e-Clippings 1.30.2004 *Not Latin for Fair and Balanced
"Legero. Cogito. Scribero."

Damasio's First Law
The body precedes the mind.

Damasio's Second Law
Emotions precede feelings.

Damasio's Second Law
Concepts precede words.

ANTONIO R. DAMASIO, M.D. Ph.D is M.W. Van Allen Professor and Head of
Neurology, University of Iowa, where he studies the fundamental
mechanisms of cognition and cognitive and behavioral disturbances
caused by diseases of central nervous systems
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* Mydoom virus alert: Be cautious about opening files attached to
e-mail * At 9:00 A.M. Pacific Time on Wednesday, January 28, 2004,
Microsoft began investigating reports of a variant of a worm named
"Mydoom" or "Novarg," known as Mydoom.B. This variant reportedly
blocks access to some websites, including some Microsoft.com
websites. The worm attempts to entice users into opening an e-mail
message that has an attached program file. If the attached file is
opened, the worm installs malicious code on the user's system and
sends itself to all contacts in the user's address book.
https://information.microsoft.com/security/antivirus/mydoom.asp
MyDoom virus declared worst ever
http://ct.com.com/click?q=d2-THo_QULVlD1N3lh54r325GvgkluR
Mydoom Worm Spreads As Attack Countdown Begins: Since appearing this
week, the Mydoom.A Internet worm has infected computers around the
world and is the fastest-spreading virus to date.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89528,00.html?nlid=SEC2
Related Story: Experts: Standard Virus Protection Best Way To Fight
Mydoom: Despite the speed with which the e-mail-borne virus has
proliferated since Monday, there's nothing about Mydoom, so far, that
can't be dealt with by using antivirus, e-mail filtering and
intrusion-detection technologies.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89500,00.html?nlid=SEC2
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NEWS

FDIC Warns Of E-mail Scam: The e-mail, which purports to be from the
FDIC, tries to trick consumers into releasing their personal
information, including about their bank accounts.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89425,00.html?nlid=AM

Weblog: Roy Disney Takes His Case to the Public
The surviving brother of "Uncle Walt" has taken to the Internet to
share his perspective with shareholders and the general public, says
blogger Henry Jenkins. At SaveDisney.com, Roy Disney speaks of the
glory that was once Disney, and pushes for a grassroots coup that
might bring about a regime change within the Disney empire. It's an
example, Jenkins says, of how "what used to be behind-closed-doors
disputes within companies [are being] made public via the web."
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/blog.asp?blogID=1245&trk=nl

Microsoft: Change To IE Will Block Some Web URLs: Microsoft is fixing
a flaw in its popular Internet Explorer Web browser that makes it
easy to mask the real address of a Web page displayed by the browser.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89544,00.html?nlid=PM

Dan Gillmor: ONLINE REFERENCE TO REACH MILESTONE: Dan Gillmor writes
on Wikipedia reaching it's 200,000th article and ponders "I still
marvel at how these wide-open Wiki communities, which seem at first
glance to be so open to abuse, turn out to be so resilient. They work
because everyone can do his or her part. The model won't work in
every endeavor, but it succeeds brilliantly in this case, at least so
far."
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7793099.htm

Amazon records first profitable year in its history: Posted January
28, 6:59 a.m. Pacific Time: Amazon.com Inc.'s net revenue and net
profit both grew healthily in its fourth quarter, ended Dec. 31,
2003, compared with 2002's fourth quarter, and helped the online
retailer close 2003 with an annual profit, a first for the company,
it announced Tuesday.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=52397D:1F4D50E


EMERGING TECH SECTION

Ghostly Keys: One of the gadgets on display at January's Consumer
Electronics Show in Las Vegas wasn't there-a keyboard, developed by
iBiz Technology Corp., for use with PDAs and notebooks. The device is
a bit like Canesta's iBiz Virtual Keyboard ($99.99), which lets you
type on any flat surface.
http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-475-3-3-187403-33573-1

Google spawns social networking service
http://ct.com.com/click?q=10-YU9qI9NVn~F1xIInmW1CLB3eqxFR

Smart Robot Automates Science: Researchers in the U.K. have put
together a robot scientist that can devise a theory, fashion
experiments to test the theory, carry out the experiments, and
interpret results. But can it write a grant application?
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/rnb_012704.asp?trk=nl

Gadgets in the Superchip Age
Today, the fastest consumer microprocessors have about 180 million
transistors and can perform three billion simple operations per
second. But novel chip designs and manufacturing techniques are
keeping the 40-year computing explosion going strong. By 2007,
processors will pack more than a billion transistors and hit speeds
approaching 10 gigahertz. Predicting what sorts of gadgets will
result from this explosion in computing power is the $64,000—make
that the $64 billion—question.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/freedman0204.asp?trk=nl

TRENDS AND RESEARCH SECTION

(found on elearningpost)
Denham Grey: KM & e-Learning: "Distance learning (DL) tools that
support interactivity, feedback, annotation and communication between
people (many to many) come closest to KM in my opinion." I find it
more useful to relate both DL and KM as targeting the formal (in the
box) and informal (in the air) knowledge requirements in companies.
Sometimes companies just want to distill and encapsulate all of their
important learning points in the form of a DL course, more for the
satisfaction of knowing that their hard earned learning is not just
out there, but rather in a box, which is always at mind's reach. To
such companies, the interactivity, feedback, annotation, and
communication are "out there" and thus out of mind's reach. I have a
tough time trying to persuade companies to see their "knowledge
blanket" needs when all they want are some "learning islands".
http://denham.typepad.com/km/2004/01/km_elearning.html

MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

MICROSOFT DOMINATES IMPROVING (European) PDA MARKET: Western European
PDA shipments were up 38 percent in the fourth quarter and up 28
percent during the whole of 2003, the first full year of growth since
2000. According to the latest numbers from IDC, PDA shipments in
Western Europe hit 2.6 million last year, thanks in part to 958,000
units shipped in the last three months of the year. In 2002, just
under 2 million handheld computers/PDAs were shipped, with 693,000
leaving manufacturers' storehouses in the fourth quarter of that
year. Low prices and new bundled packages drove the healthy growth,
IDC said. Meanwhile, sales of Microsoft's Pocket PC operating system
outpaced Palm sales by a wide margin. For the full year, 1.423
million Pocket PC-based PDAs were shipped in Europe, compared to 1.039
million Palm-based devices.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9388332

EUROPEAN SMARTPHONE SALES TOP 2 MILLION Over 1 million handhelds
and over 2 million smartphones were shipped in EMEA in the last three
months of 2003. That is according to Canalys, and its findings are
evidence that the sector is gaining momentum. In the last six weeks,
rival research companies IDC and Gartner put out equally strong
figures for the mobile phone and PDA sectors. By Canalys' definition,
a handheld is a data-centric device such as a PDA, whereas a
smartphone is a device positioned mainly for voice communications but
that also comes with advanced data features. According to the
research, about 3.5 million of both sorts of devices were shipped in
the EMEA region during the three months to 31 December, a rise of 117
percent over Q4 2002. Nokia had the biggest market share overall, at
just over 50 percent.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9388548

WiMax on the horizon: With its 50-kilometer range and high
throughput, the WiMAX (802.16) wireless broadband standard has the
potential to close broadband coverage gaps and reach countless
customers worldwide. With just a few weeks away from IEEE
ratification (but still a year away from deployment), a look at an
Intel white paper provides a great backgrounder on WiMAX.

Slashdot: 802.16 WiMax wireless broadband on the horizon
http://ct.com.com/click?q=4a-HcgUIPprnUOp~EyHhEpkDXEuJpeR

White Paper: IEEE 802.16 and WiMAX: Broadband wireless access for
everyone
http://ct.com.com/click?q=e8-DOJMQfk~B_BZe0e6TeTkdcBdtOFR

WiMAX Forum
http://ct.com.com/click?q=87-izDOQ8ntP1~U~hdyUrcQjJ_wZydR

Comparing Costs Of Wireless LAN Options: A new wireless LAN
technology may offer more functionality at a lower total cost of
ownership.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89105,00.html?nlid=MW

GAMING SECTION


COPYRIGHTS AND PATENTS SECTION


SECURITY SECTION

Industry Groups Release 'Effective Security Practices Guide for
Higher Ed' - The EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Computer and Network Security
Task Force has released the Effective Security Practices Guide for
the
higher education community, providing practical approaches to
preventing, detecting, and responding to IT security problems in a
wide range of higher education environments. The guide is the result
of a collaborative effort involving college and university
information security professionals.
http://www.educause.edu/security/guide/

How to: Fending off spyware: How to detect, defend and fight back
against insidious attacks from cookies gone bad.
http://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/0126spy.html

DHS Launches National Cyber Alert System: The Department of Homeland
Security will provide a series of e-mail-based products that provide
timely information on computer security vulnerabilities, the
potential impact of those vulnerabilities and the action required to
mitigate threats.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89488,00.html?nlid=SEC2

HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

Cleaning Your Windows
Microsoft has spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to make
Windows XP and Office XP more usable. But according to Simson
Garfinkel, many of these purported improvements didn't improve
usability at all. In his best Mr. Fix-It manner, Garfinkel dives into
the various Windows options and gives his recipe for a more
productive, secure, and pleasant computing experience.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_garfinkel012804.asp?trk=nl
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