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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 448
Date: January 22, 2003
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Top Stories for Wednesday, January 22, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Recording Firms Win Copyright Ruling"
"As Linux Nips At Microsoft, Its Advocates Talk Numbers"
"Profiling the Hackers"
"Uh-Oh: Spam's Getting More Sophisticated"
"In Software Industry, a Passage to India"
"IBM Aims to Get Smart About AI"
"Scientists Giddy About the Grid"
"Job-Rich Silicon Valley Has Turned Fallow, Survey Finds"
"High-Tech Voting Raises Questions"
"Digital Defenses"
"Where the Girls Aren't"
"After the Copyright Smackdown: What Next?"
"X11: Apple's Secret Formula"
"Cell Phone, PDA Makers Work to Find Ideal Mix of Features"
"Multimedia Programming Comes in New FLAVOR"
"Reaching for the W-Band"
"Security's Next Steps"
"Hardware Hangover"
"How You'll Pay"
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"Recording Firms Win Copyright Ruling"
In a triumph for music labels, U.S. District Judge John D. Bates
upheld the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) yesterday
when he ruled that Verizon Communications had to disclose the
name of a customer who had downloaded a large volume of songs ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0122w.html#item1
"As Linux Nips At Microsoft, Its Advocates Talk Numbers"
The lineup of speakers at this year's Linux World conference in
New York shows how the business community has embraced the
open-source operating system, spawned by programmers devoted to a
share-and-share-alike ideology. In previous years, open-source ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0122w.html#item2
"Profiling the Hackers"
State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo researchers are
working on a system that can profile network users in real time
and catch cybercriminals in the act. These profiles are built by
tracking each command a user executes at each computer terminal; ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0122w.html#item3
"Uh-Oh: Spam's Getting More Sophisticated"
Spammers are employing increasingly complex methods to sneak
commercial email solicitations past anti-spam measures, and
POPFile author John Graham-Cumming detailed several such
strategies at an MIT conference today. Some of the simpler ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0122w.html#item4
"In Software Industry, a Passage to India"
Software programming is set to follow the pattern of the textile
industry in the United States as the low-end, hands-on work of
coding gets done overseas. But, just as with apparel
manufacturers today, design, marketing, and retailing operations ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0122w.html#item5
"IBM Aims to Get Smart About AI"
The demand for machines with a relative sense of autonomy is
growing thanks to the proliferation of the Internet, the
increasing numbers of computers people are using, and the
burgeoning types of data the Net supports. To help meet this ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0122w.html#item6
"Scientists Giddy About the Grid"
Scientists wanting to connect supercomputers together for
collaborative research have been stymied by a lack of feasibility
thanks to incompatible standards, but grid computing offers them
new hope. "The assumption is that people will buy into this and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0122w.html#item7
"Job-Rich Silicon Valley Has Turned Fallow, Survey Finds"
Jobs in Silicon Valley fell 9 percent between the first quarter
of 2001 and the second quarter of 2002, estimates a report that
Joint Venture Silicon Valley will publish on Monday; the 127,000
jobs lost in this period accounted for more than 50 percent of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0122w.html#item8
"High-Tech Voting Raises Questions"
North America's transition to computer-based voting systems has
raised a number of issues, including concerns about machine
failure, flawed software, and code tampering. Rebecca Mercuri of
Bryn Mawr College notes that the election officials who bought ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0122w.html#item9
"Digital Defenses"
For a business' electronic defenses to continue to offer maximum
network protection, adaptation is key. The challenge lies in
keeping sensitive company information secure while still
maintaining network openness in order to sustain commerce and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0122w.html#item10
"Where the Girls Aren't"
Opinions are divided as to why computer programming is unpopular
among girls: One camp subscribes to the theory that girls are
socially conditioned to avoid computer science, while another
reasons that they are naturally disinclined toward the field. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0122w.html#item11
"After the Copyright Smackdown: What Next?"
Siva Vaidhyanathan of New York University writes that the Supreme
Court's recent decision to extend the term of copyright by 20
years may be disheartening for advocates of copyright reform, but
notes that their movement is gaining momentum, thanks to greater ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0122w.html#item12
"X11: Apple's Secret Formula"
Apple Computer this month released a beta version of the Unix
windowing environment X11, which allows Unix applications to run
concurrently with those on the Mac OS X, and provides a more
friendly Unix developing environment. Analysts say the Apple X11 ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0122w.html#item13
"Cell Phone, PDA Makers Work to Find Ideal Mix of Features"
The global market for converged devices--devices that combine
cell phone and handheld computer functionality--will boom from 4
million units sold in 2002 to around 59 million units in 2006,
predicts International Data (IDC). However, equipment ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0122w.html#item14
"Multimedia Programming Comes in New FLAVOR"
Formal language for audiovisual object representation (FLAVOR) is
an open-source extension of C++ and Java that can be used to
formally describe coded multimedia bitstreams, which are used to
format data such as JPEG, GIF, and MPEG. "Most of the multimedia ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0122w.html#item15
"Reaching for the W-Band"
The FCC is considering licensing the upper-millimeter wave band,
or W-band, to enterprises as well as carriers. Industry
advocates claim that this would boost bandwidth capabilities
while lowering its cost, while others characterize the technology ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0122w.html#item16
"Security's Next Steps"
New security tools are being developed to face new kinds of
electronic threats. Security experts such as Raleigh Burns of
Northern Kentucky's St. Elizabeth Medical Center expect future
security products to have simpler features and smoother ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0122w.html#item17
"Hardware Hangover"
With spending on corporate hardware falling off as a result of
the economic recession and the maturation of the IT market, tech
companies are focusing on software and services that help
enterprises unify and boost the efficiency of existing systems. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0122w.html#item18
"How You'll Pay"
Manufacturers are in a race to develop high-tech payment systems
that offer superior security, versatility, and convenience.
Smart cards, which come equipped with both microprocessors and
memory chips, have become commonplace in Europe, but their ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0122w.html#item19
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