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New York Times 3/21/02
Voice Recognition Leaps Into Appliances
By NEIL McMANUS
E careful what you say around the house. Your appliances may be listening.
Voice control, long the stuff of science fiction and computer lab=20
experiments, is popping up in more and more mundane household devices like=20
clock radios, MP3 players, television remotes, telephones and light switches=
.=20
You no longer have to push buttons or twist dials to listen to music or brew=
=20
coffee: you simply tell your appliances what
you want, and through built-in microphones and microprocessors they=20
understand and obey your commands.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/21/technology/circuits/21TALK.html?pagewanted=
=3Da

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ZDNet News 3/22/02
The skeleton in the XML closet
By Guest Writer
Special to ZDNet
March 22, 2002, 4:30 AM PT
By Eugene Kuznetsov, founder and CTO of DataPower Technology
COMMENTARY-- XML is quickly becoming the "lingua franca" for electronic=20
communications and is the backbone of all Web services protocols. Some=20
analysts are projecting that XML will comprise as much as 60 percent of=20
network traffic next year.
Unfortunately, network infrastructure is blind to XML traffic, leading to=20
performance
bottlenecks and security holes.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-866560.html


Darwin March 2002
This Changes Everything
The CEO at Boise Cascade Office Products saw boosting customer service as hi=
s=20
only chance to win=E2=80=94so he did.
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/030102/changes.html


Darwin March 2002
Executive Guide: XML
http://guide.darwinmag.com/technology/program/xml/index.html



Business2.0 April 2002
Welcome to Harrah's
You give us your money. We learn everything about you. And then you thank us=
=20
and beg for more. How's that for a business model?
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,38619,00.html




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

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<HTML><FONT FACE=3Darial,helvetica><FONT  SIZE=3D2 FAMILY=3D"FIXED" FACE=3D"=
Courier New" LANG=3D"0">SecurityFocus 3/14/02
<BR>D.I.R.T. Spyware Exposed on Web
<BR>Software marketed as a computer surveillance tool for law enforcement in=
vestigators has its secrets laid bare on an anonymous Web site.
<BR>By Kevin Poulsen
<BR>Mar 14 2002 1:30AM PT
<BR>A closely-held software package designed to allow law enforcement agenci=
es to secretly monitor a suspect's computer turned up on an anonymous Web si=
te in the Netherlands Wednesday, along with user manuals, financial informat=
ion, contracts and invoices
<BR>apparently stolen from the company that makes the surveillance tool.
<BR>http://online.securityfocus.com/news/354
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>San Antonio Express-News 3/17/02
<BR>Identity is all in the cards
<BR>By Verna Yu
<BR>Associated Press
<BR>HONG KONG =E2=80=94 In 1949, Mao Tse-tung's communists conquered mainlan=
d China and set off a massive flow of emigration to this city, then a compar=
atively prosperous British colony.
<BR>To sort out newcomers from residents, Hong Kong introduced compulsory ca=
rdboard
<BR>identity cards.
<BR>http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=3Dsaen&amp;xlb=3D110&amp;xlc=
=3D640151&amp;xld=3D110
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Asahi Shimbun 3/17/02
<BR>Medical records available online
<BR>Fujitsu Ltd., one of the nation's largest computer companies, has develo=
ped an
<BR>online system to allow hospitalized patients to check their clinical rec=
ords and call
<BR>up medical information without getting out of bed.
<BR>http://www.asahi.com/english/national/K2002031700107.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>The New Yorker 3/25/02
<BR>THE SOCIAL LIFE OF PAPER
<BR>by MALCOLM GLADWELL
<BR>Looking for method in the mess.
<BR>Issue of 2002-03-25
<BR>Posted 2002-03-18
<BR>On a busy day, a typical air-traffic controller might be in charge of as=
 many as twenty-five airplanes at a time=E2=80=94some ascending, some descen=
ding, each at a different altitude and travelling at a different speed. He p=
eers at a large, monochromatic radar console, tracking the movement of tiny=20=
tagged blips moving slowly across the screen. He talks to the sector where a=
 plane is headed, and talks to the pilots passing through his sector, and ta=
lks to the other controllers about any new traffic on the horizon. And, as a=
 controller juggles all those planes overhead, he scribbles notes on little=20=
pieces of paper, moving them around on his desk as he does. Air-traffic cont=
rol depends on
<BR>computers and radar. It also depends, heavily, on paper and ink.
<BR>http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?critics/020325crbo_books
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>BBC News 3/18/02
<BR>Discord over digital music
<BR>By BBC News Online's Alfred Hermida
<BR>With millions of people downloading free copies of everything from the l=
atest chart hit to whole albums over the internet, the music industry is fac=
ing a formidable challenge.
<BR>A whole generation is growing up with digital technology that has provid=
ed the means to get free access to music at any time.
<BR>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1874000/1874800.stm
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>PRNewswire 3/18/02
<BR>Leading Companies Agree to Produce Electronic Signature Standards
<BR>http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020318/nem041_1.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>ZDNet News 3/18/02
<BR>Goodbye Napster, hello Morpheus
<BR>http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-861914.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>New York Times 3/18/02
<BR>Opposition to Portable Numbers
<BR>By SUSAN STELLIN
<BR>If you are a cellphone user who has waited to change service providers u=
ntil you can
<BR>take your phone number with you =E2=80=94 you may have to keep waiting.
<BR>Wireless carriers are supposed to install technology by late November th=
at will let
<BR>customers keep their phone numbers when changing carriers. But the Feder=
al Communications Commission is considering a petition by Verizon Wireless t=
o drop that
<BR>requirement =E2=80=94 or at least delay the deadline.
<BR>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/18/technology/ebusiness/18NECO.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Accounting Web 3/19/02
<BR>E-Mail Management Part 2
<BR>http://www.accountingweb.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=3D75243
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Internet News 3/19/02
<BR>Council Developing Standards for Electronic Signatures
<BR>By Roy Mark
<BR>A group of e-commerce and financial services companies are working toget=
her to develop a voluntary model Standards and Procedures for Electronic Rec=
ords and Signatures (SPeRS). An rganizational meeting of the SPeRS drafting=20=
committee was held Monday in the offices of the Electronic Financial Service=
s Council in Washington, D.C. The project is expected to take nine months to=
 one year to complete.
<BR>http://www.internetnews.com/asp-news/article/0,,3411_994171,00.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>PRNewswire 3/19/02
<BR>Front Porch Digital Further Expands Document Image Archive Migration Cap=
abilities
<BR>http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020319/latu076_1.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>GovExec.com 3/18/02
<BR>Many Interior employees still stuck offline
<BR>By Brian Friel
<BR>bfriel@govexec.com
<BR>More than 80 percent of the Interior Department=E2=80=99s computers are=20=
back online after a three-month shutdown of Internet access. But workers at=20=
the department=E2=80=99s headquarters and in three major agencies are still=20=
stuck with only telephones, fax machines and the post office to communicate=20=
with the outside world.
<BR>http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0302/031802b1.htm
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>GovExec.com 3/18/02
<BR>Improving access for non-English speakers is costly, report says
<BR>By Kellie Lunney
<BR>klunney@govexec.com
<BR>Improving access to government programs for people who aren=E2=80=99t pr=
oficient in English could cost the government more than $1 billion, accordin=
g to a new report from the Office of Management and Budget.
<BR>http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0302/031802m1.htm
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Washington Post 3/20/02
<BR>Bogus Dollars From Internet Bring Change
<BR>By Maria Glod
<BR>One day last month, a Loudoun County middle school student was tinkering=
 around on the Internet and came across a Web site with images of the front=20=
and back of a $100 bill.
<BR>The 13-year-old copied the images onto his family's computer, enlarged t=
hem so they were the size of authentic currency and made copies on a color p=
rinter until the front and back matched up on paper, according to court docu=
ments. Then, he printed three fake $100 bills, trimmed the edges, and took t=
wo to Farmwell Station Middle School in Ashburn.
<BR>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53212-2002Mar19.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Federal Computer Week 3/20/02
<BR>INS details broken process
<BR>BY William Matthews
<BR>When he became commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Servic=
e last August, James Ziglar said he quickly discovered that the troubled age=
ncy information technology systems "were big on information and small on tec=
hnology."
<BR>http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0318/web-ins-03-20-02.asp
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>GCN 3/20/02
<BR>INS official wants more input from contractors
<BR>The Immigration and Naturalization Service might have one of the most so=
phisticated and efficient systems in the world for handling its more than 25=
 million paper files.
<BR>But "my job is putting our National Records Center out of business," sai=
d associate commissioner for IRM Scott Hastings at a breakfast presentation=20=
this morning at FOSE 2002.
<BR>http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/18222-1.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>WIRED March 2002
<BR>This Is Not a Test
<BR>A decade after America's last nuclear test, the US arsenal is decaying a=
nd its designers are retiring. Now a
<BR>new generation of scientists is trying to preserve bomb-building knowled=
ge before it's too late.
<BR>By Evan Ratliff
<BR>This spring, as college students across the country convene study groups=
 and hit the library in preparation for final exams, Charles Nakhleh will be=
 hunkering down in a fenced-off building high on the New Mexico mesa, racing=
 to finish his dissertation. He'll be tweaking the variables in his computat=
ional model and checking and rechecking his hypotheses. The thesis will neve=
r be published in a scientific journal or even bound with other dissertation=
s and stored on some dusty shelf of a university library. Nakhleh will never=
 be able to make a public presentation o r even talk to his family about the=
 details of his work: the W80 cruise missile-based nuclear warhead. To do so=
, in fact, would be a federal crime. But for Nakhleh, the project marks the=20=
final step in his three-year effort to earn the most exclusive diploma on th=
e planet - a degree in thermonuclear weapons.
<BR>http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.03/nukes_pr.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>WIRED &nbsp;March 2002
<BR>The Sentinel
<BR>Our enemies are threatening to crash Wall Street servers, crack IRS data=
bases, and attack the nation's electrical grid. Richard Clarke is bracing fo=
r the fight. A tough talk with the White House's doomsaying, evangelizing cy=
bersecurity czar.
<BR>http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.03/clarke.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Houston Chronicle 3/21/02
<BR>County cuts off computer network
<BR>Wireless system may be vulnerable to hackers
<BR>By STEVE BREWER
<BR>Harris County District Clerk Charles Bacarisse shut down a wireless comp=
uter network in his office this week after officials found it could be vulne=
rable to high-tech vandals.
<BR>The decision was made Tuesday, after a computer security analyst demonst=
rated to Steve Jennings, head of the county's Central Technology Department,=
 and the Houston Chronicle how the system could be compromised.
<BR>http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/metropolitan/1302663
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>New York Times 3/21/02
<BR>A Port Beckons: Moving to a New PC
<BR>By LARRY MAGID
<BR>UPGRADING to a new PC is a little like moving into a new home. Before yo=
u can settle into your new environment, you have to deal with transporting e=
verything you own.
<BR>And, like that new home, the new PC is not going to be exactly like the=20=
old one. It could be from a different manufacturer, and chances are good tha=
t you are moving from an older version of Windows to the new Windows XP.=20
<BR>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/21/technology/circuits/21BASI.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>VNUNET 3/21/02
<BR>NHS e-records set to slash costs
<BR>By Rachel Fielding at HC2002 in Harrogate [21-03-2002]
<BR>Current system 'a mess', says HR director
<BR>The implementation of standard electronic employee records across the NH=
S will reduce payroll administration costs by eight per cent and procurement=
 costs by 25 per cent.
<BR>http://www.vnunet.com/News/1130308
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>New York Times 3/21/01
<BR>Finding Pay Dirt in Scannable Driver's Licenses
<BR>By JENNIFER 8. LEE
<BR>BOSTON -- ABOUT 10,000 people a week go to The Rack, a bar in Boston fav=
ored by sports stars, including members of the New England Patriots. One by=20=
one, they hand over their driver's licenses to a doorman, who swipes them th=
rough a sleek black machine. If a license is valid and its holder is over 21=
, a red light blinks and the patron is waved through.
<BR>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/21/technology/circuits/21DRIV.html?pagewa=
nted=3Dall&amp;position=3Dtop
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>New York Times 3/21/02
<BR>Law Revises Standards for Scientific Study
<BR>By ANDREW C. REVKIN
<BR>t does not even take effect until next Oct. 1. But a little-noticed law=20=
called the Data Quality Act, signed in the waning days of the Clinton admini=
stration, has set off a fierce debate over how best to weigh health and envi=
ronmental risks.
<BR>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/21/politics/21DATA.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>New York Times 3/21/02
<BR>From the Skin Artist, Always a Free Makeover
<BR>By DAVID KUSHNER
<BR>FOR Steve Moss, an artist, software is a matter of substance and style.=20=
Mr. Moss is one of thousands of people online who are creating and freely di=
stributing skins, the=20
<BR>graphical interfaces that act as both the face and the control panel of=20=
a computer program.
<BR>Rather than settling for manufacturers' often mundane built-in visuals,=20=
they make and trade their own.
<BR>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/21/technology/circuits/21SKIN.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>New York Times 3/21/02
<BR>Voice Recognition Leaps Into Appliances
<BR>By NEIL McMANUS
<BR>E careful what you say around the house. Your appliances may be listenin=
g.
<BR>Voice control, long the stuff of science fiction and computer lab experi=
ments, is popping up in more and more mundane household devices like clock r=
adios, MP3 players, television remotes, telephones and light switches. You n=
o longer have to push buttons or twist dials to listen to music or brew coff=
ee: you simply tell your appliances what
<BR>you want, and through built-in microphones and microprocessors they unde=
rstand and obey your commands.
<BR>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/21/technology/circuits/21TALK.html?pagewa=
nted=3Dall
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>ZDNet News 3/22/02
<BR>The skeleton in the XML closet
<BR>By Guest Writer
<BR>Special to ZDNet
<BR>March 22, 2002, 4:30 AM PT
<BR>By Eugene Kuznetsov, founder and CTO of DataPower Technology
<BR>COMMENTARY-- XML is quickly becoming the "lingua franca" for electronic=20=
communications and is the backbone of all Web services protocols. Some analy=
sts are projecting that XML will comprise as much as 60 percent of network t=
raffic next year.
<BR>Unfortunately, network infrastructure is blind to XML traffic, leading t=
o performance
<BR>bottlenecks and security holes.
<BR>http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-866560.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Darwin March 2002
<BR>This Changes Everything
<BR>The CEO at Boise Cascade Office Products saw boosting customer service a=
s his only chance to win=E2=80=94so he did.
<BR>http://www.darwinmag.com/read/030102/changes.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Darwin March 2002
<BR>Executive Guide: XML
<BR>http://guide.darwinmag.com/technology/program/xml/index.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Business2.0 April 2002
<BR>Welcome to Harrah's
<BR>You give us your money. We learn everything about you. And then you than=
k us and beg for more. How's that for a business model?
<BR>http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,38619,00.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
<BR>pakurilecz@aol.com
<BR>Richmond, Va</FONT></HTML>

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