FTC Approves Final Consent Order Requiring Sears to Disclose the Installation of Tracking Software Placed on Consumers’ Computers; FTC Approves Final Consent Order in Matter Concerning Enhanced Vision Systems, Inc.

The Federal Trade Commission has approved a final consent order in the matter of Sears Holdings Management Corporation, following a public comment period, and authorized the staff to provide responses to the commenters of record. According to the FTC’s administrative complaint, Sears represented to consumers that software it was placing on their computers would track their “online browsing.” The FTC charged, however, that the software also monitored consumers’ online secure sessions – including sessions on third parties’ Web sites – and collected consumers’ personal information transmitted in those sessions, such as the contents of shopping carts, online bank statements, drug prescription records, video rental records, library borrowing histories, and the sender, recipient, subject, and size for Web-based e-mails.
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AMS Software, a software developer specializing in photo enhancement programs, has announced the release of Home Photo Studio. It is a new program for photo editing, creating original greeting cards and decorating ordinary pictures. Home Photo Studio offers plenty of frames, tools, masks, filters and effects (such as 3D and plastic effects). The number of effects may be confusing at first, but it offers ample opportunities for making every photo special. One click of mouse can make a common portrait look enigmatically beautiful or vigorous and aggressive. Greeting card templates should be also mentioned: colorful or darkish, funny or romantic, they will help the user create a proper greeting card for any occasion.

Actually, Home Photo Studio offers all necessary functions for uncomplicated photo editing. The users do not have go deep in sophisticated tools and layers – Home Photo Studio effects and filters provide instant result, which is often as good as pictures edited in expensive programs.
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2010 Version Includes Sought-After MS Visio® Filter, Large Scale Project Management, SharePoint® Collaboration

SmartDraw.com, maker of the SmartDraw, the software that helps you work smarter by communicating visually, today announced the release of SmartDraw 2010, a new offering aimed at helping organizations put an end to communication breakdown by enabling the average businessperson to communicate effectively using visuals.

“In this economy nobody can afford new software that offers only a few fancy new bells and whistles,” says Paul Stannard, CEO of SmartDraw.com. “People and their organizations are only going to invest in new software if the product can offer substantial return on investment, and that’s exactly what we have delivered with SmartDraw 2010.”
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