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Oops. The folks at Intuit, the makers of the popular TurboTax software program, are understandably red-faced over this blunder.Taxpayers get unexpected return–sex chat

This makes me real nervous. Isn’t the sort of company SBC and AT&T would become exacly the reason the government broke up the Bells in the seventies? RedNova News - SBC Announces Deal to Buy AT&T

As technology marches relentlessly on, the stand-alone PDA is looking pretty obsolete these days compared to converged devices. Smartphones killing off PDAs

It’s amazing what competition does. It’s cable Internet versus DSL and the result is good news for all of us.MIKE WENDLAND: In broadband war, it’s price vs. speed

What’s up with this? I’m down in Orlando with the grandkids and made a quick visit to Disney World yesterday. At the admission turnstyles, you can’t get in unless you insert two fingers in a scanning machine.
“We have to be finger-printed to get in?” I asked the ever-smiling keeper-of-the-mouse guard that takes tickets.
“That doesn’t […]

That honeypot I installed a few weeks ago has been paying off. It’s all part of a growing network of anti-spam activists who are fighting back. I write about it in the Freep this morning. MIKE WENDLAND: Sweet new weapon enters war on spam

So says the Better Business Bureau, which issued a report saying most ID theft is from someone you know and results from a lost wallet or other such non-Net causes.Identity Theft more from paper than online.

Good grief. Now gamers want to be considered as cyber athletes. Golden boy gamer becomes a brand

This city is 103 square miles in size and everybody who lives there will be able to tap into a wi-fi network within 90 days.Wi-Fi Goes Live in Rio Rancho, N.M.

Answers.com is a search tool, but unlike Google and the others it isn’t a directory of web pages, instead it’s an aggregate of dictionaries, encyclopedias and other reference tools. So instead of returning links that may or may not provide you with an answer, it actually provides a straight answer. It’s perfect when you […]

All my reporting today is on the Mac mini. Here’s my Free Press review, played on Page One. My bottom line assessment:
I’ve had a mini to try out since Friday, and it’s impressed me greatly. This is no weakling computer. It’s a full-fledged Macintosh that can do most everything I can on my $2,000 PowerBook, […]

A tiny Michigan online company that markets a blogging tool called Spaces wants to know why Microsoft chose the same name for it’s two-month-old service. MIKE WENDLAND: Oakland firm challenges MSN over product’s name.

An advertising slogan General Motors is revealing on highway billboards across the country and coordinating through a Find The Message Website has been cracked much faster than the company expected.
The slogan apparently touts the GM on-board safety and communication system OnStar and used billboards that displayed only a single word or punctuation mark to spell […]

Reader Bernie Buchta passes along Speegle. It’s a search engine that “reads” the results?of your search back to you.
Try it.? Make sure you have your speakers on.

Yeah, I know. Firefox and Safari are great browsers getting lots of buzz. But don’t let anyone kid you. IE, as insecure as it may be, is hardly hurting in users. Read past the headline in: CoolTechZone :: Firefox gains more market shares than Internet Explorer