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Cyberexperts and Engineers Wanted by FBI
The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have forced the Federal Bureau of Investigations to get more serious about its computer skills by increasing its IT hiring efforts and waiving some requirements to lure more IT professionals. The FBI created the Cyber Division two years ago as agency ...
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Dodgy Patents Rile Tech Industry
The software industry has helped dramatically increase the number of patent applications at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), which recently awarded a number of controversial patents that could stifle innovation and ruin thousands of small companies. Among the more egregious ...
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Sharing Spectrum the Smarter Way
Researchers are working on radical new radio designs that would allow wireless devices to share broad swaths of spectrum with licensed users such as TV broadcasters. Cognitive radio has emerged as the optimal solution, not only adjusting itself to new environments as software-defined radio ...
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Workers Asked to Train Foreign Replacements
The effect of globalization on the U.S. IT sector is felt most acutely when workers are asked to train their foreign replacements, a practice that is fairly widespread, according to new survey results from the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers (WashTech). That survey reports that one in ...
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Budgets, Mandates Slow Adoption of E-Voting
Supporters of electronic voting say security concerns have not stopped state and local governments from embracing e-voting systems. They maintain that most state and local government officials have been more concerned about the cost of the technology and whether they will be able to meet ...
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Helping Business Tool Up for Software Engineering
Component-based software engineering (CBSE) is made easier, faster, and cheaper with the help of a new software toolbox called ECO-ADM, one of the European Commission's Information Society Technologies projects. The ECO-ADM project was coordinated by Centro de Calculo de Sabadell in Spain ...
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Electronics Makers, Holders of Copyright Fight Over 'Fair Use'
Consumer electronics makers and consumer advocates say fair use rights are being eroded as new digital technologies emerge, such as HDTV. The movie industry and other content owners are allied with Microsoft in enforcing more strict copyright protection than was in place in the pre-digital ...
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Net Plan Builds in Search
Chinese university researchers have developed an Internet search framework that could one day lead to customized Internet search interfaces that are more effective than general search engines. Huazhong University of Science and Technology researchers say their Domain Resource Integrated System ...
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Supercomputing's Latest Challenge: Keeping Cool
Participants of the National High Performance Computing and Communications Conference in Newport, R.I., discussed the need to find new ways to keep supercomputers cool. Silicon Graphics chief technology officer Eng Lim Goh says while processing power continues to soar, data centers are being ...
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Robo-Cars Make Cruise Control So Last Century
Automakers are increasingly adding electronics to cars in order to increase their safety as more traditional measures yield diminishing returns. New technologies allow cars to sense their surroundings and avoid collisions with other cars, adjust vehicle settings for increased safety, or even park ...
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The Myth of the Secure Operating System
No operating system or software program is inherently more secure than another, says Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio, who says all programs connected to the Internet are at risk. Nevertheless, recent bulletins by U.K.-based security consultancy mi2g Intelligence Unit suggest that there has ...
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The Pervasive Computing Community
In the future, people will interact with hundreds of tiny computers embedded in their environment in natural and convenient ways, say researchers from the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI), a strategic alliance between Cambridge University in the United Kingdom and the Massachusetts ...
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World Resists One-Size-Fits-All Web Laws
A new global survey of 277 companies indicates that the issue of Internet jurisdiction is considered a greater risk by businesses in North America than it is in Europe and Asia, writes Internet legal expert Michael Geist. Businesses based out of Canada and the U.S. are increasingly ...
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WPFC Releases Position Paper on Internet Governance
On March 10, 2004, the World Press Freedom Committee (WPFC) released a position paper on Internet governance in preparation for the second World Summit on the Information Society, which will be held in Tunis, Tunisia, in November 2005. Some countries have proposed that the United Nations (UN) ...
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Frontline Defenders
Symantec manages the frontline computer defenses for 600 companies at its Security Operations Center (SOC) in Alexandria, Va.; dozens of analysts and security engineers rotate shifts, monitoring and investigating disturbances in global Internet activity, and sending customers alerts within 15 minutes ...
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IBM, Dutch Scientists to Explore First Moments of Universe
IBM and Dutch astronomy organization ASTRON say they will use IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer technology in developing a new kind of radio telescope used to examine the beginnings of stars and galaxies not long after the formation of the universe. The Blue Gene/L system, expected to be one of ...
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My Avatar, My Self
Simulated worlds such as There and Linden Lab's Second Life are environments where people can socialize through digital avatars, but accommodating increasing numbers of users in these ever-expanding simulations is a constant challenge. There, which was put together by a ...
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