Dear ACM TechNews Subscriber: Welcome to the June 19, 2002 edition of ACM TechNews, providing timely information for IT professionals three times a week. For instructions on how to unsubscribe from this service, please see below. ACM's MemberNet is now online. For discussion (and voting) forums on current industry issues and the latest on ACM activities, visit http://www.acm.org/membernet Remember to check out our hot new online essay and opinion magazine, Ubiquity, at http://www.acm.org/ubiquity ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ACM TechNews Volume 4, Number 363 Date: June 19, 2002 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Site Sponsored by Compaq (http://www.compaq.com/smbcatalog) Compaq is the premier source for computing services, products and solutions. Responding to customers' requirements for quality and reliability at aggressive prices, Compaq offers performance-packed products and comprehensive services. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Top Stories for Wednesday, June 19, 2002: http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html "The Internet Gets Serious" "Microsoft Case Has a Surprise Near Its End" "'Spam' Multiplies, Spurring New Efforts to Curb It" "Reporting Web Flaws Still Flawed" "Israel's Tech Leaders Worried But Determined" "Conference to Focus on Future of Internet" "What Supercomputers Can and Cannot Do--Yet" "For Intel, Hype Without Silicon Is Just Hype" "India Tech's Plea: Come Back" "Colleges are Defending Against Computer Hacker Attacks" "Beam Me Up!" "Microsoft, HP Join UN Effort to Deliver Technology to World's Poor" "Mass Bluetooth Use is Years Away, Industry Group Says" "PC Expo Becomes Solution-Centric TechXNY" "Scientists Chart a New Path Toward Quantum Computing" "Questions Surround Domain Names" "The Fast Track to 10GbE" "Apache: Few Checks on License, Registration" "They Want You for a Safer Infrastructure" ******************* News Stories *********************** "The Internet Gets Serious" Unresolved issues over securing the Internet and administering copyright law to the Web are some of the biggest obstacles to the growth of the U.S. technology industry. Security experts believe that it would be advantageous for the government to utilize open ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0619w.html#item1 "Microsoft Case Has a Surprise Near Its End" Federal District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's sudden interest in structuring a mediation session indicates that she may be calling the proposed government settlement with Microsoft into question, just as both sides are about to make their closing ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0619w.html#item2 "'Spam' Multiplies, Spurring New Efforts to Curb It" With unsolicited commercial email multiplying exponentially, lawmakers and regulators are supporting measures that would impose severe restrictions on spam. Anti-spam strategies are being floated or implemented by a number of entities, including ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0619w.html#item3 "Reporting Web Flaws Still Flawed" A partnership between the government and the private sector that should secure the Internet from attack is snarled up in infighting and rushed decision-making. For example, a lack of coordination between Apache software developers and Internet ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0619w.html#item4 "Israel's Tech Leaders Worried But Determined" Israel's technology industry, which was thriving four years ago, has been hit hard by the telecom meltdown, the Nasdaq crash, and the eruption of Mideast violence. The result of these combined factors include depressed tech sales and exports, companies ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0619w.html#item5 "Conference to Focus on Future of Internet" The Internet Society is hosting its 2002 INET conference in Arlington, Va., this week, where some of the world's leading technologists will meet to discuss the Internet's future. Tuesday's opening day featured workshops and educational forums ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0619w.html#item6 "What Supercomputers Can and Cannot Do--Yet" The nation's scientists always need more supercomputing power in order to pioneer important new research. Recently, Indiana University and Purdue University announced they would join their supercomputing grids together to form a massive processing system ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0619w.html#item7 "For Intel, Hype Without Silicon Is Just Hype" Intel has been working on mass-produced nanotechnology quietly and diligently for years, even as the technology makes headlines today as the next big thing. The most recent 2.53 GHz Pentium 4 chips, for example, house 55 million 60-nanometer transistors, ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0619w.html#item8 "India Tech's Plea: Come Back" India's software industry is launching a public relations campaign to allay fears about a war with Pakistan, which prompted many foreign companies to return to their native lands. Companies are going so far as to assure clients that they have ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0619w.html#item9 "Colleges are Defending Against Computer Hacker Attacks" College and university computer networks are ripe targets for hackers because of their openness, and the sophistication of such attacks has caused many schools to allocate more funds toward beefing up security. Hacker attacks have risen sharply in the ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0619w.html#item10 "Beam Me Up!" Physicists at the Australian National University (ANU) report that they have successfully teleported a laser beam from one location to another almost instantaneously; although approximately 40 labs around the world have been conducting ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0619w.html#item11 "Microsoft, HP Join UN Effort to Deliver Technology to World's Poor" Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft have elected to join the CEO Charter for Digital Development, an effort to bridge the digital divide in developing countries organized by the World Economic Forum and coordinated by the United Nations. Both companies ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0619w.html#item12 "Mass Bluetooth Use is Years Away, Industry Group Says" Bluetooth Special Interest Group executive director Mike McCamon admits that widespread use of Bluetooth technology is eight years away, and that only techies and other early adopters are using the technology now. McCamon says it takes about 10 years for new ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0619w.html#item13 "PC Expo Becomes Solution-Centric TechXNY" Next week's TechXNY trade show (formerly PC Expo), will emphasize practical technology solutions rather than state-of-the-art products, according to Shoreline Research industry analyst Tim Scannell. He says these consumer- and business-centric solutions ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0619w.html#item14 "Scientists Chart a New Path Toward Quantum Computing" Researchers at MIT, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the University of Michigan have collaborated on a paper published in Nature magazine that details what they consider to be the most logical approach in the ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0619w.html#item15 "Questions Surround Domain Names" During the recent congressional hearing on ICANN, the issue of ICANN's management of the domain name system was spotlighted. Although everyone agrees that the DNS is functioning technically, ICANN is seen as bungling domain name policy issues. Domain name ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0619w.html#item16 "The Fast Track to 10GbE" The 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) specification was finally approved by the IEEE regulatory body last week, over three years after its introduction as a standard. Although early adoption is likely to be limited, experts say they expect equipment prices to ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0619w.html#item17 "Apache: Few Checks on License, Registration" Apache software has an open code, but the "corporate-friendly" terms of the Apache Software License have come under fire from Free Software Foundation (FSF) founder Richard Stallman for allowing companies to modify the code and pass it off as ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0619w.html#item18 "They Want You for a Safer Infrastructure" Critical Infrastructure Protection Board Chairman Richard Clarke and Vice Chairman Howard Schmidt aim to beef up the nation's cybersecurity by promoting cooperation between competing technology vendors, businesspeople, and bureaucrats. 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