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ACM TechNews
Volume 3, Number 155
Date: January 22, 2001
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Top Stories for Monday, January 22, 2001:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Experts Square Off Over Net's Role in Calif. Power Crisis"
"Tech Firms Starving for Skilled Leaders"
"New Economy"
"Will Potholes Develop in Information Highway If Economy Slows?"
"Pluto's Not a Planet? Only in New York"
"Tech Groups Ask U.S. to Delay New Web Suffixes"
"ACLU Fires Shot Across ICANN's Bow"
"ICANN Tackles Multilingual Domain Names"
"Slate of Advisers on Cyber-Terrorism Is Selected"
"Courts Consider Privacy Perils of Electronic Filing"
"Consumers May Soon Be Drawn to Magnetic Memory Chips"
"Gov Sites Get It Together"
"IT Projects Get Closer Scrutiny"
"Law of the Lands"
"IT Policy Issues on Tap for New Congress"
"Trends Now Changing the World: The Growth of the InformationIndustries Is Creating a Knowledge-Dependent Global Society"
"Gone But Not Forgotten"
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"Experts Square Off Over Net's Role in Calif. Power Crisis"
Analysts continue to argue whether the rise of the Internet and
its related industries are partly to blame for the energy crisis
that has hit the state of California. Last year, energy analyst
Mark Mills warned that the new Internet-driven economy would . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0122m.html#item1
"Tech Firms Starving for Skilled Leaders"
High-tech firms desperately need skilled managers who are able to
increase efficiency while consolidating a committed workforce,
concludes a recent study by Webmergers.com. Analysts say a lack
of such leadership may be a main reason why 210 dot-coms . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0122m.html#item2
"New Economy"
Recent events at San Francisco dot-com Etown highlight the
challenges that management and employees in the new economy must
face now that the economy is struggling. Last year, Etown
customer-service workers complained about their work schedules . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0122m.html#item3
"Will Potholes Develop in Information Highway If Economy Slows?"
Since its adoption by the private sector in 1995, the Internet
has never seen a recession. But as the current economy slows,
the technological investments that fuel the Internet are not
keeping pace with its growth. Recent sales at Cisco Systems and . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0122m.html#item4
"Pluto's Not a Planet? Only in New York"
Pluto's planethood is not in question, say many astronomers.
However, at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City,
the Hayden Planetarium, which is under the direction of Dr. Neil
de Grasse Tyson, has reclassified Pluto as an orbiting object in . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0122m.html#item5
"Tech Groups Ask U.S. to Delay New Web Suffixes"
Last week, the ACLU, the Electronic Privacy Information Center,
and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, among
others, sent a letter to Norman Y. Mineta, who was Commerce
Secretary at the time, suggesting that the Commerce Department . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0122m.html#item6
"ACLU Fires Shot Across ICANN's Bow"
The ACLU, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), and other
privacy and free-speech advocates are criticizing ICANN's new top
level domain name selection process as "unconstitutional" and an
affront to freedom of speech. The groups voiced their opinions . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0122m.html#item7
"ICANN Tackles Multilingual Domain Names"
ICANN President and CEO Mike Roberts addressed the issue of
multilingual domain name registration at the 23rd annual Pacific
Telecommunications Council (PTC). "Keeping governments out is
tough because, as the Internet becomes essential to worldwide . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0122m.html#item8
"Slate of Advisers on Cyber-Terrorism Is Selected"
Former President Clinton inexplicably decided against submitting
a 200-page report on cyber-attacks to Congress before leaving
office, but he did name 21 people to a new cyber-attacks advisory
council. Clinton aides said that Clinton gave no reason for . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0122m.html#item9
"Courts Consider Privacy Perils of Electronic Filing"
A pilot electronic-filing program established by the
Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts will, by 2003, greatly
expand the accessibility of hundreds of millions of legal
documents filed in federal courts. However, a controversy has . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0122m.html#item10
"Consumers May Soon Be Drawn to Magnetic Memory Chips"
Magnetic random access memory (MRAM) chips may soon compete with
dynamic RAM (DRAM) chips for the consumer market, thanks to their
ability to store data without a constant power source. MRAMs can
facilitate instant-on, energy-efficient computers by using . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0122m.html#item11
"Gov Sites Get It Together"
Many state governments are now consolidating all of their agency
Web sites under a single portal. This approach saves the states
time and money and makes the sites far more user friendly.
California predicts such a move will save the state $300 million . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0122m.html#item12
"IT Projects Get Closer Scrutiny"
Businesses will not be as lavish with their IT budgets in 2001 as
in previous years, analysts and corporate executives predict.
According to a recent survey of 150 corporate CIOs by Morgan
Stanley Dean Witter, the growth rate of corporate IT budgets will . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0122m.html#item13
"Law of the Lands"
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
will use the group's existing rules on taxation as the basis for
e-commerce taxation. Members of the group will apply the Model
Tax Convention when they deal with other countries. According to . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0122m.html#item14
"IT Policy Issues on Tap for New Congress"
The high-tech industry is likely to find convincing lawmakers to
keep their hands off the Internet much more difficult this year.
Harris Miller, president of the Information Technology
Association of America, says, "The argument that there should be . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0122m.html#item15
" Trends Now Changing the World: The Growth of the Information
Industries Is Creating a Knowledge-Dependent Global Society"
The world will become more knowledge-dependent as a result of
information technology. In fact, information has become such a
dominating commodity in the business arena that 83% of
American management personnel will be knowledge workers by 2005, . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0122m.html#item16
"Gone But Not Forgotten"
The 200-plus failed dot-com companies of 2000 have demonstrated
that running a Web business is not easy, writes Business Week's
Timothy Mullaney. Startups hoping to survive must remember to
use common sense when designing their ventures, says Mullaney. . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0122m.html#item17
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