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ACM TechNews
Volume 2, Number 114
Date: October 4, 2000
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Top Stories for Wednesday, October 4, 2000:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Congress Backs More Tech Visas"
"U.S. High-Tech Industry Gets Passing Grade for Worker Training"
"'Business-Method' Patents, Key to Priceline, Draw Growing Protest"
"Seeds of Doubt Sprout for Apple's Future"
"Techies Take Time Out for Kids"
"Glitch Mars Start of World's First Cyberelections"
"Raiding Talent Via the Web"
"India Wrestles With Net Porn"
"In Silicon Valley, Candidates Seek Both Money and 'Cool'"
"Record Labels Push EU to Tighten Digital Copyrights"
"Beijing Rules Target Subversion on Net"
"Inching Toward Dot-Whatever"
"At the GBDe"
"What Silicon Valley Wants"
"Big-Name Web Sites Lack Basic Guidelines"
"Techonomics: New Economy, New Gauge"
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"Congress Backs More Tech Visas"
Both the Senate and the House yesterday voted in favor of
legislation that will raise the number of H-1B visas issued each
year to foreign high-tech workers. President Clinton will likely
sign the bill into law, Washington observers say. The bill would . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1004w.html#item1
"U.S. High-Tech Industry Gets Passing Grade for Worker Training"
U.S. companies are investing strongly in education and worker
training programs that will help prepare Americans to work in the
high-tech sector, according to a report released Tuesday by the
Information Technology Industry (ITI) Council. ITI's members, . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1004w.html#item2
"'Business-Method' Patents, Key to Priceline, Draw Growing Protest"
Two Democrats in the House of Representatives will introduce a
bill this week that would make it more difficult for both
individuals and firms to patent business methods. The bill,
which does not stand much chance of passing before the upcoming . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1004w.html#item3
"Seeds of Doubt Sprout for Apple's Future"
Apple Computer's three-year turnaround appears to be stalling,
and analysts predict that the company will remain in a slump
until it releases its Mac OS X operating system next year. Last
week Apple announced that it would miss analysts' expectations . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1004w.html#item4
"Techies Take Time Out for Kids"
Tech workers nationwide celebrated "Techies Day" on Tuesday. The
day, created to promote technology and technology-related careers
to children, featured events in more than 40 cities. Washington,
D.C., hosted the Techie Day Summit, which began with a keynote . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1004w.html#item5
"Glitch Mars Start of World's First Cyberelections"
The reliability of online voting took a blow yesterday as
hundreds of registered voters were unable to cast their vote
during ICANN's board election. Election.com, the company in
charge of the ICANN vote, blamed the problem on a programming . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1004w.html#item6
"Raiding Talent Via the Web"
The Internet has not only created a wealth of new jobs, but it
has also transformed the way in which corporate headhunters
attempt to fill those jobs. Headhunters now target corporate Web
pages to locate and contact their most desirable employees, even . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1004w.html#item7
"India Wrestles With Net Porn"
Working on behalf of a law student, Indian attorney Rohas Nagpal
claims that Rediff.com is punishable under section 292 of the
Indian Penal Code because its search engine provides access to
pornographic Web sites. Indian sites that offer access to . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1004w.html#item8
"In Silicon Valley, Candidates Seek Both Money and 'Cool'"
Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. George Bush have campaigned
heavily in the Silicon Valley area, as each seeks to establish
himself as the high-tech presidential candidate. The courting is
somewhat odd, political observers say, considering California as . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1004w.html#item9
"Record Labels Push EU to Tighten Digital Copyrights"
Fifteen European Union governments have sent a new copyright law
to the European Parliament requesting stronger protection against
digital copying. The European music industry lost $1.2 billion
to CD copying in 1999, according to the International Federation . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1004w.html#item10
"Beijing Rules Target Subversion on Net"
The Chinese government on Monday issued new rules governing
Internet content and the dissemination of "subversive" ideas,
including rules that force ISPs and content providers to keep
60-day blocks of records on Web content and visitors--information . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1004w.html#item11
"Inching Toward Dot-Whatever"
A consortium of top Internet registrars called Afilias submitted
a proposal to ICANN suggesting .web, .info, and .site as new
domain name suffixes. The proposal is intended to address the
long-term need for more Internet domain name suffixes, says . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1004w.html#item12
"At the GBDe"
The Global Business Dialogue on Electronic Commerce (GBDe) was
held last week in Miami, attracting heavy hitters from several
big technology companies. The GBDe is becoming a global power,
and it wants to encourage the free exchange of goods and . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1004w.html#item13
"What Silicon Valley Wants"
Silicon Valley is becoming increasingly involved in politics, as
high-tech companies seek to push their agendas on antitrust
issues, Internet regulation, H-1B visas, and other matters. The
computer industry, galvanized over the past year by the Microsoft . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1004w.html#item14
"Big-Name Web Sites Lack Basic Guidelines"
Many of the Internet's leading Web sites do not meet the basic
standards for access, customer interaction, and navigation,
according to a Giga Information Group review of 200 major Web
sites to determine how well they meet the standards recognized by . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1004w.html#item15
"Techonomics: New Economy, New Gauge"
The concept of techonomics, or the connection between how work is
done and how it affects economics, is a more appropriate way of
assessing the impact of technology on the economy than
traditional measures, writes Tom Monroy. For example, renowned . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1004w.html#item16
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