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Explaining Coverage to the Consumer
August 18, 2008 @ 06:47 PM | By Anthony O'Donnell

If insurance is indeed sold and not bought, it is because consumers continue to find the product complex and confusing. This may be less the case with car insurance in the age of online quoting and shopping. but even with that line of business, consumers may be more focused on price than on the arcane wording of policies and the actual details of the coverage they are purchasing.

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Need to Speed up U.S. Broadband
August 18, 2008 @ 06:17 PM | By Anthony O'Donnell

The speed at which Americans access the Internet has declined from first place to 15th since the network came into existence, according to Speed Matters, a Communications Workers of America union (CWA) non-profit outlet that just published its second annual state-by-state survey of broadband speeds. InformationWeek's report on the survey noted that while the median download speed enjoyed by Americans is 2.35 Mbps, Japan's speed is 63.6 Mbps. That decimal point is not misplaced.

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Passwords Are Dead, Long Live Passwords
August 12, 2008 @ 05:09 PM | By Nathan Conz

While doing research for a recent cover story on single sign-on technology, many industry experts spoke to me about the dangers of "sticky-note identity management," where insurance employees have so many passwords to access so many different systems that they keep of track of each user name and password by plastering sticky notes all across their workspaces, compromising IT security in the process.

I was reminded of those discussions earlier this week when I read a story on the New York Times web site entitled "Goodbye, Passwords. You Aren't a Good Defense." The article appears below a photo illustration of a computer screen covered in password-reminder sticky notes.

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Mapping the World of Risk
August 12, 2008 @ 05:03 PM | By Anthony O'Donnell

My summer vacation came to a close last week on a note of nostalgia, partly owing to the reminiscences flowing at the family reunion I attended, partly because the Russians rolled their tanks into a neighboring country, claiming the purest of motives. Not that I was around for Russia’s exploits in Hungary in 1956 or old enough to appreciate its echo in Prague in August ’68. However, but I’d seen the imagery often enough to recognize a parallel during the Tianamen Square protests in 1989.

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