Is There a Peeping Tom in Your In-box? I spy...someone looking at your in-box! According to a survey of 300 senior IT professionals, there's about a 30 percent chance that this is true. Those with systematic privilege powered by administrative passwords can access confidential data like salary details and personal emails.
As much fun as planning a trip can be, there's always so much stress and worry when it comes to prices. Am I getting a deal? Will flight prices go down? Should I book last minute? Another reason why I absolutely love technology — enough with the travel booking stress! Farecast and Kayak are great for getting price alerts on flights, but what if you want an alert service that basically acts as your own travel agent, you've got to check out Hotwire's latest feature (it just launched yesterday!) Trip Watcher.
With Trip Watcher you can watch specific travel itineraries and get email alerts about price drops for hotel rooms, car rentals and airfares. Just input dates (can be up to a sixty day range), destination, possible airports and Trip Watcher will compare them with all of their Hotwire itineraries. Once your Trip Watcher page is set up (you can include up to 25 trips), there will be a running history of your requested dates and destinations, plus the prices changes for each!
If you can't get enough of Second Life or Sims-like games where you're challenged to create an avatar and personality that succeeds in a virtual world, AND you also happen to be obsessed with one day running your own beauty product factory and company, then I've got the ultimate niche video game for you: Beauty Factory.
When I first glanced at the game, I assumed it was a video game with challenges like, "Coordinate the Lip Gloss to the Nail Polish," or "Ultimate Smoky Eye Challenge," but when I saw the tag line, "Girls just wanna have business," I realized my mistake. Beauty Factory is an exercise in being a cosmetics industry mogul, and has more to do with marketing and innovating than mascara and eye shadow application.
Build up your cosmetics empire, check in on the scientists formulating the perfect concealer, and prove you're more than one kind of Mac girl!
I swear, when it comes to gaming, anything related to sports is always an instant hit — well, that and anything with the word Mario in its title, naturally. Last week we met up with Anthony DeLuca of 2K sports, and a producer of the new tennis game Top Spin 3, which goes on sale today. If you've ever played Wii Tennis, Top Spin 3 is comparable, yet it's much more of a visual and realistic gaming experience. Created for the Wii ($50), Xbox 360 ($60), PlayStation 3 ($60) and Nintendo DS ($30), Top Spin 3 features stunning graphics, improved audio, and a selection of top ranked tennis pro players like Andy Roddick, Maria Sharapova, Roger Federer and Monica Seles, so you can really get your game on!
Top Spin 3 For the Wii: With the Wii version of Top Spin 3 you can choose from 16 licensed players on 10 real-world venues to play from and during game play, you hold the wiimote exactly as you would a tennis racket. It also comes with some fun party games. The not-so-hot? To continue reading my review, just read more
The New York Times reports that ABC and its writers have had disputes over whether employees checking their company-issued BlackBerrys after work hours is considered overtime.
Although I'd laugh off checking one or two emails and simply reading them as obviously not being overtime, it's clear that we have a modern-technology-induced gray area here. Reading a couple of emails while outside work (and occasionally replying) is a way to check in, and as long as that's optional on the employee's part, then I don't consider that working (and hence, not overtime).
But, some people will get caught up or will be expected to answer the emails and work as a result of that and that's when you get into the aforementioned gray area.
Ah, finally the freedom to switch your SIM card from phone to phone has arrived with the white "unlocked" Palm Centro smartphone. This tiny and extremely light cell also includes Google Maps for mobile with the fabulous My Location feature. With My Location you can easily get directions to various locations in proximity to your current location on the map. . . Trust me, I use it on my Curve and it's a total lifesaver! Just visit Google Maps Mobile on your Palm Centro for the free My Location download.
The unlocked GSM version Centro is available for US customers and costs $299 from Palm.
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