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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 468
Date: March 12, 2003

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Top Stories for Wednesday, March 12, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html

"Lofgren Bill Backs Digital Copying for Personal Use"
"Appeal of Instant Messaging Extends Into the Workplace"
"Lawmaker Recycles E-Waste Bill"
"Five Reasons to Hope"
"Canada Wrestles With E-Waste Fix"
"Wireless Takes Center Stage at IT Industry's Leading Extravaganza"
"How Politics Will Reshape IT"
"A Patch for IT Security Strategy"
"Chips Losing Some Antipiracy Support"
"Indian Programmers Still Dream of Jobs in the U.S."
"Argentina Makes Its Software Play"
"Australian Top Pick for Global Internet Body"
"Nanocomputing: Simple Optoelectronic Devices Based on
 Electroluminescent Silver Nanoclusters Perform Logic Operations"
"Nano-Diamonds Sparkle One Photon at a Time"
"Tech's Love-Hate Relationship with the DMCA"
"Untapped Networks"
"Untethering the Enterprise"
"A Slow Death for Viruses"
"Great X-pectations"

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"Lofgren Bill Backs Digital Copying for Personal Use"
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) on Monday reintroduced the Balance
Act, a bill that would allow consumers to make digital copies of
books, music, and movies for personal use.  The Electronic
Frontier Foundation says legislation such as Lofgren's is needed ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0312w.html#item1

"Appeal of Instant Messaging Extends Into the Workplace"
Forrester Research proclaims that instant messaging is surging
even faster than email did when it was first introduced, and is
starting to gain on both email and the cell phone as a favorite
workplace communications medium.  The abundance of freely ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0312w.html#item2

"Lawmaker Recycles E-Waste Bill"
Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) on March 6 introduced a bill
calling for a national e-waste recycling infrastructure.  The EPA
estimates that 2 million tons of electronic products are
discarded each year in the United States, while California's ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0312w.html#item3

"Five Reasons to Hope"
New technologies promise a brighter future for Silicon Valley,
where experts say a convergence of innovation will lead to a
revolution similar to the advent of the PC or commercial
Internet.  Already, 750 Silicon Valley life sciences firms and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0312w.html#item4

"Canada Wrestles With E-Waste Fix"
E-waste recycling laws are nonexistent in Canada, but the
nonprofit Electronics Product Stewardship (EPS) Canada
initiative, which has the support of 16 multinational computer
and electronics companies, plans to remedy the situation by ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0312w.html#item5

"Wireless Takes Center Stage at IT Industry's Leading Extravaganza"
Wireless technology will be the highlight of the annual CeBIT
trade show in Germany for the third consecutive year.  Spurring
the broader focus in wireless is growing interest in WLANs and
mobile devices throughout the corporate sector, as well as the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0312w.html#item6

"How Politics Will Reshape IT"
The maturation of the IT industry and the growing effect it has
on other areas of society and economy mean the government will
play a more active role in the future.  Legislation and political
discussion between countries will focus on five fronts:  Industry ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0312w.html#item7

"A Patch for IT Security Strategy"
Dr. Peter Tippett of TruSecure praises the original draft of the
White House's National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace for
providing a solid foundation for government, businesses, and
individuals to make a proactive effort to shore up the country's ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0312w.html#item8

"Chips Losing Some Antipiracy Support"
Chipmakers' plans to build anti-piracy controls into hardware,
known as "hard coding," have been laid aside due to confusion in
the marketplace and the public policy arena.  Instead, consumer
electronics companies are going with a second-best alternative in ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0312w.html#item9

"Indian Programmers Still Dream of Jobs in the U.S."
Many Indian software programmers are waiting for the global
economy to bounce back so they can pursue their dreams of working
in the United States.  India churns out 350,000 engineering
graduates yearly, many of whom want to go the United States for ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0312w.html#item10

"Argentina Makes Its Software Play"
Cheaper labor, a reputation for creativity, and a domestic
recession are positioning Argentina to become a major software
development provider to outside markets.  The Chamber of Software
and Computing Services Companies (CESSI) estimates that sales of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0312w.html#item11

"Australian Top Pick for Global Internet Body"
Former Australian government official Paul Twomey is the top
candidate to succeed Stuart Lynn as ICANN's president, say
anonymous insiders; the ICANN board has reportedly given its
search committee approval to negotiate a contract with Twomey.   ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0312w.html#item12

"Nanocomputing: Simple Optoelectronic Devices Based on
 Electroluminescent Silver Nanoclusters Perform Logic Operations"
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have demonstrated
quantum devices based on batches of  individual
electroluminescent silver nanoclusters that can perform
sophisticated logic operations and could provide the building ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0312w.html#item13

"Nano-Diamonds Sparkle One Photon at a Time"
French scientists led by physicist Philippe Grangier of the
Laboratoire Charles Fabry de L'Institut d'Optique are using
nanoscale diamond crystals as a single-photon source, a
breakthrough that could help bring quantum computing and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0312w.html#item14

"Tech's Love-Hate Relationship with the DMCA"
Intel and Hewlett-Packard appear to be both friends and foes of
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which prohibits the
copying of copyrighted digital content, ostensibly to curtail
piracy.  Both companies are members of the Business Software ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0312w.html#item15

"Untapped Networks"
Businesses and computer engineers should learn from the complex,
adaptive human networks everyone takes for granted, argues
Columbia University sociologist Duncan Watts.  Watts is working
on analytical frameworks for such human networks that can be ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0312w.html#item16

"Untethering the Enterprise"
Wireless communication that allows professionals to access
information on the go is key to the untethered enterprise, and
the proliferation of such an environment is moving forward thanks
to the steady deployment of WLAN technology.  The Yankee Group's ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0312w.html#item17

"A Slow Death for Viruses"
Matt Williamson of Hewlett-Packard's Biologically Inspired
Complex Adaptive Systems group is one of several researchers
developing a virus throttling software filter that limits the
propagation of computer viruses in much the same way that the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0312w.html#item18

"Great X-pectations"
Forrester Research principal analyst Carl Howe has criticized the
Internet for its relatively slow user interactions, and cited the
X-Internet concept as gaining speed in a report he furnished a
year ago.  The X-Internet, which Howe claims can "eliminate the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0312w.html#item19


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