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RAIN 02/24 Weekly Update: Technology Part 1 (19)
Los Angeles Times 02/16/02
Vatican to Open Some WWII-Era Files on Pius XII
Inquiry: Scholars examining the pope's stance on the Holocaust say the
disclosure
could answer only two of their 47 questions.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-000012071feb16.story
Florida Times-Union 02/17/02
Virtual e-mail shredders give senders total control
By Anick Jesdanun
Associated Press
NEW YORK -- In the offline world, it can be quite a challenge to retrieve and
destroy confidential documents from a business deal gone sour or a top-secret
project that involved outside help.
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/021702/bus_8623317.html
Yahoo 02/18/02
Press Release
CIPA: Information Management Awards Program Invites Entries
TORONTO, ONTARIO--
Canadian Information Productivity Awards expanding in its 10th year
Canadian Information Productivity Awards, one of Canada's largest business
awards programs, is inviting entries for its 10th annual competition. Winners
will be recognized across Canada and around the world for leadership in the
new economy.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ccn/020218/nsmm_xqnfayjcnttpyhtrw_1.html
New York Times 02/18/02
Fine-Tuning for Privacy, Hong Kong Plans Digital ID
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/18/technology/18KONG.html
National Post 02/18/02
Liar, liar (your e-mail) pants on fire
Fiona Harvey
Financial Times
Software that can detect when people are lying in their e-mails sounds a bit
far-fetched, but its manufacturers declare it is true.
SAS Institute, which makes fraud-detection systems for banks and phone
companies, has announced a product that can sift through emails and other
electronic text to catch elusive nuances such as tone.
http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020218/86074.html
San Antonio Business Journal 02/15/02
Plotting a new way of surveying
GPS technology replaces traditional methods of determining boundaries
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2002/02/18/focus1.html
New York Times 02/18/02
Protecting Intellectual Property
By SARAH MILSTEIN
LAST spring Plantronics (news/quote), a telephone headset manufacturer in
Santa
Cruz, Calif., developed a technology for reducing microphone noise. The
invention was
not something the company could use right away, but Plantronics executives
did not want
to risk letting a competitor patent the idea first.
Rather than spend time and money to patent the idea, Plantronics posted a
description of it on IP.com, a Web site that enables inventors to establish
an idea's legal existence — a concept known as prior art in patent law. By
putting its design in the public domain, Plantronics sought to prevent
competitors from patenting it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/18/technology/ebusiness/18NECO.html
The News-Gazette 02/17/02
A justice computer system for all
By MIKE MONSON
URBANA – Every time a prisoner enters the Champaign County satellite jail on
his shift, corrections officer Todd Lawhead must enter information about the
prisoner into the county computer system.
Lots of information.
There's name, date of birth, sex, driver's license number, Social Security
number,
address, physical characteristics, criminal charges proposed by the arresting
agency and a host of other items – 12 computer fields worth of information.
http://www.newsgazette.com/story.cfm?Number=11063
Traffick.com 02/18/02
Cloaking: Search Engines Shift Gears
By Detlev Johnson, February 18, 2002
As recently as last year, search engine representatives were unclear or did
not
seem to care much about the search engine marketing application referred to
as cloaking, IP delivery or stealth scripts.
At one point, I remember thinking many people working at major search engines
must simply have no idea what cloaking is and how it works. If they had, they
wouldn't have waited so long to take action against it.
Cloaking is a search engine optimization strategy in which a web page URL has
several documents associated with it, one for each of the major search
engines and a different document for end users.
http://www.traffick.com/story/seo/020218_cloaking.asp
Washington Business Journal 02/15/02
Keeping tabs: Software tracks student visas
Martin Kady II Staff Reporter
In the aftermath of Sept. 11, there has been plenty of hand-wringing over how
the
United States tracks foreign students because some of the terrorists were in
the
country on student visas.
Advocates for international students say all the negative publicity was
unfair.
Indeed, it was only a handful of terrorists who abused a system in which
records
were loosely kept.
http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2002/02/18/story6.html
Federal Computer Week 02/18/02
'E-clearance' efforts rev up
OPM anticipates rush of requests for background checks
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0218/mgt-opm-02-18-02.asp
Dallas Morning News 02/19/02
Abandoned websites are snapshots in time
A page's audience often determines how fast it's updated - if at all
By CRAYTON HARRISON
Rodney Glaze abandoned his website in September.
He didn't mean to, really. It just fell by the wayside.
Mr. Glaze, 30, started the site in July as a way to show friends and family
the growth of his young son, Hunter. He updated it a couple of times, adding
pictures and text
through Yahoo's simple page design application.
http://www.dallasnews.com/business/technology/stories/deadsites_19bus.ART.1cbf
1.html
CNN.com 02/18/02
Invasion of the browser snatchers
From...
By Lincoln Spector
(IDG) -- Ron Zorko was only trying to get to PC World's web site. But when he
accidentally mistyped the URL, a porn site popped up.
"I suppose I should learn to type better," he says. But a typo that took him
to mycpworld.com was only the beginning of his troubles. He soon discovered
that this porn site was now both his home and default search page. He changed
the settings back in Internet Explorer. But with his next system boot,
www.mycpworld.com was back.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/02/18/browser.snatchers.idg/index.html
Philadelphia Inquirer 02/19/02
Cyber-secretaries find niche online