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ACM TechNews
Volume 4, Number 333
Date: April 8, 2002
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Top Stories for Monday, April 8, 2002:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Theft of Data Tops Security Woes"
"Microsoft Programmers Hit the Books in a New Focus on Secure
Software"
"Israel's Tech Ties to Valley Strained by Violence"
"How Mobile Chips Could Change Computing"
"Cure for South Africa's Ills"
"Federal Officials Push for Defense, Public Safety Airwave Priority"
"Newest Storage Tech--Holographic DVD"
"Electronics Makers Await New Recycling Rules"
"Sneak Peek: The Computer Screen of the Future"
"Giving Disabled a Voice"
"Simple Silicon Trick Controls Nanotubes"
"Could Digital Pen Kill Off Keyboards?"
"Italy Pushes E-Government"
"ESI Does It"
"Taking Bytes From Oblivion"
"Nano-Newt!"
"Linux Turns Ten: Finding a Home in Corporate America"
"Entrepreneurship 101"
"Supporting Community and Building Social Capital"
******************* News Stories ***********************
"Theft of Data Tops Security Woes"
The financial cost of computer security breaches is increasing,
with U.S. companies and federal agencies reporting a loss of
$455.8 million within the last year, according to the seventh
annual joint FBI/Computer Security Institute Computer Crime and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0408m.html#item1
"Microsoft Programmers Hit the Books in a New Focus on Secure
Software"
Spurred on by accusations that its software code is insecure and
prone to failure, Microsoft ordered 9,000 programmers to take a
retraining course on writing secure software. Corporate software
security leaders Michael Howard and Doug Bayer say that customers ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0408m.html#item2
"Israel's Tech Ties to Valley Strained by Violence"
Silicon Valley tech companies' business with Israeli firms could
be seriously affected by the intense violence currently sweeping
through the Middle East. Intel, Applied Materials, and Cisco are
some of the Bay Area companies with Israeli subsidiaries, while ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0408m.html#item3
"How Mobile Chips Could Change Computing"
Mobile devices are running vastly more complex applications with
the rollout of high-speed mobile networks and the critical
business applications delivered over them. However, mobile
phones and PDAs need greater processing power to run these ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0408m.html#item4
"Cure for South Africa's Ills"
South African entrepreneur Tania Broveak Hide, CEO of Electric
Genetics, believes that bioinformatics is the key to addressing
major African health problems and expanding the job market. HIV,
malaria, and tuberculosis are just some of the diseases running ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0408m.html#item5
"Federal Officials Push for Defense, Public Safety Airwave Priority"
The aftermath of Sept. 11 has led to a major reexamination of the
federal allocation of radio frequency spectrum, according to
speakers at the Spectrum Summit. The past 10 years saw large
portions of federal spectrum sold to commercial wireless ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0408m.html#item6
"Newest Storage Tech--Holographic DVD"
InPhase Technologies, an off-shoot of Bell Labs, says its new
holographic data storage technology will be ready for the market
by the end of 2003. The company's Tapestry holographic
technology, which will be unveiled at the National Association of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0408m.html#item7
"Electronics Makers Await New Recycling Rules"
The European Parliament will decide this week whether electronics
makers will be required to pay for the disposal and recycling of
discarded household electronic and electrical products. The
parliament and EU governments are likely to be at odds over who ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0408m.html#item8
"Sneak Peek: The Computer Screen of the Future"
Assorted technologies under development are paving the way for
computer screens far more advanced than current models.
Cambridge Display Technology is working on lightweight,
ultra-thin flat-panel displays based on light-emitting polymer ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0408m.html#item9
"Giving Disabled a Voice"
Technology has given the 33 million severely disabled people in
the United States, 12 percent of the population, a chance to use
computers and surf the Internet. Many of the leading tech
companies that cater to disabled users are small, including ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0408m.html#item10
"Simple Silicon Trick Controls Nanotubes"
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) report in
Nature that they have devised a way to grow nanotubes on silicon
dioxide in specific, rather than random, patterns. "The whole
thing has become as simple as patterning silicon dioxide on ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0408m.html#item11
"Could Digital Pen Kill Off Keyboards?"
Israel-based OTM Technologies, in conjunction with Motorola,
Microsoft, Siemens, and as-yet unnamed Asian electronics
manufacturers, will develop a digital pen as an alternative to
mice and keyboards. OTM says the Virtual Pen (VPen) would offer ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0408m.html#item12
"Italy Pushes E-Government"
The Italian government is pioneering the first steps in bridging
the digital divide between countries in the G-8 group and
developing nations. Leaders from the G-8 countries agreed on
such a course in Genoa, Italy last year, but have not yet acted, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0408m.html#item13
"ESI Does It"
The Edge Side Includes (ESI) caching standard is seen as a way to
deliver dynamic Web content while reducing bottlenecks, hardware
costs, and customer response times. Processing tasks are
distributed among several servers, which can boost an IT ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0408m.html#item14
"Taking Bytes From Oblivion"
The potential for massive loss of digital data prompted Congress
to set aside $100 million in 2000 so the Library of Congress
could develop a program for archiving digital data. The Library
of Congress, as well as other organizations, has its hands full ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0408m.html#item15
"Nano-Newt!"
Former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich has
a new role as advocate of nanotechnology, homeland security, and
science education. Gingrich is now involved in a group, which
includes Leslie Gelb, president of the Council on Foreign ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0408m.html#item16
"Linux Turns Ten: Finding a Home in Corporate America"
Linux has made significant inroads in the last decade: Most
hardware vendors offer some version of the operating system,
while its security and Web server and clustering capabilities
have an edge over many products. Linux use and acceptance is ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0408m.html#item17
"Entrepreneurship 101"
The University of Maryland, College Park, is hosting a new
entrepreneurship program that aims to help students with business
ideas formulate and execute their plans. Funded by alumni Brian
Hinman, founder of Internet broadband equipment maker 2Wire, the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0408m.html#item18
"Supporting Community and Building Social Capital"
Social networks such as communities are sustained by social
capital, and the need for social capital is evident in the wake
of Sept. 11, when survivors need the comfort of responsible
communities. Communications tools such as the Internet are ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0408m.html#item19
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