UP FRONT
NEW IDENTITY THEFT WEBSITE in women than in men. Simply put, this some examples of commonly used POIs.
BY TECHIES AND GOVERNMENT means that the two sides of the female The unit also includes a special alterna-
brain “talk” better to each other, reinforc- tive routing feature that lets you know if
Industry techies and Uncle Sam have ing certain studies that show women to you are going off track, and how much
joined forces to create a website that be better at multi-tasking than men. But longer you will take. The TomTom Go
combines commercial advice and free, you knew this already – right? is an all-in-one, so you don’t need to use
non-partisan advice from the U.S. De- POI add-ons that were necessary in the
partment of Homeland Defense. The IN-CAR NAVIGATION TO WARN old unit to map out the area. It retails for
website, www.onguardonline.gov men- YOU OF RED LIGHT CAMERAS about $500.
tions the safety of wireless laptops and
communications as one of the chief The geographically challenged no longer E-PUPPY
concerns of private and public industry have to worry about where they last saw
going into 2007. The website strongly that nefarious red camera light, or where Give your boss or co-worker a hi-tech gag
recommends switching your security their favorite quaint Italian restaurant gift with the wacky, wired (and tail-wag-
standard from Wired Equivalent Privacy used to be with the help of the TomTom ging) E-Puppy. The E-Puppy reads your
(WEP) to Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), GO navigational system. The TomTom HPDLOVDORXGDQGQRWLÀHV\RXZKHQ\RX
and learning why the latter is more secure Go allows you to add points of interest KDYHQHZHPDLOVYLDDÁDVKLQJUHG/('
from hackers. Key content partners on (POI) such as a red camera light through button on its belly. You can talk back to
the website include industry titans such an easy hide/display POI preference set- the E-Puppy, and record your own voice
as the Microsoft Corporation and the not ting. According to reviewers at pocketgps. or memos through the unit’s built-in
so well-known U.S. Computer Emergency com the unit is very intuitive and easy- microphone. And you can even play back
Readiness Team (US CERT), which offers to-use, but some of the maps—includ- music or sound stories through the
up free advice on how to protect your ing a major stretch of interstate highway speakers. The biggest selling point about
cell phone and PDA from attack. in Houston, Texas—are somehow lost. the E-Puppy is the $9.99 price, and the
OnGuardOnline.gov also allows you to As the name suggests, the TomTom Go fact that it plugs right in to the back of
subscribe to free ongoing e-terror helps you while you are on the go with your computer using a USB port. No
updates, and to alert the federal visual and acoustic warnings of POIs word yet on rolling over on unpleasant
government if your computer has been as you approach them. Speed cameras, e-mails.
compromised directly on the website. petrol stations and kindergartens are only
THE FEMALE BRAIN - WHAT DO
WOMEN REALLY THINK?
A new book by Dr. Louann Brizendine
on the female brain uses stunning MRI
photography to quantify the differences
between male and female brains. The
results: females tend to use about 20,000
words a day, compared to 7,000 words for
men. In related studies, researchers have
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the male and female brain. And this
genetic difference may be the reason why
male and female behavior is pre-disposed
to complement or compete against each
other, said psychologist Michael Guarian,
who wrote the book “What Could He
Be Thinking? How a Man’s Mind Really
Works”. Technologically speaking, this
means that MRIs have shown that the
woman’s corpus callosum area - the body
part that handles communication between
the brain’s two “hemispheres” - is larger
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