Federal Computer Week reports that the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center has yet to create a single, unified database comprising the dozen terror watch lists created by various government agencies, missing the December 1, 2003 deadline to complete the task.
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Daily Archives: January 14, 2004
Browser Patent Claim Upheld Against Microsoft
This afternoon, Judge James B. Zagel, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois (Chicago), refused to overturn a $521 million verdict against Microsoft, ruling in favor of Eolas Technologies Inc. in their web patent infringment dispute. The patent at issue is number 5,838,906, and is titled “Distributed hypermedia method for automatically invoking external application providing… Continue Reading
Court Rules NYC Fire Dept. Must Release 9/11 Oral Histories
From AP, news about a recent New York State State Supreme Courts Appellate Division decision in response to a freedom of information request for access to the uncensored text of oral histories provided by members of the New York City Fire Department in respect to their experiences during, and responses to, 9/11. Continue Reading
Author of Controversial Book on Administration Will Make Docs Public on Web
According to an AP report, Ron Suskind, the author of the controversial new book, The Price of Loyalty, stated he plans to publish many of the documents provided to him by former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill, on the Web “in coming weeks.” Continue Reading
Presentation on the Future of GPO
From Judith C. Russell, Superintendent of Documents, the text of her presentation from the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, in which she addresses the following topics: The GPO Reorganization Fact Gathering and Planning for the Future of GPO and the FDLP A New Economic Model for the GPO Sales Program Managing Legacy Federal Documents Collections Continue Reading
