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RAIN 02/24 Weekly Update: Technology Part 2 (19)



KMWorld.com 02/13/02
Getting up from down under paper
Instant access to patient information is just one of the benefits of a new electronic
patient records system implemented by the Auckland District Health Board, according
to officials there. The solution also improves records management efficiency and
security, and eliminates the need to build more costly storage space.
http://www.kmworld.com/resources/featurearticles/index.cfm?action=""


Boston Herald 02/19/02
Peltz Group sells shredding division to Boston firm
By Associated Press, 2/19/2002 05:07
MILWAUKEE (AP) The Peltz Group Inc. has sold its shredding division to a Boston records
company.
Milwaukee-based Peltz said the sale of its Security Data Destruction division will allow it to concentrate on expanding its recycling operations.
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/050/economy/Peltz_Group_sells_shredding_di:.shtml



Silicon.com 02/20/02
RSA launches digital signature strategy
Sign on the dot-com line...
RSA has unveiled a group of products and partnerships designed to help companies
share confidential documents.
The company unveiled its Keon e-sign software at the annual RSA Conference in San Jose California.
The software is designed to help companies sign confidential web-based forms. It can check all digital signatures have been verified and ensure the form signed on the internet has not been tampered with.
http://www.silicon.com/bin/bladerunner?30REQEVENT=&REQAUTH=21046&14001REQSUB=REQINT1=51451



Transform.com February 2002
Doculabs Evaluates Document Management for Enterprise Content Management
by Richard Medina, Stephen Meyers, Jim Bragg and Christine Klima
The economy has constrained IT spending and budgets, and organizations are now looking to do more with fewer systems. This is especially true in the content management arena. Organizations want to leverage a common infrastructure to manage content instead
of deploying separate systems for different content-centric applications. An approach like this can improve line-of-business productivity and reduce ongoing IT maintenance efforts.
http://www.transformmag.com/db_area/archs/2002/02/tfm0202f1.shtml?contentmanagement



New York Times 02/21/02
In Lean Times, E-Books Find a Friend: Libraries
By LISA GUERNSEY
ELECTRONIC book publishing may be on the skids, but digital book collections
continue to grow at libraries.
In the next few months, library patrons at Yale's and Stanford's university libraries, as well as some libraries in Northern California, may be surprised to find that their electronic catalogs offer links to digital books. The universities and the Peninsula Library System, a consortium of 34 public and community college libraries in San Mateo County, have decided to jump into the e-book arena.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/technology/circuits/21BOOK.html



New York Times 02/20/02
Your Thumb Here: Newest ID of Choice at Store and on Job
By PETER T. KILBORN
EAUMONT, Tex., Feb. 16 — Little blue discs with lids, about the size of 50-cent pieces, are glued on the counter close to each of the three cash registers at Sam's Package Store. When an unfamiliar customer writes a check, Peggi Parigi, owner of the store
with her husband, asks for a driver's license, a place of work and a phone number. Then she points to a disc.
"I need a right thumbprint," she told Ann Harris, 46, who was paying $21.65 for a bottle of Royal Crown whiskey.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/20/national/20PRIN.html



GovExec.com 02/20/02
Task force progresses on foreigner tracking system
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0202/022002td2.htm


Tallahassee Democrat 02/20/02
Motor voter law may change
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/news/local/2705863.htm


New York Times 02/19/02
Learning Lessons From Wads of Paper
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/science/physical/19PAPE.html


New York Times 02/21/02
Save Your Own Life: Backing Up a PC
By SUSAN STELLIN
BACKING up a computer ranks somewhere between cleaning the oven and checking the
batteries in the smoke detector on most people's longavoided to-do lists. They are all good ideas but, for some reason, you never follow through on any of them.
For the uninitiated, "backing up" is the jargon used to refer to the chore of making copies of all the files and programs on the computer's hard drive. The phrase is
most commonly used by technical support representatives after your computer has crashed, as in, "I hope you backed up your data because I don't know if we can fix this."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/technology/circuits/21BASI.html


Transform Feb 2002
Four Organizations Tackle 'Too Much' Information
by Jeff Morris
If there's one clear need in search and retrieval technologies today, it's for the ability to search across an enterprise, tapping both disparate databases and multiple content sources.
In fact, Nick Wilkoff, Analyst for Techrankings Research at Forrester Research, says the Cambridge, MA-based analysis and consulting firm is now focusing on "enterprise content management," which encompasses Web content, digital asset management and legacy content management.
"We're seeing a convergence," says Wilkoff. "A number of unstructured areas, including legal documents and contracts, were typically managed offline; now, more and more of these documents are being published online on Internet portals and intranets.
Search engines now allow searching across these different repositories."
http://www.transformmag.com/db_area/archs/2002/02/tfm0202f2.shtml



New York Times 02/21/02
Whistle-Blower Sites Mine Clues Amid Mountains of Suspicion
By LISA GUERNSEY
FOR most people, the connection between the words "Enron (news/quote)" and "shredding" emerged in mid-January, when the company's accountants divulged that documents had been destroyed. But for a few Capitol Hill staff members, the specter of slivered papers had first been raised by an anonymous message that appeared on their computer screens in late December.
"It alerted us that there may be the shredding of documents," said Philip Schiliro, the chief of staff for Representative Henry Waxman, a Democrat from California.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/technology/circuits/21TIPS.html


Federal Computer Week 2/21/02
N.Y. firehouse scouts biometrics
http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2002/0218/web-fire-02-21-02.asp


Rocky Mountain News 02/21/02
Hand-held computer tattles
School cop keeps kids on narrow path with personal digital aide
By Owen S. Good, News Staff Writer
LONGMONT -- "Wasn't me" was a response Craig Mansanares heard too often over the seven years he confronted sullen students as a police officer assigned to Skyline High School.
But today, when Mansanares hears it, he slides his hand-held computer across the table, showing the miscreant his or her own image, caught in the act on the tiny screen.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_995835,00.html



New York Times 02/21/02
Digital Pen Frees the Hand Where the PC Can Follow
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/technology/circuits/21GEE5.html



The Wall Street Journal 02/21/02
New Computer Memory Keychains Store, Transfer Large Files Easily
By WALTER S. MOSSBERG
Moving large files from one PC to another can be a thorny problem, especially if the computers in question aren't on the same local network, or on any network at all.
Some new PCs, especially laptops, no longer come with a floppy disk drive, and in any case, a floppy disk can hold only 1.4 megabytes of data. That's fine for most word-processing files, but too small to hold a typical music file, a presentation, or more than a few high-resolution photos.
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1014246382887945760,00.html?mod=todays_us_marketplace_hs



Federal Computer Week 02/20/02
Tenn. health care licensing online
BY Brian Robinson
Health care workers in Tennessee can now renew their licenses and pay for them online,
representing the latest and most complex of a series of projects the state has developed to move its licensing and other services online.
http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2002/0218/web-tenn-02-20-02.asp



New York Times 02/21/02
For Treasured Information, a Lock, Key and Deadbolt
By MARK GLASSMAN
In these tense days of Super Bowl metal detectors and of Olympic security guards armed to the teeth, perhaps your data could use a little extra security as well. A new  electronic lock-and- key called SecuriKey promises to stand guard.
The tiny, translucent blue SecuriKey, from Griffin Technology, plugs squarely into any
computer U.S.B. port. Once the company's encryption software is installed, no one can so much as sneak a peek at a computer's contents without the proper key, log-on and password.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/technology/circuits/21GEE1.html


Compute Technology News 02/23/02
Optical Storage Industry Achieves Capacity Milestone
The Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA) confirmed that the industry is achieving its 3.5-inch Magneto-Optical (MO) milestones by delivering 2.3GB MO products. These products provide a backward compatible capacity migration path, critical to high performance archival storage applications.
The 2.3GB technology, developed by Fujitsu and Sony, has increased capacity and lowered cost, while continuing to provide high reliability and full backward compatibility of previous 3.5-inch MO disk capacities. 2.3GB technology is supported by numerous manufacturers, including: Hitachi Maxell, Konica, Mitsubishi, Olympus, Teijin, and RiTEK.
http://www.wwpi.com/Breaking_News/OSTA_MO.htm




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