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ACM TechNews
Volume 3, Number 227
Date: July 16, 2001
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Top Stories for Monday, July 16, 2001:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Microsoft Called U.S. Official to Propose New Talks"
"Easy Season for Open Source"
"High-Tech Women on the Future of Female Entrepreneurship"
"Canada's On-line Copyright Policy Takes Shape"
"Tech Bust: What Goes Around Comes Around"
"Radical 'X-Architecture' Chips Push Speed, Power"
"Worms Will Become Dynamic, Smarter"
"India's IT Revenues Top $10B in 00/01-Survey"
"Workers Increase Net Usage, Employers Increase Net Monitoring"
"Experts Predict Rosy Future for InfiniBand"
"Scrambling for the Wireless Jewel"
"ICANN Board Member Calls Governance Paper 'Wishy-Washy'"
"Handling Even Your Big Glitches Gracefully"
"Universities Aren't Serving the IT Workforce"
"Analyzing a Good Net Career"
"Feds Closing IT Gap"
"Dot-Com Survivors"
"IETF Stays Course on International Domain Names"
"Generation Now"
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"Microsoft Called U.S. Official to Propose New Talks"
Microsoft officials telephoned the head of the Department of
Justice's antitrust division last week to propose renewed
settlement talks, report sources close to the dispute. The call
came just before the company announced plans to open up the . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0716m.html#item1
"Easy Season for Open Source"
Recent months have seen steady progress for the growth of Linux,
writes open source expert Evan Leibovitch. Leibovitch lauds the
Linux 2.4 kernel, the subsequent upgrades from Caldera, SuSe and
RedHat, as well as new versions of KDE, Samba, Xfree86, and . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0716m.html#item2
"High-Tech Women on the Future of Female Entrepreneurship"
Debra Diamond of Debra Diamond & Associates and Joan Korenman,
director of the Center for Women and Information Technology,
recently discussed the future of women-owned tech businesses.
Some of the biggest obstacles women face, Korenman says, include . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0716m.html#item3
"Tech Bust: What Goes Around Comes Around"
The current economic slowdown in the United States is having a
ripple effect across the economies of foreign countries. Slowing
or contracting growth is occurring in Singapore, Taiwan, Germany,
Mexico, and other countries that are trading partners with the . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0716m.html#item4
"Canada's On-line Copyright Policy Takes Shape"
The Canadian government is moving in the right direction on
online copyright policy by preserving a balance between content
creators and consumers, contends Michael Geist, a law professor
at the University of Ottawa Law School and the director of . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0716m.html#item5
"Radical 'X-Architecture' Chips Push Speed, Power"
A new breakthrough in chip design, called "X-Architecture,"
promises to increase processing speed by 10 percent while
reducing the amount of energy used by 20 percent. The new
technology works on the principle of reducing the distance and . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0716m.html#item6
"Worms Will Become Dynamic, Smarter"
Internet worms will be harder to control in the future, reports
Jose Nazario of Crimelabs Security Group. "We're going to see a
paradigm shift in what worms have to offer...we're going to see
worms evolve," he says. Future worms are expected to include . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0716m.html#item7
"India's IT Revenues Top $10B in 00/01-Survey"
Revenue in the Indian IT sector totaled $10.5 billion for the
year that ended in March, a 50 percent increase over the previous
12-month period, Dataquest reported on Thursday. Domestic IT
revenue increased 37 percent, and IT exports grew 64 percent, . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0716m.html#item8
"Workers Increase Net Usage, Employers Increase Net Monitoring"
Even as employees increase their Internet usage at work by 23
percent, the number of companies monitoring them is growing twice
as fast, according to new workplace Web surveillance statistics.
Nielsen//NetRatings found workers are logging on more frequently, . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0716m.html#item9
"Experts Predict Rosy Future for InfiniBand"
InfiniBand, the successor to current PCI--or peripheral component
interconnect--connections, promises to change the way companies
utilize their computers. InfiniBand CTO Jim Mott says his
company's technology lets computers transfer information at 2.5 . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0716m.html#item10
"Scrambling for the Wireless Jewel"
The integration of PDAs and mobile phones is coming toward an end
point. However, a winner has yet to emerge in the race between
PDA manufacturers and wireless phone makers. The PDA market has
been spurred by business professionals' need to send and receive . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0716m.html#item11
"ICANN Board Member Calls Governance Paper 'Wishy-Washy'"
On July 12, the ICANN At-Large Membership Study Committee
released its first discussion paper. The paper concludes that
ICANN has to find a way to include public opinion in its
decision-making process, but it fails to answer how this should . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0716m.html#item12
"Handling Even Your Big Glitches Gracefully"
Glitches are a fact of life in the IT industry, but industry
veterans say those responsible can save their jobs if they follow
certain guidelines. Lee Hecht Harrison executive vice president
Bernadette Kenny recommends that the person who caused a specific . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0716m.html#item13
"Universities Aren't Serving the IT Workforce"
The nation's colleges and universities are the main cause of the
current shortage of skilled IT workers, argues Neal S. Grunstra
of Mindbank Consulting Group. Grunstra notes the relative
unpopularity of the computer-science major at U.S. institutions, . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0716m.html#item14
"Analyzing a Good Net Career"
Web data analysts are already in heavy demand to help prioritize
a company's e-business initiatives by measuring their
effectiveness in terms of return on investment and customer
experience. However, Gartner estimates that there is a 2-to-1 . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0716m.html#item15
"Feds Closing IT Gap"
Federal agencies are catching up with e-business through their
e-government initiatives, adopting e-business methods such as
outsourcing to facilitate their projects. The U.S. Customs
Service has a five-year, $1.3 billion plan to develop a system . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0716m.html#item16
"Dot-Com Survivors"
Sixty-six percent of 123 pure-play e-tailers polled by The
Industry Standard have survived the e-commerce shakeout. Out of
80 private dot-coms that raised a minimum of $10 million in
venture capital, 45 are still in operation. Meanwhile, only . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0716m.html#item17
"IETF Stays Course on International Domain Names"
The Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) working group of the
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is again moving
forthrightly toward developing multilingual domain name
translation protocol now that it has determined that a Walid . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0716m.html#item18
"Generation Now"
Many analysts believe that the rise in U.S. workers' productivity
over the past five years is directly tied to the increase in
corporate IT spending in the same period of time. However, with
the economy slowing, many companies want to maintain high . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0716m.html#item19
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