into something akin to MySpace for the party faithful. PartyBuilder is...

Clip & Copy Provides Free News Alerts

Another Web service has decided that success in business requires the company's primary offering to be given away for free, to be financed by advertising. No, it's...

Farecast Now Predicts Prices for 55 Cities

Farecast, the slick new site that predicts whether air fares between particular cities will go up or down, has expanded its service to cover more than 55...

Tableau 2.0 Charts Your Business Success

I admit it -- I'm a chart junkie. I just love to take rows and columns of business data and turn them into graphs that show exactly...

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