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.
Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, working with federal grant monies, have discovered that phishing e-mails are decidedly different from most other spam -- so much so that...
The streaming news feeds known as RSS (Really Simple Syndication) may get a dramatic boost if Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7.0 supports feeds when it's released later this...
Once upon a time, different Web browsers supported different forms of HTML markup or "tags." It was difficult or impossible to make a Web site look good...
You know about travel search engines that display the lowest fares airlines
are offering today. Now there's a travel engine that can read the airlines' minds....
Click fraud has become so large that it's setting records, and not in a good way.
"We've seen indications that the overall losses due to click fraud...
If your company buys pay-per-click ads in search engines, and you're concerned that you're paying for click fraud, you've got new tools to fight it -- and...
As credit-card issuers increasingly encourage recurring charges by merchants, some consumers are finding themselves caught in the middle.
I reported in my May 23 and May 30...
If your business has tried to collect payments from your customers using authorized monthly charges to their credit cards, you may have found that it's a lot...
Most consumers think their credit card expiration dates -- the month and year in which their cards are supposed to be renewed -- are a sacrosant security...
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...
A grand experiment in "pay-to-play" e-mail will begin in the next few days, and the results will influence how we communicate for years to come.
Goodmail Systems,...