The New Standard-Bearer
"What Tech Skills Are Hot for 2006?"
Contrary to the widespread fear that offshoring initiatives are bleeding the U.S. IT job market dry, 2006 is shaping up to be a banner year for technology hiring. Through 2005, only 5% of U.S. IT workers had lost their jobs to offshoring, while job postings on Dice.com for ...
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"Congress Ready to Tackle Tech Issues in 2006"
Congress will face a host of technology-related issues when it reconvenes next year, including privacy concerns, updating communications law for the broadband age, patent reform, and workplace training initiatives. While technology vendors are lobbying heavily for lawmakers to address a broad ...
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"The Thinkers: Data Privacy Drives CMU Expert's Work"
Carnegie Mellon's Data Privacy Lab, headed by Latanya Sweeney, an associate professor of computer science, has the dual focus of advancing the security of personal data and working with the government to conduct terrorist surveillance without compromising citizens' privacy. Sweeney has ...
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"Shop 'Til They Lock"
The rapidly increasing body of entertainment content available on the Web has the music, television, and movie industries scrambling to ensure that it will not be shared across peer-to-peer networks, prompting many consumer electronics companies to strip down the features of their products. ...
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"Errors Lead California Officials to Warn Voting-Machine Company"
The discovery of vote count and verification errors in November's special election prompted California election officials to threaten Election Systems and Software (ES&S) with decertification if the company does not repair its software. The affected machines, used in 11 California counties ...
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"New Breed of Cyberattack Takes Aim at Sensitive Data"
Tech-security experts are warning of a new type of cyber-attack that spies on the computers of employees with access to data such as credit-card numbers and bank account numbers. The attacks, perpetrated by Asian and Eastern European organized-crime groups, use malicious email attachments ...
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"GAO: Use Federal Funds to Encourage E-Recycling"
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should draft federal legislation to create a "consistent, nationwide financing system that addresses the barriers to recycling and reuse" of old computers, peripherals, and consumer electronic products, according to the Government Accountability ...
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"The Computer Geeks Who Saved Christmas"
The holiday season has become a time when households turn to the tech professional in the family to address all of their computer-related issues, from connecting a printer to figuring out why email is not working. Stan King, an engineer who works on mainframe computers, says he has already ...
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"Mining Biotech's Mother Lode"
The EU's BioGrid project has developed a host of tools to enable biotech companies to comb through mountains of scientific data in search of the few useful kernels that pertain to their project. Both pharmaceutical and biotech companies are plagued by massive amounts of raw data that must be ...
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"Computer Software That Writes Itself"
Some software experts see automatic programming tools as the solution to a development process that is stifled by unexpected technical problems, and takes so long that products are almost obsolete by the time they reach the commercial market. "If a programmer can sit down, specify what you want ...
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"Japan May Create Its Own Search Engine"
Japan is considering launching a search engine specifically for Web users in the country. Approximately 20 Japanese electronics companies and universities are participating in an initiative to study the matter. The government has set aside about $100 million to study the feasibility of ...
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"Real-Time Texting for Deaf People"
The Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) has developed new software that will enable deaf people to have real-time text conversations using a mobile phone. The application is designed to work with RNID's Typetalk facility, which already allows landline users to make calls. Any ...
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"FTC Says Computer Users Seeing Less Spam"
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission says computer users have less unsolicited email messages in their inboxes since the U.S. Congress passed the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act (CAN-SPAM) antispam law two years ago. The law has put more focus on the ...
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"The New Alexandria"
The Internet Archive, a 35-person non-profit organization led by Brewster Kahle, launched a new project that scans books under the rules of the Open Content Alliance started by Kahle himself. Microsoft and Yahoo! are funding the project, which features a large collection of books from the ...
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"The Rembrandt Code"
Dartmouth College computer science professor and mathematician Dan Rockmore is using a combination of high-resolution digital cameras and software to meticulously examine old paintings and evaluate their authenticity. His method involves digitizing the artwork, after which the software converts ...
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"The New Standard-Bearer"
Markets throughout the world are being shook up by China's government-driven initiatives to develop technology standards to break its dependence on foreign products and intellectual property, and give embryonic industries a leg up. The Chinese have made inroads into the ...
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