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ACM TechNews
Volume 2, Number 7
Date: January 19, 2000
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Today's Top Stories:
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0119w.html

"Microsoft Challenges Antitrust Arguments"
"Top Chip Firms Join to Develop New DRAM Technology"
"Mystery Chip Finally Ready to Roll"
"Does Your Company Own What You Know?"
"Online Security Remains Elusive"
"Linux Vendor Set to Get $57 Million Infusion"
"A New Net Craze Is on the Way"
"Doors Open for One-Stop Surfers"
"Net Conference Focuses on Privacy"
"Ford, GM Drive Onto Information Highway"
"World Cybercrime Treaty May Be Underway"
"Technical Complexity Brings Simplicity to the Net"
"E-Retailers Balance IT, Marketing"
"E-Business Redefines Infrastructure Needs"
"Nibbling Away at Unix"
"Analytical Solutions Forum Brings Together Industry Leaders"

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"Microsoft Challenges Antitrust Arguments"
Microsoft yesterday submitted a brief to Judge Thomas Penfield
Jackson arguing that the government's antitrust charges against
the company are not supported by evidence or legal precedent.  In
the brief, Microsoft says it does not have monopoly power, and is...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0119w.html#item1

"Top Chip Firms Join to Develop New DRAM Technology"
Six major chipmakers have announced an alliance aimed at creating
new technology for PC memory chips.  The group includes Intel,
Micron Technology, NEC, Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Electronics
Industries, and Siemens' Infineon Technologies.  Not including...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0119w.html#item2

"Mystery Chip Finally Ready to Roll"
Transmeta, which has kept its business a secret for the past five
years, now plans to unveil a line of chips called Crusoe for
mobile computing devices.  The Crusoe chips are rumored to be
fast, programmable in real time, and use little energy.  Some say...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0119w.html#item3

"Does Your Company Own What You Know?"
Companies are increasingly controlling their employees' behavior
in an effort to keep proprietary information from spreading to
rival firms.  The ability of information to flow quickly and
simply via the Internet, as well as the hot economy, which has...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0119w.html#item4

"Online Security Remains Elusive"
E-commerce security is becoming an increasingly important issue
in light of the recent hacks of a French company's 56-bit
encryption key and the American e-commerce site Online CD, from
which 300,000 credit card numbers were stolen.  Dr. Tai Rabin, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0119w.html#item5

"Linux Vendor Set to Get $57 Million Infusion"
Linux vendor TurboLinux on Monday expected to receive a $57
million investment--the largest round of private funding a Linux
company has ever received.  Investors include Dell, Compaq,
Intel, and many others.  TurboLinux sells a version of Linux with...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0119w.html#item6

"A New Net Craze Is on the Way"
Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce firms seem poised for huge
growth, and investors are eagerly buying stock in these
companies.  Companies will sell an estimated $1.3 trillion in
business products on the Internet by 2003, compared with today's...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0119w.html#item7

"Doors Open for One-Stop Surfers"
Many companies are trying to spark employee use of corporate
intranets with workgroup-tailored Web pages called portals.
Designed to resemble consumer portal sites such as Yahoo!,
corporate portals are becoming a fast growing sector of the...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0119w.html#item8

"Net Conference Focuses on Privacy"
Experts at the RSA Conference on software security warned on
Monday that companies need to forge stronger working
relationships to craft standard security platforms that will
safeguard e-commerce transactions.  RSA Security used the forum...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0119w.html#item9

"Ford, GM Drive Onto Information Highway"
The 2000 North American International Auto Show showed that
competition between auto executives is becoming oriented toward
electronics, wireless communications, and Internet access rather
than engine power and exterior design.  Ford showed off the 24/7...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0119w.html#item10

"World Cybercrime Treaty May Be Underway"
The governments of the United States, European Union, Japan,
South Africa, Canada, and other countries are working to develop
a draft treaty on Internet security that would outlaw hacking and
unauthorized Internet eavesdropping and surveillance, according...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0119w.html#item11

"Technical Complexity Brings Simplicity to the Net"
Internet-enabled devices are becoming increasingly varied,
creating a complex communications network.  Yet even while mobile
devices make the network more complex, they aim to simplify
Internet use among consumers.  Therefore, networking hardware and...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0119w.html#item12

"E-Retailers Balance IT, Marketing"
Online retailers are beginning to learn that a successful
e-business requires a steady balance between marketing and order
fulfillment.  Although most e-commerce ventures strongly
emphasized sales and marketing for the holiday season, many...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0119w.html#item13

"E-Business Redefines Infrastructure Needs"
E-commerce has created a need for around-the-clock systems,
creating challenges for IT workers who are trying to eliminate
downtime in complicated and often unstable networks.  Since
online shoppers can switch so easily to a rival company, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0119w.html#item14

"Nibbling Away at Unix"
Linux is gaining momentum, leading analysts to debate the
operating system's potential to take over rival markets such as
Windows NT and Unix.  Linux is particularly appealing to users
because it is stable and, because of its free open source code.  ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0119w.html#item15

"Analytical Solutions Forum Brings Together Industry Leaders"
A new industry group has formed to set performance standards and
interoperability requirements for analytical software
applications.  The Analytical Solutions Forum (ASF), founded by
Intel, Microsoft, IBM, and Sun Microsystems, aims to make it...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0119w.html#item16

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