Techwatch: May 11, 1998

ALYSSA'S MOM TAKES ON CYBERSMUT SITES

Remember Alyssa Milano, the fresh-faced kid on Who's the Boss? These days a more, um, adult side of the actress, and countless other stars, is on display at unauthorized pay-for-celebrity-skin websites offering film stills, candids and digitized fakes. Alyssa's angry mom Lin Milano formed CyberTrackers to combat the sites and last week filed suit--the first of its kind--against two of them. A case to watch.

DIRECTORY ASSISTANCE

General Magic, which was building portable electronic organizers long before the Palm Pilot made them popular, has a new trick up its sleeve. At this week's Networld+Interop show,...

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