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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 445
Date: January 13, 2003
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Top Stories for Monday, January 13, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"At Big Consumer Electronics Show, the Buzz Is All About Connections"
"Telecom Is Betting Big on 2 Tech Advances"
"Spam? No Thanks, We're Full"
"Mega-Data Stored in Mini-Spaces"
"Digital Experts Swap Talk"
"Can the URL Be Improved?"
"Report: Internet Security Threats Will Get Worse"
"Dollars, Sense and the Cyber Security Act"
"Expert: Alleged Wi-Fi Risks Are Nonsense"
"Redefining the PC"
"Handhelds Go Multimedia"
"'Malaysian' Virus-Writer Vows Global Outbreak if US Attacks Iraq"
"Browsers Go Back to the Future"
"White House Tech Officials Race to Build Security System"
"'Gadget Printer' Promises Industrial Revolution"
"Grid-dy Determination"
"A Tech Rebirth?"
"Immobots Take Control"
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"At Big Consumer Electronics Show, the Buzz Is All About Connections"
An array of technologies showcased at last week's Consumer
Electronics Association trade show focused on products that can
connect digital devices so that music, photographs, video, and
other digital content can be omnipresent. Vying for attention on ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0113m.html#item1
"Telecom Is Betting Big on 2 Tech Advances"
The telecommunications industry is evolving to better service
customers using Internet technologies. The convergence of the
wireless Internet and voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) means
people in the future will have much more services available than ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0113m.html#item2
"Spam? No Thanks, We're Full"
Increasing numbers of people going online is triggering
astronomical growth in unwanted commercial email, to the point
that spam will overwhelm regular email sent to corporate
addresses by July, according to a MessageLabs report. Jupiter ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0113m.html#item3
"Mega-Data Stored in Mini-Spaces"
IBM is developing new technology that allows smaller devices to
store much more data. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, a
collaborative Hitachi-IBM venture, plans to debut a new version
of the Microdrive that can store more than 4 GB on quarter-sized ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0113m.html#item4
"Digital Experts Swap Talk"
Notable speakers at last week's Consumer Electronics tradeshow
said the debate over digital content ownership and limitations on
its download and distribution over the Internet is unlikely to be
settled in 2003. StreamCast Networks CEO Steve Griffin, whose ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0113m.html#item5
"Can the URL Be Improved?"
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information
Standards (OASIS) has formed a committee to create a means for
data and Web services to be located online without a URL. The
OASIS XRI Technical Committee plans to develop an OASIS ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0113m.html#item6
"Report: Internet Security Threats Will Get Worse"
Internet security problems will worsen in the new year, with the
biggest threats coming from new mass-mailing worms and rising
hactivism, according to a recent study by Internet Security
Systems (ISS). More incidents targeting consumer broadband and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0113m.html#item7
"Dollars, Sense and the Cyber Security Act"
The Cyber Security Research and Development Act (CSRDA) approved
by both Congress and President Bush last year earmarks almost $1
billion for research and education, but Eugene Spafford of
Purdue University's Center for Education and Research in ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0113m.html#item8
"Expert: Alleged Wi-Fi Risks Are Nonsense"
Cory Doctorow, Electronic Frontier Foundation outreach
coordinator and co-author of the popular blog Boing Boing, says
fears surrounding open Wi-Fi connections are largely unfounded.
Many people associate open Wi-Fi connections with spammers, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0113m.html#item9
"Redefining the PC"
Former Xerox Palo Alto Research Center researcher Gary
Starkweather, now at Microsoft, is convinced that an information
display revolution is on the horizon, and he wants to help usher
in that revolution with a computer featuring an enlarged and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0113m.html#item10
"Handhelds Go Multimedia"
Mobile computing and cell phone functions are already merging,
with each device-type taking on some of the features previously
reserved for the other. Such cross-functional devices include
the Treo, any Pocket PC-operated phone, the Nokia 3650, or ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0113m.html#item11
"'Malaysian' Virus-Writer Vows Global Outbreak if US Attacks
Iraq"
Virus writer Vladimor Chamlkovic has threatened to unleash a
"megavirus" if the United States attacks Iraq. Experts, however,
say they consider him a low threat due to his weak track record
in creating viruses. Experts are also skeptical of his Malaysian ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0113m.html#item12
"Browsers Go Back to the Future"
Researchers at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand have
altered the functionality of the Internet back button, which
accounts for 40 percent of all online clicks. The current back
button logs only index pages, while the new version records every ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0113m.html#item13
"White House Tech Officials Race to Build Security System"
Technology planners in the Bush administration are working fast
to integrate systems for the new Department of Homeland Security.
White House Office of Homeland Security director of information
infrastructure Lee Holcomb said IT administrators had to navigate ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0113m.html#item14
"'Gadget Printer' Promises Industrial Revolution"
Industrial assembly lines could become a thing of the past thanks
to ink-jet printing technology that prints completely assembled
electric and electronic equipment. Such technology is the goal
of a research project at the University of California in ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0113m.html#item15
"Grid-dy Determination"
Grid computing systems are computers or clusters of computers
linked via job scheduling or management software in order to
enable the sharing, selection, and aggregation of computing
resources. The advantages of the grid computing model include ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0113m.html#item16
"A Tech Rebirth?"
Skyrocketing data consumption is boosting demand for storage
technologies from both consumers and businesses, and the falling
costs of those technologies will drive up demand even further. A
survey of 700 analysts by International Data (IDC) finds that IT ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0113m.html#item17
"Immobots Take Control"
Immobile robots, or "immobots," use model-based reasoning to
obtain a clear picture of their internal operations and the
interaction of their myriad components so that they can
reconfigure themselves for optimal performance and avoidance of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0113m.html#item18
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