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ACM TechNews
Volume 3, Number 193
Date: April 23, 2001
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Top Stories for Monday, April 23, 2001:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Intel Product Could Set Off a Price War"
"China Warns of Coming Hack Attack"
"Once-Highflying Dot-Com Crowd Comes Back Down to Earth Rapidly"
"Survey on Women's Role in Silicon Valley"
"IDC: Security Software to Total Billions by 2004"
"Linux and Handhelds: Good Match or Sure Failure?"
"Showdown at the Digital Corral"
"Lab Rat: Virtual Light"
"Cisco Systems Inc. Is Target of Suit by Shareholders"
"Startup Aims to Encrypt All Web Traffic"
"Internet Names Go International"
"Global Internet Usage Has Coma a Long Way"
"Personalized 'Lock' for Media Files Devised by Start-Up"
"Regulating the Impact"
"The Age of Robots"
"The Semantic Web"
"Who's Afraid of Productivity?"
"DaimlerChrysler's Net Designs"
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"Intel Product Could Set Off a Price War"
Intel has announced significantly lower price points for its
Pentium 4 line of processors in hopes of stirring consumer desire
and boosting PC sales, which have seen a quarterly decline for
the first time over the last three months. Intel expects that PC . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0423m.html#item1
"China Warns of Coming Hack Attack"
Chinese and American hackers are attacking each other's computer
systems in response to strained relations between the two
nations. According to American hackers, hundreds of Chinese Web
sites have already been victimized in a plan called . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0423m.html#item2
"Once-Highflying Dot-Com Crowd Comes Back Down to Earth Rapidly"
Job hunters in the Silicon Valley region only now are starting to
realize the reality of the dot-com bust. Web programmer Spencer
Thiel says that skilled workers could expect a $10,000 to $15,000
pay increase every time they switched jobs during the halcyon . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0423m.html#item3
"Survey on Women's Role in Silicon Valley"
Women in Silicon Valley's high-tech workforce fare better than in
other regions of the country, with higher percentages of female
computer programmers and electrical engineers. Even still, a
recent survey of 826 women in the Valley correlates with data . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0423m.html#item4
"IDC: Security Software to Total Billions by 2004"
The online security industry will enter a boom market, with
revenues growing above 30 percent annually, reports market
research firm International Data (IDC). Intrusion detection and
vulnerability assessment products will top $1 billion in annual . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0423m.html#item5
"Linux and Handhelds: Good Match or Sure Failure?"
Despite the upcoming release of the Agenda VR3 Linux-based
handheld, many industry observers doubt that Linux-based
handhelds will be able to draw enough users away from Palm and,
to a lesser extent, PocketPC devices. Linux-based handhelds are . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0423m.html#item6
"Showdown at the Digital Corral"
With men and women more mobile today than ever before, a new
idea, nicknamed "Enum," would link one's contact numbers and
addresses through an Internet address based upon a phone number,
which when typed would offer a glossary of cell, email, work . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0423m.html#item7
"Lab Rat: Virtual Light"
New headsets fuse virtual reality with what people see in the
real world, allowing users to actually see what before they could
only imagine. New augmented reality (AR) technology, such as
that being developed by Hughes Research Laboratories, projects . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0423m.html#item8
"Cisco Systems Inc. Is Target of Suit by Shareholders"
Cisco Systems, which announced its first substantial layoffs this
year, is facing a lawsuit. Cisco allegedly breached securities
laws by circulating false information about its products and
financial performance, according to a shareholder lawsuit filed . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0423m.html#item9
"Startup Aims to Encrypt All Web Traffic"
Currently, an insufficient amount of online data is encrypted, as
only about 7 percent of Internet traffic is protected, according
to Andes Networks. This problem stems from slow encryption
speeds, but Andes intends to offer an encryption scheme based on . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0423m.html#item10
"Internet Names Go International"
Starting April 19, VeriSign will begin accepting domain name
registrations in Middle Eastern, Southeast Asian, and Indian
subcontinent languages, as well as a variety of symbols.
VeriSign's move is generating some criticism, especially among . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0423m.html#item11
"Global Internet Usage Has Coma a Long Way"
The Internet has grown dramatically from its early days in 1986,
when only eight countries went online in some fashion. The
International Telecommunications Union says that 214 countries
boasted Internet access last year, up from 60 in 1993, with a . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0423m.html#item12
"Personalized 'Lock' for Media Files Devised by Start-Up"
A venture entitled SigningStation today will reveal its
copy-prevention project intended to stop unrestricted replication
of digital video and music files. The public-key system, called
Cryptocast, is designed to work with so-called public and private . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0423m.html#item13
"Regulating the Impact"
The electronics industry is facing its most aggressive challenge
yet from European governments over the environmental impact of
dumping computers and computer-related equipment in landfills.
In May, the full European Parliament is expected take up the . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0423m.html#item14
"The Age of Robots"
Although robot technology has not progressed as far as many of
the great science-fiction visionaries had thought it would by the
beginning of the twenty-first century, scientists around the
world are working on any number of robot prototypes that could . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0423m.html#item15
"The Semantic Web"
The Internet's current search capabilities are limited because
much of its available information is designed for people, rather
than computers, to read. The "Semantic Web," now under
development, will refine the existing one, providing the . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0423m.html#item16
"Who's Afraid of Productivity?"
The latest in a series of reports from Harvard's Kennedy School
of Government, highlights "best practices" in the use of
technological investment by government agencies and departments.
The report implies that many government bodies are not doing . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0423m.html#item17
"DaimlerChrysler's Net Designs"
DaimlerChrysler's Chrysler division intends for its FastCar
online design initiative to halve the amount of time required to
design a new car--from roughly four years to two--and save a
"huge" amount of money in the process. The tradition-bound . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0423m.html#item18
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