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RAIN 0527 Weekend Update: TECHNOLOGY (16)



Boston Globe 5/13/02
Programs that won't leave a paper trail
By Michelle Johnson, 5/13/2002
Wasn't the digital age supposed to make paper go away? Glance around your office. Not exactly paperless, is it?
Let's face it, nothing beats the convenience and portability of the printed page.
It's painful to think about giving up the convenience, but I'm ready to move a little closer to that vision of a paperless office.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/133/business/Programs_that_won_t_leave_a_paper_trailP.shtml


InfoWorld 5/16/02
IBM exec explores content management in a digital world
By Cathleen Moore, InfoWorld
MAY 16, 2002
SAN JOSE -- A solid enterprise content management (CM) strategy that transforms business information into useful digital assets can offer competitive advantages through improved efficiency, productivity and higher profits, according to an IBM executive speaking at the ContentWorld Conference and Exposition here.
Corporations today are suffocating under a vast and growing tide of information that includes paper and electronic data such as invoices, databases, e-mails, audio, video and spreadsheets, according to Brett MacIntyre, IBM's vice president of content management.
http://computerworld.com/printthis/2002/0,4814,71201,00.html



Columbus Business Journal 5/17/02
Paperless office leaves pile of copies
Mary Mcinerney
Think computers have made offices less reliant on paper? Think again.
Twenty-two years ago, the U.S. government introduced the idea of the paperless office to the public.
Today, paper sales are soaring, growing at an annual rate of 10 percent, despite an increase in paper prices. From 1980 to 1995 - the birth of the modern digital age - paper consumption doubled, the American Forest and Paper Association reports.
And yet, businesses use paper very differently today, giving the illusion, perhaps, that the office is going paperless. Gone are the banks of copying machines, the huge typing pools, the paper pits that produced everything from 20-page reports to memos for the whole staff. Instead, the space may be filled with paper recycling bins.
http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2002/05/20/focus7.html?t=printable



DMNews 5/20/02
Anti-Spammers Get a Dose of Reality
By: Ken Magill
iMarketing News Editor
All is not harmonious in the once-unified world of anti-spam. The folks who usually have marketers in their crosshairs have opened fire on one another.
Good, and not just because it's fun to watch a bunch of holier-than-thou vigilantes beat each other up. These developments indicate that some anti-spammers are being forced to think in terms similar to that of the commercial interests they have fought for so long.
The controversy stems from a lawsuit Mail Abuse Prevention System LLC, Redwood
City, CA, filed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in mid-April claiming that former employee
Gordon Fecyk made off with company property -- an anti-spam tool called a dialup user
list created while he worked there.
http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=20400



MSNBC 5/20/02
‘Copy-proof’ CDs foiled by a marker
Sony’s attempt to stop digital copying quickly rebuffed
LONDON, May 20 — Technology buffs have cracked music publishing giant Sony Music’s elaborate disc copy-protection technology with a decidedly low-tech method: scribbling around the rim of a disk with a felt-tip marker.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/754854.asp



FCW.com 5/20/02
Looking into disk mirroring
Feds weigh options for data protection
BY John Moore
It's a classic double whammy. Not only do information technology managers oversee
more data than ever before, they also face more threats to this data than ever before.
Fires and natural disasters such as floods have long been data center worries. Now
add to this list post-Sept. 11 terrorism concerns and the specter of both physical
and electronic attacks.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0520/tec-disk-05-20-02.asp


Chicago Tribune 5/21/02
New task force to tackle cyber-crime
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0205210121may21.story?coll=chi%2Dnews%2Dhed


New Zealand Herald 5/21/02
Money and time saved with online document system
21.05.2002
By ADAM GIFFORD
Construction firms are saving tens of thousands of dollars and weeks of project time using a New Zealand-designed online document management system.
CollaborIT, used by investment banks and legal firms for project assignments, and part of the ConstructionNet portal, was developed by architect Andrew Crosby in association
with Greenwood technology.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=1993013&thesection=technology&thesubsection=general



Investor's Business Daily 5/21/02
Sick Of Paperwork? This Company Can Help
BY KIRK SHINKLE
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Want to know what really goes on in the back offices of America's major corporations? Lots and lots of paperwork.
Affiliated Computer Services Inc. knows that end of the office pretty well. It handles data entry, document scanning, accounting and the like for commercial and government clients.
The firm processes half of this country's Medicaid claims, and serves everyone from Fortune 500 companies to Congress and NASA.
http://my.zacks.com/newsroom/IBD/print_amer.php3



The Onion 5/22/02
LONGMONT, CO—The Information Age was dealt a stunning blow Monday, when a factual error was discovered on the Internet. The error was found on TedsUltimateBradyBunch.com, a Brady Bunch fan site that incorrectly listed the show's debut year as 1968, not 1969.
http://www.theonion.com/onion3819/factual_error_found.html



New York Times 5/23/02
Collection Chronicles a Digital Revolution
By PAMELA LiCALZI O'CONNELL
DIGITAL cameras are a hot new gadget for some, a fixation for others.
But for Rodger L. Carter of Xenia, Ohio, they are historical objects — ones that are disappearing fast.
Mr. Carter, a photo hobbyist, inaugurated a Web site last month that is devoted to the digital camera's place in photographic history. He spent a year researching in his spare time, and it shows: DigiCamHistory .com offers what may be the Web's most comprehensive photo archive of digital cameras, some of them going back a couple of decades.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/23/technology/circuits/23HIST.html?pagewanted=print&position=top



The Guardian 5/23/02
Report urges lessons in evoting
Staff and agencies
Thursday May 23, 2002
There is public support for the idea of internet and phone voting, but the government must help to educate those electors who are less confident with new technology if an electronic general election is to go ahead, a report backed by ministers claimed today.
http://society.guardian.co.uk/internet/story/0,8150,720808,00.html



New York Times 5/23/02
Every Picture Still Tells a Story, but 'Family Album' Is Redefined
By KATIE HAFNER
BILL BAKER'S digital camera has helped solve quite a few problems around the house.
Several old PC's that Mr. Baker would otherwise have placed in deep storage have
been put to work in the capacity of dynamic photo frames or, as Mr. Baker likes to
put it, "picture flippers."
Mr. Baker, a 46-year-old entrepreneur, cut holes in walls throughout his house in
Corona del Mar, Calif., installed monitors and used the old computers to display
slide shows of the 15,000 or so digital photos he has collected. The pictures change
every three seconds. The frame in the dining room generates the most conversation
among family members and guests.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/23/technology/circuits/23ALBU.html



New York Times 5/23/02
Format's Redesign Yields Faster
Image Files
By JEFFREY SELINGO
HE compression format that reduces the file size of most photographs for transmission over the Internet is getting a long overdue face-lift this year, which should be a relief for Web users frustrated by lengthy download times and blurry images. It also promises plenty of new features for Web designers.
The current standard, known as JPEG, for Joint Photographic Experts Group, emerged in the late 1980's and is based primarily on 1970's technology. It works by compressing an image into 8-by-8-pixel blocks. The blocks are encoded and then stored in numerical order. To download a JPEG file, users have to wait for the entire picture to be recreated block by block.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/23/technology/circuits/23JPEG.html?pagewanted=print&position=top



New York Times 5/23/02
Photographic Homes and Joke Captions
By PAMELA LiCALZI O'CONNELL
HOTOGRAPHY has met its pixel-perfect match in the Web. Photos — profound, profane or merely pretty — abound online. Never has the general public had such broad access to the photographic record, from historical images to news photos to microscopic "beershots." And did you hear the one about the funny captions?
The Historical Photo
Going back to the first daguerreotypes, there are, stunningly, nearly nine million
historical photographs on the Web, according to David Mattison of the British
Columbia Archives in Victoria. (He defines historical as at least 25 years old.)
Historical photographs were among the first artifacts or documents to be digitized for
display online. Mr. Mattison explains this and more in a recent link-filled article that will take you on a visual surf through history (www.infotoday.com/searcher/may02/mattison.htm).
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/23/technology/circuits/23DIAR.html?pagewanted=print&position=top



Fortune 5/27/02
'This Is War'
Should the computer industry protect Hollywood from digital theft? The guns are drawn.
By Devin Leonard
Nothing has stirred up Hollywood lately like Ted Waitt's talented Holstein. Waitt is CEO of Gateway, the nation's fourth-largest PC manufacturer, and the cow is his company
mascot. It's the Holstein's spots you see on Gateway packaging. Lately, though, Waitt
has been using his sidekick to attack the entertainment industry. In a TV commercial,
Waitt is driving down the highway in an 18-wheeler at dusk, with the cow riding
shotgun. Waitt shoves a homemade CD into the truck's sound system. Out comes a
hip-hop version of Gordon Lightfoot's 1974 classic "Sundown." Waitt raps along as he
steers the big rig, bobbing his head to the beat.
http://www.fortune.com/index...?channel=print_article.jhtml&doc_id=207975




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