Please see the related links below for more information. The services monitor 700 news sources and are distributed via fax, e-mail, Lotus Notes and the Internet. The company went public in March and expects to reach the break-even point sometime in the next few months. Death Cookies One of the greatest roadblocks to successful online commerce is the transaction security issue. Many options are available, most very secure, but the general public is still wary of supplying a credit card number over the Internet.
Web servers use cookies to identify users and provide specific information.
This raises the question of exactly what information is stored and available to the public. Some users believe any private information exchanged between PC and Web server can somehow be accessed by a third party and used in an illegal or immoral manner. The truth is, only the domain server which sends and receives the cookie can read it. New Networks Inc. The important trend is that commercial online services are growing at a much smaller rate than ISPs, and are losing market share. Industry experts and I agree that Prodigy is doing too little to late to succeed in this rapidly evolving and growing industry.