e-Clippings 4.7.2004 Part II
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NEWS

Don't Blame Downloads for Sagging CD Sales
New data from the Harvard Business School puts the lie to the music
industry assertion that Internet file sharing is destroying the
retail music business.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/blog.asp?blogID=1352&trk=nl

Google Prepares Free E-Mail Service
If you're still getting over the jolt of Microsoft's announcement
that it will compete head-on with Google search later this year, then
hold on to your hats, because it looks like the two technology giants
are about to square off in the free Web e-mail space, too. Google
chose April Fool's Day to announce that it is offering a free Web
e-mail service, Gmail, which should compete with Microsoft's
market-leading Hotmail service.
http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-635-3-3-187403-51873-1


EMERGING TECH SECTION

(from Internet.com)
Search Your Hard Drive in a Flash
Web search engines such as Google make searching the Web incredibly
fast and comprehensive. Pity you can't do the same on your PC. Or can
you? We put X1's desktop search program to the test and found nearly
everything we were looking for.
http://nl.internet.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=1,tlb,1,dj4,fnqm,kdcl,8t40

Tadpole To Build Opteron Notebooks By June: They will ship with AMD's
64-bit chip and Sun's Java Desktop System.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,91810,00.html?nlid=MW

FCC Policy-maker Lays Out VoIP Problem
From eWEEK: A Federal Communications Commission policy-maker
underlined the financial implications of voice over IP in a speech
last week. For months, FCC Chairman Michael Powell has argued that
the government should take a hands-off approach to VoIP, which uses
the Internet Protocol (IP) to transmit voice information. But if the
technology takes off, the government will lose an important source of
revenue that is being used to fund the communications needs of the
poor, said Bob Pepper, chief of policy development for the FCC,
during a speech at the Voice On the Net show. The problem touches on
a
core concern of US communication policy.
http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-635-3-3-187403-51876-1

(from AnchorDesk)
MAKE MEETINGS MEAN MORE By Rafe Needleman
WORKS FOR ME: They're a staple of business life. So why are meetings
so often so useless? One big reason: It's too easy to forget what
happens at them. Rafe has a few apps that'll help you remember.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=cb-CjRIQJscc7kSnqok~SoReQs4hS9R

TRENDS AND RESEARCH SECTION

**I love this!
(from Technology Review)
Garfinkel: The Pure Software Act of 2006: Spyware is the scourge of
desktop computing, says columnist Simson Garfinkel. To beat back this
menace, he proposes borrowing an idea from 100 years ago. Congress,
he says, should pass legislation requiring that software come with
product labels that would reveal to consumers specific functions
built into the programs. Such legislation would likely have the same
kind of pro-consumer results as the Pure Food and Drug Act of
1906—the legislation that is responsible for today's labels
on food
and drugs.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_garfinkel040704.asp?
trk=nl

Camera Phones Fuel Mobile Diaries: With poor picture quality and
sloppy composition, why is "moblogging" becoming more popular?
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,91958,00.html?nlid=MW

THE WAY FORWARD WITH WEB STANDARDS: This is a good comprehensive
report on making a business case for the adoption of web standards.
http://www.maccaws.org/kit/way-forward/

Liability Concerns Prompt Corporate P2P Crackdown: The accelerating
crackdown against illegal music-sharing is prompting companies to
shut down P2P activities on corporate networks.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,91910,00.html?nlid=SEC


MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

You can take it with you: Handhelds close to delivering anywhere
Internet access, but security, display issues remain.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0405/tec-portables-04-05-04.asp

(from AnchorDesk)
HOW TO READ E-MAIL ON YOUR PDA By Jason Parker
KILLER DOWNLOADS: Have a bunch of e-mail accounts to keep
track of? So does Jason. One way he keeps them manageable:
he downloads messages to his PDA and reads them when he has
the chance.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=73-__ZeIBBaWqcl9iD3QhBEnfqQBc4R

DoCoMo to Study Mobile Madness: Japan's leading cellular provider
will open a lab to investigate the social impact of cell phones.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/blog.asp?blogID=1353&trk=nl

Wireless called key to global development
http://ct.com.com/click?q=aa-gBteQXUc2twu_1rzWTPBc5H~wauR

(from AnchorDesk)
POWER TO THE PEOPLE: THIS JUST IN: Want to get more juice out of your
laptop battery? Our guide explains how to extend battery life or
choose an external battery to do the job.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=f1-MtTuQpslEZOKfIXwFTQ8mMU0mPRR

Toshiba, Sandisk develop 4Gb flash memory: Posted April 6, 6:48 a.m.
Pacific Time: The new chip can store 4Gb (512KB) of data and the
companies said they are also working on a second new chip that
contains two of the 4Gb chips inside a single case for what is
effectively an 8Gb (1GB) flash memory chip.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=5D8EB8:1F4D50E


GAMING SECTION

New issue of ERCIM News: Games technology
A small sample of the contents:

-Games and Life - Introduction
by Milan Mares, Institute of Information Theory and Automation,
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic/CRCIM, Czech Republic
-Enabling Computers to Play Games like Humans
by Stephen McGlinchey, University of Paisley, UK
-Game Artificial Intelligence that Adapts to the Human Player
by Pieter Spronck and Jaap van den Herik, Maastricht University, The
Netherlands
-Games with Wireless Dynamically Changing Input/Output Units
by Anthony Savidis and Constantine Stephanidis, FORTH Institute of
Computer Science, Greece
-Multi-Agent Technology Applied to Real Time Strategy Games
by Marco Remondino, University of Turin, Italy
http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw57/

THE STRIKER ASSAULT VEHICLE: We take a look at the real titanic
tanker you can now play in 'America's Army.'
http://cgi.techtv.com/memberservices/newsletters?
click=46800&release=5587


(from eLearningpost)
DESPERATELY SEEKING SOFTWARE SIMULATIONS: Nice overview of where,
when and how software simulations should be used. It also includes
the different types of authoring tools that can be used for authoring
simulations -- from apps that create screen caps to apps that
automatically create practices, tests and even documentations.
http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage/sub_page.cfm?
section=4&list_item=13&page=1

COPYRIGHTS AND PATENTS SECTION

Patent Enforcement
The U.S. intellectual-property system has distinguished itself in the
past several years for such gems as patents on privatizing
government, a method for using a playground swing, and a computerized
system that handles reservations for going to the toilet. But
patenting the obvious is by no means confined to the land of reality
shows and SUVs.
http://cl.extm.us/?fe9512717164017c7c-fe28167073670d7b771077


SECURITY SECTION

New Netsky Worms Change Their Stripes: Netsky.S and Netsky.T, the
19th and 20th editions of an e-mail virus that first appeared in
February, are now spreading on the Internet.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,91978,00.html?nlid=PM

War Searching
A software company called Imperva has released a white paper showing
how it is possible to use automated search-engine-like software to
compile a list of every URL within a site that may be vulnerable to a
particular kind of security invasion. Such "war searching" would
enable a hacker to find 10,000 to 10,000,000 times as many points of
vulnerability as a typical worm program wending its way across the
Internet.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/blog.asp?blogID=1349&trk=nl

Plan to Counterattack Hackers Draws More Fire
Now that Symbiot, Inc. has released information on its plans to
enable companies to counterattack digital threats, some security
analysts have stepped up their concerns that it could cause more
problems than it solves.
http://nl.internet.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=1,tlb,1,b1ao,hylj,kdcl,8t40

New Products Focus On Client Security: Product announcements from
three security companies underscore the growing interest in so-called
"end point" security products that protect corporate networks from
infections introduced by mobile or remote employees.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,91950,00.html?nlid=MW

(from Anchor Desk)
WHY I'M NOT SENDING YOU VIRUSES: By Robert Vamosi
SECURITY WATCH: E-mail spoofing is common these days--so much so that
innocent people are getting blamed for spreading the latest wave of
viruses. Here's what you need to know about spoofing.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=19-BLe0I2rQOPvLdmynzu3FI1BCRURR

HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION



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