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At 5639 eBooks in 31 Years We Averaged At 1347 eBooks Done In 2002 We Averaged ***Headline News*** [My Comments In Brackets] Headlines From Newsscan YALE ACCUSES PRINCETON OF HACKING INTO ADMISSIONS RECORDS Princeton University has admitted that its admissions personnel hacked into rival Yale's computer system to check on the applications status of 11 students who also had applied to Princeton. The university has suspended with pay its associate dean and director of admissions, and a spokeswoman expressed deep regret "that information provided by students in good faith to the university was used inappropriately by at least one official in our admissions office." The perpetrator(s) apparently were easily able to access the students' records via the publicly available Yale.edu Web site because they already had the students' passwords -- the names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth they had provided on their Princeton applications. The site had been set up with a feature that enabled students to check on the status of their applications themselves. The founder of one electronic-rights group noted that while Princeton's actions clearly were wrong, it was foolish of Yale to rely on Social Security numbers and birth dates to secure student data. "It's not enough to have a weak Web site and depend on the good ethical behavior of others not to penetrate it," he said. "Similarly, it is not adequate to say that just because you found the weak Web site you should go ahead and penetrate it." (Wall Street Journal 26 July 2002) http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1027628736531063280.djm,00.html (sub req'd) WHAT WAS A DOT-COM LAND GRAB, DADDY? Cybersquatting is virtually (no pun intended) a thing of the past -- and cyber "real estate" is definitely losing value. The number of dot-com, dot-net, and dot-org names has declined by more than 11% in the first five months of this year, and industry analysts are saying that the dot-com land grab is over. This is quite a change from those heady days, not so long ago, when desirable dot-com names could fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars from companies eager to project just the right image to customers. Now, already registered as many domain names to protect our trademarks as we need. We haven't needed to buy any more this year." So what will cybersquatters do now? One knowledgeable observer of the scene says, "Speculation is gone. The days of hunting out a real business opportunity are here." Maybe the cybersquatters will actually get a real job. That would be nice. (Los Angeles Times 29 Jul 2002) http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-netnames29jul29002049.story?coll=la% 2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology VIRTUAL REAL ESTATE MARKET SLUMP The number of Internet addresses ending in .com, .net and .org has declined nearly 11% since its peak of 30.7 million in September 2001. The trend means that cybersquatters, who once pounced on popular names like business.com and wine.com, and then resold them for millions, are now earning a pittance for their efforts. Domain name resellers report names such as PopeOnline.net and Sex247.net can be had for just a few hundred dollars. "The dot-com land grab is done," says a senior research analyst at U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray. In addition to a lackluster market, the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, which was signed into law in 1999, provides an additional deterrent by mandating fines of up to $100,000 for people convicted of registering Internet names that infringe either a registered trademark or a person's name. Meanwhile, the market for addresses with newly available suffixes, such as .us, .name and .info, is starting to pick up, and domain name registrars say they are encouraged by signs that some corporations are beginning to carve out addresses that are specific to foreign countries. "The market's getting smarter, and this industry needs to reinvent itself," says a marketing VP for BulkRegister. "Speculation is gone. The days of hunting out a real business opportunity are here." (Los Angeles Times 29 Jul 2002) The research firm In-Stat/MDR predicts is predicting that the number of broadband subscribers worldwide will increase by 50% this year, reaching about 46 million). That's quite a change from the period 1999 to 2001, when the growth rate exceeded 100% annually. The company also says that in the U.S. there were 7.12 million cable modem subscribers at the beginning of 2002, compared with 4.6 million subscribers for DSL; and it predicts that DSL will take the lead in the U.S. market by 2004. (New York Times 30 Jul 2002) http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/index.html CONVERSATIONS WITH YOUR CAR Automobile onboard "telematics" (voice recognition and other wireless communication-based aids for the driver) have been used for some time by companies such as DaimlerChrysler AG, Ford and General Motors, and now IBM and Honda are linking up so that Honda's 2003 Accord will have a navigation system integrated with voice recognition and a small touch screen. The driver touches a button on the steering wheel, then speaks aloud to IBM's ViaVoice recognition software, which understands speech accents. IBM executive Raj Desai says, "It's closer to the natural ability to have a dialogue, rather than just remembering keywords, which is what the previous-generation systems had." (Reuters/San Jose Mercury News 28 Jul 2002) http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3755134.htm [Did you know that the major manufacturers are withholding the computer access codes to their cars, so they can only be serviced by their dealers? Just another way of killing off all the local access to mechanics.] [As per our local NBC affiliate last night and the night before.] HOTMAIL CLEAN-UP POLICY ANGERS USERS Microsoft's Hotmail system has instituted a new storage policy that limits the time span for saved mail to 30 days. After that, it's automatically deleted from a user's Sent file -- an action that has left many users steaming. Desperate users who've pleaded for their mail back have been told it's irretrievable, and company officials say they warned users in mid-June of the change in policy. MSN product manager Parul Shah said users could avoid the problem by creating special folders and moving important messages out of the Sent file. The company is hoping the change in policy will prompt people to sign up for a fee-based version of the service that costs $19.95 a month for an additional 8MB of storage on top of the 2MB they get for free. Microsoft says it has more than 110 million Hotmail users, but that so far fewer than 300,000 have signed up for the extra storage feature. (CNet News.com 25 Jul 2002) http://news.com.com/2100-1023-946430.html?tag=fd_top [We thinks perhaps they mean GB instead of MB] As AOL Time Warner's stock dove more than 15% yesterday after investors heard it being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission on suspicion of having inflated revenues, new AOL head Jimmy de Castro offered put the sizzle back in the brand. We need to go back to a member focus." De years, the company has focused on deals. It's been, 'Let's do pop-up advertising, and I don't care what (members want), I've got to sell you merchandise.' We've totally changed that process. We're focused on member satisfaction." (USA Today 25 Jul 2002) http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/techcorporatenews/2002-07-25-aol_x.htm TEXT MESSAGES COULD REVEAL CAREER APTITUDE A survey conducted on behalf of Woolworths in the UK indicates that the style people use to type text messages on their mobile phones reveals categories that relate to specific vocations. Researchers divided the messaging styles into four groups -- creatives, jugglers, controllers and facilitators. Creatives (actors, designers, advertising execs and landscape gardeners) used the latest text abbreviations and slang, mixed upper and lower case letters, used customized ring tones and screen settings, and lost their phones frequently. Jugglers (teachers, office workers and emergency service personnel) used capital and lower case letters and punctuation correctly, never lost their phones, and tended to nestle them between their chin and shoulder while talking, leaving their hands free. Controllers (military, lawyers and sales reps) favored brief, all-cap messages, never abbreviated, and tended to have loud ring tones and to speak loudly on public transportation. Facilitators (nurses, nannies, personal assistants) always used lower case and peppered their messages with emoticons like smiley faces. They tended to embellish their phones with colorful cases and were more likely to set their phones to vibrate in order not to disturb others. Psychologist Sidney Crown notes that messaging style is as revealing as handwriting, and suggested it could be used to written word nowadays, there is some validity in looking to other ways of determining the type of person they are, particularly with regards to what kind of job they are likely to be best suited to." (Ananova 26 Jul 2002) http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_637803.html?menu=news.technology *** Headlines From Edupage: BILL COULD ALLOW COPYRIGHT HOLDERS ACCESS TO INDIVIDUAL COMPUTERS A new bill introduced by California Congressman Howard Berman could give extensive authority to copyright holders to employ technological means to protect their intellectual property. Observers worry that the Peer-to-Peer Piracy Prevention Act would allow media companies to release viruses and other malicious code, though Berman denied that such measures would be included. Berman said the bill is narrowly drawn to allow actions such as flooding networks with bogus files or overwhelming networks with fake requests for particular files. Security experts said the language of the bill is vague and would open the door to media companies hacking into individuals' computers and networks. Wired News, 27 July 2002 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,54153,00.html HOUSE BILL WOULD SHIELD MANY SMALL WEBCASTERS A new bill introduced by Representatives Jay Inslee, Rick Boucher, and George Nethercutt would exempt businesses with annual revenues of less than $6 million from the recently approved music royalty of $.07 per song, per listener. Webcasters, including many radio stations affiliated with colleges and universities, had protested the royalties, saying they would put the stations out of business. The Internet Radio Fairness Act would shield most stations without connections to larger companies from those royalties. Since the royalties were approved, many small stations have stopped streaming music or have significantly changed their programming to minimize their liability for the royalties, which begin in October. Supporters of the royalties said the bill is unfair to recording companies, which they said should be compensated by all broadcasters, not just large ones. CNET, 26 July 2002 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-946642.html UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS TO CREATE PUBLIC DIGITAL ARCHIVE The University of Texas at Austin has begun a project to make digital copies of its resources publicly available on the Internet. The Digital Knowledge Gateway will include digital images of dinosaur bones, the university's Gutenberg Bible, and other artifacts. A prototype of the system is expected next year and will be finalized about a year after that. The first content to be digitized will be UT's research data, followed by books, manuscripts, photographs, and other art. The project will give people easy access to a wide variety of resources, as well as to items, such as the Gutenberg Bible, that are too valuable to allow extensive access otherwise. Chronicle of Higher Education, 25 July 2002 http://chronicle.com/free/2002/07/2002072501t.htm ACLU FILES SUIT AGAINST DMCA The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit to reverse parts of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act as unconstitutional. The suit asks a federal judge to rule that the DMCA is so sweeping that it interferes with researchers' ability to evaluate the effectiveness of Internet filtering software. The ACLU is acting on behalf of Ben Edelman, a 22-year-old programmer researching Internet filters. Edelman served as an expert witness in the ACLU filing against library filtering requirements. CNET, 25 July 2002 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-946266.html GERMAN COURT DECIDES AGAINST DEEP LINKING A ruling by Munich's Upper Court determined that using a search engine to find stories on a newspaper's Web site violates European Union law. The decision is the latest ruling in a two-year court battle between German newspaper Mainpost and German search service NewsClub. Mainpost claims that searching through and linking directly to Mainpost content flouts the EU "Database Directive," which grants copyright protection to database creators for selecting and arranging the information in a database even when they do not hold the copyright on the information. The law also protects against unfair extraction of items in a database, specifically downloading or hyperlinking. NewsClub faces more legal hearings, but without any expectation that the Upper Court decision will be reversed. Wired News, 25 July 2002 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,54083,00.html YALE ACCUSES PRINCETON OF HACKING Yale University told the Federal Bureau of Investigation that it found 18 unauthorized log-ins to its prospective-student Web site that were traced to computers at Princeton, including in the admissions office. Princeton gained access by looking up students who had applied to both schools, for whom it had Social Security numbers. Stephen LeMenager, Princeton's dean of admissions, said that his university was concerned about the security of online acceptance systems and wanted to check potential security issues. Yale said Princeton's actions violated student privacy. The Web site included a notice that only students, not parents or others, may access the site and warned that Yale would investigate and act on any unauthorized use. Associated Press, 25 July 2002 http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/478341p-3820436c.html REGISTRAR'S AUDIT RESULTS IN EXPULSIONS Florida Memorial College in Miami fired two employees and expelled three students after a May audit in the registrar's office uncovered evidence that employees changed students' grades as far back as 1992. Most changes were made during the spring 2002 semester, however, according to registrar Lourdes Silva. Initial disciplinary hearings targeted 12 students who had "major" changes (five or more grades) to their transcripts. At least 60 others had "minor" changes. College officials said that they have notified the state attorney's office in Miami-Dade County and that a criminal investigation is under way. President Albert E. Smith appointed a committee of seven administrators to revise security procedures at the registrar's office. Chronicle of Higher Education, 26 July 2002 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/daily/2002/07/2002072604n.htm [Earlier Stories Said AOL Made The Incompatibilies Intentionally] AOL INSTANT MESSENGER WILL NOT WORK WITH RIVALS America Online has said that making its popular instant messaging application compatible with rivals' products is too expensive. The company will instead focus on establishing contracts with other vendors allowing AOL to operate instant messaging systems for them. AOL and other providers of instant messaging, including Microsoft and Yahoo, have said for several years that they support interoperability, which would allow their systems to work similar to phone lines, across various providers. AOL conducted a test of interoperability last summer. Although the test was successful, AOL said implementing the system and addressing security would incur significant expense. 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