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ACM TechNews
Volume 2, Number 112
Date: September 29, 2000
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Top Stories for Friday, September 29, 2000:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html

"Apple Is Mulling Own Store Chain to Expand Sales"
"ICANN Board Candidates Differ on Policy, Scope"
"Dot-Com Layoffs Reach High-Water Mark"
"Women Nab Quarter of IT Jobs"
"Profit-Seeking WebMD to Slash 1,100 Workers"
"Keeping Cops' Hands Off Email"
"Web Survey--42% of Employers Do the 'Big Brother' Thing"
"Meet the New Web. Same as the Old Web"
"Microsoft, IBM Release Directory Specs"
"California Governor Signs Computer Crimes Bill"
"Mitnick to IT Managers: 'Everybody Is Suspect'"
"New Tech Backlash in SiliValley?"
"Face Off"
"India's Slice of IT Pie Could Be $30B by 2004"
"The Women of High Tech"
"Can Microsoft Stamp Out Piracy?"
"Privacy Is Under Siege at Work, at Home, and Online"
"The Internet Tomorrow"

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"Apple Is Mulling Own Store Chain to Expand Sales"
Apple Computer might open a chain of retail stores that could
help the company increase sales, sources close to the company's
executives say.  Although Apple officials offered no comment,
speculation is rife within the industry that Apple wants to . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0929f.html#item1

"ICANN Board Candidates Differ on Policy, Scope"
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
will hold a 10-day global election beginning Oct. 1 that will
choose five of 27 candidates to represent the online public as
part of the group's board.  The candidates hold widely varying . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0929f.html#item2

"Dot-Com Layoffs Reach High-Water Mark"
Dot-com layoffs in September increased 15 percent from August's
total and more than doubled the amount in July, a new report from
Challenger, Gray, & Christmas says.  The firm counted 4,805 lost
dot-com jobs this month, bringing this year's total to 17,000 so . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0929f.html#item3

"Women Nab Quarter of IT Jobs"
Although women currently hold nearly 25 percent of all IT jobs,
just 13 percent are senior management positions, according to a
new Mori study commissioned by Cheltenham Ladies' College that
will be released next month.  Moreover, 60 percent of the women . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0929f.html#item4

"Profit-Seeking WebMD to Slash 1,100 Workers"
Online health-care firm WebMD yesterday announced that it will
cut 1,100 of its workers in an attempt to turn a profit by the
end of next year.  The move, which will eliminate nearly 20
percent of WebMD's staff, marks perhaps the largest layoff to . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0929f.html#item5

"Keeping Cops' Hands Off Email"
The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday gave the green light to
Rep. Zoe Lofgren's (D-Calif.) Electronic Communications Privacy
Act of 2000, a measure that would afford email communications
greater protection from law enforcement agencies.  At present, . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0929f.html#item6

"Web Survey--42% of Employers Do the 'Big Brother' Thing"
Roughly 53 percent of employees believe that their personal use
of the Internet goes unnoticed at work, while in reality 42
percent of managers observe employees' Web use via monitoring
software or other means, according to the Vault.com 2000 Survey . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0929f.html#item7

"Meet the New Web. Same as the Old Web"
Industry analysts are unsure what direction the new wireless Web
will take, but they doubt it will look anything like the wired
Web.  Most current wireless Web services rely on text-only pages
written in languages specially programmed for wireless and . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0929f.html#item8

"Microsoft, IBM Release Directory Specs"
IBM and Microsoft have produced an initial language standard to
help businesses communicate on the Web across different object
models, operating systems, and programming languages.  Web
Services Description Language (WSDL) supports the XML-based . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0929f.html#item9

"California Governor Signs Computer Crimes Bill"
California Gov. Gray Davis yesterday signed into law a bill that
introduces greater punishments for those who are convicted of
purposely introducing computer viruses on the Web or launching
denial-of-service attacks on commercial Web sites.  Assemblyman . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0929f.html#item10

"Mitnick to IT Managers: 'Everybody Is Suspect'"
Notorious hacker Kevin Mitnick on Wednesday advised IT managers
that teaching every employee across the organization about
computer security would be a major step toward securing systems
from attack.  Mitnick, released in January after serving five . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0929f.html#item11

"New Tech Backlash in SiliValley?"
In Northern California, Redwood City recently imposed a 45-day
freeze on certain new development so it could identify ways to
manage the growth.  Local officials report that the recent
dot-com arrivals have created such problems as traffic . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0929f.html#item12

"Face Off"
Presidential candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush are touching
on the issue of technology in their campaigns, with the high-tech
industry watching closely to determine who would be a better tech
leader.  The next president will need to address the changes that . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0929f.html#item13

"India's Slice of IT Pie Could Be $30B by 2004"
India could account for 5 percent of the $585 billion global IT
services market by 2004, as its companies expand their business
and prepare for Internet technology growth, according to a recent
Goldman Sachs report.  India now claims 1.6 percent of the . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0929f.html#item14

"The Women of High Tech"
A survey from Catalyst shows that 91 percent of women with MBAs
who work in the high-tech field say they are extremely satisfied
with their positions.  This compares to 82 percent of men with
MBAs in the tech field and 84 percent of women with MBAs who work . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0929f.html#item15

"Can Microsoft Stamp Out Piracy?"
Microsoft has introduced a piece of software that the company
hopes will put an end to much of the unauthorized copying of its
Office 2000 application.  By adding a registration wizard to
Office 2000, the software giant hopes to stop about 75 percent of . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0929f.html#item16

"Privacy Is Under Siege at Work, at Home, and Online"
Privacy experts consider the controversial subject of privacy to
be the "civil rights issue of the 21st century."  Not only will
people have to deal with the issue at home and at work, but
privacy will be a concern for many when they go online.  A new . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0929f.html#item17

"The Internet Tomorrow"
Businesses that look ahead to the future are likely to have a
head start on the competition as the new economy rolls along.
Although some big changes are on the way, some things are
expected to stay the same over the next few years.  For example, . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0929f.html#item18


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