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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.