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ACM TechNews - Wednesday, January 16, 2002
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ACM TechNews
Volume 4, Number 300
Date: January 16, 2002
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Top Stories for Wednesday, January 16, 2002:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Techies Turn to Public Sector"
"Does Fast Internet Need a Push?"
"2600 Magazine Seeks Another Opinion in N.Y. DeCSS Case"
"Congress Must Help Boost IT Security Ranks, Panel Says"
"Linux Breathes New Life into the Mainframe"
"Cool Ideas for Overheated Chips"
"Striving to Push Storage Capacity Beyond Its Limit"
"The Little Label with an Explosion of Applications"
"U.S. Hopes to Unplug Cybercrime in N.Va."
"FreeBSD to Change Hands"
"Education Challenges Hinder Future Tech Workforce-Study"
"Apache 2.0: What's New and Who'll Benefit?"
"MEMS Are Slowly Finding Their Way Into the Coolest Consumer Gadgets"
"China to Support Research on 12 Key Technologies"
"'Google Effect' Reduces Need for Many Domains"
"Internet Adulthood"
"Gloomy IT Job Market May Perk Up in 2002"
"Security Takes a Pragmatic Turn"
"The Computer Inside You"
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"Techies Turn to Public Sector"
Many IT workers are taking jobs at nonprofit organizations as corporate jobs
dwindle. Some 696,131 tech and telecoms jobs were cut last year,
according to estimates, and 762 Internet firms shut down over the
past two years. Beyond those that have been laid off, other ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0116w.html#item1
"Does Fast Internet Need a Push?"
High-speed Internet access is currently being publicized as a
driver of economic recovery in the United States. For the last
few years, the benefits of broadband have been touted to
consumers--such as the fact that it is always connected to the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0116w.html#item2
"2600 Magazine Seeks Another Opinion in N.Y. DeCSS Case"
Lawyers representing 2600 magazine have requested that the full
2nd Circuit Court of Appeals re-hear the case against the
magazine and publisher Eric Corley, who is forbidden from posting
the source code for the DeCSS DVD-decryption software over the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0116w.html#item3
"Congress Must Help Boost IT Security Ranks, Panel Says"
Congress should be a catalyst for promoting education and
research in IT security, a panel discussion said Tuesday in
Washington, D.C. The panel was sponsored by the Computing
Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) and the Info-Structure ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0116w.html#item4
"Linux Breathes New Life into the Mainframe"
The Linux open-source operating system has taken off in America's
corporate mainframe sector. Two years ago, a small group of IBM
programmers ported Linux to the IBM S/390; since then, thousands
of IT vendors have downloaded free versions of Linux off the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0116w.html#item5
"Cool Ideas for Overheated Chips"
Hundreds of engineers and scientists will gather shortly at the
Thermes 2002 conference in Santa Fe, N.M., to discuss ideas on
how to cool down overheated computer chips. At the moment, many
computer chips are cooled through the use of exhaust fans and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0116w.html#item6
"Striving to Push Storage Capacity Beyond Its Limit"
Engineers foresee that hard disk storage capacity will reach its
limits sooner or later. Some $21.6 million has been earmarked by
the Commerce Department's Advanced Technology Program for a
project to investigate heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR). ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0116w.html#item7
"The Little Label with an Explosion of Applications"
Smart tags are used to track the positions or presence of their
wearers with radio waves, and the technology is being applied to
many markets. Xerox uses smart tags to keep tabs on photocopiers
shipped to Europe, while some Japanese factories tag workers' ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0116w.html#item8
"U.S. Hopes to Unplug Cybercrime in N.Va."
The FBI, working with the U.S. attorney's office in Alexandria,
Va., is set to step up the fight against cybercrime in the
high-tech area of North Virginia. Four additional lawyers, added
to the two current ones, will help in prosecuting cases involving ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0116w.html#item9
"FreeBSD to Change Hands"
Wind River Systems has returned control of the open-source
FreeBSD Unix-based software to Bob Bruce, the founder of original
FreeBSD publisher Walnut Creek CDROM. Wind River wants to divest
itself of its FreeBSD assets, including FreeBSD Mall, formerly ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0116w.html#item10
"Education Challenges Hinder Future Tech Workforce-Study"
Results from a study conducted by the AeA and the Nasdaq Stock
Market show many teachers are unable to integrate the Internet
into their everyday curriculum. According to the study, only 27
percent of public school teachers surveyed believed they were ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0116w.html#item11
"Apache 2.0: What's New and Who'll Benefit?"
The forthcoming freely available Apache 2.0 Web server software
promises several advantages over Apache 1.3. Apache Software
Foundation VP Ken Coar says the new version offers better
scalability, while its filtering mechanism allows users to run ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0116w.html#item12
"MEMS Are Slowly Finding Their Way Into the Coolest Consumer Gadgets"
Cahners In-Stat Group analyst Marlene Bourne notes that over 20
exhibitors had MEMS-enabled devices at this year's Consumer
Electronics Show, up from just one last year. More than 30
products using Texas Instruments' Digital Light Processing (DLP) ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0116w.html#item13
"China to Support Research on 12 Key Technologies"
China plans to use research to break up the monopolies of foreign
firms in 12 key technology areas, says Xu Guanhua, Minister of
Science and Technology. Addressing the National Conference on
Science and Technology, Xu said China should be a leader in ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0116w.html#item14
"'Google Effect' Reduces Need for Many Domains"
Although analysts say the Internet is shrinking due to a slowdown
in domain name speculative buying, another phenomena that is also
affecting TLD purchases is the so-called "Google effect," a term
that refers to the search site found at www.google.com, writes Dan ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0116w.html#item15
"Internet Adulthood"
ICANN Chairman Vinton Cerf says the Internet has grown far beyond
his initial expectations. Cerf says he is surprised that the
Internet has become embroiled in political turmoil, particularly
in regard to domain names. "Domain names have turned into an ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0116w.html#item16
"Gloomy IT Job Market May Perk Up in 2002"
It will be harder to find IT jobs and competition among job
seekers will be fierce this year. "At a time like this, when the
economy weakens, companies are all ROI-based," says RHI
Consulting executive director Katherine Spencer Lee. "They look ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0116w.html#item17
"Security Takes a Pragmatic Turn"
Government heads are considering IT-related security with great
seriousness after the Sept. 11 attacks, with many proposals yet
to be sorted out, and the appropriate ones given funding. One
interesting phenomena immediately after the attacks was the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0116w.html#item18
"The Computer Inside You"
Miniaturized transistors have the potential to impact the world
in more ways than just making computers more powerful. With
transistors one-millionth the size of a grain of sand or smaller,
scientists will be able to fashion more transistors on a chip, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0116w.html#item19
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