Fw: ACM TechNews - Monday, March 25, 2002

> "Copyright Protection Bill Creates Furor in High-Tech Industry"
> Sen. Ernest Hollings' (D-S.C.) Consumer Broadband and Digital
> Television Act would require the high-tech industry to create a
> technical anti-copying standard to be embedded into hardware and
> software within a year, otherwise the FCC will be authorized to ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0325m.html#item1
> 
> "Makers of PCs Fear Wrath of Microsoft"
> Computer manufacturers such as IBM, Dell, and Compaq have shown
> reluctance to use the alternative Linux operating system in their
> new PCs due to fear of Microsoft, according to Red Hat CTO
> Michael Tiemann.  He says that Dell backed off its agreement two ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0325m.html#item2
> 
> "Wanted: A Peace Envoy to End Net's Bickering Over Address System"
> ICANN has gone from cacophonous bickering to a stupendous
> meltdown, and now needs a peace process to right the organization
> responsible for overseeing the Internet's domain name addressing
> system.  Some ICANN board members are calling for ICANN's own ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0325m.html#item4
> 
> "Bleak Future Looms If You Don't Take a Stand"
> Only a few large corporations will end up controlling access to
> the Internet, entertainment, and media content in a short while,
> if current trends continue, predicts SiliconValley.com columnist
> Dan Gillmor.  Even as free speech and technological innovation is ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0325m.html#item6
> 
> "Neural Network 'In-Jokes' Could Pass Secrets"
> Scientists have hit upon a new cryptographic technique involving
> neural networks that can train each other to solve problems.  Ido
> Kanter of the Minerva Center in Ramat-Gan, Israel, and Wolfgang
> Kinzel of the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Wurzburg, ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0325m.html#item9
> 
> "Microsoft Password Research Looks to Images, Not Text"
> Computer users whose memory limits their choice of passwords
> could one day use new verification systems that are easier to
> recall and are less susceptible to hackers.  Microsoft
> researchers are working on such systems, which use images as ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0325m.html#item10
> 
> "Will the Net Save China?"
> Internet access and computer technology will bring social
> revolution in China, according to author David Sheff in his book
> "China Dawn."  The book follows two Chinese entrepreneurs who see
> the Internet as bringing power to the masses and creating wealth ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0325m.html#item12
>
> "Web Sites Told to Delete Data"
> The White House has issued a memo to all federal agency heads
> that they should remove "sensitive but unclassified" data that
> might provide terrorists with information about weapons of mass
> destruction or how to carry out biological attacks.  The message ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0325m.html#item15
> 
> "Java: Potent Security"
> IT managers are hesitant to deploy Web services, because existing
> and soon-to-be-released versions of the Simple Object Access
> Protocol standard have a shortage of integrated security
> measures.  This has led to delays in the release of Microsoft's ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0325m.html#item17
> 
> "Winners...and Losers"
> Ziff Davis Smart Business asked a panel of business and
> technology experts to consider the life expectancy of certain
> technologies over the next 18 months to see which are worth
> investing in.  Pagers, Web phones, Linux, XML, and Wi-Fi seem ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0325m.html#item18
> 
> "The Worldwide Computer"
> Peer-to-peer applications that exploit idle machines connected to
> the Internet could make cheap, unrivaled computing power
> available to all, but such applications cannot break into the
> mainstream until an end-all solution to infrastructure problems ...
> http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0325m.html#item19



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