Sometimes the internet goes out of its way to let other people get their hands on your intellectual property, says Simon Moores. Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: November 2004
UK Article Reports Favorably on Use of RFID in Libraries
Using RFID tags to track library books could increase security and ease laborious stocktakes. Continue Reading
Soft Launch of MSN Search Beta
MSN Search (beta) About MSN Search Microsoft Unveils Its Internet Search Engine, Quietly Microsoft Web Searcher Isn’t as Good as Google, But in Time It Could Be Continue Reading
Range of Groups File Comments Opposing FCC Internet Wiretap Plan
The following resources, from the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), reference the FCC’s proposed rule, published in the Federal Register September 23, 2003, on the Communications for Law Enforcement Assistance Act (CALEA). VoIP and Law Enforcement Surveillance Joint Comments of Industry and Public Interest [PDF], November 08, 2004 CDT Policy Post 10.20: Coalition Opposes… Continue Reading
Google Indexes 8 Billion Pages
This morning the Google homepage indicated “Searching 8,058,044,651 web pages.” From the Google Blog: “The documents in Google’s index are in dozens of file types from HTML to PDF, including PowerPoint, Flash, PostScript and JavaScript. Together these pages represent a good chunk of the world’s information, but hardly all of it. That’s why we keep… Continue Reading
GAO Reports on System to Evaluate Progress in America
Informing Our Nation: Improving How to Understand and Assess the USA’s Position and Progress GAO-05-1, November 10, 2004. Highlights. “There has been growing activity and interest in developing a system of key national indicators that would provide an independent, trusted, reliable, widely available, and usable source of information. Such a system would facilitate fact-based assessments… Continue Reading
Challenges to Preserving Personal and Institutional Digital Data Are Huge
Even Digital Memories Can Fade: “So dire and complex is the challenge of digital preservation in general that the Library of Congress has spent the last several years forming committees and issuing reports on the state of the nation’s preparedness for digital preservation.” Continue Reading
Request for GAO Investigation on E-Voting Machines and 2004 Election
November 8, 2004 – Text of Follow-up Letter from Reps. Conyers, Nadler, Wexler, Scott, Watt and Holt to GAO Comptroller Walker Requesting Investigation of Voting Machines and Technologies Used in 2004 Election November 5, 2004 – Text of Letter from Reps. Conyers, Nadler and Wexler to GAO Comptroller Walker Requesting Investigation of Voting Machines and… Continue Reading
GAO Report Highlights Lack of Gov’t Policy to Prevent Exposure of Social Security Numbers
Social Security Numbers: Governments Could Do More to Reduce Display in Public Records and on Identity Cards GAO-05-59, November 9, 2004. Highlights. “Social Security numbers appear in any number of records exposed to public view almost everywhere in the nation, primarily at the state and local levels of government. State agencies in 41 states and… Continue Reading
Reminder That Online WSJ Access is Free This Week
And to take a look at this article on how companies large and small are cutting technology costs by using open source applications, VoIP, scaling back on hardware purchases. In addition, there is less corporate focus on next “killer app.” See also Paid Placements Hit Travel Booking Sites Continue Reading
VA Launches Enhanced E-Health Records Database
For veterans, the My HealtheVet website has implemented the first stage of an electronic personal health record, with new features that provide registered users with the ability to create and update personal health care records online, inclusive of personal information, military health history, medications (prescription and other), medical events, tests, and allergies. Continue Reading
FCC Declares VoIP Service Not Subject to State Regulation
FCC press release, 11/09/04: “The Federal Communications Commission declared today that a type of Internet telephony service offered by Vonage Holdings Corp. called DigitalVoice is not subject to traditional state public utility regulation. The Commission also stated that other types of IP-enabled services, such as those offered by cable companies, that have basic characteristics similar… Continue Reading
