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RAIN 0811 Weekly Update: Technology (16)



Darwin 7/2002
Kodak's Sharper Focus
Eastman Kodak pins its survival on a new digital strategy as its
old-line film business nears extinction.
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/070102/kodak.html

Library Journal 7/15/02
Creative Intranets
By Susan DiMattia
Constant renewal is the key to developing dynamic sites "One of the main lessons learned with first-generation web sites is that getting content up on corporate intranets isn't all that hard. Keeping that information current and maintaining it is a constant challenge."
With that statement, Cindy Chick, information services technology coordinator at Latham & Watkins law firm in Los Angeles, summarizes an increasingly important challenge
facing corporate information specialists.
http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA231638&publication=libraryjournal


Darwin 7/2002
5 Thoughts about storage
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/thoughts/


ZDNet Australia 8/1/02
Give your documents proper recognition
By Alfred Poor, ZDNet US
Can Abbyy FineReader 6.0 truly transform paper documents into editable PC files? Let your eyeballs do the walking over our review of this remarkable OCR software.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/reviews/software/business/story/0,2000023555,20267064,00.htm


Line56 8/2/02
Cutting the Red Tape
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care promotes CRM benefits on billboards; online billing today, self-service tomorrow; "a gratifying measure," says CEO
by Tom Kaneshige, Line56
Nearly three years ago, Charles Baker grabbed the reins at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, one of the oldest non-profit health-care organizations in New England, and swung the company toward a new way of thinking. In a conservative industry mired in red tape, CEO Baker mandated sweeping changes, in particular an online invoice presentment and payment (EIPP) process that would make it easier for members -- patients, doctors and brokers, among them -- to do business with the health care firm.
http://line56.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=3897


Business 2.0 8/2002
The Pen as Mighty as the Keyboard
Why tablet PCs could spell the end of paper trails.
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,42148,FF.html


The Register 8/2/02
Microsoft EULA asks for root rights - again
By Andrew Orlowski in London
An addition to Microsoft's End User Licensing Agreement
has alarmed Register readers.
Windows XP Service Pack 1 and Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 contain a new condition which asks you to allow Windows to go and install future updates.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26517.html


Centre Daily Times 8/5/02
High-tech 'printing comes to law enforcement
By Caroline Terenzini
Centre Daily Times
UNIVERSITY PARK -- Fingerprints, used as identifiers for more than 100 years, have gone digital.
Thanks to today's technology, the whorls and ridges that can identify an individual -- and sometimes convict a crook -- can now be scanned, digitized, indexed, stored and  searched electronically.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3802803.htm


AP 8/5/02
Glitches Mar Japan ID System Debut
By NATALIE OBIKO PEARSON Associated Press Writer
TOKYO (AP) - Technical glitches and grass-roots resistance atypical of Japan accompanied Monday's debut of the country's first national identification system, a registry designed to battle bureaucracy by centralizing personal data.
The system will assign an 11-digit identification number to each of Japan's 126
million citizens - much like the U.S. Social Security number - and gather basic
information on each in a networked central database: name, address, sex and birth
date.
http://news.findlaw.com/ap_stories/i/1104/8-5-2002/20020805120011_69.html


New York Times 8/5/02
Downloading Magazine Replicas
By BOB TEDESCHI
TECHNOLOGY REVIEW magazine plans to announce a new service today that enables users to download an exact replica of the magazine to read at their leisure, placing the magazine among a fast-growing crowd of publications using this form of online distribution.
Compared with typical Web publishing, which uses formats designed specifically for reading on a computer screen, Technology Review and other publishers are transmitting electronic copies of their printed pages. Publishers see this service — variously called digital delivery, digital replicas or electronic editions — as a way to build both advertising and circulation revenue when few companies have been performing well in either category.
And since digital delivery incurs negligible additional costs beyond the print version, publishers are greeting this new technology with an attitude of "why not?"
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/05/technology/05ECOM.html



Cincinnati Business Courier 8/6/02
KeyCorp to offer new imaging system
KeyCorp has launched a new imaging product as part of the company's multimillion
dollar lockbox platform upgrade project.
The electronic-based product will serve as a more efficient way for users to process accounts receivable data and images, the bank said.
Key2Image Lockbox can show digital images of checks and documents, provides faster payment reconciliation and sharper images. The Lockbox is available in CD-ROM format but eventually also will come with an Internet-based option through KeyTotalTreasury, Key's cash management treasury portal.
http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2002/08/05/daily18.html


Dallas Morning News 8/6/02
Universities weigh security of online admissions sites
By LINDA K. WERTHEIMER / The Dallas Morning News
Several Texas university officials say they don't like how easily Princeton's admissions director snooped into Yale's new Web site for applicants.
They're asking themselves: Could someone break into our systems? As it turns out, it wouldn't be hard to do at some Texas schools.
Texas A&M and the University of North Texas have Web sites just like Yale's, which lets students check their admission status by typing in their Social Security numbers and birth dates.
http://www.dallasnews.com/localnews/stories/080602dnmetonlineapply.4c09f.html


Memphis Business Journal 8/7/02
Mimeo launches Internet-based, digital document center
On-demand print services company Mimeo announced that it has launched DocCenter, a new document management system that allows organizations to post content to a centralized digital location and provide multiple-user remote access for printing and next day delivery.
Mimeo's DocCenter will transform the way companies manage, print and distribute printed documents, company officials say.
http://www.bizjournals.com/memphis/stories/2002/08/05/daily26.html


Newsfactor 8/8/02
Microsoft, U.S. Settle Passport Privacy Case
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18954.html


The Independent 8/10/02
How police search for clues in cyberspace
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=323053


Seattle Post-Intelligencer 8/10/02
Lawyer accused of trying to hack his ex's e-mail
By TRACY JOHNSON
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
An Eastside lawyer and two men with criminal records were charged yesterday with
using illegal means to affect -- or retaliate for -- the way things were going in court.
Lawyer Roger Madison was charged with computer trespassing, accused of accessing his ex-girlfriend's e-mail account to gain the upper hand in a legal dispute. He was trying to force the woman to give back an engagement ring he'd given her and wanted to know where she was keeping it, according to court documents.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/82178_lawyer10.shtml



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