e-Clippings 2.5.2004 *Not Latin for Fair and Balanced
"Legero. Cogito. Scribero."

"We don't stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we
stop playing." -Oliver Wendell Holmes
(found at twitchspeed.com)
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NEWS

Announcement: The Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative has
released SCORM 2004 (formerly known as SCORM Version 1.3). The most
significant change from SCORM Version 1.2 to SCORM 2004 is the
addition of learning content sequencing capabilities as defined by
the IMS Global Learning Consortium's Simple Sequencing (SS)
specification to address the need for dynamic presentation of
learning content based on learner performance. SCORM 2004 is now
available for download from the SCORM Downloads section of
ADLNet.org.
The SCORM 2004 Conformance Test Suite will be released soon to allow
organizations to self-test their conformance to SCORM 2004.
www.adlnet.org

Update: Hollywood, P-to-P companies back in court: P-to-P appeal
centers on Napster, Betamax cases By Paul Roberts, IDG News Service
February 04, 2004 Questions about two copyright cases and two
technologies, separated by almost 20 years of technological
innovation, dominated an appeals court hearing Tuesday that is
pitting peer to peer (P-to-P) file sharing software companies against
leading entertainment industry groups.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/02/04/HNhollywoodpeer_1.html

Microsoft Offers $250,000 Reward In Mydoom.B Attacks: The money will
come from the $5 million bounty program Microsoft announced last year
to reward people for information relating to worm and virus authors.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89584,00.html?nlid=AM

Gateway To Acquire EMachines In $234M Deal: The company hopes to
bolster its shrinking PC revenue while it pursues the consumer
electronics market, officials said today.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89585,00.html?nlid=AM

E-gov requires teamwork: OMB's associate administrator for
e-government and IT says managers can take cues from the New England
Patriots.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0202/web-tad-02-04-04.asp

EMERGING TECH SECTION

Will IM Eyes Be Watching You?: Instant messaging brought 'presence'
to the desktop. Now, the Internet Engineering Task Force is working
to take the technology to the next level by creating a framework for
merging users' geographic location data into their presence
information. -InstantMessagingPlanet
http://nl.internet.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=1,ozg,1,dy4q,jry8,kdcl,8t40

Lotus pursues collaboration vision: Posted January 30, 3:00 p.m.
Pacific Time IBM Lotus Software's once distant vision of
standards-based collaboration is coming into view as the company
rolls out products that preserve existing investments while moving
toward the future.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=530372:1F4D50E

Fossil Abacus AU4000: Fossil is making some of the hardware for
Microsoft's new MSN Direct service, which wirelessly delivers tidbits
of info right to your wrist. The $129 Abacus AU4000 is currently
Fossil's least expensive smart watch. Read the review to get the full
skinny.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=24-8DdMIczCqpAjR5Uwohuftjr78tZR


TRENDS AND RESEARCH SECTION

(from elearningpost)
CLO: THE PROMISE OF ONLINE SIMULATIONS: "This article touches on some
fundamental questions about simulations: What topics are best taught
through simulations? What are the characteristics of successful
simulations? How can simulations best be integrated into training
environments? What are the barriers that prevent organizations from
adopting them? Only when good answers to these questions are provided
will simulations find widespread adoption in corporate training
settings." http://www.clomedia.com/content/templates/clo_feature.asp?
articleid=382&zoneid=29

Campus on a Keyboard - Christian Science Monitor
Many Americans, both students and employers, see online learning as
an acceptable--and perhaps far more convenient--alternative to
traditional schools. But in the eyes of some, it's a controversial
development that promises to shake up the practice, regulation, and
funding of college education in the U.S. Distance learning represents
"the extreme commercialization of higher education," says humanities
scholar Morris Berman, author of "The Twilight of American Culture."
It's a development that threatens "the sacred space of the
classroom," according to technology historian David Noble, author of
"Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education." The
debate will become more than merely academic for U.S. lawmakers as
early as this spring, as they revisit the Higher Education
Reauthorization Act.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0203/p12s03-legn.html


MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

DAN FARBER: Why 802.11 is underhyped: J. William Gurley is convinced,
despite the overwhelming hype, that 802.11 (Wi-Fi) is seriously
underhyped. "802.11, or one of its backwardly compatible
descendants, will dominate the wireless communications sector over
the next 10 years the same way the x86 architecture dominates
computing and that Ethernet dominates networking," Gurley says. In
his incisive commentary, he provides the logic to support what he
calls the "inescapable power of the first true open-standard radio."

http://ct.com.com/click?q=d6-yw2KQMPnP6myaHsWsOizsVJSyScR

DIGITAL RIGHTS FOR MOBILES NOW IN FOCUS: The Open Mobile Alliance has
released the second version of its digital rights management (DRM)
system, part of its drive to establish standards to govern the sale
of mobile content. The new DRM system will allow consumers to
download digital content such as music, video clips and games across
mobile networks and will allow the operators and content providers to
charge for it. Although the release of the new standard is a major
advance for the industry, analysts say many issues still need to be
resolved before it becomes the industry standard, and the final
specification will not be available until June 2004. The lack of
agreed standards has already forced some operators to develop their
own specification for services like music downloading, including mmO2
in the UK.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9389530

IBM, Sony update lightweight laptops
http://ct.com.com/click?q=21-UPROIjdOVuFkGWxe857o88RFjyRR

Good revamps handheld messaging software
http://ct.com.com/click?q=5f-WK5BIIKQ2Z187VRNmPJ6B6QXMYnR

PalmSource to hatch new OS strategy
http://ct.com.com/click?q=13-NxSZI3XUrSiCAuwoOKpfIxOgql9R

THE 'MOST TALKED ABOUT' DOWNLOADS FOR YOUR PDA
By Jason Parker: KILLER DOWNLOADS: One of the best ways to find
superior software is to see which programs users recommend. Today
Jason shows you the three mobile apps that are receiving the most
buzz from readers like you.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=5a-ahD1IP0KMKs6JDQSGSDLBJQFz0eR

Handmark Releases New Education Software for Palm PDAs
New versions of Mobile Mentor and Road Scholar include expanded
applications for educators and students.
http://www.mobilescholar.com/

Sony launches two new Clié PDAs : Posted February 3, 5:10 a.m.
Pacific Time: Sony Corp. will launch two new models in its Clié PDA
(personal digital assistant) range in Japan in two weeks and plans to
follow that with launches of the devices in overseas markets, the
company said Tuesday.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=52E1E4:1F4D50E


GAMING SECTION


COPYRIGHTS AND PATENTS SECTION

Trademark Lawsuit Filed Against Google Keywords: American Blind and
Wallpaper Factory Inc. asserts that Google's use of keywords for
advertising violates the blind maker's trademarks.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89623,00.html?nlid=PM

DVD CCA Drops Case Against DeCSS Publishers: The organization that
licenses CSS copy protection for DVDs abandons its trade secret-based
lawsuits against publishers of CSS hacks. -DRM Watch
http://nl.internet.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=1,ozg,1,29n7,9znm,kdcl,8t40


SECURITY SECTION


HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

Forum: Technologies That Refuse to Die: TR's article identifying 10
technologies that remain with us long past their supposed
obsolescence has prompted a flurry of forum postings suggesting
additions to our list, including printed books, mainframe computers,
manual transmissions, and microfilm.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/scigliano0204.asp?trk=nl

Out-of-memory Problem Caused Mars Rover's Glitch:
Amid all the excitement after the Mars landing on Jan. 3, and with
data being beamed back to Earth by the Spirit rover, mission
technicians didn't delete old files and directories to clear the
rover's memory for reuse.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89829,00.html?nlid=PM
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