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FTC Rejects Creation of No-Spam Registry
FTC Chairman Timothy Muris announced yesterday that the agency would not develop a do-not-spam list similar to the highly popular do-not-call list; Muris said the list would be ineffective because spammers would simply choose to ignore it. Worse still, he said such a registry ...
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League of Women Voters Rescinds Its Support of Touchscreen Voting Systems
The League of Women Voters on Monday reversed its position on paperless electronic voting systems after hundreds of members argued that paper ballots were needed to safeguard the accuracy of elections. The league overwhelmingly passed a new resolution on Monday that supports "voting ...
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Conference Kicks Off Synthetic Bio Revolution
Approximately 300 biologists, artificial intelligence specialists, chemical engineers, circuit designers, and biotech industry researchers gathered at the MIT campus for the Synthetic Biology 1.0 conference, where topics of discussion included schematic capture, simulation, and tape out. MIT grad ...
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Initiative Launched to Tackle Future of Communications
The Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) is launching an unprecedented effort to create new opportunities in the communications market, bringing together three universities, major industry partners, and government policymakers. MIT Media Lab senior researcher Andy Lippman says the goal will be to ...
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Bedevilled by Bugs on the Road
Car manufacturers are experiencing pains as they adapt to in-vehicle electronics, as demonstrated by the malfunctions such systems frequently suffer from. "The electronics in the car bring six or seven times more faults than normal mechanical parts," observes Valeo Chairman Thierry ...
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He Pushed the Hot Button of Touch-Screen Voting
California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley calls the protection of vote integrity "my principal charge," and to that end he has mandated that no California county can purchase a touch-screen voting machine without a voter-verifiable paper record by July 1, 2005, while all touch-screen ...
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Tech Officials Gear Up for Next Internet
Major U.S. technology vendors are working hard on making their products compatible with the next-generation Internet standard, Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). With the announcement from the Defense Department that all new technology purchases will have to be IPv6-enabled, hardware and ...
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Is the Future of E-Mail Under Cyberattack?
Experts fear that email's utility is gravely threatened by a growing prevalence of malware, spam, and various online scams, and individuals and companies are considering or implementing alternate measures and restrictions to mitigate the problem. Many consumers have gotten into the ...
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Computing Needs a Grand Challenge
Microsoft Research senior scientist Sir Tony Hoare argued before dozens of journalists and analysts on June 8 that the computer industry needs a "grand challenge" akin to the race to the moon or the human genome project to reach the next major turning point in its evolution. He listed seven ...
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Vendors, Users Launch Linux InfiniBand Effort
June 15 marks the official launch of the OpenIB Alliance, a coalition of high-performance computer users and technology vendors united in their goal of making the InfiniBand input/output architecture more usable with Linux. Members of the group said that they will collaborate on a standard platform ...
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Software Problem Imperils Voting Recounts
Florida officials have learned that iVotronics touchscreen voting machines currently used in 11 counties suffer from flaws that could make manual recounts in close races impossible, a development that has voter proponents up in arms despite assurances from the machines' manufacturer and the state ...
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Copyright Reform Needs a Balanced Approach
Columnist Michael Geist contends that the Canadian government needs to consider new approaches in applying copyright law to the Internet: The current process is proceeding too quickly and without balanced input, and should instead adopt procedures that follow the dictate of the Canadian ...
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Apple Makes Its Case for Security
Apple responded to complaints relating to its lack of communication with users about the nature of several recent security updates to Mac OS X by holding press conferences in which executives admitted that its disclosure protocols were in need of refinement--and that steps were being taken to ...
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Mapping the New Internet
A number of new Internet services are ready for adoption, but are held back by the conservative attitude of many users, according to an IAPP Truste Symposium keynote address from John Patrick, former IBM Internet technology vice president and now president of the Attitude consulting firm. With the ...
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Homeland Security Has No Plans to Update Cybersecurity Strategy
Although there are flaws that need attention, now is not the time to review the federal cybersecurity strategy, says Homeland Security Department (HSD) cybersecurity director Amit Yoran. Yoran says new issues have come up since the strategy was issued by the White House early last year, such as a ...
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The Road Tolls for Thee
Sophisticated new toll systems are spreading throughout the world and extending tolling beyond highways, tunnels, and bridges to include national road networks or city centers, and Hyder Consulting's Jack Opiola attributes the expansion of road tolling to two trends: Decreasing ...
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The 411 on VoIP
Maturing standards and wide industry support for voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is generating corporate interest in the technology, whose promised benefits include significant cost savings and the enablement of true converged voice and data applications. However, many enterprises have ...
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Embedded BI: Intelligence At Your Service
Embedding intelligent, autonomous agents in business processes will allow organizations to adapt their business intelligence (BI) capability to a growing reliance on globally distributed service networks. Whereas integrated BI involves the connection of information to specific business ...
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The World's Hottest Computer Lab
Microsoft Research Asia's lab in Beijing, China, was set up in 1998 to tap the country's rich vein of students and scientists in order to perform cutting-edge infotech research and development that could be funneled back into products to ensure the parent company's future as well as expand ...
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