As investors fled e-brokerages amid the tech bust, trading volumes evaporated, along with 87% of Ameritrade's market value.
In an e-mail to a tech blogger he said the misdeed was the work of a hacker who had broken into his computer.
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Here's a disturbing thought: At most companies, low-level tech staff can spy on e-mails sent by everyone from their cubicle neighbors to the CEO.
In doing so, Amway hoped to tap into the e-commerce boom with a tech-y sounding name.
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Mild interest from tech blog Gizmodo sparked more than 100 e-mails, oozing histrionics.
Even in these high-tech days of voter profiling and targeted e-mail, there's no better way to reach out to those people than by standing on their front stoop.
While e-books might have started out as a high-tech novelty for early adopters, they may ultimately prove to be a great equalizer across boundaries of ability, resources and education.
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That's when analysts like Merrill Lynch's Henry Blodget and Citigroup's Jack Grubman were found to have issued buy recommendations on tech stocks (which they had bashed in e-mails) at the behest of investment bankers looking to rake in fees.
U.S. CEO Odake has hinted that Uniqlo might run its entire global e-commerce platform from the U.S., where tech talent is abundant, and he openly suggests that he'd like to replace himself with an American executive to head up operations here.
Hi-tech criminals use botnets to send out spam, phishing e-mails and launch attacks on websites.
And thanks to work out of Georgia Tech, tactile sensitivity for robotics, more secure e-signatures and general human-machine interaction is about to get a great 'ol boost.
They found Honan's home address and e-mail address online, and after some back and forth with Amazon tech support, used it to get the last four digits of Honan's credit card number.
Amazon competes with a variety of stellar tech companies in its business structures like Apple with its e-reader and with Netflix for streaming video, which is an area where the Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire will play.
Some of America's high-tech leaders, AOL Time Warner and Microsoft, Amazon, e-Bay, Cisco Systems and Yahoo!
The low-tech system is suddenly set to star in the next act for e-commerce, where wireless meets the Internet.
"I have a rule, one that was honed by more than 30 years in high tech, " Intel's chairman, Andy Grove, once e-mailed me.
Strong tech sales may account, in part, for a big jump in e-shopping this year.
And tech of that very sort could be trickling down into future generations of e-readers, thanks to current research by the University of Michigan.
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These specialists can also prescribe an exciting array of high-tech optical devices such as software and screen-reading programs that enlarge e-mail and Web site copy, as well as handheld devices that enlarge printed material of any size.
What's more, the tech has use outside of robotics and can even be levereged for more secure e-signature verification based on speed and pressure of a user's handwriting.
Thanks to the convergence of mobile devices, big data and new innovations in retail tech, we can see commerce transform before our very eyes: retailing becomes e-tailing, trying on becomes testing and expansion becomes buying a new domain name.
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Likewise some high-tech industries, such as telecoms, have been protected and others, such as e-commerce, barely existed in 1992.
Tech support personnel might have to go desk to desk to do fixes, or perform maintenance on e-mail servers that have become clogged with virus-generated messages.
Colbert, as well as much of the tech blogosphere, had previously mocked Schmidt for this idea of teenagers changing their names and scrubbing their e-history clean at turning 18.
The effort has proved so successful that Unilever introduced a high-tech element: the Shakti entrepreneurs now run kiosks with personal computers which villagers can rent to send e-mails and browse the web for things that can make a big difference to their lives, like market prices.
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