Now you, too, can be a spy; new Web site offers photos from satellites, planes; some fret about privacy

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Consumers can now obtain aerial and satellite images once available only to military and espionage agencies. Firms like GlobeXplorer Inc. and others have amassed databases of satellite imagery which can be accessed through their Web sites. GlobeXplorer's high-resolution images can be obtained by consumers without having to use special software other than a Web browser.

On-Line Information Services, France, Photographic studios, portrait, Photographic Services, Photography Studios, Portrait, Information retrieval services, Database Vendors NEC, Database industry, Marketing, Services industry, Service industries, Photographic industry, Space Imaging Co. (Thorton, Colorado), Aerial photographs, GlobeXplorer Inc., Orbimage Imaging Corp., Aerial Images Inc.

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Tech firms reboot with gadgets; with Web-only efforts failing, companies try digital pens, robots and smart software

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Due to the economic slowdown of the "dot-com'" revolution, many start-ups are looking beyond the World Wide Web to find sources of profit. At Demo 2001, a high-technology products trade show, many companies will be displaying products like robots, digital pens and new technologies that track user preferences and consumer location.

Forecasts, trends, outlooks, All Other Miscellaneous General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing, General industrial machinery, not elsewhere classified, Robots NEC, High technology industry, Forecasts and trends, Industry trend, Trade shows, Robots, Robotics industry, 2001 AD, Trade show

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Microsoft to alter Windows 98 so data about users won't be sent to company

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Microsoft Corp. plans to alter its Windows 98 operating system so that it will not send hardware identification numbers to Microsoft when the user registers his or her computer, and says that it will purge all data that may have been gathered improperly for entry into a database.

Systems Software Pkgs (Micro), Management, Microsoft Corp., Operating system, Operating systems (Software), Operating systems, Ethical aspects, Product enhancement, MSFT, Privacy, Right of, Right of privacy, Public opinion, Data security, Databases, Microsoft Windows 98 (Operating system)

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