Ask to allow anonymous Web search
Blog: By using the new AskEraser tool, users will be able to set their privacy preferences so the search engine does not retain their Web search history.
Update: TripAdvisor denies Facebook Platform app acquisition
Blog: The company releases a brief statement that suggests the Facebook Platform application Where I've Been was not actually acquired.
Monster puts kibosh on rogue server
Blog: Job site pulls the plug on a rogue server that was stealing information about job candidates from its database.
Motorola: We're not looking to replace Zander
Blog: A board member says a BusinessWeek story claiming that the mobile-phone maker's board is looking to replace its chief executive is wrong.
Anatomy of an Ikea product
What does it take to get a chair from the design table into your living room? News.com reporter Daniel Terdiman takes a look.
Woz, meet Jack Tramiel
After all these years, Apple co-founder and Commodore founder finally meet--at a celebration of the Commodore 64.
Taxis getting greener, one hybrid at a time
Blog: Veteran San Francisco cabbies launch ecofriendly taxi company.
Product marketing joins politics at Democratic convention
Political conventions are about more than just politics-- small and large companies alike are looking for opportunities in Denver to promote their brands and products.
How do DNC Dems spread the word: Twitter, text, or telephone?
How are the Democratic delegates getting out their party's message while at the DNC? Are they texting like Obama? Social networking on Twitter or Facebook? Or relying on the old standards: phone and e-mail?
Google uses Democratic convention to pitch products to governments
Google told bureaucrats in Denver for the Democratic convention that its applications can make governments run more efficiently and on a smaller budget.
After flight delays, FAA may add backup system
The Federal Aviation Administration plans to upgrade its decades-old technology for flight-plan processing and potentially add a third backup system.
Oracle names new chief financial officer
Oracle names Jeffrey Epstein as its new chief financial officer, marking its fourth CFO since long-time bean counter Jeff Henley retired four years ago.
Microsoft, Nikon sign patent-sharing deal
Nikon will compensate Microsoft in the cross-licensing deal, which the companies say will improve new consumer electronics products and features.
FBI arrests blogger accused of leaking Guns N' Roses tracks
The FBI on Tuesday arrested a Los Angeles blogger who has admitted to streaming tracks of an unreleased Guns N' Roses album on his site.
Let the 'Spore' advertising blitz begin
A billboard on a wall in downtown San Francisco is the first volley in what is sure to be a major advertising campaign for EA's evolution game.
Rising fraud threats in virtual worlds
McAfee says phishing attacks, viruses, spam and money laundering are rife in virtual worlds.
Nanosolar raises $300 million for thin-film solar
The green-tech darling has brought in about half a billion dollars in the last six years and hopes to finalize major solar-power facilities in San Jose, Calif., and Berlin.
Handheld breath sensor could help detect cancer
University of Oklahoma researchers are working on a breathalyzer that measures suspected cancer biomarkers in the breath and could lead to an easy-to-use detection device.
YouTube's filters help copyright owners profit from pirated videos
Hollywood has long called for YouTube to help copyright owners to scrub the site of unauthorized videos. Now, copyright owners are using YouTube's copyright filters to help generate ad revenue.
Exploring Internet Explorer 8
CNET News editor-in-chief Dan Farber and senior editor Robert Vamosi discuss the new features and browsing capabilities of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 and how it stacks up with Firefox.
Cloned code finder offered for Visual Studio
An open-source technology has been launched to help developers using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 find duplicated code in their software projects. Called Clone Detective for Visual Studio, the product allows developers to analyze C# projects for source code duplicated elsewhere. These duplicates can lead to inconsistencies and indicate poorly factored code, according to the Clone Detec...
LG unveils netbook PC with embedded 3G at IFA
LG Electronics will launch in October a netbook-class laptop PC based on Intel's Atom processor that also includes 3G wireless, it said Wednesday at the IFA show in Berlin. The X110 will include an HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access) cellular data modem that should be compatible with the newer 3G networks now being rolled out by most major carriers around the world. HSPA is typically capable ...
Cisco buys into e-mail with PostPath acquisition
Cisco is buying PostPath, a maker of e-mail and calendaring software , for $215 million and plans to add those capabilities to its on-demand Web Ex Connect collaboration platform. PostPath makes PostPath Server, an e-mail and collaboration server the company touts as a replacement or supplement to Microsoft Exchange. An archiving edition of the software is available to store e-ma...
Microsoft Office Live Small Biz suffers outage, lost e-mail
Microsoft loyalists could be forgiven for feeling a little smug after all of the publicity over outages and lost e-mails at online services run by archrivals Apple's MobileMe and Google's Gmail. Microsoft, it turns out, isn't invulnerable. Some users of Microsoft's Office Live Small Business have also reported intermittent e-mail outages, according to interviews and postings at d...
Hackers resort to 'sick' kidnap spam
Hackers are claiming they have kidnapped children in a bid to infect PCs with a Trojan Horse virus, says Sophos. The security firm is warning users that e-mails entitled 'We have hijacked your baby' are being sent to Web users around the globe. As well as asking for a $50,000 ransom for the 'release' of the child, the messages also contain an attachement supposed to be a photograph of the...
Grim outlook for U.S IT spending
U.S. companies are pulling back hard on IT spending as the economic downturn continues, a new study by ChangeWave Research has found. ChangeWave surveyed 1,947 people involved with IT spending in their organizations. The survey was conducted Aug. 11-21. Eighty percent of those surveyed were located in the U.S., along with small percentages in Canada and other countries. Thirty percent ov...
Grim outlook for U.S. IT spending
U.S. companies are pulling back hard on IT spending as the economic downturn continues, a new study by ChangeWave Research has found. ChangeWave surveyed 1,947 people involved with IT spending in their organizations. The survey was conducted Aug. 11-21. Eighty percent of those surveyed were located in the U.S., along with small percentages in Canada and other countries. Thirty percent ov...
Oracle integrates CRM On Demand with Siebel
Oracle has developed prebuilt integration software for its CRM On Demand product and the on-premise Siebel CRM, providing customers with a single view of their CRM data, the company announced Wednesday. Companies can benefit from a hybrid approach to customer relationship management, because the on-demand model allows companies to more easily add new users, while enabling data from both s...
IEEE standardizes fast Wi-Fi roaming
The IEEE has completed 802.11r, a standard that lets Wi-Fi devices roam quickly between access points, improving the performance of VoIP on enterprise LANs. The IEEE 802.11 standards were originally defined with single access points in mind, but in offices multiple access points are needed. Devices can move from one access point to another, but it takes around 100ms to re-associate, and s...
Samsung: Market for SSDs in low-cost PCs exploding
The popularity of low-cost PCs around the world is driving "explosive growth" for SSDs (small capacity solid state drives), Samsung said Wednesday as it announced three new models of the device. SSDs are made from NAND flash memory chips and are used to store software, songs, pictures, documents, and other data on computers. The drives hold several advantages over common HDDs (hard disk d...
Mozilla extension would tap into typed commands
An experimental extension to Mozilla Firefox lets people substitute simple text commands for complex Web tasks such as putting links to maps in e-mail messages. On Tuesday, Mozilla Labs released its first version of Ubiquity, which is related to software called Enso that was developed at a small Chicago company called Humanized. Mozilla hired three executives of Humanized in January, and ...
Sharing Microsoft Office files: A 5-minute productivity tip
It's a typical business scenario. Several people on a project have to create a set of documents: a report in Microsoft Word , a budget spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel , the final presentation to the board using Microsoft PowerPoint . One person writes the draft, and wants input or changes from other project participants. So far, so good. But that's when productivity-not to mention disk sp...
Locked iPhones can be unlocked without a password
Private information stored in Apple's iPhone and protected by a lock code can be accessed by anyone with just a few button presses. The iPhone, like most mobile phones, can be locked with a four-digit code, but where other phones in their locked state only permit calls to emergency service numbers such as 911 (in the U.S.), 999 (in the U.K.) and 112 (throughout Europe), a locked iPhone ca...
China aims for petaflop computer in 2010
China has stepped up investment in its homegrown Godson microprocessor and hopes to build its first petaflop-class supercomputer using the chip in 2010, one of the country's senior engineers said on Tuesday. China made a decision 20 years ago not to invest in microprocessor development, and it was only in 2001 that it reversed course and began to make a serious effort in this area. As a r...
Fujitsu readies eight-core Sparc64 chip
Fujitsu is developing an eight-core version of its Sparc64 processor, which should give a performance boost to the Sparc Enterprise Servers that Fujitsu jointly develops with Sun Microsystems. Fujitsu's Takumi Maruyama mentioned the chip briefly at the end of a presentation at the Hot Chips conference in Palo Alto, California, Tuesday but he provided few details, including when the proces...
Can JavaFX make a play for rich Internet apps?
With its new JavaFX technology for rich Internet applications, Sun Microsystems hopes to leverage the strength of the Java development base and Java's ubiquitous presence on devices to make a strong run in a race it has entered very late -- and where Adobe Systems and Microsoft have a huge head start. If this competition were a race between Olympic runners, it might be broadcast like th...
Who provides what in the cloud
The news that AT&T has joined the rapidly growing ranks of cloud computing providers reinforces the argument that the latest IT outsourcing model is well on its way to becoming a classic disruptive technology. By enabling datacenter operators to "publish" computing resources -- such as servers, storage, and network connectivity -- cloud computing provides a pay-by-consumption scalable s...
Linux end-user summit planned
The Linux Foundation on Wednesday plans to announce an event enabling Linux users to interact with the Linux community, including high-level maintainers and developers. The first Linux Foundation End User Collaboration Summit is planned for October 13 to 14 in New York City. Users can connect with the Linux kernel community, the foundation said. The intent is to bring together sophisticat...
Update: Google may let users comment on, rearrange search results
Google is considering allowing users of its search engine to tinker with query results by re-ranking them and commenting on them. The company has already run public tests on its search-results pages that contain up and down arrows next to listed links, as well as buttons that allow users to append comments to results. [ Keep up on the latest tech news headlines at InfoWorld News , or s...
Microsoft tweaks anti-piracy check for Windows XP
Microsoft has updated software that verifies whether a copy of Windows is genuine in its Windows XP Professional edition, making it similar to the notification in Windows Vista and thus more persistently visible to users. In a blog posting attributed to Alex Kochis, a Microsoft director of product marketing and management, the company said it made the changes to the Windows Genuine Noti...
WhiteHat Report Finds Web Site Security Vulnerabilities Persist
WhiteHat Security's latest report on Web site security shows cross-site scripting remains the most common Web site vulnerability. But cross-site forgery requests also made WhiteHat's list of top 10 Web site security flaws. On a positive note, the majority of the vulnerabilities discovered by WhiteHat were remediated. - WhiteHat Securitys latest report on Web site vulnerabilities has found t...
Aptana Mixes AJAX, Python with Pydev IDE Buy
Aptana, maker of web development and cloud computing tools, has acquired the Pydev integrated development environment (IDE) for Python development. The Eclipse-based Pydev tools suite supports Google App Engine development. - Aptana Inc. is bringing its brand of Asynchronous JavaScript and X M L (AJAX) style development to the Python community by acquiring the Pydev suite of Python developm...
Corrupt File Brought Down FAA's Antiquated IT System
Federal Aviation Administration's flight plan IT network, which went down for about two-and-a-half hours Aug. 26 and fouled up the take-off plans of thousands of travelers in more than 40 airports across the country, is back up and running.
But for how much longer? The antiquated system consists of two 20-year-old redundant mainframe configurations -- one in Georgia, one in Utah -- that appare...
Corrupt File Brought Down FAAs Antiquated IT System
Federal Aviation Administration's flight plan IT network, which went down for about two-and-a-half hours Aug. 26 and fouled up the take-off plans of thousands of travelers in more than 40 airports across the country, is back up and running. But for how much longer? The antiquated system consists of two 20-year-old redundant mainframe configurations -- one in Georgia, one in Utah -- that apparen...
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is Here
Microsoft released on Aug. 27 a second test version of Internet Explorer 8, delivering a feature-complete upgrade to the world's most widely used Web browser. The world's largest software maker said the latest version -- beta 2 -- of Internet Explorer, which has a market share of about 75 percent, comes with new features to enhance privacy, ease-of-use, and security. Microsoft first released a ...
eWeek Newsbreak, Aug. 25, 2008
Googles being good to the Earth through its Google.org philanthropic arm.
The organization pledged $10.25 million in recently to support Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS), a breakthrough technology doesnt look for geothermal energy, but makes it. The traditional geothermal approach relies on finding naturally occurring pockets of steam and hot water. The EGS process replicates these conditions ...
Apple iPhone Passcode Bypass Made Public
The passcode feature on the latest version of Apple's iPhone can bypassed in a few simple steps. Apple issued a fix for the issue when it released iPhone v1.1.3 back in January. While iPhone users wait for another fix, information about an easy workaround has been made available. - The passcode feature on the latest version of Apples iPhone can be bypassed, potentially allowing an unauthor...
BroadSoft Boosts VOIP With App Server From Genband
Broadsoft buys Genband's application server business to boost its VOIP enterprise applications. While Skype focuses primarily on bringing VOIP to more than 300 million consumers, BroadSoft sells its apps to telcos such as Verizon and Sprint. BroadSoft's buy comes a month after BT bought VOIP provider Ribbit for $105 million. - Enterprise VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) specialist BroadS...
The New Treos
With its latest two devices #8211;the Treo 800w for the Sprint network and the unlocked, 3G Treo Pro for GSM providers #8211;Palm has rejoined the modern smart phone community, packing in features such as 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, 3G connectivity and integrated GPS found in most current-generation smart phones. Palm is aiming both devices at corporate customers #8211;both run Windows Mobile 6.1 Professi...
Cisco Buys PostPath to Compete with Microsoft Exchange
Cisco Systems acquired PostPath, a Microsoft Exchange e-Mail storage competitor and heads down the path of a big-time co-opetition to handle enterprise email against a longtime partner, Microsoft. PostPath uses augmented open source software and an optional appliance that plugs directly into a data center to offer a lower-cost, in-the-cloud e-mail server alternative to Microsoft Exchange. Cis...
Review: Motorola U9 Linux Mobile Phone is Fashionable and Functional
Review: The Motorola U9, part of the mobile phone makers LiMo (Linux Mobile) Phone line, impresses with a strong signal, good voice quality, a decent camera and MP3 player plus java support. Linux Devices Henry Kingman takes the Motorola U9 Linux Mobile phone through the paces. -
The Motorola U9, part of the mobile phone makers LiMo (Linux
Mobile) Phone line, has a quot;mesmerizing qu...
Gartner, Warns of Weak Cell Phone Market as Nokia, Sony Report Slowdown
Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi says a weakening global economy will stunt cell phone market sales in 2008. Indeed, cell phone sales in this key region for phone makers like Nokia and Sony Ericsson fell 16 percent year-over-year in the first quarter and 8 percent in the second quarter. No mention how the slowdown will impact Apple's highly-touted iPhone. -
HELSINKI - A weakening global e...
Private Browsing And The Enterprise
In an enterprise privacy is good, but only in moderation. New hyper-privacy features need to be controlled by IT. - The
rumors were right: Internet
Explorer 8 will have new privacy features akin to those in Apple Safari.
What role should they play in the enterprise?
InPrivate Browsing ( quot;Private Browsing quot; was already taken by Apple)
lets the user control whether or not IE saves po...
Attackers Targeting Linux Infrastructures With Rootkit to Steal SSH Keys
U.S.-CERT is warning of attacks targeting Linux-based infrastructures using compromised SSH keys. After access is gained to the system, local kernel exploits are used to gain root access. A rootkit is then installed to steal more SSH keys. The attack could be related to a flaw affecting Debian-based encryption keys discovered earlier this year. - Hackers are launching attacks against Linux-...
Klausner Sues Google, Verizon Over Voicemail
Klausner Technologies filed a voicemail patent lawsuit against Google Verizon Communications, LG Electronics Inc Comverse Technology, Citrix Systems, and Embarq in U.S. District Court in Tyler, Texas. Judah Klausner claims infringements on patents in various countries for visual voicemail. Klausner previously sued and won settlements from Time Warner's AOL and Vonage. - SAN FRANCISCO - Em...
Klausner Sues Google, Verizon over Voice Mail
Klausner Technologies files a voice mail patent lawsuit against Google Verizon Communications, LG Electronics, Comverse Technology, Citrix Systems and Embarq in U.S. District Court in Tyler, Texas. Judah Klausner claims infringements on patents in various countries for visual voice mail. Klausner previously sued and won settlements from Time Warner's AOL and Vonage. - SAN FRANCISCO Embolden...
Database Vendors Take a Page From Google for Data Analytics
Greenplum and Aster Data Systems will support MapReduce, a technique pioneered by Google to analyze large data sets, in their products. Both Aster Data Systems and Greenplum, which competes with companies such as Oracle and Netezza in the data warehousing space, believe MapReduce will improve analytics for large data sets. -
Aster Data Systems and data warehousing vendor Greenplum have add...
Mozilla Ubiquity Enables Mashups For Dummies Via Firefox
Mozilla launches the experimental Ubiquity Web service under an open source license, providing integrations with Google, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Youtube, Amazon, Digg and Twitter. The application runs in the Firefox Web browser, letting average Web users build mashups, which were previously consigned to folks in application development. - Mozilla Labs has launched a prototype of a software servic...
Computer Network Crash Delays Flights at U.S. Airports
Air traffic at more than two dozen major U.S. airports was delayed Aug. 26 because a computer network crashed, according to the FAA's (Federal Aviation Administration) Web site. The Department of Homeland Security declined to comment. -
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Air traffic at more than two dozen major
airports across the United States was delayed on Tuesday afternoon due
to a communications ...
Refrigerators and Washing Machines Debut at IFA Electronics Show
At the IFA fair in Berlin, the world's largest consumer electronics event, organizers of the fair say they are moving with the times as retail chains selling electronics replace specialist retailers and companies such as Philips, Samsung and LG no longer limit their products to electronic entertainment. Developers are also trying to use technology to make domestic appliances even more useful, s...
What Do SMB Wi-Fi Customers Want?
A good percentage of small to medium businesses are planning to upgrade to 802.11n in the next 12 months, according to a survey from ABI Research.
NASA Security Badge Poses Safety Risk
The badge's metal clasps, if installed backwards, will become a projectile when the badge is opened creating a potential eye injury hazard.
Oracle Tabs New CFO, Reporting To Safra Catz
Jeff Epstein most recently served as CFO of Oberon Media, a privately held Internet game technology provider and publisher.
Linux Systems Being Hit By SSH-Key Attacks
The attack appears to rely on stolen SSH keys to gain access to a system and then uses a local kernel exploit to gain root access, whereupon it installs the "phalanx2" rootkit.
Dell, IBM Revenue Growth Double Overall Server Market
The overall market recorded its ninth consecutive quarter of positive revenue growth, increasing sales by 6.4% over the same period a year ago to $13.9 billion.
Virus Found On Computer In Space Station
Citing security policies, NASA would not disclose details about how the virus got on a laptop on the International Space Station.
Spammers Use 'Hijacked' Babies To Lure Victims
The social engineering campaign includes an attached file, purportedly a photo of the recipient's child, but is of course malware
Internet Explorer 8 Release Approaches As Microsoft Offers Second Beta
The new beta includes a number of new security features, including protection against cross-site scripting attacks and a phishing and malware filter.
Nortel Demo Puts 4G Wireless One Step Closer
The company demonstrates the first live Long Term Evolution handoff between cell sites, but data speeds were lower than what's been promised.
Dell Looks To Tap Emerging Markets With Latest Business PCs
The Vostro notebooks and desktops are tailored for companies and institutions in countries where low-cost, basic computers are strong sellers.
FXAll and Onix Partner
Onix hedge fund and asset management clients to use FXAll's foreign exchange platform.
The 'Poor Man's Traffic Intercept'
A weakness in the border gateway protocol makes the Internet's core infrastructure look about as water-tight as a screen door.
MIT Model Helps Computers Think Like Humans
The researchers' algorithm lets computers use multiple approaches to examine data, much like the way humans size up the world.
iPhone Password Flaw Discovered
Once the emergency call keypad is accessed through the passcode entry screen, a person only needs to double tap the home button.
Era Of Exclusive Video Game Deals Ending
Rising development costs might force console makers Microsoft and Sony to publish more video games themselves, as independent studios avoid exclusive deals for blockbusters.
Dell Explains Cloud-Computing Trademark Attempt
The computer maker can appeal the Patent Office's rejection of its trademark application for the commonly used term.
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac to Exit Subprime in New York
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac to Exit Subprime in New York
hi5 Offers Mobile Social Networking In 26 Languages
The social networking site's hi5 Mobile service is aimed at smartphone and PDA users worldwide.
'Misleading' U.K. iPhone Ad Pulled
Viewers complained that they couldn't access "all parts of the Internet" due to the lack of Flash and Java support on the handset.
Retailers Use Social Media To Spur Back-To-School Sales
Researchers see growth in Web 2.0-style campaigns as fall shopping season kicks off.
Opinion: After the Core 2 Duo chip, what's next for Apple laptops?
It's expected that Apple will, sometime in the next month or so, unleash updated MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops -- maybe even a new MacBook Air. As processors get faster, do they threaten to undermine desktop sales?
Solid state disk lackluster for laptops, PCs
Using SSDs in laptops and PCs now means getting much less capacity at a much higher price.
Fujitsu readies eight-core Sparc64 chip
Fujitsu is developing an eight-core version of its Sparc64 server processor, a Fujitsu engineer said on Tuesday at the HotChips conference.
Malware infects space station laptops
Malware has managed to get onto the International Space Station, NASA confirmed today. And it's not the first time that a worm or virus has made it into space.
Microsoft reveals IE8 Beta 2
Microsoft today launched the second beta version of its upcoming Internet Explorer 8 browser, but declined to offer up a ship date for the final version.
Samsung's new SATA II SSD
The new SSDs will run faster than older-generation SSDs made for low-cost PCs, Samsung said, because they include high-performance SATA II controller technology inside" /> Samsungs new SATA II SSDs
Solid-state disk lackluster for laptops, PCs
Using SSDs in laptops and PCs now means getting much less capacity at a much higher price.
Terror threat system crippled by technical flaws, says Congress
A U.S. House subcommittee is warning that a $500 million IT project designed to "connect the dots" on terrorist plots and help prevent another 9/11 attack could turn out to be a failure.
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Review: 3 power plug meters help you save money and energy
Tech devices can use a lot of electricity, even when they're off. These power plug meters can tell you how much, and how to save money and energy.
Democratic convention brings calls for broadband policy
Several panelists at a tech event in Denver call for a stronger U.S. broadband policy.
Equipment problems cause airline delays in U.S.
An equipment glitch that hit an FAA traffic management computer system this afternoon caused air travel delays at numerous U.S. airports.
Improving Correspondence Management for Financial Services Firms with Adobe LiveCycle ES
(Source: Adobe) This thoughtful and in-depth white paper provides information that addresses the unique communications challenges faced by banks and other financial institutions. It showcases the operational efficiencies and competitive advantages that can be gained by Adobe LifeCycle ES - a robust, single-platform solution to communicating with customers.
Mac clone maker Psystar sues Apple, plays antitrust card
Mac clone maker Psystar has filed a countersuit against Apple, arguing that the Cupertino, Calif., company has engaged in restraint of trade, unfair competition and other violations of antitrust law.
Use BI to cut cell phone bills
BlackBerry, iPhone, cell phone, pager -- personal devices of every sort were rampant at Title Resource Group, a real estate closing company that's part of the US$6 billion Realogy Corp., which owns Century 21, Coldwell Banker and other franchises.
Google may let users comment on, rearrange search results
Google is considering allowing users of its search engine to tinker with query results by re-ranking them and c...
Technology Adoption 2.0
Thornton A. May is impatient with the reactive role CIOs and IT organizations play in the technology adoption process.
Unified communications takes center field at Mets' new ballpark
Unified communications technologies -- including IP-based phones and widespread wireless access -- are the focus of a network at Citi Field, the new home of the New York Mets starting next spring.
Why Google Has Lost Its Mojo
Google has gone from innovative upstart to fat-and-happy industry leader in what seems like record time. Put simply, the search giant has lost its mojo. That's good news for Microsoft, and it could affect how you use Google's cloud computing services in the future.
A couple loose screws, all right
This user is working late at a medical clinic when her printer jams. But instead of calling technical support, she decides she can fix it herself -- though that turns out to be a challenge.
