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ACM TechNews
Volume 2, Number 81
Date: July 17, 2000
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Top Stories for Monday, July 17, 2000:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"U.S. to Allow Some Encryption Exports"
"Domain Names Aside, Future of Net Is at Stake"
"Directors 'At Legal Risk From Internet Crime'"
"H-1B Visa Fight Escalating"
"Computer Hosts Fight Gatecrashers: Hardware Companies Are Looking Hard at New Market"
".Gnu Domain Names"
"Firm to Use Credit Reports to ID Net Consumers"
"Reality Check: The State of E-Commerce, Part II"
"Cases Set High Bar for Internet Speech"
"Panel of Experts Ponders Next Challenges for Government IT"
"Legislators Debate Latest Proposals for E-Commerce Taxes"
"E-Comm Survival Guide"
"3Q May Decide E-Tailing Game"
"Failure Foilers"
"UN: Global E-Commerce Challenges Abound"
"Crash and Learn"
"Living on the Fault Line"
"The Art of the New Deal"
"Microsoft Sees Software 'Agent' as Way to Avoid Distractions"
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"U.S. to Allow Some Encryption Exports"
The U.S. government could announce looser encryption export
controls as early as Monday, allowing software firms to send
advanced encryption products to the European Union without
licensing or review. Until now, software companies were only . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0717m.html#item1
"Domain Names Aside, Future of Net Is at Stake"
ICANN's board followed the predicted path of choosing to increase
the number of top-level domains in order to promote competition;
however, the decision does not clear the air of questions on how
the process will be accomplished, what new domains will be . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0717m.html#item2
"Directors 'At Legal Risk From Internet Crime'"
Many company directors are unaware of their liability for failing
to stop Internet crime by employees, reports a recent survey by
European IT firm Integralis. Computer security experts say that
employees that spread viruses, or hackers who use a corporation's . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0717m.html#item3
"H-1B Visa Fight Escalating"
A group of engineers led by the Programmer's Guild and the
American Engineering Association has launched an online campaign
aimed at countering the high-tech industry's efforts to raise the
number of H-1B visas that allow foreign IT professionals to work . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0717m.html#item4
"Computer Hosts Fight Gatecrashers: Hardware Companies Are
Looking Hard at New Market"
Companies such as IBM, Global Crossing, Verio, and market-leader
Exodus Communications are competing to provide customers with
increasingly high-end and complicated co-location, hosting, and
software and network management services, freeing the customers . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0717m.html#item5
".Gnu Domain Names"
The Free Software Foundation's (FSF) proposal urging ICANN to add
.gnu to the list of approved top-level domains, and accompanying
request that the company to be a registrar for .gnu, is one of
the many excellent suggestions given to ICANN during its . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0717m.html#item6
"Firm to Use Credit Reports to ID Net Consumers"
Credit reporting agency Equifax has entered an agreement with
Checkfree to use the latter's authentication engine to verify the
identities of Internet users who sign up for Checkfree's online
bill-paying service. Equifax says it will use information found . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0717m.html#item7
"Reality Check: The State of E-Commerce, Part II"
Although much of the latest hype concerning e-commerce focuses on
the dot-com shakeout, wiser market observers are turning their
attention to the magnitude of the role that international markets
will play in e-business in years to come. In fact, a number of . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0717m.html#item8
"Cases Set High Bar for Internet Speech"
Three recent court cases strike down Internet speech restrictions
on the grounds that they violate the First Amendment, and these
suits will present a challenge for Congress as legislators
consider the regulation of speech on the Internet. In June, a . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0717m.html#item9
"Panel of Experts Ponders Next Challenges for Government IT"
Partnering is likely to become a major trend in the federal
government as it moves online, according to several experts who
participated in a Government Computer News roundtable with the
Association for Federal Information Resources Management. The . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0717m.html#item10
"Legislators Debate Latest Proposals for E-Commerce Taxes"
A shopper who purchases goods from an out-of-state merchant
usually does not have to pay sales tax to the merchant's state,
but is supposed to pay tax to the shopper's own state and local
government. The growth of e-commerce has highlighted the . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0717m.html#item11
"E-Comm Survival Guide"
Marketing and IT departments often approach Internet initiatives
with dramatically different ideas on what the project goals are
and how they will be met. Ideally, marketing staffs have some
technical experience and IT staffs possess some business savvy; . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0717m.html#item12
"3Q May Decide E-Tailing Game"
This summer is proving to be a busy one for e-commerce sites
gearing up for the holiday season. Although the third quarter is
a relatively slow gift buying season traditionally, e-tailers are
upgrading systems behind the scenes while maintaining fulfillment . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0717m.html#item13
"Failure Foilers"
Midsize businesses looking to address IT solutions and staffing
shortages are increasingly turning to management service
providers (MSPs). In addition to Web-site monitoring services,
MSPs offer network, systems, storage, security management. . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0717m.html#item14
"UN: Global E-Commerce Challenges Abound"
In a discussion on e-commerce growth worldwide at the United
Nations in early July, delegates devoted much of their attention
to the role governments are playing in advancing the technology.
The experts agreed that governments need to loosen their . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0717m.html#item15
"Crash and Learn"
Many dot-coms are being forced to strip their strategies down to
the bare necessities to survive in the newly competitive business
environment. The following five tips may ease help to guide
companies seeking to eliminate the luxuries once enjoyed by . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0717m.html#item16
"Living on the Fault Line"
Too many companies devote critical resources to contextual tasks
rather than core tasks, writes Geoffrey A. Moore in his
soon-to-be-published book, "Living on the Fault Line: Managing
for Shareholder Value in the Age of the Internet." Although it . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0717m.html#item17
"The Art of the New Deal"
As technology changes the rules of business, CEOs must take a
leading role in driving their corporate IT strategy. Yet often,
CEOs are reluctant to embrace their new duties because they are
intimidated by technology. To combat this critical problem, CEOs . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0717m.html#item18
"Microsoft Sees Software 'Agent' as Way to Avoid Distractions"
Microsoft will soon introduce software that promises to ease the
information overload of computer users. Designed by
artificial-intelligence specialist Eric Horvitz, Attentional User
Interface will manage and prioritize the streams of data entering . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0717m.html#item19
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