e-Clippings 5.16.01

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their
home."
- Ken Olsen president of Digital Equipment, 1977.

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NEWS

From: Anchor Desk
IS MS REALLY FORCE-FEEDING CUSTOMERS UPGRADES? YOU BET!
DEVIOUS PRACTICES: When I wrote about Microsoft's new licensing
scheme, I half-hoped I had my facts wrong. But it looks like I was
right. Here's what MS had to say.
<http://cgi.zdnet.com/slink?/adeskb/adt0516/2760892:9649913>

Generals moving up IT ranks
Several Army generals essential to the service's IT efforts are
moving into new IT-related positions
<http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0507/web-army-05-11-01.asp>

Washtech.com: THE NEW E-LEARNING THING
Have you noticed that local e-learning companies are bucking the
theory that venture capital is tight this quarter?
<http://www.washtech.com/news/morton/9740-1.html>

Learning Circuits: UNIVERSITIES DISCOVER E-LEARNING
As if the e-learning market wasn't already crowded with aspiring new
entrants, America's colleges and universities are joining in droves.
How will their presence reshape the landscape for buyers and developers of
e-learning technologies?
<http://www.learningcircuits.com/2001/may2001/harris.html>

Yahoo!: ADOBE TARGETS HIGHER EDUCATION WITH LAUNCH OF EBOOK U
Partnering institutions receive Adobe's industry-leading software and
training to create, encrypt and distribute Adobe PDF-based eBook
content such as textbooks, course packs and customized course readers. In
turn,Adobe will have the opportunity to learn and examine the way eBooks are
being adopted in institutions of higher education. Participating institutions
include: MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge,Mass; ...
<http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010514/sfm136.html>

Chicago Tribune: NAPSTERIZE YOUR KNOWLEDGE
Increasing the value of a company's knowledge will undoubtedly
increase its profits. The marketplace will respond to Napsterizing by helping to
refine and improve a business' intellectual capital, while at the same time
opening avenues for new revenue streams.
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/tech/views/article/
0,2669,ART-51753,FF.html>

Newsbytes: EUROPE MORPHS INTO 'KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY'
Sharing and using key knowledge are the foundation stones of
electronic learning in the knowledge society, said Erkii Liikanen, the European
Commission (EC) member responsible for the Enterprise and the
Information Society.
<http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/165663.html>

Face Time With Fred Smith | by Charles Fishman
The founder of Federal Express and the creator of overnight delivery is obsessed
with time and the pursuit of speed. He learned everything he knows about
leadership from the marines. And he gets choked up at
the movies.
<http://robin.fastcompany.com/cgi-bin/nph-t.pl?U=171&M=558521&MS=272>

Learning Curve
E-learning is training that takes place through a network, usually over the
Internet or a company intranet, that is widely used in both the corporate and
academic worlds.
<http://www.darwinmag.com/learn/curve/column.html?ArticleID=100>


TRENDS SECTION

*SPECIAL! Best of the Best
by Fast Company
Forget Napster and Java. The most revolutionary technologies often attract the
fewest headlines. What would business be like without the lowly bar code? What
would life in major cities be like without the
catalytic converter? We offer a collection of best-of-the-best innovations --
advances that set the business agenda.
<http://robin.fastcompany.com/cgi-bin/nph-t.pl?U=163&M=558521&MS=272>

Recipe for Success | by Linda Tischler
How do you launch a software business staffed by Web-wary employees and targeted
at a tech-averse audience? Start with passion, add funding, season with
experience, and serve.
<http://robin.fastcompany.com/cgi-bin/nph-t.pl?U=167&M=558521&MS=272>


EMERGING TECH SECTION

Opera finds footing in browser war
<http://two.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin2/flo?y=eBoH0BDdZq0U0cEI0AJ>

The Age of Eraseable Hardware -The Red Herring
A new kind of chip that adapts to programming tasks may soon reshape
the semiconductor landscape.
<http://www.herring.com/index.asp?layout=story&cha
nnel=10000001&doc_id=880019288>

World experts are meeting here to brainstorm the next step in
the evolution of the Internet--linking computers via the Net
to provide supercomputer capacity. "Scientists are creating
computer systems that will provide large-scale resource
sharing via the Internet by having otherwise unrelated
computer systems cooperate with one another," Queensland
University of Technology computing science associate professor
George Mohay said.
May 16, 2001, 10:25 a.m. PT
<http://two.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin2/flo?y=eBoH0BDdZq0U0cD20At>

Microsoft's Xbox video game console will go on sale Nov. 8 for
$299, the software giant announced Wednesday. The company
plans to have 600,000 to 800,000 consoles at launch, in hopes
of avoiding shortages that plagued Sony's PlayStation 2 last
fall. Microsoft expects to sell 1 million to 1.5 million
consoles by the end of the year, the company said.
May 16, 2001, 10:15 a.m. PT
<http://two.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin2/flo?y=eBoH0BDdZq0U0cDy0A5>

How to 'future-proof' your data storage Special Report: eWEEK Labs takes a look
at the ways an enterprise can future-proof its e-business
data storage and access solutions.
<http://www.eweek.com/a/pcwt0105151/2716738/>


SECURITY SECTION

Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, a leading congressional evangelist on critical
infrastructure protection issues, also called on U.S. civilian agencies to adopt
the "red team/blue team" models used by the defense agencies to test their
information security defenses.
In this model, red teams are the attacking force, while blue teams defend. For
the full story:
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/05/14
/010514hnsenator.xml?0515tuam>

Sun/Microsoft Worm May Have Hit 'Thousands' Of Web Sites
A new worm that infects Sun Microsystems' Unix servers and then uses
them to attack Web servers based on Microsoft's software appears to have
compromised 2,000 or more Web sites thus far, security analysts said.
<http://computerworld.com/nlt/1%2C3590%2CNAV47_STO
60509_NLTws%2C00.html>

SECURITY: What do Anna, ILOVEYOU, and Homepage have
in common (besides being annoying viruses, of course)? All are
mass-mailer worms built from do-it-yourself worm-generator kits. Yes,
creating your own virus is really that simple. The good news is that
such generic worms are easily stopped in their tracks. Robert tells you how to
squash the kit-based worms and also warns to be vigilant for non-kit-based
viruses.
<http://cgi.zdnet.com/slink?/adeskb/adt0516/2760735:9649913>
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