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RAIN 0714 Weekly Update: Technology (8)



eWEek 6/24/02
Store More Pay Less
Make Room for Data
By Anne Chen
Just because his IT budget isn't growing much these days doesn't mean that Kent Morrison's need for more storage capacity is slacking off. As much as Morrison, IT director at the city of Steamboat Springs, Colo., has tried to keep storage growth under control, the demand for primary and backup capacity is increasing by about 8 percent per year. Every year.
"We're definitely seeing the need for more storage and backup capability, but, unfortunately, budgetwise, we're going to spend a lot of 2003 trying to recover from 2002," Morrison said. "This means looking at new technologies that will give us speed
and reliability at lower costs."
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,266650,00.asp


ABC News 7/5/02
Preserving the ‘Charters of Freedom’
U.S. Constitution and Other Documents Get High-Tech Protection
By Peter Barnes, Tech Live Washington Bureau Chief
July 5 — The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration has turned
high-tech to help save America's most precious historical documents — the
Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/TechTV/techtv_docutech020705.html


Wall Street Journal 7/8/02
Hotmail Has Quite a Job to Save
Its E-Mail Empire From Spam
by Lee Gomes
You think you've got a problem with spam e-mails because of the dozen or so you get every day? Welcome to Hotmail, where they get more than a billion.
Hotmail, owned by Microsoft, is, by virtue of its 110 million users, among the world's biggest e-mail providers. It is, therefore, one of the world's biggest spam buckets. The number of messages it gets each day is closing in on two billion. Up to 80% are spam.
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1026085791622086280,00.html


TechNews.com 7/8/02
House to Try Scanned-In Letters
Pilot Program Aims to Speed Delivery Without Adding Risk
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36814-2002Jul7.html


Wall Street Journal 7/10/02
ChoiceMail Designs Top Cop
To Thwart Tricky Spammers
by Walter S. Mossberg
Spam is the scourge of the Internet, and it may yet kill e-mail as a valuable communications medium. Millions of people have to devote precious time every day to deleting these offensive, deceptive and totally unsolicited marketing pitches from the worst bottom-feeders in all of capitalism.
This crisis has spurred frantic efforts to turn technology against the spammers, by devising methods to automatically identify and delete spam. They haven't been that effective, however, because the spammers soon learn to evade them with fake addresses and misleading text.
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1026347299339855880,00.html


New York Times 7/11/02
Now, the Synchronized Family
By PETER MEYERS
WAS a mutiny afoot in the Tanner family when 15-year-old Melissa began deleting appointments from her father's datebook? No, explained John Tanner, Melissa's father. The Tanners, who live in Pasadena, Calif., had recently begun using a shared calendar program for the Palm computers that he, his wife and Melissa use.
"She didn't quite get what we were doing, and she would see things on this calendar on her Palm and say, `Oh, that doesn't have anything to do with me — I'll delete it,' " Mr. Tanner said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/11/technology/circuits/11FAMI.html


New York Times 7/11/02
Pirates of the Web
By JENNIFER 8. LEE
LAST week, at age 29, John Sankus Jr. moved out of his parents' house for the first time. He and his parents drove 150 miles from their home in suburban Philadelphia to his new one: a federal penitentiary in Allenwood, Pa.
Mr. Sankus, who entered the minimum-security prison on July 2 to serve a 46-month sentence, is a soft-spoken, churchgoing computer technician who still has the plush stuffed whales from his childhood.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/11/technology/circuits/11WARE.html


Line56 7/12/02
Manufacturing, Design, and Documents
A.J. Antunes uses design system and shared platform for
manufacturing-centric document management
by Demir Barlas
One of the most pressing challenges faced by discrete manufacturers is to connect the
engineering side of the business with manufacturing, quality control, and customer
service.
For example, in a strictly siloed manufacturing environment, the shop floor might be
ignorant of revised designs and manufacture the wrong items; engineers, unaware of
customer complaints regarding a specific part, could continue to use it in their designs.
This is just the kind of manufacturing nightmare Chicago's A.J. Antunes -- a manufacturer of highspeed toasters and steamers for fast food restaurants, control boards for those items, and a water filtration system -- wants to avoid. The company's choice came when it was graduating from its version of AutoCAD to an engineering-centric design system. Donald Springer, IS Manager at A.J. Antunes, explained that the manufacturer had to choose between a content management system plus a design system, or just a design system.
http://www.line56.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=3836



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