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CNN gives a good example of how your data could be sold and used. If a small business owner wanted to open a new pet store, said owner could buy a marketing report from Verizon for a certain city or area. The report could reveal which locations receive the most traffic from users who do web searches pertaining to pet ownership.

Verizon is the first carrier to publically admit they are collecting and selling your usage data directly to businesses. But all four major US carriers make money from data, mostly through targeted ads.

“At the end of the day, we’re getting to a situation where customers are the products that these wireless companies are selling,” said Nasir Memon, a professor of computer science at New York University’s Polytechnic Institute. “They’re creating a playground to attract people and sell them to advertisers. People are their new business.”

Granted the data is sold on an anonymous basis, it still feels a bit too intrusive for some. But then again, the selling of customer data isn’t new and certainly isn’t exclusive to the wireless industry. Brian Kennish, a former DoubleClick engineer, says that wireless providers have been sharing location data with third party companies for more than a decade.

Nasser Peyghambarian of the University of Arizona and colleagues said on Wednesday their new holographic technology can project a near 360-degree image to another location that updates every two seconds.

The earliest use of the technology could be in movies, given the popularity of 3-D films such as “Avatar.”

“We foresee many applications, including for example, car or airplane manufacturing. They can look at the hologram and design the system they have in real-time and look at the model and make changes on it as they go,” Peyghambarian told the briefing.

Known as three-dimensional telepresence, the technology addresses shortcomings of current holograms, which give the illusion of 3-D but leave out the rear view, said Peyghambarian, whose study appears in the journal Nature.

“If you look at the 3-D object, we show it is very much like if you look around you. It’s the closest to what you see compared to any other technology,” Peyghambarian, who also holds a position at the National Science Foundation, said on a telephone briefing.

Surgeons around the world also could participate in complex operations at the same time, he said.

To create the hologram, cameras take color images at multiple angles and send them over an Ethernet line. In the lab model, images are projected onto a transparent plastic panel and refreshed every few seconds.

Future displays will lie flat on a table and the system will create an optical illusion that the image is floating above the screen.

The three-dimensional telepresence technology differs from 3-D technology in several ways.

With 3-D, one perspective is projected to one eye and another perspective is projected to the other, which is why people wear special glasses. With the hologram, no special glasses are needed and the number of perspectives is only limited by the number of cameras used.

In a videoconference, this means people sitting on one side of a table see the front of a person, people on the side would get a side view and people in the back would see their back.

The technology builds on earlier work by the same group, which in 2008 reported a black and white 3-D image that could be updated every four minutes.

The new system is more than 100 times faster.

“This breakthrough opens new opportunities for optics as a means to transport images in real time,” Lynn Preston, director of the National Science Foundation’s Engineering Research Centers program, said in a statement.

Peyghambarian said the team still needs to work out some issues, including improving the screen and reducing the system’s power demands, which will take about two years.

It will be far longer before the system can be used by ordinary consumers.

“I don’t think you can see these in our houses in less than seven to 10 years,” he said.

Three years ago, Howard Marks, best known for resurrecting the financially flailing game maker Activision (nasdaq: ATVI – news – people ) in the early 1990s, snapped up the remaining assets of bankrupt Acclaim Entertainment for $100,000. Now Acclaim is releasing games–charging players nothing to play–and aiming to be profitable within the next 12 months.

Instead of monthly fees, Marks is betting that he can create a profitable business entirely supported by posting in-game advertisements and selling virtual tchotchkes. “We believe that consumers would prefer to play high-quality games for free rather than pay $60 for a game in a retail store,” says Marks.

It’s a gutsy–but not entirely irrational–strategy. The U.S. gaming market sells about $18.8 billion a year–about half of which is sales of software for PCs and other devices, according to analyst NPD Group. Subscription gaming revenues in the U.S. last year amounted to about $600 million, says David Cole, president of DFC Intelligence, a market research firm in San Diego. Item sales barely register, he adds.

That’s not true in Asia, however. Over the past seven or so years, gaming companies in Korea, and more recently, China, have built gaming empires by letting people play for free and selling them anything from virtual weapons to fashionable boots. San Francisco-based Pearl Research estimates that as much as 75% of the $1.7 billion Chinese gaming market is built on virtual item sales. Now Marks, and a small but growing number of U.S. gaming companies, are venturing down the same path.

Marks was sold on free-to-play games soon after buying Acclaim. Two weeks after the deal, Marks headed to Korea to tour 30 developers. Their stories were compelling: Company after company recited how it increased revenues several-fold by dropping subscription fees and making games free.

With no entry fee, players turned out to be willing to spend money to accessorize and augment their characters. In 2005 alone, Seoul-based game maker Nexon collected $230 million from its library of free-to-play, item-supported games. At least in Korea, the subscription model of games seemed a dead end.

“I instantly had an epiphany,” Marks recalls. He would follow Korea’s lead–both by rebuilding top-selling Korean games for the U.S. market and by relying on advertising and in-game sales to players, rather than subscription fees. “I decided this [is the] way people will play games in the near future,” says Marks.

Going free is one way smaller game publishers can carve out a space for themselves in an industry increasingly dominated by enormous game distributors. World of Warcraft, for instance, which commands the attention of 10 million players worldwide, has become a profit geyser for Irvine, Calif.-based Blizzard Entertainment, a division of Vivendi Games.

But getting into such multi-player, role-playing games is a big commitment, involving fees of $15 a month and often soaking up 20 hours a week as players inch their way up competitive rankings.

By contrast, anyone with a computer and Internet connection can drop in to play a free-to-play game. Instead of spending hours advancing their characters, players can shore up their inexperience by buying better swords, more potent potions or protective garments.

By the time Acclaim launched “Bots!!,” its first repackaged game in the U.S. market in 2006, the free-to-play trend was beginning to percolate throughout North America. Nexon had quietly rolled out its free-to-play game, MapleStory, in late 2005. When it turned up the marketing hype in February 2007, millions of users bought up 600,000 items, totaling sales of $1.6 million.

Acclaim’s gratis games offer players a variety of ways to play for free. In “Bots!!,” a robot arena game, players buy “Acclaim Coins” they can spend on virtual armor, guns or attack moves. In the adults-only “2Moons,” gamers can opt in to watching video ads in exchange for boosting their characters’ experience level. The Kung Fu-themed “9Dragons” rewards players who click through to video advertisements with in-game currency and special items.

Other small game companies began catching free-to-play fever, too.

The secret to winning big revenue is to dangle the right carrot in front of players, says Daniel James, chief executive of San Francisco-based Three Rings.

Soon after launching its casual multiplayer game “Puzzle Pirates,” James calculated the cost of adding additional players to the game was negligible. In 2005, James broke down the toll booth–instead, players could use real cash to buy virtual doubloons–which, in turn, they could use to bedeck their pirates in loot or purchase other status symbols. Over a year, “Puzzle Pirates” went from collecting $50,000 a month in subscriptions to raking in twice that by selling virtual doubloons.

Only 15% to 20% of “Puzzle Pirates” players ever buy doubloons–but those who do buy a lot. Virtual currency purchases accounted for roughly 75% of Puzzle Pirates $4 million revenue in 2007. It’s a lot like letting crowds into a movie theater for free, then collecting serious coinage from those who crave popcorn and Jolly Ranchers.

Inspired by such success, big gaming companies are now entering the free fray, too.

“We knew which direction the world would go,” says Sony (nyse: SNE – news – people ) Online Entertainment President John Smedley. “We’re going to be right on that wave.” Sony’s next game, “Free Realms,” slated to launch later this year, will rely primarily on in-game advertising and item sales. Players who don’t want to sit through a 30-second ad at login but do want “velvet rope” benefits can choose to subscribe.

“My gut tells me this will work,” says Smedley. “It’s about the raw numbers. We’re [now] looking at tens of millions of people, not hundreds of thousands.” And if “Free Realms” turns a profit, all of Sony’s future, massively multiplayer gaming titles could go free, too.

Even Electronic Arts (nasdaq: ERTS – news – people ) is testing out free-to-play with an upcoming title, “Battlefield Heroes”–a casual offshoot of its popular PC-and-console shooter game. Slated to launch in September, “Battlefield Heroes” will sell items to pump up players’ rankings as well as collect ad revenue from banners hosted on the official site, which players must visit to launch the game. EA Chief Executive John Riccitiello has gone so far as to declare that the $60 retail game will be obsolete within the next 10 years.

For Acclaim, the free-to-play business model has already exceeded Howard Marks’ expectations. He had hoped for 2 million registered users by the end of 2007, and instead, has 5 million. He also had expected his 500,000 dedicated users to spend $25 apiece on item sales; they’ve been buying more. Since Acclaim launched “2Moons” last August, dedicated players have spent an average of $57 on virtual items.

“Many publishers will not be able to jump in because they want to protect their existing business model,” says Marks. “They may not survive a transition to the free-to-play model. In our case, we started there.”

Their goal is to inflict havoc and destruction on as many people as possible by disabling, stealing, damaging, or destroying computer and information resources. Often, they have no specific target in mind, so no one is safe. If you access the internet, share files or your computer with others, or load anything from diskettes, CDs, or DVDs onto your computer, you are vulnerable to viruses.
Fortunately, there are good guys working just as hard as the hackers to develop cures for viruses as quickly as they send them off into cyberspace. And there are many things you can do to keep your computer from catching viruses in the first place.

Defining Viruses:

A virus is a small computer program that can copy and spread itself from one computer to another, with or without the help of the user. However, viruses typically do more than just be fruitful and multiply, which is bad enough in itself because it hogs system resources. Anything else viruses are programmed to do, from displaying annoying messages to destroying files, is called their payload. Often, they cannot deliver their payload until an unsuspecting user does something to make the virus execute its programmed function. This could be as simple as clicking on an innocent looking file attachment with the .exe (executable) extension.

Catching a Virus:

Most viruses are spread through e-mail attachments because it’s the easiest way to do it. Although Macintosh, Unix, and Linux systems can catch viruses, hackers are particularly keen on exploiting the security weaknesses in anything Microsoft, particularly Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express. Because of the popularity of this software, hackers get maximum bang for their buck, and they probably get some satisfaction from continually reminding Microsoft that being big doesn’t mean you’re perfect.

Solution 1: Anti-virus Software

Your first line of defense is to install anti-virus software. To be extra safe, also install firewall software, which is now included in some anti-virus packages. This software can scan all of your drives for viruses and neutralize them.

Here are some features to consider when evaluating anti-virus software.

- Compatibility with your operating system – Make sure the software works with your system, particularly if you are using an older operating system like Windows 98.

- Firewall software – If it’s not included, find out if it’s available. If you must, buy it from another vendor.

- Automatic background protection – This means your software will constantly scan behind the scenes for infections and neutralize them as they appear. This provides some peace of mind.

- Automatic, frequent updates – Because new viruses appear every day, you’ll want regular updates. It’s even better if they occur automatically when you connect to the internet. If automatic updating isn’t included, you’ll have to check the vendor’s website and download updates yourself. This is vitally important, because you will not be protected from new viruses if your software is out of date.

- Disaster recovery - Software with a recovery utility to help you get your system back to normal after a virus attack is always good to have.

- ICSA certification – The International Computer Security Association has standards for the detection rates of anti-virus software. Make sure your software has the ICSA certification.

- Technical support - It’s a good idea to select a package that offers free technical support, either online or through a toll-free number. If you’re ever felled by a virus, you may need it. Some anti-virus software vendors are Symantec Corporation (Norton AntiVirus), McAfee Corporation (McAfee VirusScan), Trend Micro Inc. (PC-cillin), and Zone Labs Inc. (Zone Alarm Suite).

Solution 2: The Virus Scan

If you receive a particularly juicy attachment that you’re dying to open, save it on your Windows desktop and run your anti-virus software on it first. To do this, click once gently on the file on your desktop … don’t actually open it … then right click and choose Scan with (Name of Anti-Virus Software) to activate a virus scan.

If it’s infected, your anti-virus software may neutralize it, or at least tell you the attachment is too dangerous to open. On the other hand, don’t feel guilty if the very thought of saving a potentially damaging file anywhere on your system is enough to quell your eagerness to open it and make you delete it immediately.

Solution 3: Beware of filename extensions

The extension of a filename is the three characters that come after the dot. Windows now defaults to hiding filename extensions, but it isn’t a good idea. Just being able to see a suspicious extension and deleting the file before opening it can save you from a virus infection.

To see filename extensions in all your directory listings, on the Windows XP desktop, click Start button | Control Panels | Folder Options | View Tab. Clear the check box for Hide extensions of known file types. Click Apply | OK. System files will still be hidden, but you’ll be able to see extensions for all the files you need to be concerned with. Viruses often live on files with these extensions – .vbs, .shs, .pif, .Ink – and they are almost never legitimately used for attachments.

Solution 4: Delete first, ask questions later.

When in doubt about the origin of an e-mail, the best thing to do is delete it without previewing or opening it. However, some viruses, such as Klez, propagate by fishing in people’s address books and sending themselves from any contact they find to another random contact. You can spread a virus just by having people in your address book, even if you don’t actually e-mail them anything. They’ll receive it from someone else in your address book, which really makes life confusing.

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