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ACM TechNews
Volume 4, Number 321
Date: March 11, 2002
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Top Stories for Monday, March 11, 2002:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Women in Tech Scrutinize Fiorina's Struggle"
"Tiny Technologies Slip Unseen Into Daily Life"
"Embedded System Conference to Highlight Unique Capabilities of
Non-PC Devices"
"Researcher Sees Security Risk in Computer's Glow"
"The BT Group Stakes a Patent Claim on Hyperlinking"
"Tools to Protect...Against Future Threats"
"Sniffing Chip Is in the Wind"
"Hackers' Next Target? Cell Phones"
"Reversible Computing Could Pinpoint Network Congestion"
"'Poor-Friendly' Simputer Set for May Rollout"
"Apple's OS X: What Linux Wants to Be?"
"This Is a Real Quest for Maps"
"Analysts: Apple's in LCD Squeeze"
"IT Star Power"
"All Charged Up Again"
"Nano Futures"
"Nanotech Dreams"
"Putting Voice into Wireless Communications"
"Intellectual-Property Ecology"
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"Women in Tech Scrutinize Fiorina's Struggle"
Other women executives in Silicon Valley tech firms are watching
Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina closely as she defends her plan
to merge with Compaq. Although all agree the specific issue of
the merger should be discussed on business merit, rather than ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0311m.html#item1
"Tiny Technologies Slip Unseen Into Daily Life"
Nanotechnologies are already entering the commercial market as
enhancements to existing products. Growth in the area was
described in the most recent report on the sector, made by
Spanish research firm CMP Cientifica, as "a snapshot of an ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0311m.html#item2
"Embedded System Conference to Highlight Unique Capabilities of
Non-PC Devices"
Embedded systems developers have announced many new applications
for non-PC devices for the Embedded Systems Conference next week.
One of the most interesting is a USB chip from TransDimension
that will allow devices such as cell phones, CD/DVD players, MP3 ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0311m.html#item3
"Researcher Sees Security Risk in Computer's Glow"
University of Cambridge doctoral student Markus Kuhn has written
a paper stating that reflected light from a CRT computer screen
can, under the right conditions, be measured and used to
reproduce the CRT display. This can be accomplished by studying ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0311m.html#item4
"The BT Group Stakes a Patent Claim on Hyperlinking"
British Telecommunications (BT) claims that it owns the patent on
the 13-year-old technology of hyperlinking, or linking Web pages
through text. Officials say the ownership stems from its patent
on the Hidden Page technology, uncovered during a portfolio ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0311m.html#item5
"Tools to Protect...Against Future Threats"
The Homeland Security Office is in the process of deciding on a
set of new technologies that could help save the country from
future terrorist attacks. In all, President Bush has allocated
$38 billion for the effort, prompting a flood of offerings from ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0311m.html#item6
"Sniffing Chip Is in the Wind"
UK scientists at the universities of Leicester, Warwick, and
Edinburgh are engaged in a three-year project to
produce a sensor-on-a-chip that functions in a similar manner to
the human olfactory system. "The system mimics the delivery ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0311m.html#item7
"Hackers' Next Target? Cell Phones"
Hackers will soon be targeting cell phones as more sophisticated
operating systems and new capabilities are built into mobile
devices, predict computer security experts. For now, warns
F-Secure CTO Ari Hypponen, platforms are too diverse and the user ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0311m.html#item8
"Reversible Computing Could Pinpoint Network Congestion"
An assistant professor of computer science at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute is working on reversible computer
algorithms that can speed network simulations by six times and
reveal the exact causes of network congestion. For the first ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0311m.html#item9
"'Poor-Friendly' Simputer Set for May Rollout"
A $250 handheld computer that runs on the free Linux operating
system will be available to poor rural Indian users starting in
May, according to Encore Software CEO Vinay Deshpande. The
Simputer (simple, interactive, multilingual) could help spread ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0311m.html#item10
"Apple's OS X: What Linux Wants to Be?"
Apple's OS X is in direct competition to its open-source cousin,
Linux, on the desktop market as each struggle to claim the
second-place prize for most viable desktop operating system after
Windows. The competition is not going to be fierce, according to ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0311m.html#item11
"This Is a Real Quest for Maps"
Cartography Associates President David Rumsey decided to put his
collection of 150,000 19th and 20th century maps on the Internet
instead of donating it to the Library of Congress. The site
offers free access to the maps using a GIS-based browser Rumsey ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0311m.html#item12
"Analysts: Apple's in LCD Squeeze"
Analysts say Apple's inability to meet surging demand for its new
iMac computers is going to hinder Windows-Intel users from
switching platforms, although an order backlog probably will not
affect loyal Mac enthusiasts. The 15-inch LCD monitor the iMac ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0311m.html#item13
"IT Star Power"
I.c. stars is a nonprofit program based in Chicago that offers
inner-city students between the ages 18 and 25 the opportunity to
learn skills that could land them high-level IT jobs. Organized
and run by social worker Leslie Beller and alternative educator ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0311m.html#item14
"All Charged Up Again"
The U.S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates
almost 300,000 defections in the IT workforce in the last year,
sparked by the economic recession as well as by employees'
unfulfilled desires to have meaningful careers. But some IT ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0311m.html#item15
"Nano Futures"
Nanotechnology often prompts discussion of futuristic
applications such as microcomputers that are more powerful than
today's bulky devices and atmospheric wireless sensor networks.
The difference between reality and predictions, says ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0311m.html#item16
"Nanotech Dreams"
Most nanotechnology projects are still in the development phase,
but increases in federal funding, more advanced technologies, and
knowledgeable scientists have helped popularize the science. At
the same time, experts hold conflicting views of what kinds of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0311m.html#item17
"Putting Voice into Wireless Communications"
VoiceXML is emerging as a voice markup language that could be
used by PDAs, telephones, and desktop PCs to facilitate Web-based
applications that incorporate speech recognition and dual-tone,
multifrequency (DTMF) key input. The language, based on XML, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0311m.html#item18
"Intellectual-Property Ecology"
The "Conference on the Public Domain" at Duke University last
November could serve as a turning point in the debate over
intellectual property. Until now, various groups have always
approached intellectual property issues from their own, separate ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0311m.html#item19
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