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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