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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 507
Date: June 13, 2003
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Top Stories for Friday, June 13, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Virus Writers vs. Virus Fighters: Share Vulnerabilities or Not?"
"Internet Providers Say Users' Privacy Is Eroding Fast"
"New Rules Expected Today on Faster Wi-Fi Equipment"
"Senators Push FTC Spam Proposal"
"College Courses Foreshadow a Tech Comeback"
"Staying Up All Night on Java"
"Will 'Waste' Push File-Sharing Further Underground?"
"Reality Check: How Safe Is Linux?"
"Harnessing the Power of Wireless Devices"
"Breakthrough "Interface Tuning" Is Macro Step for Microelectronics"
"These Guys Just Look for a Point"
"Enough Already: Curbing Info Glut"
"Smart Bricks Could Monitor Buildings, Save Lives"
"Smart Cellphone Would Spend Your Money"
"IBM, Infineon Claim Memory Breakthrough"
"State of the Technology Union"
"Is Handheld Convergence on the Horizon?"
"Nanotechnology: The Next Revolution to Redefine Electronics"
"You Bought It. Who Controls It?"
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"Virus Writers vs. Virus Fighters: Share Vulnerabilities or Not?"
Critics of the computer security industry say more needs to be
done to train system administrators about how viruses work and
propagate. The University of Calgary, for instance, has opened a
virus-writing course to fourth-year students with the intent of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0613f.html#item1
"Internet Providers Say Users' Privacy Is Eroding Fast"
The right to online privacy has been worn down by a raft of
legislation and lawsuits, ostensibly to ensure security and
protect the livelihoods of copyright holders. A sore point among
ISPs and consumer advocates is the Digital Millennium Copyright ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0613f.html#item2
"New Rules Expected Today on Faster Wi-Fi Equipment"
The IEEE give final approval to the 802.11g Wi-Fi standard, which is
backwards compatible with and up to four times faster than the
previous 802.11b standard. Experts say the new protocol will
spur more investment in wireless technologies by both equipment ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0613f.html#item3
"Senators Push FTC Spam Proposal"
Lawmakers argued at a June 11 hearing of a Senate Commerce
subcommittee that more aggressive measures are needed to pursue
the most prolific purveyors of unsolicited commercial email, such
as an FTC-drafted proposal calling for a broadening of the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0613f.html#item4
"College Courses Foreshadow a Tech Comeback"
Colleges in the Washington, D.C.-Maryland area have started
offering courses, degrees, and projects that aim to produce
future members of the IT workforce, in anticipation of an
expected resurgence in demand for technical skills. George Mason ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0613f.html#item5
"Staying Up All Night on Java"
Some analysts claim that enthusiasm toward Sun Microsystems' Java
programming language approaches the status of a cult or religion.
Programmers appreciate Java's versatility: The language is
compatible with all operating systems and works across mobile ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0613f.html#item6
"Will 'Waste' Push File-Sharing Further Underground?"
Nullsoft programmer Justin Frankel's Waste program is already
courting controversy: Mere hours after Frankel published the
program on the Nullsoft Web site, parent company America Online
removed it and posted a bulletin warning people that downloading ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0613f.html#item7
"Reality Check: How Safe Is Linux?"
The debate over how secure the Linux open-source operating system
is compared to closed operating systems such as Windows still
remains unresolved. K.S. Shankar of IBM's Linux Technology
Center says a case can be made that Linux boasts more security ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0613f.html#item8
"Harnessing the Power of Wireless Devices"
Mesh networking is an emerging technology that turns each
wireless Internet-connected device within a limited area into a
small router for other devices nearby. The military developed
mesh networking in the 1990s as a way to extend the abilities of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0613f.html#item9
"Breakthrough "Interface Tuning" Is Macro Step for Microelectronics"
A team of physicists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the
University of Tennessee, and North Carolina State University
report a breakthrough in the June 13 edition of Science that
could boost the productivity and efficiency of semiconductors and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0613f.html#item10
"These Guys Just Look for a Point"
Armed with Global Positioning System (GPS) devices, some 3,000
high-tech "explorers" worldwide are documenting the exact
confluences of latitude and longitude with pictures and stories and
then publishing the information on the Web. The Degree Confluence ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0613f.html#item11
"Enough Already: Curbing Info Glut"
So that military and emergency personnel will be able to make
critical decisions faster and respond to threats with greater
efficacy, researchers from Texas A&M University, Penn State's
School of Information Sciences, and Wright State University have ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0613f.html#item12
"Smart Bricks Could Monitor Buildings, Save Lives"
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
have developed a prototype "smart brick" that can monitor
vibrations, temperature, and movements throughout a building and
transmit those readings wirelessly. Electrical and computer ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0613f.html#item13
"Smart Cellphone Would Spend Your Money"
Researchers at the University of Southampton in the United
Kingdom are developing software agent programs that will allow
cell phones to determine certain routines and habits of users and
make purchases for them. Funded by consumer electronic companies ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0613f.html#item14
"IBM, Infineon Claim Memory Breakthrough"
IBM and Infineon Technologies claim to have built the smallest,
most sophisticated magnetic random access memory (MRAM) chip to
date, one that integrates the non-volatility of flash memory, the
high speed of static RAM, and the storage space and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0613f.html#item15
"State of the Technology Union"
Cisco's Mario Mazzola notes that his company followed a clear
research and development route in the past, and today is focusing
on innovations that support easier application integration,
multiple types of traffic and media, and technological evolution ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0613f.html#item16
"Is Handheld Convergence on the Horizon?"
Three classes of handhelds--smart phones, personal digital
assistants (PDAs), and BlackBerries--offer many advantages, but
have yet to meet the elusive goal of successfully integrating
wireless computing and communications. The handheld with ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0613f.html#item17
"Nanotechnology: The Next Revolution to Redefine Electronics"
The field of nanotechnology is burgeoning: Large and small
companies are pursuing nanotech research, as is nearly every
university in the world; and the U.S. Defense Department is
investigating the science's military applications, such as robust ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0613f.html#item18
"You Bought It. Who Controls It?"
Edward Tenner, author of "Why Things Bite Back: Technology and
the Revenge of Unintended Consequences," writes that
manufacturers of computer hardware and software are eroding the
promise of user-centric computer control by building devices with ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0613f.html#item19
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