Here's one for you. YouPowered.com has developed MyOrby, an Internet privacy software that puts privacy back in your control. It tells you when you're being tracked and gives you the option to stop a site from tracking your activities. MyOrby learns your web surfing behavior - like playing games, downloading music, searching for things, sending emails, chatting, shopping - and uses what it learns to communicate with web sites you are in to find your most preferred experience in that site.

If you work with not-for-profit organizations and are looking for comparative financial information, or you are looking to develop a not-for-profit niche and want to identify prospects in your marketplace, your search is now over.A web site designed to give contibutors access to financial records of the organizations they want to help can also be a boon to the accounting firms who are looking for comparative information from similar entities.Guidestar describes its mission as helping "to improve the effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through the

If you receive a fax in your office intended for another company, are you obligated to forward it or contact the sender to report a mishap?The answer is no, according to Deborah Sauer, a vice president of marketing at Stamford, Conn.-based Pitney Bowes Inc.There are over 110 million fax machines in use worldwide, and mix-ups will occur. As a good corporate citizen, you can contact the sender and inform them that their fax was misdirected.

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The first Web company in North Asia to receive a Web Audit just posted the results. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) performed the audit. Outblaze, the market leader in the development and provision of portal services, hired the Big 5 firm to monitor the site for one month. PwC confirmed that the site registers an average of 8 million-plus page views a day (as of March 28).Information that comes from a third party often helps would-be clients feel comfortable about a purchase.

Thinking about hiring that whipper-snapper you’ve had your eye on? Well, what does your Web site look like? A new study conducted by WetFeet.com, a leading career site providing online recruitment strategies and research for corporations, one in two employee prospects responded that a company’s Web site is an important factor and does influence their decision of where to work.

More news to report on Microsoft's transition for its TaxSaver product.AccountingWeb reported a story late last week that Microsoft had ceased offering its TaxSaver software and signed a deal with H&R Block.Now, according to published reports, Orrtax will pick up the ball for Microsoft.

With only 2,000 certified security professionals worldwide, a new company stands to make a big splash. Six consultants from Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG just left the security of the Big 5 landscape to form their new company, Foundstone Inc. The company will provide security solutions for companies and plans to address the severe shortage of security experts available today.The founding white hat experts plan to reduce the chasm between e-Commerce and security.

If you don't like the screech of your dial-up modem as it connects, you may want to consider changing the volume, which can be done with just a few key strokes. In Windows, go to Start|Settings|ControlPanel|System|Device Manager, and select your modem from the Modems branch. Click Properties, select the Modem tab, and adjust the slider for speaker volume. Caution: Think twice about silencing it completely - it can be very reassuring to hear that screech and knowing that everything is working properly!