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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 446
Date: January 15, 2003
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Top Stories for Wednesday, January 15, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Entertainment, Tech Firms Reach Truce on Digital Piracy"
"More Computer Viruses Expected in 2003--Expert"
"Business Apps Get Bad Marks in Usability"
"W3C Embraces Scalable Vector Graphics Specs"
"Hearings Sought on Data Agency"
"Games of Infinite Possibilities"
"Can Wi-Fi and Lasers Bridge the Last-Mile Gap?"
"Open Source Group Issues Top Ten Web Vulnerabilities"
"Phone Units Join in Effort for Seamless Wireless Net"
"Report: Internet Security Threats Will Get Worse"
"Security Experts to Teach Teens 'Ethical Hacking'"
"Study Shows Linux on the Rise in Data Centers"
"Time to Rethink Digital Copyright Act"
"Internet Browser That Quadruples Surf Speed Wins Irish Science Prize"
"Pervasive Computing Gets Organized"
"Process Power"
"The Nanodrive Project"
"A Grip on the Future"
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"Entertainment, Tech Firms Reach Truce on Digital Piracy"
The Recording Industry Association of America, the Business
Software Alliance, and the Computer Systems Policy Project are
hoping to seal the rift between the entertainment and technology
industries over the issue of digital piracy by announcing their ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0115w.html#item1
"More Computer Viruses Expected in 2003--Expert"
A monthly average of 600 to 700 new computer viruses will emerge
this year, according to anti-virus solutions provider Sophos,
continuing a pace established over the past two years, but
decreasing from the 800 to 900 viruses per month that were born ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0115w.html#item2
"Business Apps Get Bad Marks in Usability"
Difficult to use business applications impede many software
projects and cost companies millions of dollars, according to
Forrester Research. Forrester says many enterprise resource
planning (ERP) applications are too difficult for ordinary users, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0115w.html#item3
"W3C Embraces Scalable Vector Graphics Specs"
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is ready to consider Scalable
Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 and SVG Mobile as standards that would
help mobile devices display rich graphics better. An influx of
new cell phones and handhelds sometimes have trouble displaying ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0115w.html#item4
"Hearings Sought on Data Agency"
Congressional members are requesting more information about the
massive data mining project planned by the Defense Department.
Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) plans to introduce a bill that
would halt work until Congress has finished a review of the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0115w.html#item5
"Games of Infinite Possibilities"
North Carolina State University assistant professor of computer
science R. Michael Young is researching artificial intelligence
that allows evolving storylines in computer games. Young says
that instead of following programmers' expectations of how a game ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0115w.html#item6
"Can Wi-Fi and Lasers Bridge the Last-Mile Gap?"
Telecommunications and wireless access firms are looking at free
space optics (FSO) as a way to link homes and offices to
high-speed network thoroughfares. FSO uses light pulses to
transmit data at speeds up to 100 Mbps, and requires laser ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0115w.html#item7
"Open Source Group Issues Top Ten Web Vulnerabilities"
The Open Web Application Security project (OWASP) released a list
of the 10 most pressing Web application security problems for
government and commercial organizations yesterday. Among them
are information from Web requests that goes unauthenticated; ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0115w.html#item8
"Phone Units Join in Effort for Seamless Wireless Net"
Motorola, Proxim, and Avaya today are expected to announce a
collaborative effort to develop technology that enables wireless
communications to seamlessly transfer between networks. Analysts
say the project is the boldest attempt yet to exploit the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0115w.html#item9
"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/2003-5/0115w.html#item10
"Security Experts to Teach Teens 'Ethical Hacking'"
Computer security expert Andy Robinson is launching a program for
high school students in Maine that aims to teach them both
computer security skills and relevant ethics. As a student
himself, Robinson received direction from the study of computers, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0115w.html#item11
"Study Shows Linux on the Rise in Data Centers"
The open-source Linux operating system will have an increasing
presence in corporate data centers, according to a new report
from the Goldman Sachs Group. The report concludes that Linux's
popularity among corporate technology buyers will stem from the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0115w.html#item12
"Time to Rethink Digital Copyright Act"
Hiawatha Bray suggests that the new Congress should reconsider
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), especially in light
of the latest case to cite it. The DMCA, which was originally
instituted to prevent the piracy of copyrighted digital content ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0115w.html#item13
"Internet Browser That Quadruples Surf Speed Wins Irish Science Prize"
A web browser named "XWEBS" developed by 16-year-old student
Adnan Osmani in Mullingar, Ireland, has won a prestigious Irish
exhibition prize for young scientists for successfully increasing
Internet surfing speed up to 500 percent. Dublin University ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0115w.html#item14
"Pervasive Computing Gets Organized"
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is
working on pervasive computing protocols that would merge data
from many different sensors, allowing completely different modes
of interaction between computers and users. NIST computer ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0115w.html#item15
"Process Power"
Companies that wish to reduce their staff and maintain their
productivity need efficient business processes, which is where
business process management (BPM) software comes in. BPM's most
compelling feature is its versatility: For example, Shell U.S. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0115w.html#item16
"The Nanodrive Project"
IBM's Millipede project is an attempt to create a "nanodrive"
that will significantly boost data storage capacity beyond the
limits of conventional silicon. The device, which has progressed
to the prototype stage through trial and error, rapidly writes ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0115w.html#item17
"A Grip on the Future"
Immersion sells products that use haptic technology to impart
tactile sensations to users as they interact with
computer-generated environments. The primary driver of
Immersion's growth has been computer gaming equipment ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0115w.html#item18
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