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RAIN 02/17 Weekly Update: Technology (30)






Federal Computer Week 2/1/02
OPM tech speeds background checks
BY Graeme Browning
With the number of background checks it must conduct on potential federal employees
jumping by 50 percent to 60 percent this year, the Office of Personnel Management is
turning to information technology to get the job done quickly and accurately, officials
said.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0211/web-opm-02-11-02.asp




Clinton Recorder 2/12/02
Town gets one historic document preservation grant and applies for another
By:Shannon OCork, Recorder Correspondent
The town's records are in good shape, but true security is preservation on microfilm. The town has received one grant and the land records are done. Now it is applying for a second grant to microfilm the "vitals."
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=3217040&BRD=1634&PAG=461&dept_id=8416&rfi=6



ZDNet 2/12/02
Shelves hold 10 million copy-locked CDs
By Gwendolyn Mariano
Special to ZDNet News
Israeli security company Midbar said Tuesday that it has released more than 10 million copyprotected CDs in the United States and Europe, highlighting the company's ongoing endeavor to combat digital piracy.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-836054.html



ABC News 2/12/02
Cybersleuths Seek Truth About Enron
Shredded Documents Relating to Its Bankruptcy Might Be Recovered
By Maria Godoy, Tech Live
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/business/TechTV/enron_cybersleuths_020212.html



The Advocate Messenger 2/12/02
Danville will spend $25,000 to upgrade computer system
By ANNABEL GIRARD
http://www.amnews.com/PageDisplayer.cfm?Page=Art...Mode=FullArticle&CategoryID=45,50&ArticleID=4484



Federal Computer Week 2/08/02
OPM employee database boosted
BY Graeme Browning
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0204/web-opm-02-08-02.asp


Philadelphia Inquirer 2/12/02
Century of silence is broken for a doll created by Edison
Two men put a voice - albeit shrill - on history.
By Amie Parnes
Inquirer Suburban Staff
For 112 years, the doll with the very-real crisp blue eyes, playful blond hair, and delicate linen dress lay silently in its original pastel box.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/2653854.htm


NewsFactor Network 2/13/02
E-Mail Encryption for the Masses
By Tim McDonald
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/16306.html



New York Times 2/11/02
Digital Sensor Is Said to Match Quality of Film
By JOHN MARKOFF
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10 _ If Carver Mead is right, photographic film is an endangered species.
Dr. Mead, who is 67, was a pioneer of the modern computer chip industry in the 1970's.
But he has never stopped inventing. And on Monday his Silicon Valley start-up, Foveon,
plans to begin shipping a new type of digital image sensor that outside experts agree is the first to match or surpass the photographic capabilities of 35-millimeter film.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/11/technology/11FOVE.html


CNET News 2/12/02
Commentary: Google's enterprising search
Gartner Viewpoint
Special to CNET News.com
By Whit Andrews, Gartner Analyst
Google's new technology provides a novel way for businesses to search their intranets. However, in Gartner's view, the offering won't nudge aside more sophisticated installations that meet a greater number of business requirements.
http://news.com.com/2009-1023-835736.html?tag=cd_mh



New York Times 2/13/02
Computer Security Experts Warn of Internet Vulnerability
By MATT RICHTEL
Asserting that companies had not heeded its private warnings, a government-backed
computer security group warned of a security flaw today that could make computers across the Internet and within company networks vulnerable to being controlled or shut down by malicious hackers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/13/technology/13NET.html



New Scientist 2/13/02
Internet data at risk from language flaws
Will Knight
Computer security researchers have discovered that a fundamental networking language could be misused to crash a multitude of devices, including important internet hardware.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991920



Federal Computer Week 2/08/02
Moran pushes for 'smart' license
BY William Matthews
http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2002/0204/web-moran-02-08-02.asp



New York Times 2/14/02
In Lost E-Mail, a Dividend
By CONSTANCE ROSENBLUM
It took me a few minutes to realize that everything was not all right.
I had come back from lunch a little late, feeling a little guilty, and when I sat down at my desk and idly began pulling up the halfdozen e- mail messages that had arrived in my absence, it almost didn't register that all the messages were corrupted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/14/technology/circuits/14LOST.html


Washington Post 2/12/02
The Coming E-volution in Health Care
A New Law Pushes High-Tech -- and, Maybe, High-Quality -- Medicine
By Craig Stoltz
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59329-2002Feb11.html



CIO Feb 2002
Paving Over Paperwork
By automating its collection of inspection data, Michigan cuts the cost of building roads and bridges.
BY STEPHANIE OVERBY
http://www.cio.com/archive/020102/dot.html



Wired 2/11/02
Judge Dubious About Link Patent
By Michelle Delio
British Telecom is less than cheerio over a small setback in the company's attempt to collect cash for the "unauthorized" use of hyperlinks.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,50356,00.html

Wired 2/14/02
Move Over, BT: He Invented Links
By Michelle Delio
Nobody should be more outraged over British Telecom's claim that it owns the
patent to hyperlinking than Bob Bemer, who believes he may be the world's
oldest, living computer programmer.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,50398,00.html


Wired 2/12/02
Why This Link Patent Case Is Weak
By Michelle Delio
It may be a long time before British Telecom knows whether it lucked out or lost big in the legal sweepstakes. But even if it wins its court battle, experts said the British telephone company has already lost the war.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,50361,00.html


Los Angeles Times 2/12/02
Restaurant Group Tightens Security
Food: California association will unveil a program to screen potential employees
through credit checks and Department of Motor Vehicles records.
By MARC BALLON, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The California Restaurant Assn. is unveiling a program today for its 18,000 member restaurants that will screen potential hires by using, among other things, reports from credit bureaus and the Department of Motor Vehicles.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000010816feb12.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dbusiness


Salon.com
Losing the war on patents
Attempts to fix the intellectual property system from below are faltering. Is it time to bring in the feds?
By Damien Cave
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/02/15/bountyquest/print.html



Wired 2/14/02
SEC to Firms: Use Your Websites
By Joanna Glasner
In what is believed to be an unprecedented action, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is telling companies what information to put on their corporate websites.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,50414,00.html



CNET News 2/14/02
Securing signatures for Web services
By: Paul Festa
The premier Web standards body on Thursday recommended a way of signing documents using
XML, calling its new digital signature guidelines a key tool for Web services infrastructure.
http://investor.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-8810419-0.html?tag=ats



Wired 2/11/02
Snoop Software Shreds Reality
By Noah Shachtman
Just because you're an accomplished academic and author doesn't mean you have street smarts.
David Gelertner,­ the world-renowned computer scientist, Yale professor, author and art critic -- says he has a prescription for companies to avoid Enron-Arthur Andersen-type scandals: better management of corporate e-mails, Web pages, calendar items and other electronic documents.
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,50250,00.html



BizReport 2/13/02
Enron Still Linked To Junk E-mail Marketer
by Brian McWilliams
Enron Corp. may be winding down its Internet services business, but the bankrupt
company's network has become a burgeoning source of "spam," or junk e-mail.
http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=2979&PHPSESSID=fe1f1837804bcd53fa4c6e2d51a79cb5&width=1024



Darwin 2/12/02
Writing on the Wall
Virtual Ink’s latest upgrade is the next step in digital storage
By Jon Surmacz
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/machineshop/index.html



Technology Review Jan/Feb 2002
Software: Simulation tools fight new network parasites.
By Kevin Hogan
Most people now know the drill when it comes to thwarting a computer virus. Receive an e-mail with a vague subject line? Trash it.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/innovation60102.asp



Los Angeles Times 2/11/02
Tapping Into a Wireless World
Experts say the increasingly popular computer networks are vulnerable to being
hacked, raising security concerns.
By JUBE SHIVER Jr., TIMES STAFF WRITER
WASHINGTON -- Computer security expert Jonas Luster unearthed more than his e-mail when he signed on to a wireless network for travelers at San Jose International Airport.
http://www.latimes.com/la-000010614feb11.story



Wall Street Journal 2/13/02
Where Is the Digital Landfill
Where All the Unread Files Go?
By JEREMY WAGSTAFF
If you work for a corporation, institution or any setup which considers a vision statement to be worthy of its resources, chances are you'll be required to file regular reports on your comings, goings and sitting-still and-doing-nothing sessions. And the chances are that no one will ever read these documents top to bottom. In fact, chances are that no one will read them at all. Heck, you probably don't even read them. But they have to be done, or someone will notice and fire you.
http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,4287,SB101353172240563000,00.html





Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Va