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ACM TechNews
Volume 2, Number 13
Date: February 2, 2000
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Today's Top Stories:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Filing Offers a Way to Find Microsoft Violated the Law"
"Many Firms Fail to Meet China Deadline on Encryption"
"IBM Pushes XML Adoption With New Spec"
"Are You Ready for the E-Business Revolution?"
"White House Cuts Computer Export Curbs"
"Computer CODES; Data-Exchange Language XML to bring
Faster, Smarter Communication"
"Video Conferencing Can Help Small Businesses to Export"
"NSA System Crash Raises Hill Worries"
"Online Banking Fraud Raises More Security Concerns"
"The Importance of Being Earliest"
"E-Commerce: Security Tends to Be Last on the List"
"Spending Surge"
"Financial Services Industry Missing E-Commerce Boat"
"Known Quantity"
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"Filing Offers a Way to Find Microsoft Violated the Law"
Harvard legal scholar and Internet expert Lawrence Lessig
yesterday submitted his friend-of-the-court brief to Judge Thomas
Penfield Jackson, addressing how product tying laws relate to
Microsoft's bundling of Windows and Internet Explorer. Lessig's . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0202w.html#item1
"Many Firms Fail to Meet China Deadline on Encryption"
Many foreign and domestic companies in China have failed to give
the government information on the commercial encryption software
they use. Some companies simply could not meet the Jan. 31
deadline, while others, such as Chubb Group of Insurance, have . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0202w.html#item2
"IBM Pushes XML Adoption With New Spec"
IBM has developed a new, XML-based platform for developing
e-business contracts. Trading Partner Agreement Markup Language
provides companies with the components needed to assemble a basic
electronic contract, allowing contract developers to choose . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0202w.html#item3
"Are You Ready for the E-Business Revolution?"
Large corporations are leading the charge to leverage the
capabilities of e-business, yet small businesses stand the most
to gain by incorporating e-business technologies and strategies
into their business models. For the small business that takes . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0202w.html#item4
"White House Cuts Computer Export Curbs"
The Clinton administration yesterday announced plans to ease
export limits on desktops and laptops. President Clinton says
the move aims to minimize the rules restricting widely available
computers, while maintaining limits on the most powerful systems. . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0202w.html#item5
"Computer CODES; Data-Exchange Language XML to bring
Faster, Smarter Communication"
Extensible markup language (XML) is expected to make the future
of B2B e-commerce and Web browsing easier and more efficient.
XML evolved from hypertext markup language (HTML), which tells a
Web browser how to display data on a screen and how to format it . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0202w.html#item6
"Video Conferencing Can Help Small Businesses to Export"
Videoconferencing is helping small and midsize businesses move
into international trade by cutting expenses and saving time.
Although the number of small firms involved in exporting has
risen in recent years, many companies turn away from new markets . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0202w.html#item7
"NSA System Crash Raises Hill Worries"
The crash of the National Security Agency's (NSA) computer system
for four days last week has prompted concern among legislators,
who have contended for several years that the agency's systems
are too old to be effective. Both the House and Senate . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0202w.html#item8
"Online Banking Fraud Raises More Security Concerns"
Critics of online banking cite the recent security breach at
X.com, a California-based startup, as a perfect example of why
banks should be cautious in moving operations to the Internet.
X.com allowed its new customers to specify the account number . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0202w.html#item9
"The Importance of Being Earliest"
Internet entrepreneurs are divided over whether it is best to
launch a Web site quickly, before it is fully developed, or to
wait until it is complete. While speed is imperative among
Internet businesses, a badly executed site launch can plague . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0202w.html#item10
"E-Commerce: Security Tends to Be Last on the List"
Businesses should not spend too much money on the security of
their e-commerce infrastructure, says Ian Poynter, president of
security consultancy Jerboa. "But not spending enough is even
more stupid," he adds. Poynter recommends businesses follow . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0202w.html#item11
"Spending Surge"
Network budgets rose by 10 percent last year, according to the
1999 Network World Spending Survey, which aimed to show how much
companies spent on different technologies. Budgets rose last
year at 78 percent of the companies surveyed, with the biggest IT . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0202w.html#item12
"Financial Services Industry Missing E-Commerce Boat"
Most traditional financial services companies have not made
aggressive moves to offer services via the Internet because they
are concerned about security and the cost of wrong strategic
decisions, and they lack sufficient human resources to support . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0202w.html#item13
"Known Quantity"
Of all the resources that companies have at their
command--capital, real estate, labor, and knowledge--knowledge is
the most difficult to work with, says Larry Prusak, executive
director of the IBM Institute for Knowledge Management in . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0202w.html#item14
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