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Berkeley professor has a plan to turn the Net into a vast hard drive

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Backed by IBM and EMC, Berkeley professor John Kubiatowicz and other researchers are working on a crash- and hacker-proof way for all of us to store everything digital, not just companies, and not just business files. The professor believes his OceanStore, a global hard drive, could and should keep files from our PCs, our Palms and our digital cameras. His global hard drive would be part of the Internet; the information stored would be broken up into parts that would be spread around, making a total loss of information more remote. High-speed connections, like DSL, wireless technology and redundancy are all part of the equation.

Author: Weber, Thomas E.

Publisher: Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 2001

Product development, Computer Storage Device Manufacturing, Computer storage devices, Rigid Disk Drives, Research, Usage, Innovations, Column, Computer peripherals industry, Data warehousing software, Hard disk drives, Information storage and retrieval, University of California, Berkeley, Kubiatowicz, John

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A new privacy tool is at your disposal now--warts and all

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Microsoft Corp. has a privacy monitor built into its Internet Explorer 6 to help insure consumer privacy on the Web. The Platform for Privacy Preferences or P3P is designed to screen Web sites according to each site's individual privacy policy and can prevent the computer from sending these sites private information about the consumer.

Author: Weber, Thomas E.

Publisher: Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 2001

Computer Software, Software Publishers, Product information, Evaluation, Safety and security measures, Product description/specification, Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Privacy, Right of, Right of privacy, Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 (Web browser)

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The naked truth; there are ways to keep you kids away from on-line porn. But none are foolproof

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Adult material on the Internet is a big concern for parents who have no choice but to continually monitor their children as they surf the Web. The Communications Decency Act of 1996 brought the problem of pornography on the Web into the forefront of the media. According to Net Nanny Software International, approximately 2% to 5% of Internet content, as distributed on 60,000 sites, is pornographic. Net Nanny is a developer of software that allows parents to filter out sites that they do not want their children to have access to. Microsystems Software's Cyber Patrol is an average parental control package. It offers two choices; a list of about 3,000 preapproved sites that kids can surf or a list of about 15,000 sites that a child is unable to access.

Author: Weber, Thomas E.

Publisher: Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1997

Design and construction, Internet/Web overview, Internet access software, Social issue, Social conditions, Net Nanny Software International Inc., Microsystems Software Inc., Cyber Patrol (Internet access software)

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Subjects list: United States, Computer software industry, Software industry, Product information, Internet, Software

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