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ACM TechNews
Volume 3, Number 267
Date: October 22, 2001
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Top Stories for Monday, October 22, 2001:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html

"DMCA Protester Cracks Microsoft's Copyright Protection Code"
"The Tech Wasteland"
"Comdex Expects Attendance to Falter"
"Controversial Encryption Plan Abandoned"
"Laptop Users Will Soon Print While Traveling"
"Companies Urged to Report Computer Sabotage"
"Survey: Attacks Prompt IT Spending Gloom"
"How Tech Goes Pop"
"Military Work Fostered Many Tech Innovations"
"Canada Works on Terror Bill, Too"
"Silicon Valley: Using Caution, But Moving On"
"Indian Tech Firms Returning to Normal After Attacks"
"Brain Waves"
"Storage Virtualization"
"New Life for Old PCs"
"Optics Could Push Chips Beyond 10GHz"
"Code Red for the Web"
"Intel Revamps R&D"

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"DMCA Protester Cracks Microsoft's Copyright Protection Code"
An anonymous hacker has broken the code of Microsoft's digital
right management (DRM) technology.  In addition, the hacker has
released a program dubbed FreeMe that can circumvent
technological locks on some audio files.  FreeMe is accompanied ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1022m.html#item1

"The Tech Wasteland"
The recent rebound in tech stocks is not a sign that the
high-tech industry will lead the U.S. economy out of the
recession.  In fact, the high-tech industry is likely to remain
in a funk long after the rest of the economy has bounced back.  ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1022m.html#item2

"Comdex Expects Attendance to Falter"
Attendance at Comdex is likely to fall 25 percent to 150,000 due
to the economic downturn and the terror attacks.  The figure is
the lowest in nine years for the trade show, to be held Nov.
12-16 in Las Vegas.  Along with the demise of dot-coms, worries ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1022m.html#item3

"Controversial Encryption Plan Abandoned"
The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) is
relieved that Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) has changed his mind and
abandoned his support for legislation that would provide law
enforcement agencies with backdoor access to all U.S. encryption ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1022m.html#item4

"Laptop Users Will Soon Print While Traveling"
A coalition of document management companies have rallied behind
a new effort to allow mobile workers access to any printer,
possibly solving one of the major obstacles to the vision of a
mobile workforce.  Yahoo!, Adobe Systems, Xerox, and other ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1022m.html#item5

"Companies Urged to Report Computer Sabotage"
More and more cases of corporate computer sabotage by angry
employees are cropping up, according to the FBI and the U.S.
Secret Service.  Special Agent-in-Charge James Washington
attributes 50 percent to 75 percent of such cases to insiders.  ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1022m.html#item6

"Survey: Attacks Prompt IT Spending Gloom"
CIOs are less optimistic about a recovery in IT spending in the
wake of last month's attacks, according to a survey by Merrill
Lynch.  Some 73 percent of the CIOs said their businesses had
been harmed by the attacks while 23 percent said the attacks ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1022m.html#item7

"How Tech Goes Pop"
This year's Pop Tech conference was a confluence of futuristic
catch-phrases and projected technologies that are several decades
off.  Northwestern University professor Don Norman presented a
talk that championed the development of tangible design to make ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1022m.html#item8

"Military Work Fostered Many Tech Innovations"
Silicon Valley has had a long tradition of contracting with the
U.S. Defense Department.  In the late 1930s and 1940s, the
defense department engaged the likes of Hewlett-Packard and
Varian Associates to develop such breakthrough technologies as ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1022m.html#item9

"Canada Works on Terror Bill, Too"
The Canadian government on Friday announced a $47 million funding
infusion for two of its security agencies.  The Canadian Security
Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the Communication Security
Establishment (CSE) will use the funds for technological ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1022m.html#item10

"Silicon Valley: Using Caution, But Moving On"
Despite the fears engendered by the terrorist attacks, the tech
industry is continuing to move ahead with industry events and
product launches.  "It's important for the industry and the
country to get back to normalcy," insists Fred Rosen, director of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1022m.html#item11

"Indian Tech Firms Returning to Normal After Attacks"
India's software industry appears to be returning to normalcy a
month after the U.S. terrorist attacks brought corporate spending
to a halt.  "The kind of shock and numbness that we saw in the
first two-three weeks after the attacks is slowly fading away," ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1022m.html#item12

"Brain Waves"
Cellonics in Singapore hopes to revolutionize data transmission
across networks by emulating the way in which the brain sends
signals between cells.  The company has developed a new way to
code bits into waveforms based on the mathematics used in ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1022m.html#item13

"Storage Virtualization"
The theory behind storage virtualization is that users can add
extra storage capacity with cheap tape and disk drives that can
be managed as virtual resources.  Storage virtualization has long
been offered at the disk array or hardware level as well as the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1022m.html#item14

"New Life for Old PCs"
Consumers no longer have to store their old PCs in attics,
closets, or throw them in the trash.  Charitable organizations
now take old PCs off the hands of individuals and businesses, and
many donated PCs end up at schools and nonprofit organizations ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1022m.html#item15

"Optics Could Push Chips Beyond 10GHz"
Optical fiber could remove barriers to processor speeds, such as
overheating and I/O restrictions, once those speeds reach the 10
gigahertz expected by 2005.  Chipmakers continue to increase
processor speed by squeezing smaller components closer together, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1022m.html#item16

"Code Red for the Web"
Researchers worry that hacker assaults attributed to a few
malicious individuals, such as the Code Red worm outbreaks that
caused billions of dollars in damages, are merely a preview of
concerted attacks waged by groups of hackers or governments.  ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1022m.html#item17

"Intel Revamps R&D"
Intel's research and development arm is being reorganized under
the leadership of research director David Tennenhouse to more
closely resemble the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA).  He is doing this so Intel can devote more of its ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1022m.html#item18


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