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ACM TechNews
Volume 2, Number 139
Date: December 8, 2000
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Top Stories for Friday, December 8, 2000:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Conference Seeks to Balance Web Security and Privacy"
"Bugs, Viruses and User Errors Bedevil Hand-Helds"
"Computer Sales Worldwide Still Healthy, IDC Asserts"
"IT World's Paychecks Grow, But They're Working Longer for It"
"Like Garden.com, More E-Tailers Dying on the Vine"
"Cybercrimes Face Lax Prosecution"
"A Race to Feed the Web's Voracious Appetite"
"Showing Off Tech Wizardry"
"Deliveries of Faster Chips Could Be Delayed"
"Asian Nations Clash Anew With U.S. Over Internet"
"Are Keywords Still Key?"
"IBM, Siemens Unit Form Joint Venture For Magnetic Chip"
"Isn't Life More Than Work?"
"Keeping it Clean"
"Three Views of the American Dream, Tech Style"
"Screen Wars"
"Sam's Folly"
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"Conference Seeks to Balance Web Security and Privacy"
Microsoft yesterday hosted SafeNet 2000, where high-tech leaders
met to discuss security and privacy issues. One conference
objective was to help the high-tech community devise standards
for reporting software glitches, such as the flaws in Microsoft . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1208f.html#item1
"Bugs, Viruses and User Errors Bedevil Hand-Helds"
The increasing reports of problems with handheld computers are a
natural outgrowth of the devices' rising popularity, analysts
say. Users have complained of operating-system bugs, faulty
hardware, and even viruses. The problem is magnified, analysts . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1208f.html#item2
"Computer Sales Worldwide Still Healthy, IDC Asserts"
Worldwide computer sales will increase by almost 20 percent this
quarter compared with last year's quarter, despite slow consumer
PC sales in the U.S., according to an International Data (IDC)
study released today. Many analysts are making abysmal . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1208f.html#item3
"IT World's Paychecks Grow, But They're Working Longer for It"
IT workers earned larger salaries this year than last year, but
also spent more hours on the job, according to a recent Meta
Group report. As the labor shortage continues, salaries
increased an average of 6.6 percent this year, up from 6.4 . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1208f.html#item4
"Like Garden.com, More E-Tailers Dying on the Vine"
Garden.com last week became the latest e-tailer to fall victim to
the ongoing dot-com shakeout. Although the five-year-old site
brought in over half a million visitors each month and was on
track every quarter, the company could not raise any more money . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1208f.html#item5
"Cybercrimes Face Lax Prosecution"
A survey of 52 countries has concluded that a dearth of
cybercrime laws means that companies must fend for themselves
against computer hacking attacks and the dissemination of
computer viruses. "The long arm of the law does not yet reach . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1208f.html#item6
"A Race to Feed the Web's Voracious Appetite"
There is some question as to whether or not the current Internet
protocol version 4 (IPv4) ought to be upgraded to Internet
protocol version 6 (IPv6). IPv4 can handle approximately 4
billion Internet addresses. However, the expansion of wireless . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1208f.html#item7
"Showing Off Tech Wizardry"
Several new devices and software programs are on display at the
sixth annual Maryland Technology Showcase, which concludes today
in Baltimore. At the conference attendees can use a handheld
microscope to view a magnified image on an iMac screen. They can . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1208f.html#item8
"Deliveries of Faster Chips Could Be Delayed"
Chipmakers are adopting new technological processes to produce
faster chips and increase output, but must overcome several
challenges before implementing the technology. Reducing chip
geometries will allow more chips to be placed on each wafer, and . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1208f.html#item9
"Asian Nations Clash Anew With U.S. Over Internet"
On Tuesday, the dispute between Asia and the United States over
dominance of the Internet intensified as Asian representatives
led by the Chinese Information Minister, Wu Jichuan, asserted
that the United States maintains cultural, economic, and . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1208f.html#item10
"Are Keywords Still Key?"
The current click-through rate (CTR) for normal ad placements on
the Web is about 0.51 percent while keywords on portal/search
engines have a CTR of 1 percent, according to AdKnowledge's Q2
2000 Online Advertising Report. Such performance levels cause . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1208f.html#item11
"IBM, Siemens Unit Form Joint Venture For Magnetic Chip"
IBM and Siemens subsidiary Infineon have joined forces to develop
products that use Magnetic Random Access Memory (MRAM) chips by
2004. MRAM could replace a large portion of the traditional
Dynamic Random Access Memory market, which generates annual . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1208f.html#item12
"Isn't Life More Than Work?"
The fact that the employees of a dot-com company in San Francisco
are beginning to move toward unionizing is no surprise due to the
horrible working conditions of most dot-com workers, writes Moira
Gunn. Over 30 percent of etown.com's 120 employees have signed a . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1208f.html#item13
"Keeping it Clean"
Although forced filtering of the Internet is popular, its future
is still in doubt and hinges on how broadly it is applied, writes
attorney Doug Isenberg, editor of GigaLaw.com. Isenberg notes
that every federal effort to regulate the Internet--including the . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1208f.html#item14
"Three Views of the American Dream, Tech Style"
Many foreign IT workers come to the United States because the
U.S. industry offers them opportunities that are not available in
their home countries. Programmer Sasha Apreleu came from St.
Petersburg, Russia, to Research Triangle Park in North Carolina . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1208f.html#item15
"Screen Wars"
The race is on to create the graphic user interface of the
future. Twenty years ago Apple cofounder Steve Jobs led a team
that created the interface for the Macintosh computer, which was
accompanied by the mouse, windows, icons, menus, and dialogue . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1208f.html#item16
"Sam's Folly"
FirstGov, the federal government Web portal introduced this
summer, has found only 31 corporate partners to date, according
to the latest figures from the General Services Administration.
The government intended to partner with thousands of companies . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1208f.html#item17
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