10 Emerging Technologies That
Will Change Your World
Online Search Engines Help
Lift Cover of Privacy
Sophisticated search engines such as Google are being used
to legally seek out and uncover confidential information and
documents--credit card numbers, spreadsheets, Social Security
numbers, etc.--and Computer Sciences researcher Johnny Long
reports than "tens of thousands" of Web sites are ...
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Chip That Speaks Languages
of Asia Levels Playing Field
A breakthrough in microchip technology could significantly
lower the cost of PCs in China and help remove Asia's
dependence on Western high-tech. Culturecom Holdings
researcher Chu Bong-foo has developed a chip that is
responsive to the myriad characters of Chinese and other Asian
languages. ...
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Securing Electronic
Voting
A recent review of Diebold Election Systems' electronic
voting machines commissioned from Raba Technologies by the
Maryland legislature indicates that the systems' software
suffers from vulnerabilities that would allow votes to be
manipulated. The researchers reported that they altered voting
...
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MIT Student Dances with
Robots
MIT graduate student Sommer Gentry is investigating how
dancing partners communicate haptically (through movement) to
perform coordinated actions, and the insights she is drawing
from her experiments could be applied to human-robot
collaboration. She says that robotic surgical assistants ...
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Smart Switching Could Solve
Communication Tangle
The Mercury system currently under development at IBM could
enable people to seamlessly switch between communications
modes without interrupting the flow of discussion, using a
combination of location-aware and context-aware methods.
Mercury was devised by IBM's Hui Lei and the University of ...
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Software Innovation Is
Dead
Jonathan Love, a computing student at Imperial College,
London, claims that software innovation is dead, arguing that
software developers are no longer motivated to pursue
innovative projects. He reports that security software has
experienced the largest amount of growth in the last several
years, ...
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False Hope for Stopping
Spam
Legislative attempts to control spam, such as the recently
passed CAN-SPAM Act, are unlikely to significantly impede the
deluge of junk email, partly because the amount of spam
originating outside the United States is growing. Anti-spam
advocates gathered at MIT's Spam Conference in January ...
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Official Urges
Strengthening of Anti-Terrorism
Strategies
The Bush administration needs to strengthen its plans for
cybersecurity, data collection, and related fields as it works
to fight terrorism, says Randall Yim, General Accounting
Office managing director of homeland security and justice
issues. "We're moving to the implementation stage, ...
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Voice XML 2.0 Nears Final
W3C Standard
The Voice XML 2.0 specification took the next-to-last step
towards becoming an official World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
standard with its publication as a Proposed Recommendation by
the W3C. The consortium declared that the Voice XML standard
will provide access to Web-based services to an ...
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The Net: Safety, Blogs and
Protocols
Uncertainty abounds when the topic is the immediate future
of the Internet, and while the subject is debated regularly on
email lists, Web sites, and discussion groups, corporations
and individuals will have a hand in shaping the technology.
Hackers have stepped up their attacks, prompting concerns ...
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Why 802.11 Is
Underhyped
People have failed to recognize the significance of the
802.11 communications standard, considering the impact Wi-Fi
will have on the wireless communications industry, writes
Benchmark Capital's J. William Gurley. Although some vendors
are pushing competing technologies, 802.11b ...
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Tackling the Secure Web
Mail Challenge
The secure Web mail technology sector is trending toward
appliances that serve other email infrastructure security
purposes besides Web mail protection, but they require some
knowledge of how to handle Web mail security, writes
information security professional Keith Pasley. Web-based ...
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Apple Continues Safari for
Panther Users
Apple has rolled out Safari version 1.2, an upgrade to its
Safari platform whose features include built-in Google search;
a new technique for naming, organizing, and presenting
bookmarks; tabbed browsing; a SnapBack tool that allows users
to return to search results instantaneously; and automatic ...
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Storage Reality
Check--Open Systems Standardization
Open systems storage lags behind the standards compliance
and interoperability expectations of open systems networking,
and catching up may ultimately prove impossible. To appease
customers' desire to retain vendor value-added features and
establish interoperability, the open ...
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Senator Calls for
Mandatory Reporting of Viruses
There is a flaw in the Homeland Security Department's virus
alert system, according to Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), who
contends that the announcement of the email alert system last
month by the agency's National Cyber Security Division (NCSD)
was a challenge to hackers to mimic the ...
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Beating a Path to the
Datacenter
Linux creator Linus Torvalds expects the recently released
Linux v2.6 kernel to be a significant driver of Linux's
migration into the corporate datacenter. "The greatest impact
is really how we've extended the reach of the kernel; both up
through scalability to enterprise hardware, and down to ...
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SIP Rollouts Hit Variety
of Snags
The emerging Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) standard is
designed to facilitate real-time multimedia communications on
the Internet, but unanticipated interoperability problems are
holding up the rollout of commercial Voice over Internet
Protocol (VoIP) services. These problems ...
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10 Emerging Technologies
That Will Change Your World
Yuqing Gao of IBM's Watson Research Center has set the
ambitious goal of developing universal translation software
that uses semantic analysis in which meaning is extrapolated
from phrases in one language and converted into any other
language; the progress toward universal translation is being
...
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