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RAIN 0505 Weekly Update: Technology (17)
American City & Country April 2002
Following the paperless trail
http://industryclick.com/magazinearticle.asp?releas...4&magazinearticleid=144799&siteid=17&magazineid=115
Fortune 4/12/02
Merrill Lynch's E-Mail Mess
Here's how Merrill Lynch's public stock recommendations compare with analysts'
internal e-mail comments.
http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=207234
GAIN 4/25/02
Epson Unveils Seven-Color Archival Desktop Stylus Photo 2200
http://www.gain.org/servlet/gateway/redirect.html?url=""
Salt Lake Tribune 4/28/02
DNA Kit Can Help Define Family History
http://www.sltrib.com/04282002/business/732064.htm
ZDNET 4/29/02
Cybersquatters claim victory in domain battle
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-894403.html
Boston Globe 4/29/02
EMC hopes new 'pizza box' strategy delivers
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/119/business/EMC_hopes_new_pizza_box_strategy_delivers+.shtml
The Telegraph 4/29/02
500,000 to provide DNA samples for 'biobank'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessio.../ndna29.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/04/29/ixnewstop.html
Chicago Tribune 4/29/02
Outsiders can easily tap into
wireless networks
Radio signals leak onto street, provide pathway
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0204290111apr29.story?coll=chi%2Dbusiness%2Dhed
The Times 4/30/02
Papering over the computer myth
By Dearbáil Jordan
THE paperless office, the Utopia of technophiles and wishful conservationists, has been exposed as little more than a marketing ploy for IT companies pushing their wares.
The concept of the paperless office grew from the propaganda that accompanied the advance of technology. It was widely claimed that as e-mail became commonplace people would stop printing out memorandums and, perish the thought, bring piles of paper documents to meetings.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,750-282852,00.html
BBC News 4/29/02
Employees seen as computer saboteurs
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1946000/1946368.stm
FCW.com 5/1/02
Getting map data on right course
BY Brian Robinson
Delaware has launched a new Web-based mapping tool that eventually will make all of the state's differently-sourced geographic data compatible, and it also will offer the
public the chance to weigh in on how that data should be updated.
http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2002/0429/web-del-05-01-02.asp
Washington Post 4/29/02
E-Mail Opens New Door For Familiar Scam Tactic
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64335-2002Apr28.html
Wall Street Journal 5/2/02
Bibliography Mess: Web Muddles
The Fineries of Scholarly Citations
By JUNE KRONHOLZ
How to cite a book in a bibliography:
Dickens, Charles. A tale of two cities. New York: Vintage
Classics; 1990. 380 p.
How to cite an e-book in a bibliography:
Dickens, Charles. A tale of two cities [Internet]. Charlottesville
(VA): University of Virginia Library, Electronic Text Center;
1994; c1999 [updated 1996 May; cited 2002 Apr 29]. 820K bytes.
Available from: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DicTale.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1020288533895288440,00.html?mod=Page%20One
New York Times 5/02/02
Virtually Rebuilt, a Ruin Yields Secrets
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/02/technology/circuits/02ARCH.html
New York Times 5/02/02
Hard-Drive Magic: Making Data Disappear
Forever
By MATT VILLANO
THE State of Pennsylvania learned the hard way that files do not actually disappear
when they are sent to the Recycle Bin on a desktop.
Earlier this year, after the state's Department of Labor and Industry sold a cache of surplus computers to local resellers, thousands of files of information about state employees were discovered still on the hard disks. A local television station, thinking the machines might still hold confidential data, had bought some and turned them over to a Harrisburg forensics company, which found the files in the nether regions of the hard drives. After the news broke, the company gave its findings to the state.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/02/technology/circuits/02BASI.html?pagewanted=print
New York Times 5/02/02
Threat Is Seen to Microsoft Windows
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/02/technology/02SOFT.html?pagewanted=print&position=top
New York Times 5/2/02
Instead of a Password, Well-Placed Clicks
By ANNE EISENBERG
XY$Z4#T. It is a password only a security expert could love.
Most people have trouble remembering random combinations of letters and symbols. So
they jot difficult passwords down near their computer or replace them with far simpler
combinations, making their systems vulnerable to attack.
To solve this problem, some researchers are investigating an alternative to text passwords: pictures.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/02/technology/circuits/02NEXT.html?pagewanted=print
Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Va