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Government Computer News 02/18/02
Will health databases spot bioterror attacks?
By Trudy Walsh
GCN Staff
New York City fine-tunes its warning network After Sept. 11 and the anthrax=20
scare, health officials nationwide began clamoring for a better data=20
infrastructure so they could view the same health data that the first=20
responders in emergency rooms and ambulances were seeing.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides a secure e-mail and=20
fax alert system called the Health Alert Network, which Homeland Security=20
director Tom Ridge said could be the basis for a national medical=20
intelligence database [GCN, Jan. 21, Page 31].
http://www.gcn.com/21_4/news/18002-1.html
About.com 02/19/02
Microsoft's Super Hidden Files
There are some files that defy detection on your computer This article=20
started out to be about another topic, but when I discovered the information=
=20
about these super hidden Microsoft files, I had to write about it. I suppose=
=20
that many of you already know about these files but this was the first I=20
heard about it and I figured that if I didn't know about them, many of you=20
didn't either.
http://netsecurity.about.com/library/weekly/aa020402a.htm?terms=3DHidden+Fil=
es
The New Zealand Herald 02/20/02
Online footprints simple to track
20.02.2002
By CHRIS BARTON
About a third of employers use high-tech computer software to monitor what=20
internet sites their staff visit while at work.
Tracking staff footsteps on the web is easy, says internet content security=20
company Marshall Software.=20
The company says about 30 per cent of companies and organisations in New=20
Zealand use the software.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3D940243&
thesection=3Dtechnology&thesubsection=3Dgeneral
Government Computer News 02/18/02
N.Y. cabbies hail digital scanner
By Trudy Walsh
GCN Staff
New York City=E2=80=99s taxicab drivers can gesture all they want at other m=
otorists=20
without having to worry about ink-stained hands.
The city=E2=80=99s Taxi and Limousine Commission is swapping its paper-and-i=
nk=20
applicant
fingerprint system for on that uses digital scanning.
http://www.gcn.com/21_4/statelocal/17961-1.html
Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Va
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<HTML><FONT FACE=3Darial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=3D2 FAMILY=3D"FIXED" FACE=3D"=
Courier New" LANG=3D"0">Los Angeles Times 02/16/02
<BR>Vatican to Open Some WWII-Era Files on Pius XII
<BR>Inquiry: Scholars examining the pope's stance on the Holocaust say the d=
isclosure
<BR>could answer only two of their 47 questions.
<BR>http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-000012071feb16.story
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Florida Times-Union 02/17/02
<BR>Virtual e-mail shredders give senders total control
<BR>By Anick Jesdanun
<BR>Associated Press
<BR>NEW YORK -- In the offline world, it can be quite a challenge to retriev=
e and destroy confidential documents from a business deal gone sour or a top=
-secret project that involved outside help.
<BR>http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/021702/bus_8623317.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Yahoo 02/18/02
<BR>Press Release
<BR>CIPA: Information Management Awards Program Invites Entries
<BR>TORONTO, ONTARIO--
<BR>Canadian Information Productivity Awards expanding in its 10th year
<BR>Canadian Information Productivity Awards, one of Canada's largest busine=
ss awards programs, is inviting entries for its 10th annual competition. Win=
ners will be recognized across Canada and around the world for leadership in=
the new economy.
<BR>http://biz.yahoo.com/ccn/020218/nsmm_xqnfayjcnttpyhtrw_1.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>New York Times 02/18/02
<BR>Fine-Tuning for Privacy, Hong Kong Plans Digital ID
<BR>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/18/technology/18KONG.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>National Post 02/18/02
<BR>Liar, liar (your e-mail) pants on fire
<BR>Fiona Harvey
<BR>Financial Times
<BR>Software that can detect when people are lying in their e-mails sounds a=
bit far-fetched, but its manufacturers declare it is true.
<BR>SAS Institute, which makes fraud-detection systems for banks and phone c=
ompanies, has announced a product that can sift through emails and other ele=
ctronic text to catch elusive nuances such as tone.
<BR>http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=3D/stories/20020218/86074.=
html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>San Antonio Business Journal 02/15/02
<BR>Plotting a new way of surveying
<BR>GPS technology replaces traditional methods of determining boundaries
<BR>http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2002/02/18/focus1.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>New York Times 02/18/02
<BR>Protecting Intellectual Property
<BR>By SARAH MILSTEIN
<BR>LAST spring Plantronics (news/quote), a telephone headset manufacturer i=
n Santa
<BR>Cruz, Calif., developed a technology for reducing microphone noise. The=20=
invention was
<BR>not something the company could use right away, but Plantronics executiv=
es did not want
<BR>to risk letting a competitor patent the idea first.
<BR>Rather than spend time and money to patent the idea, Plantronics posted=20=
a description of it on IP.com, a Web site that enables inventors to establis=
h an idea's legal existence =E2=80=94 a concept known as prior art in patent=
law. By putting its design in the public domain, Plantronics sought to prev=
ent competitors from patenting it.
<BR>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/18/technology/ebusiness/18NECO.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>The News-Gazette 02/17/02
<BR>A justice computer system for all
<BR>By MIKE MONSON
<BR>URBANA =E2=80=93 Every time a prisoner enters the Champaign County satel=
lite jail on his shift, corrections officer Todd Lawhead must enter informat=
ion about the prisoner into the county computer system.
<BR>Lots of information.
<BR>There's name, date of birth, sex, driver's license number, Social Securi=
ty number,
<BR>address, physical characteristics, criminal charges proposed by the arre=
sting agency and a host of other items =E2=80=93 12 computer fields worth of=
information.
<BR>http://www.newsgazette.com/story.cfm?Number=3D11063
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Traffick.com 02/18/02
<BR>Cloaking: Search Engines Shift Gears
<BR>By Detlev Johnson, February 18, 2002
<BR>As recently as last year, search engine representatives were unclear or=20=
did not
<BR>seem to care much about the search engine marketing application referred=
to
<BR>as cloaking, IP delivery or stealth scripts.
<BR>At one point, I remember thinking many people working at major search en=
gines must simply have no idea what cloaking is and how it works. If they ha=
d, they wouldn't have waited so long to take action against it.
<BR>Cloaking is a search engine optimization strategy in which a web page UR=
L has several documents associated with it, one for each of the major search=
engines and a different document for end users.
<BR>http://www.traffick.com/story/seo/020218_cloaking.asp
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Washington Business Journal 02/15/02
<BR>Keeping tabs: Software tracks student visas
<BR>Martin Kady II Staff Reporter
<BR>In the aftermath of Sept. 11, there has been plenty of hand-wringing ove=
r how the
<BR>United States tracks foreign students because some of the terrorists wer=
e in the
<BR>country on student visas.
<BR>Advocates for international students say all the negative publicity was=20=
unfair.
<BR>Indeed, it was only a handful of terrorists who abused a system in which=
records
<BR>were loosely kept.
<BR>http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2002/02/18/story6.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Federal Computer Week 02/18/02
<BR>'E-clearance' efforts rev up
<BR>OPM anticipates rush of requests for background checks
<BR>http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0218/mgt-opm-02-18-02.asp
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Dallas Morning News 02/19/02
<BR>Abandoned websites are snapshots in time
<BR>A page's audience often determines how fast it's updated - if at all
<BR>By CRAYTON HARRISON=20
<BR>Rodney Glaze abandoned his website in September.
<BR>He didn't mean to, really. It just fell by the wayside.
<BR>Mr. Glaze, 30, started the site in July as a way to show friends and fam=
ily the growth of his young son, Hunter. He updated it a couple of times, ad=
ding pictures and text
<BR>through Yahoo's simple page design application.
<BR>http://www.dallasnews.com/business/technology/stories/deadsites_19bus.AR=
T.1cbf1.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>CNN.com 02/18/02
<BR>Invasion of the browser snatchers
<BR>From...
<BR>By Lincoln Spector
<BR>(IDG) -- Ron Zorko was only trying to get to PC World's web site. But wh=
en he accidentally mistyped the URL, a porn site popped up.
<BR>"I suppose I should learn to type better," he says. But a typo that took=
him to mycpworld.com was only the beginning of his troubles. He soon discov=
ered that this porn site was now both his home and default search page. He c=
hanged the settings back in Internet Explorer. But with his next system boot=
, www.mycpworld.com was back.
<BR>http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/02/18/browser.snatchers.idg/index.=
html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Philadelphia Inquirer 02/19/02
<BR>Cyber-secretaries find niche online
<BR>From home, administrative assistants pull in work. Their ranks have swel=
led as companies have cut back.
<BR>By Zlati Meyer
<BR>Inquirer Suburban Staff
<BR>Jackie Eastwick's bosses have never seen her.
<BR>And probably never will.
<BR>That's because the people she works for are dozens, if not thousands, of=
miles away.
<BR>The 40-year-old Deptford resident is a virtual assistant who works from=20=
her home, juggling assignments from companies as far away as Australia and L=
ebanon. Most communication is done via phone or e-mail from the 200-square-f=
oot office she has carved out of her basement.
<BR>http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/2700664.htm
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Dallas Morning News 02/19/02
<BR>From QWERTYUIOP, an e-mail revolution
<BR>Invention that seemed mundane becomes pervasive part of life
<BR>By DOUG BEDELL=20
<BR>If you haven't noticed, most Internet denizens aren't whining about the=20=
financial flops of "The Great Dot-Com Bubble."=20
<BR>That's chiefly because, in its brief run as a mass medium, the Net is a=20=
proven provider of miracles for millions. With their simple, cheap capacity=20=
to transmit text messages,
<BR>the Internet and e-mail have become a vital part of life, health, commer=
ce and the pursuit of happiness. After all, that's how this whole thing got=20=
started in 1971 =E2=80=93 with text messaging over ARPANET, the first networ=
k of computers.
<BR>http://www.dallasnews.com/business/technology/stories/email_19bus.ART.1a=
a6d.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Government Computer News 02/18/02
<BR>Will health databases spot bioterror attacks?
<BR>By Trudy Walsh
<BR>GCN Staff
<BR>New York City fine-tunes its warning network After Sept. 11 and the anth=
rax scare, health officials nationwide began clamoring for a better data inf=
rastructure so they could view the same health data that the first responder=
s in emergency rooms and ambulances were seeing.
<BR>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides a secure e-mail=20=
and fax alert system called the Health Alert Network, which Homeland Securit=
y director Tom Ridge said could be the basis for a national medical intellig=
ence database [GCN, Jan. 21, Page 31].
<BR>http://www.gcn.com/21_4/news/18002-1.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>About.com 02/19/02
<BR>Microsoft's Super Hidden Files
<BR>There are some files that defy detection on your computer This article s=
tarted out to be about another topic, but when I discovered the information=20=
about these super hidden Microsoft files, I had to write about it. I suppose=
that many of you already know about these files but this was the first I he=
ard about it and I figured that if I didn't know about them, many of you did=
n't either.
<BR>http://netsecurity.about.com/library/weekly/aa020402a.htm?terms=3DHidden=
+Files
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>The New Zealand Herald 02/20/02
<BR>Online footprints simple to track
<BR>20.02.2002
<BR>By CHRIS BARTON
<BR>About a third of employers use high-tech computer software to monitor wh=
at internet sites their staff visit while at work.
<BR>Tracking staff footsteps on the web is easy, says internet content secur=
ity company Marshall Software.=20
<BR>The company says about 30 per cent of companies and organisations in New=
Zealand use the software.
<BR>http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3D940243&thesecti=
on=3Dtechnology&thesubsection=3Dgeneral
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Government Computer News 02/18/02
<BR>N.Y. cabbies hail digital scanner
<BR>By Trudy Walsh
<BR>GCN Staff
<BR>New York City=E2=80=99s taxicab drivers can gesture all they want at oth=
er motorists without having to worry about ink-stained hands.
<BR>The city=E2=80=99s Taxi and Limousine Commission is swapping its paper-a=
nd-ink applicant
<BR>fingerprint system for on that uses digital scanning.
<BR>http://www.gcn.com/21_4/statelocal/17961-1.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
<BR>pakurilecz@aol.com
<BR>Richmond, Va</FONT></HTML>
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