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RAIN 0721 Weekly Update: Technology (18)
GCN.com 7/01/02
Is DVD a wise archival option? Maybe, feds say
By Patricia Daukantas
“Most applications take data preservation for granted,” says National
Institute of Standards and Technology researcher Oliver Slattery, and that’s
why he is studying the interoperability and durability of DVD technology.
At the recent DVD 2002 conference in Gaithersburg, Md., Slattery and Richard
Harada, executive director of the High-Density Storage Association, described
their joint effort to test DVD storage hardware, software and media.
Slattery said they use temperature, humidity and light chambers to accelerate
aging of optical media and gauge its lifetime.
http://www.gcn.com/21_17/news/19184-1.html
InformationWeek 7/1/02
Searching For Simplicity July 1, 2002
The newest toolkit from corporate search vendor Verity Inc. includes features
that automate complex indexing and taxonomy creation, simplifying the process
of creating an accurate business search engine.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020701S0001
Information Week 7/8/02
Guarded Optimism
Even as companies plug more holes, the threats grow more sophisticated
By George V. Hulme
It wasn't so long ago that IT directors such as David Johnson at Kyanite
Mining Corp. believed they were losing the battle against viruses, worms, and
other malicious data destroyers. Soon after computer systems were cleared of
one bug, another with a nickname such as Code Red or I Love You swept through
their networks, clogging E-mail servers, infecting partners' and customers'
networks, and sometimes wiping out information.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020703S0020
Wired 7/11/02
F U Cn Rd Ths, So Can Translator
By Elisa Batista
Sending text messages on a cell phone is so popular in Europe that the new
leader of the Methodist church recently blamed it for undermining human
relationships.
http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,53626,00.html
InfoWorld 7/12/02
Healthy challenges
By Jack Mccarthy
MIKE WOJCIESZEK, CTO of VA San Diego Healthcare, is an active member of the
hospital's
task force grappling with the increasingly complex challenges of electronic
medical record keeping.
What has been as important as his role on the task force is a change to the
CTO's placement on the hospital organizational chart. Wojcieszek now reports
to the associate chief of staff for health care analysis -- a doctor. "I used
to report to the COO, but senior management felt that as our [information
system] evolves into a clinical management system, the clinical side should
have more to say," Wojcieszek explains.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/ct/xml/02/07/15/020715cthospital.xml?0717wep
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ComputerWorld 7/15/02
Case studies in IT security and disaster recovery
By MITCH BETTS
Here are examples of three IT managers who have taken creative approaches to
dealing with issues such as recovering from laptop crashes and monitoring all
of those security sensors.
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,72581,00.ht
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Cleveland Plain Dealer 7/15/02
Self-shredding e-mail
Chris Seper
Plain Dealer Reporter
Your e-mail will self-destruct.
An upcoming version of Microsoft's e-mail program Outlook will let authors
decide how long an e-mail message will exist and whether it can be sent to
other people or printed out for posterity.
It's one of a series of new controls Microsoft is preparing that would give
users greater control over their written words in an era when everything from
private love letters to company secrets spread across the Internet like oil
spills.
http://www.cleveland.com/tech/plaindealer/index.ssf...ml_standard.xsl?/base/bu
siness/1026639092272510.xml
Content Wire 7/16/02
Classification Engine Categorizes Complex Character-Based Languages
Mohomine Classifier Offered for Usage in Intelligence Communities
Mohomine, a provider of software for integrating text into enterprise
applications, developed mohoClassifier v2.3 (mC,) a classification engine
capable of categorizing documents written in complex character-based
languages.
http://www.content-wire.com/FreshPicks/Index.cfm?ccs=86&cs=2052
allNetDevices.com 7/17/02
Wirelessly View Complex Docs and Drawings
By Matthew A. Peretz
Digital Paper Corporation announced today the availability of DigitalPaper
Wireless 5.1.
DigitalPaper Wireless 5.1 leverages DirectSight, Digital Paper's patented
technology, that enables viewing of any document--regardless of size or
complexity--without attaching, sending, or downloading files or applets. The
documents never leave the customer's secure environment.
http://allnetdevices.com/wireless/news/2002/07/16/wirelessly_view.html
InfoWorld 7/17/02
FCC sets rules for how carriers share customer data
By Scarlet Pruitt
THE U.S. FEDERAL Communications Commission (FCC) set forth new rules this
week on how telecommunications carriers can share certain customer
information, giving telecom-related service providers a faster track to
consumer data.
Carriers can share caller information with affiliates or third-party agents
that
provide communications-related services using an "opt-out" approach, the FCC
said. The policy means that consumers' information will be shared unless they
opt-out when receiving a notice of the carrier's intent to share their
information.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/07/17/020717hnfccrules.xml?0717wep
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Rocky Mountain News 7/17/02
FCC rules on sharing of customer records
Telephone companies can give information to other divisions
By News Staff And Wire Reports
Federal regulators adopted rules Tuesday that would prevent telephone and
paging companies from sharing customer information with organizations that
don't provide communications services.
But the rules would allow phone companies such as Qwest Communications to
share customer records with its other divisions to sell related services such
as Internet or voice mail.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/business/article/0,1299,DRMN_4_1270029,0
0.html
InfoWorld 7/17/02
Gov't, groups release Win 2000 security benchmark
By Sam Costello
A GROUP OF private sector organizations and government agencies will release
Wednesday a new benchmark testing tool designed to let users and
administrators more easily configure security settings on their Microsoft
Windows 2000 systems.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/07/17/020717hnwintool.xml?0717wepm
Information Week 7/17/02
Tooled To The Net
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020712S0011
NewsFactor 7/18/02
Plumbing the Personal Data Depths
By Brian McDonough
Developers of deep Web mining technology acknowledge concerns about how
personal data is used, but say the problem must be handled by those who
decide what information goes on the Internet.
http://sci.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18640.html
NewsFactor 7/17/02
Bringing a Much Bigger Internet to Light
By Brian McDonough
What may prove valuable about deep-Web mining is the ability to interpret
individual pieces of data that might not otherwise be of much use.
http://sci.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18625.html
First Monday 7/2002
After the Dot-Bomb: Getting Web Information Retrieval Right This Time
by Marcia J. Bates
In the excitement of the "dot-com" rush of the 1990's, many Web sites were
developed that provided information retrieval capabilities poorly or
sub-optimally. Suggestions are made for improvements in the design of Web
information retrieval in seven areas.
Classifications, ontologies, indexing vocabularies, statistical properties of
databases
(including the Bradford Distribution), and staff indexing support systems are
all discussed.
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_7/bates/index.html
New York Times 7/19/02
Bracing for the storm
Rachel Konrad, Staff Writer, News.com
Like many companies near seismic faults in Silicon Valley, eBay has emergency
plans in case an earthquake destroys critical Internet connections. But these
days another kind of tremor is a more imminent danger.
The costly disruption or slowdown of service because of financially strapped
telecommunication providers is the latest major concern for companies.
"We talk about natural or financial disasters and don't necessarily
distinguish
between the two," eBay spokesman Kevin Pursglove said. "If the service ain't
there, it ain't there. That's the bottom line. It doesn't matter why or how
it happened. We just need contingency plans to take care of customers."
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_2100-1033-945047.html
PC Magazine 8/2002
Corporate Portals: More than Just a Pretty Face
By Richard V. Dragan
Step into a doctor's office at a Providence Health System hospital in
Portland, Oregon, and you'll see the latest portal technology in practice.