Secrecy for all, as encryption goes to market; code makers venture into the new economy with programs offering various degrees of online privacy and anonymity

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Anonymizer.com, Hush Communications, Zero-Knowledge, PrivacyX and Network Associates, ZipLip.com are selling software and services that allow users to surf the Web and send email securely and anonymously. As more consumers use the Web for everyday business and financial transactions, encryption is moving into the marketplace, backed by investors and business people who see another avenue to Internet profits. These businesses seek to support themselves either by subscription or advertising. Users typically sign up to protect themselves from intrusive Web marketing research, interception of sensitive email, or theft of private information.

Software Publishers, Marketing procedures, Data Encryption Software Pkgs, Statistical Data Included, Marketing, Encryption, Data encryption, Encryption software, Company marketing practices

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Learning, one bullet point at a time; pupils who can't even spell 'PowerPoint' can use it as slickly as any C.E.O

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Students from the age of kindergarten to 12th grade are now learning Microsoft's PowerPoint in their classrooms. The most elite and desired presentation software in the corporate universe is now being taught to children who are picking it up with ease, compared to adults who still struggle through new technologies.

Product information, Elementary and secondary schools, Elementary Schools, Children, Curricula, Study and teaching, Presentation software, Presentation graphics software, Middle schools, Microsoft PowerPoint (Presentation graphics software)

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The desktop that does Elvis; for scientists, imitation is the highest form of synthetic speech

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The research team at AT&T Labs in Florham Park, New Jersey, is working on a suite of voice technology products for voice-automation companies. It is a database of sounds from "a" to "zh" so that synthetic speech will sound more normal. The basis for the new product came with help from a Japanese company, ATR, saving AT&T Labs many years of research and work. Replicating a human voice used to take a year; now it takes a month after a person spends 10-40 hours in a recording studio.

Product development, Voice communications software, AT&T Corp. AT&T Labs

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