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RAIN 03/03 Weekly Update: Technology Part 2 (17)



Transform 02/26/02
Toronto Transit Speeds E-Form Adoption
http://www.transformmag.com/db_area/archs/2002/03/techselections/ts6.shtml



New York Times 02/26/02
State Pulls Data From Internet in
Attempt to Thwart Terrorists
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
ALBANY, Feb. 25 — The Pataki administration has quietly ordered state agencies to restrict information available on the Internet and limit its release through New York's Freedom of Information Law to prevent terrorists from using the material, which includes maps of electrical grids and reservoirs as well as building floor plans.
The new policy, laid out in a confidential memorandum to agency heads from the state's director of public security, James K. Kallstrom, is one of the most farreaching and restrictive in the nation, according to research librarians and advocates for open government.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/26/nyregion/26ALBA.html



Information Week 02/25/02
Innovative deal gives Charlottesville an advanced network at a low cost
By John Rendleman
With two universities and an unusually sophisticated population, Charlottesville isn't typical of other small towns in the Virginia foothills of the Appalachian mountains.
The city's advanced data network isn't typical of the semirural region, either.
Using fiber-optic circuits that it owns through an innovative technology swap with a regional network services provider, Charlottesville has a four-node, 8.5-mile Ethernet
and TCP/IP network that's designed to be easily upgraded from its current speed of 622 Mbps to 2.5 Gbps as the city's communication needs grow. The sophisticated
network gives the city a platform for a host of videoconferencing and Internet capabilities: Jail inmates can be treated by doctors miles away, students can participate in distance learning, emergency officials can train via video, Charlottesville residents can pay city bills online, and more.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020221S0021



Washington Post 02/26/02
Rocky Start in 'Cyber' Classrooms
Pa. School Districts' Resistance Slows Online Charter Schools
By Michael A. Fletcher
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1935-2002Feb25.html



Transform March 2002
Less Means More Accuracy
by Julie Gable
Recent tests prove that the same may be true for autoclassification products. "The real issue is pulling features out of documents," says R. Kirk Lubbes, president of Records Engineering, Reston, VA, a firm that works with the intelligence community on
autoclassification projects. To paraphrase Tyler, it seems that any document can be classified if you leave enough of it out.
Autoclassification software works by extracting features. Filters distinguish paragraphs and sentences, then strip out low-value words and phrases. The software generates numeric values for the remaining text based on metrics that may include key word frequency, pattern matching, concept counting or artificial intelligence. The result is a string of numbers that comprise the document's signature.
http://www.transformmag.com/db_area/archs/2002/03/tfm0203il.shtml



Transform March 2002
Records Management: The Digital Dilemma
by Debra Haverson
Enron, Coca-Cola, Union Bank of Switzerland, the Rose Law Firm — what do these organizations have in common? All have been accused of destroying official documents and some have faced severe consequences. Yet paper documents are only the tip of the
records management challenge.
Resources According to Robert F. Williams, president of records management consulting firm Cohasset Associates, Chicago, electronic records are much more difficult to manage than paper records.
http://www.transformmag.com/db_area/archs/2002/03/tfm0203f1.shtml



Technology Review March 2002
Online diarists rule an Internet strewn with failed dot coms.
by Henry Jenkins
A few months ago, I was at the Camden Pop!Tech conference, and the guy sitting next to
me was typing incessantly into his wireless laptop, making notes on the speakers, finding relevant links and then hitting the send key—instantly updating his Web site. No sooner did he do so than he would get responses back from readers around the country. He was a blogger.
Bloggers are turning the hunting and gathering, sampling and critiquing the rest of us do online into an extreme sport. We surf the Web; these guys snowboard it. Bloggers are the minutemen of the digital revolution.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/jenkins0302.asp


Wired News 02/27/02
Digital Security Fomenting a Feud
By Declan McCullagh
WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee is stepping into the middle of an increasingly vocal spat over the future of technology: how to prevent illicit copying of digital content.
On Thursday morning, Senate Commerce chairman Fritz Hollings (D-South Carolina) will convene a hearing on digital copy protection, which he believes should be embedded in
nearly all PCs and consumer electronic devices.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50702,00.html



New York Times 02/25/02
The Murky Debate Over an Internet Address Database
By SUSAN STELLIN
Anyone who registers a Web address must provide the company that handles the registration with a name, mailing address, email address and phone number — certainly,
not an unreasonable amount of information to exchange in a business relationship.
But everyone may not realize that this information is made available to the public in a
searchable database called Whois, enabling Internet users to look up any Web address and find out — in theory, at least — who owns a particular address. The database is accessible through the Web sites of most registrars, or at some independent sites like betterwhois.com.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/25/technology/ebusiness/25NECO.html



PRNewswire 02/27/02
Viewpointe Archive Services Amasses 10 Billion Images; National Image Archive Adding 1 Billion New Images a Month
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Viewpointe Archive Services, the largest provider of digital check and document archive and retrieval services, announced today that it is storing and providing access to one in every five checks written in the United States and has amassed over 10 billion images in its archive in less than 12 months.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020227/nyw056_1.html



New York Times 02/25/02
Is Weblog Technology Here to Stay or Just Another Fad?
By BOB TEDESCHI
For the last two years or so, so-called Weblogs have slowly built a following among Internet users who like to dash off a few random thoughts, post them on a Web site and read similar musings by others. In the last two months, the universe of Weblogs has
grown more quickly, with mainstream media analysts praising "blogs," as the sites are
known, for bringing a new type of _expression_ to the Internet, and perhaps undermining the hegemony of global media giants.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/25/technology/ebusiness/25ECOM.html


New York Times 02/28/02
A Printer That Paints With Bursts of Laser Light
By MATT LAKE
LIKE the personal computers they are tethered to, laser printers first appeared in the 1970's and took off over the next two decades. More than 60 million are now installed in the United States, making laser models the most popular printing technology in the workplace.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/28/technology/circuits/28HOWW.html



Information Week 02/28/02
Microsoft To Archive Instant Messages
Thu Feb 28, 2:26 PM ET
Tischelle George, InformationWeek
Microsoft is licensing instant-messaging archiving technology from IMlogic Inc. to be embedded in some of its real-time communications software for enterprises, though it wouldn't specify which of those offerings would feature the capability. IMlogic's technology lets companies keep records of incoming and outgoing instant-message traffic and search, retrieve, and generate reports on these records.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cmp/20020228/tc_cmp/iwk20020228s0007



New York Times 03/01/02
CD Technology Stops Copies, but It
Starts a Controversy
By AMY HARMON
The recording industry has begun selling music CD's designed to make it impossible for people to copy music to their computers, trade songs over the Internet or transfer them to portable MP3 players.
Until now, most of the protected discs have been distributed in Europe, with little publicity. But the strategy has already provoked a reaction there. There are also objections from American music lovers who fear that they will be unable to use the increasingly popular portable MP3 devices or burn their own CD's to copy music that they have legally purchased.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/01/technology/01PROT.html



WashTech.com
Digital Signature Technology Wins Agency's Seal of Approval
Energy Dept. Uses E-Authentication To Send Proposal
By Cynthia L. Webb
When Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham sent President Bush his formal recommendation to use Yucca Mountain as a nuclear-waste storage site, he sent the president an e-mail.
Not just an ordinary e-mail, though. This one used "digital signature" technology and had an attachment that, when printed out, would be a 9,500-page, 4-foot-tall document weighing 80 pounds -- the product of 24 years of research on how the U.S. could store nuclear waste.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20465-2002Feb28.html


Los Angeles Times 03/01/01
Pirates Make New Use of Old Technology
By JON HEALEY
While record companies and film studios train their legal fire on Internet file-sharing networks such as Napster and Morpheus, online pirates have been making heavy use of a 14-year-old technology invented to help far-flung researchers gather online to chat.
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000015359mar01.story?coll=la-headlines-technology




Technology Review 03/06/01
Startups Struggle in the e-Paper Chase
by Alan Leo
Nick Sheridon believes in electronic paper. After inventing the stuff in the 1970s at
Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, he was forced to stand by and watch his work
reproduced and then advanced, 2,500 miles away at the MIT Media Lab. Now back on the
e-paper trail as head of research at Gyricon Media, a Xerox spin-off, Sheridon is building an e-paper store display that the company plans to test this summer and sell by next year.
http://www.techreview.com/articles/leo030601.asp




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