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ACM TechNews
Volume 3, Number 160
Date: February 2, 2001
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Top Stories for Friday, February 2, 2001:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Outsider Picked to Head ICANN"
"Playing the Domain Game: Will ICANN Dump At-Large Membership?"
"Internet Workers' Union Plans Get Put on Back Burner"
"Software Resales Entangled by Copyright Issue"
"Tech Groups Hope for a Do-Nothing Congress"
"India Firms Rush to Build Data Pipelines"
"Beyond Napster, Peer-to-Peer Enters Corporate Computing Realm"
"Survey: E-Commerce Budgets Outpacing IT Spending"
"Crisis Focuses Attention on Energy Efficient Internet Data Centers"
"Handheld Programmers Hard to Come By"
"Security Breach Hits Internet Sites"
"EU Seeks Comment On Cyber-Crime Initiatives"
"Web Increasingly World Wide"
"Presumed Guilty"
"Make Way for the 'Browserless Web'"
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"Outsider Picked to Head ICANN"
M. Stuart Lynn was chosen to replace Michael Roberts as ICANN's
CEO. "From what I know, he's coming in without any known
enemies," says Barbara Simons, formerly the president of the
Association of Computing Machinery. Lynn claims to have joined . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0202f.html#item1
"Playing the Domain Game: Will ICANN Dump At-Large Membership?"
Last year ICANN held an election that brought five at-large board
members to ICANN. Now ICANN is initiating a study that will
examine its at-large membership. The study is simply being used
as an excuse to reduce ICANN's at-large board representation in a . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0202f.html#item2
"Internet Workers' Union Plans Get Put on Back Burner"
Recent developments seem to have quelled the first stirrings of a
labor movement in the dot-com sector, industry analysts say. A
unionization vote at San Francisco e-tailer eTown.com has been
postponed for at least six months while federal regulators . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0202f.html#item3
"Software Resales Entangled by Copyright Issue"
Reselling computer software is not as popular as selling used CDs
or books for a reason. At a recent eBay auction, Michael Jardeen
was trying to sell his copy of GoLive 4.0 from Adobe when EBay
shut down his auction at the request of Adobe, which said Jardeen . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0202f.html#item4
"Tech Groups Hope for a Do-Nothing Congress"
Many tech-industry lobbyists fear that Congress will finally
bring the brunt of its attention upon the Internet and e-commerce
this session. Although the tech industry has seen Congress adopt
a "hands-off" policy toward it in the past few years, lobbyists . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0202f.html#item5
"India Firms Rush to Build Data Pipelines"
India's Internet backbone will be strengthened and extended, if
the corporations planning to take advantage of New Delhi's
loosened restrictions on building telecommunications
infrastructure succeed. Currently, bandwidth in the country is . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0202f.html#item6
"Beyond Napster, Peer-to-Peer Enters Corporate Computing Realm"
In an effort to streamline operations, corporate enterprises are
adopting the peer-to-peer systems made popular by consumer
technologies such as Napster. In peer-to-peer computing, PCs on
a network communicate directly, share information, and contribute . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0202f.html#item7
"Survey: E-Commerce Budgets Outpacing IT Spending"
A survey of 50 CIOs of leading businesses and government agencies
shows that e-commerce budgets will outpace IT infrastructure
budgets in growth this year. Merrill Lynch vice president Thomas
Diffely, who co-authored the survey, says the spending is more of . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0202f.html#item8
"Crisis Focuses Attention on Energy Efficient Internet Data Centers"
Data centers located in California may not have to worry about
rolling blackouts shutting down their Web servers, but operators,
such as San Jose-based Equinix, are considering long-term growth
and sustainability in terms of energy efficiency. Equinix CIO . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0202f.html#item9
"Handheld Programmers Hard to Come By"
Wireless Internet application companies are searching desperately
for the programmers who will win them the lion's share of the
emerging wireless market. With third-generation (3G) networks
imminent and PDA sales estimated at 33.5 million by 2004, . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0202f.html#item10
"Security Breach Hits Internet Sites"
A survey by Iceland-based security firm Men & Mice found that
almost 600 of the world's leading companies may be hacked through
a recently discovered weakness in key Internet infrastructure
software. The problem lies in a common core component that . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0202f.html#item11
"EU Seeks Comment On Cyber-Crime Initiatives"
Several European Union (EU) strategies for fighting cyber-crime
are on the horizon, and the European Commission (EC) is seeking
public opinion about these initiatives. The EC has submitted
documents to the European Parliament in which Enterprise and . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0202f.html#item12
"Web Increasingly World Wide"
A new WebSideStory survey indicates that 54.95 percent of Web
users are not Americans, with 5.6 percent in Germany, 5 percent
in Canada, 4.6 percent in South Korea, and 4.3 percent in Japan.
As the Internet develops, English will give way as the dominant . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0202f.html#item13
"Presumed Guilty"
Catherine Tasca, cultural minister of France, recently caused an
uproar when she proposed that a copyright tax be affixed to the
cost of PCs. The tax, similar to taxes already imposed on
recordable media, including video and audio cassettes, and . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0202f.html#item14
"Make Way for the 'Browserless Web'"
The staggering number of business transactions now conducted over
the Internet has led to the development of the "browserless Web."
The browserless Web refers to Web-based applications that can
interact with one another without the need for a traditional Web . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0202f.html#item15
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