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According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Apple will include a do-not-track tool in its next version of Safari. The tool will serve to enhance privacy when browsing the web, preventing marketers from following users' online activities. The tool will likely be available as part of the next Mac operating system, Lion, currently on schedule for a summer release. Such tools send a message to marketers asking that users' online… Read More

Businesses regularly monitor what websites their workers visit, or how many miles they put on the company car. And suspicious boyfriends and girlfriends often snoop through their significant others' devices to catch cheaters red-handed. But a new program by Retina Software, ePhone Tracker, brings a new level of secret spying abilities straight to your smartphone. Announced today, the ePhone Tracker software-service hybrid “secretly… Read More

We know, we know: these days most people want an ultra-slim laptop they can carry with them anywhere as easy as a digital media player. (That is, they want it in addition to their digital media player.) But for folks whose work has them on their feet all day in the field or running around a facility like a hospital—or in the case of, say, theater pros setting their lights—tablet PCs have definitely carved out a niche. It might… Read More

In what is clearly a shot across Adobe’s bow, Microsoft yesterday unveiled new design software known as Microsoft Expression. This software family is set to include a painting, illustration and effects tool, a user interface design tool and a Web layout and design tool.   These specific tools, Microsoft said, currently go under different code names. Acrylic Graphic Designer will focus on creating dynamic visual effects such as blurs… Read More

“People who use public or workplace computers for e-mail, instant messaging and Web searching have a new privacy risk to worry about: Google's free new tool that indexes a PC's contents for quickly locating data. If it's installed on computers at libraries and Internet cafes, users could unwittingly allow people who follow them on the PCs, for example, to see sensitive information in e-mails they've exchanged.… Read More