It matters not that there have been a string of losing seasons - or lawsuits, or off-court drama or paying a player millions of dollars not to play. None of that has diminished the worth of the New York Knicks. The Knicks franchise remains increasingly prosperous and the NBA most valuable team:
Fire Eagle is Yahoo’s entry into the geographic location service. It answers the basic question of ‘where are you?’ and the advertisers then proceed to stream relevant information:
“…”These services are all being sold to consumers as only providing real benefit. No one is talking about the fact they are about building and collecting more data ,not just about the content you like but where you go and where you are at the moment.”
Fire Eagle, which has just been opened up to the public, helps manage location information for websites and for any device that has internet access.”
link: Privacy worry over location data
The service raises obvious privacy and security issues. Yahoo attempts to be reassuring that it is possible to opt-out at any time. Further, Yahoo points to its privacy policy as an indication that it is aware of some of the potential pitfall of this service. Nevertheless, Yahoo does not go far enough in its explanation.
When Yahoo markets this user information, then it passes on the responsibility to safeguard this information to its business partner. The data then are no longer under Yahoo’s direct purview. The attention to privacy, and resultant security concerns, differ from company to company. Yahoo can be seen as a distribution cog. Yahoo’s fallback position may very well be that Yahoo is not responsible for business policies of other firms.
It is incumbent upon Yahoo to let its users know that, in this business model, their control of the data may be temporary and cursory.
Catherine Forsythe
There has been some reports of the toolbars not staying in their set locations in Internet Explorer 7 (IE7). This happens even after right clicking the toolbar and checking the “Lock the Toolbars” function. Some people in the security community have been working on this problem and here is a possible solution.
First, right click on the toolbar and unlock it. Move the toolbars to your preferred locations. If the Google Toolbar is installed, go to: Tools - Manage Add-ons. Google Toolbar Helper (Browser Helper Object) will be there. Highlight Google Toolbar Helper and, in Settings, disable that function. The Settings is at the bottom left of that window. Click “OK”. Close IE and then reopen the browser. The toolbars should be exactly where you have placed them - and have not moved on their own.
The Google Toolbar should work normally. At the moment, this solution seems to the most simple fix for this problem. As always, the usual disclaimers apply. Please let us know if this solves the problem for you.
Catherine Forsythe
The Associates for International Research released some data on Wednesday - July 9, 2008. It is a comparison of gasoline prices. Here is a sample of the data on what a gallon of gas costs:
So the price that you are paying may not seem so bad. That’s until you look at figures like these:
As the real estate people say… ‘location, location, location’.
Catherine Forsythe
