Instant Messaging: Time for IT to Pay Attention
Pentagon Calls Off Voting by Internet
The Pentagon has scrapped plans to allow U.S. servicemen and citizens stationed abroad to vote over the Internet for the upcoming presidential election, following a report from computer-security experts concluding that the system is too susceptible to tampering. After the report, the overseas ...
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Pondering 'Seamless' Feel of the Web
The U.S. Patent Office has agreed to review a University of California patent on Web browser technology, with regard to whether the technology patent should be enforced. The agency made its decision after the consortium that oversees the technical protocols of the Web, the World Wide ...
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Geeks Put the Unsavvy on Alert: Learn or Log Off
With viruses such as MyDoom spreading, technophiles are chastising users they view as wanting the benefits of digital technology while shirking from the responsibilities that come with using it. World Wide Web Artists Consortium President Scott Bowling writes, "It takes affirmative action on ...
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A Human Touch?
Robots are expected to become more human in appearance and behavior in the next 10 years or so, and move out of the laboratory and into consumer households once a "killer app" has been found. Commercially available robots are primarily confined to the industrial sector, but sales of ...
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Guest-Worker Visas Come Under Fire
Witnesses testified at a Feb. 4 hearing of the House Committee on International Relations that guest-worker visa programs are riddled with fraud and abuse, and Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) called for reforms. The L-1 and H-1B visas have come under fire in the wake of massive layoffs in the ...
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Catch Us If You Can
Niklas Jennstrom and Janus Friis, who created the controversial and popular Kazaa file-sharing program, are trying to build a business that will make them rich while protecting them from legal action, which Kazaa failed to do. That business is Skype, a startup that uses some of Kazaa's technology ...
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'We're Making Rapid Progress'
Amit Yoran, chief of the Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Division, is confident that the new National Cyber Alert System, along with other programs, will significantly reduce threats to cyberspace by improving user preparedness to such threats. In fact, he insists that ...
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>From R2D2 to Spirit and Beyond: What's in Store for Intelligent Robots?
The romantic or dark visions of robots popularized in science fiction and movies is a far cry from the actual state of robotics and its future prospects. Vijay Kumar, director of Penn Engineering's General Robotics, Automation, Sensing, and Perception Lab, acknowledges that certain jobs ...
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Protecting the Cellphone User's Right to Hide
Marketers are expecting a windfall through ads, coupons, and other come-ons sent wirelessly to cell phones by leveraging technology that tracks a caller's location, and at the moment there is little cell phone users can do to stop this, apart from turning off their location-tracking features. ...
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RFID: The Promise (and Danger) of Smart Barcodes
Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, such as those discussed at Harvard Business School's recent Cyberposium 2004, promise to revolutionize inventory and supply-chain management as well as make shopping more convenient, but they also raise concerns about privacy infringement. The ...
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Japan's Tech Comeback
Though Japan's consumer-electronics market lead has been eroded by upstart Asian players such as Samsung, LG, and Acer in recent years, strong digital appliance sales indicate a rebound for Japanese firms such as Sony, Sharp, Sanyo, and Matsushita. The Japan Electronics & Information Technology ...
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>From Art to Science
Mills College, a small women's only school in Oakland, Calif., offers a two-year graduate program in interdisciplinary computer science designed to provide a computer science background to students' studies as well as offer new skills to broaden their career opportunities. The program is run by ...
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Research Networks Plan Extensible Peering
U.S. universities and research laboratories on the West Coast plan to set up an extensible peering system using Ethernet technology. With points of presence (POPs) in Seattle and Los Angeles, the "Pacific Wave" project will allow facilities in between to easily hook up to larger international ...
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101 Ways to Save the Internet
The problems plaguing the Internet--viruses, spammers, identity theft, hacking--spring from its most attractive features such as its openness, the free flow of data, and peer-to-peer (P2P) cooperation. Eliminating these elements would seriously devalue the Net, but there are ...
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Eyes and Ears Everywhere
Many companies are turning to wireless technology to link up embedded device networks in an effort to save money and expand their mobility, though this connectivity carries certain compromises. Sustaining battery life for long periods requires reductions in transmission frequency and ...
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Toxic Legacy
The squeeze is on manufacturers to recycle IT products more responsibly as public awareness of e-waste's hazards spreads and various recycling regulations mount. In early 2003, the European Union passed several e-waste directives: One requires IT product vendors to phase out certain ...
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A Fountain of Knowledge
IBM's WebFountain analysis engine is designed to draw upon public and proprietary resources, 160 TB of disk space, and a massive conglomeration of hardware and software to make sense of the chaotic Internet. With such a tool, companies can make more intelligent business decisions and more ...
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Instant Messaging: Time for IT to Pay Attention
IT departments are now taking instant messaging (IM) as seriously as email because of its benefits as a collaboration tool, and Nemertes Research analysts expect most enterprises to be pervasively employing IM by mid to late 2004. Typical IM enterprise adoption begins with workers using free ...
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