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RAIN 0609 Weekend Update: Technology (22)



VAR Business 5/31/02
Glossary of Storage Terms
http://www.varbusiness.com/sections/technology/tech.asp?ArticleID=35618


Technology Review 6/2/02
Artificial Intelligence Meets 'Read My Lips' Software Minces Any Words of Video-imaged Speaker
http://www.technologyreview.com/offthewire/3001_362002_6.asp


Corporate Board Member May/June 2002
Make Room for Computer Storage
by Michael Rosenberg
Store these terms in your memory for when your CIO comes knocking.
Every so often you get a company-wide request from the IT folk imploring you to erase your backlog of old e-mail messages so there’ll be more room on the server. But that’s not the only place where the company’s computer systems are running out of space. Odds are that your CIO will soon be begging the board to invest in mass storage, a new system that provides ready access to the kinds of data you can’t simply dump like
your arrangements for the Princeton-Yale tailgate party.
http://www.boardmember.com/issues/archive.pl?article_id=11048


Technology Review June 2002
Digital Pirates Beware
By Wade Roush
Fingerprinting firms crack down on illicit filesharing.
So you just downloaded an MP3 version of the latest Jennifer Lopez single from Gnutella or one of the other free file-sharing networks. You’re not feeling too guilty, and in any case, no one will ever know, right?
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/innovation30602.asp


New York Times 6/2/02
Geneva Voters to Take a Practice Run for Internet Elections
By ELIZABETH OLSON
GENEVA, June 1 — E-democracy will get its first real test on the European continent as 16,000 university students in Geneva use the Internet to vote on whether to legalize abortion and on other issues on this Sunday's ballot.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/02/international/europe/02SWIS.html


Seattle Times 6/2/02
Old computer's files linger on
By Margie Wylie
Newhouse News Service
WASHINGTON — Simson Garfinkel got more than he bargained for when he bought a handful  of used computers:
Mental-health patients' records, a law firm's confidential communications with clients, the writings of a famous author (whom Garfinkel won't name), and letters from a mother to her daughter at college were a few of the things the Martha's Vineyard resident found when he fired the machines up.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/134466207_computerinfo02.html


AP 6/3/02
Record companies seek answers in wake of CD burning
Posted on June 03, 2002
NEW YORK - A new technology lets people copy music for free. Lawsuits are filed.
Music sales dip. The viability of the recording industry is in doubt.
The technology? Not the CD burning and Internet file-sharing that's currently
revolutionizing the way people listen to music. No, it was the cassette tape that had
record companies worried about their future more than three decades ago.
http://www.dailyherald.com/main_story.asp?intid=3741063


Washington Technology 6/3/02
Information assurance: Integrators gear up for the next big thing
By Joab Jackson
Staff Writer
When information assurance experts at SRA International Inc., Fairfax, Va., want to show their government clients the full range of possible security risks they face, they sometimes dispatch someone to an agency office to sneak in the front door and try to
steal a computer. Or, with the permission of the agency heads, the visitor might try to find an empty conference room with an open jack to the company’s network.
http://206.144.247.77/news/1_1/daily_news/18375-1.html


New York Times 6/3/02
Questions About Online Data
By REBECCA FAIRLEY RANEY
CAN the easy distribution of data promised by the Internet actually bring
the type of scrutiny that ultimately leads to less information being
available?
That is the question being raised by a new law called the Data Quality Act,
which requires the government to set standards for the accuracy of scientific
information used by federal agencies. It is the latest move from Washington
highlighting the balance of risks and rewards when disseminating information
on the Internet.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/03/technology/03NECO.html



New York Times 6/3/02
Privacy Is Common Issue Online
By BOB TEDESCHI
THOUGH businesses and their customers have largely taken divergent paths to e-commerce — businesses promoted it endlessly; consumers embraced it tepidly — these two groups are in lock step on at least one issue: online privacy.
They both profess concern, but do little about it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/03/technology/03ECOM.html



The Age 6/3/02
Spam sender sues man, claims he tried to stop its business
Perth
A company, which makes its money by sending Internet users unwanted email, is suing a Perth man who it says has disrupted its $1,000-a-day business.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/06/03/1022982667823.html



ContactCenterWorld.com 6/3/02
Voice Print Provides Solution To Manage Audio Record Retention
Camarillo, CA - June 3, 2002 - Organizations always needed to effectively manage
information to meet strategic and operational management needs. Records of
interactions represent an important information category that needs to be
manageable with the same ease and flexibility as any other form of data. However,
the challenge of attaining comparable flexibility for this particular group has not been addressed adequately until now.
http://www.contactcenterworld.com/news.asp?req...sItemID={3D61C84C-D010-43E1-ADC6-555ACA35C9EE}


CNN.com 6/3/02
Workplace e-mail is not your own
Employers have legal right to snoop online
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/06/03/e.mail.monitoring/index.html


The Spokesman-Review 6/3/02
All X-rays, all the time
Innovators: With offices in CdA and Australia, radiologists able to help physicians 'round the clock
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/news-story.asp?date=060302&ID=s1158315


Houston Chronicle 6/5/02
Court transcripts: a superior way
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1439329



Technology Review June 2002
Leaky Cyber Borders
The Net Effect By Simson Garfinkel June 2002
A U.S. shield against foreign spam and hackers: national security or censorship?
By the time you read this, I should be filthy rich.
I recently received an e-mail that claimed to be from a high-ranking Nigerian official who had discovered some funds stolen by Nigeria’s former military government.
The bank account holding this money, I read, could be used only to transfer the funds abroad. All I needed to do was respond with the name of my bank, my bank account number and some personal information. In return, “Dr. Ahmed” would wire me 35 percent of the
trapped $41 million.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/garfinkel0602.asp


Los Angeles Times 6/4/02
In a User-Friendly World, One Picture's Worth 1,000 Passwords
Image-driven log-ons are easier to use and more secure, high-tech researchers
claim.
http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-060402passwords.story


The Age 6/4/02
Spam case warning
June 4 2002
Internet users would have to find an alternative to email if marketing companies got the green light to send junk emails, according to a Perth man being sued for complaining about ``spam''.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/06/04/1022982694284.html


Wired 6/5/02
Did MS Pay for Open-Source Scare?
By Michelle Delio
Authors of a new report on the perils of open source software are being very closed-mouth about their funding sources.
"Opening the Open Source Debate," a white paper slated to be released Friday by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, indicates that open-source software is inherently less secure than proprietary software. The report warns governments against relying on opensource software for national security.
http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,52973,00.html



NewsFactor Network 6/5/02
Archos Unveils 'World's Smallest Portable Hard Drive'
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18081.html


New York Times 6/7/02
Security Hole Found in KaZaA File-Sharing Service
By JOHN MARKOFF and MATT RICHTEL
Users of KaZaA, a popular Internet service for sharing music files, frequently expose personal files on their computers by misconfiguring the program, according to a study by two researchers at HP Labs.
The study, which was published on Hewlett-Packard's Web site on Wednesday, reveals that the peer-to-peer programs, which are wildly popular for sharing music files, software and, increasingly, video files, can also pose a serious threat to computer privacy. KaZaA, a product of Sharman Networks, is currently the most widely used of the services. It is used by an average of two million people at any time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/07/technology/07PRIV.html


Managing Information 6/7/02
Safeguarding the Integrity of Patient Casenotes in the NHS
Trackit Systems has recently installed a file tracking application at the Pinderfields & Pontefract Hospitals NHS Trust in West Yorkshire. The Trust wanted to establish an
off-site medical records library and replace the existing manual patient casenotes filing system with a fully integrated solution.
http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=599




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