Although the FTC does not regulate advertising for children over the Net, it does have general jurisdiction over any deceptive market practices. The problems started Wednesday night, when data entry errors resulted in the root server assigning incorrect IP addresses in response to URL requests. Network Solutions will have to reinstall the entire InterNIC database to correct the problem, according to one backbone provider. He's a bright guy, but the complexity of the business is far greater than he might have realized. The phone industry claims the request would cost billions of dollars to implement and would expose it to lawsuits by civil liberties groups fighting against privacy invasions.
Most companies use their sites to post financial and product information.
In fact, he says, it's really a way to create dialogue between the customers, salespeople and employees. Despite the lack of payoff, few companies plan to reduce their Web efforts. Users will be able to select a sentence, underline a group of words, and change the color and size of a font, all by naturally spoken voice. Kurzweil's artificial intelligence technology allows the software to prompt users for answers as if they were entering information onto a form. The initial product will be aimed specifically at pathologists, with other versions for the legal profession and police reporting to follow.