Potential targets for acquisition include Moveable Type, a software-based Web-log service, and Radio Userland, another desktop software product used for publishing Web logs produced by privately held UserLand Software of Acton, Mass.
The firm decided it wouldn't be ethical to use automated software to log into private message boards to scrape them.
It is limited to capturing time of call, length, battery strength, signal strength: exactly the sort of things you would quite like diagnostic software to log.
The first time users log into the system, they give the v-GO software all of the individual log-ins they want managed.
It then feeds data into facial-recognition software, and would log age, gender and race of the people it sees.
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It features a tiny keyboard built for small hands, as well as parental control software that can limit log-on time or block access to certain Web sites and applications.
With the Go Secure service for Check Point products, rather than going through a complex string of downloading files and importing them into Check Point VPN software, end users log on to a Web site and click twice.
Beyond merely guarding the entrances to your house, he shows how the software can keep a detailed log or send text message alerts every time any door in the house is opened, to monitor practically every activity in the house.
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When FreedomPop turns this feature on through a software update, anyone nearby can log onto that broadband device through one of the SSIDs.
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Log on to any of the chat sites where Java software developers meet to discuss their industry, and you will find a virtual version of the conversations in Silicon Valley's bars.
The Internet also helps Dell provide better and cheaper technical support with technology that allows buyers to log on to a Web site for instant answers and software fixes (see box, opposite).
NAI's Enterprise SecureCast technology pushes updates of the company's antivirus software such as VirusScan and CyberCop to users' desktops when they log on to company networks.
Mr Bendelladj, who used the alias Bx1 online, is believed to be one of the "critical" controllers of the SpyEye software that infected users' computers and then stole personal information used to log in to online financial accounts.
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Its flagship software solution, the QRadar Security Intelligence Platform, integrates various types of technologies like log management, network behavior analytics and event management.
This allows the log to be read by a laptop computer and displayed as a journey on Google Earth, the software giant's popular world-mapping software.
The journey log is stored on a standard micro-SD memory card to make it simple to use without any special software.
Mr Coney said commercial software, known as spyware, was available that could take copies of everything on a phone, log its location and switch on any of its components.
By wielding the software, users can monitor and set goals for calories burned, distance and duration, and even log their actions outside the gym for activities ranging from rollerblading to skiing.
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