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At 6145 eBooks in 31 Years We Averaged At 1853 eBooks Done In 2002 We Averaged ***Headline News*** [My Comments In Brackets] Headlines From Newsscan MAN VS. MACHINE CONTEST ENDS IN A DRAW The eight-game chess series billed as the "Brains in Bahrain" has ended in a draw, with world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik and his supercomputer opponent Deep Fritz each winning two games and drawing the other four. The German company ChessBase created Fritz, which is capable of evaluating 3.5 million moves in a second. (Reuters 20 Oct 2002) http://makeashorterlink.com/?W1D822232 POP-UP SPAM -- A DIABOLICAL INVENTION As if e-mail spam weren't annoying enough -- now there's pop-up spam. A Romanian-based company has developed software that can blast computers with pop-up messages through the Messenger function on many Windows operating systems that was originally designed to allow computer network technicians to warn network users of a planned shutdown (not to be confused with Instant Messenger). Gary Flynn, a security engineer at James Madison like somebody barging into your office and interrupting you." Zoltan Kovacs, founder of the company that makes the software, responds, "If some people use it for bad things, they should take their own responsibility, but it's their own problem." The new spam technique represents the latest attempt by advertisers to bypass the increasingly sophisticated e-mail filters used by ISPs and individuals, and also circumvents state and other laws designed to curb junk e-mail. (AP 20 Oct 2002) http://apnews.excite.com/article/20021020/D7MPIALG0.html ENDING MARKETING CALLS TO CELL PHONES To help telemarketers comply with a 1991 federal law banning auto-dialed or prerecorded commercial calls to cell phones, the Direct Marketing Association has identified 280 million existing and prospective wireless numbers for its member businesses to avoid calling. Member companies have been afraid they'll get into trouble for inadvertently calling cell phone numbers not readily distinguishable cellular from landline numbers. (New York Times 21 Oct 2002) http://partners.nytimes.com/2002/10/21/technology/21CELL.html CRITICS SAY ADS ON CNN.COM LOOK A LOT LIKE NEWS CNN.com has started running ads that look a lot like editorial links, raising concern among some journalism ethics watchdogs. The ads, which feature text like "If You Love Coffee" or "Avoid Bad Retailers," run adjacent to news headlines and are not clearly labeled as having been sponsored, or paid for by advertisers. "Clearly, CNN.com needs to mark this 'adv' or 'advertisement' in that gray space, because it looks too similar to the rest of (the news site)," says Sreenath Sreenivasan, who runs the new media journalism program at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. 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(CNet News.com 16 Oct 2002) http://news.com.com/2100-1023-962343.html?tag=lh NOAA EXPANDS 'PERSONAL LOCATOR BEACON' PROGRAM Beginning July 1, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will extend to hikers, hunters and other land-bound recreational enthusiasts the same emergency locator service now available to pilots and boaters. The "personal locator beacons" -- handheld devices equipped with GPS technology -- work in zones not covered by cell phone networks and will cost $300 or more. "It takes the search out of search and rescue," says Randy Crosby, who heads up rescue teams in northern Alaska, where the devices have been tested for the past six years. In its 20 years of operation, the satellite rescue system has helped save some 14,000 people worldwide, including about 4,300 in the U.S. There is no penalty for accidental false alarms, but deliberate misuse can cost perpetrators up to $250,000 in fines, a six-year prison term and reimbursement of rescue costs. NOAA spokesman Daniel Karlson says the government works to educate beacon owners so "someone doesn't go out there and stub their toe and trip this thing off. We want this as a last resort. (AP 16 Oct 2002) http://apnews.excite.com/article/20021016/D7MMLK0O0.html COUCH POTATOES GIVE THUMBS UP TO TEXT MESSAGING TV viewers in Europe increasingly are reaching for their mobile phones rather than their PCs to interact with their favorite "reality" shows, in which viewers' votes determine the outcomes. Most reality shows allow text-message voting, and in some cases the majority of votes are now cast in this way. In addition, news shows encourage viewers to send in comments, game shows allow viewers to compete, and music shows take requests via text-message. The trend toward TV text messaging has been a boon for wireless operators' bottom lines, and many shows are beginning to view the additional revenues as a vital component of their business models (revenues are typically shared, with 40% to 50% going to the operator and the remainder split between the broadcaster, the production studio and the message processing company). For instance, the most recent British series of "Big Brother" generated 5.4 million text-message votes and $2.1 million in revenue. Endemol, the Dutch company that produces "Big Brother," has already started compiling its own database of mobile phone users, and analysts say its next step will be to establish direct billing relationships with them, attempting to bypass the operators. Operators are responding with a more open attitude toward revenue-sharing, with France's Orange even going so far as to publish a rate card for divvying up the proceeds -- a degree of cooperation that once would have been unthinkable. Meanwhile, all this messaging is subtly changing the nature of television, notes text-message infrastructure provider CMG. Rather than presenting predetermined content to viewers, an increasing number of programs are based on response to viewers' input. (The Economist 17 Oct 2002) http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1392699 SHARP UNVEILS NEXT-GENERATION DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY Japan's Sharp Corporation took the wraps off its latest advance in flat display technology -- a screen that features the microprocessor circuitry applied directly onto the glass, using the company's continuous grain silicon (CGS) technology. Sharp says the new technique will save space, cut production costs and produce ultra-fine resolutions for displaying maps or photos. Sharp's foray into next-generation display technology comes as South Korean and Taiwanese continue to nip at its heels, moving aggressively into the LCD market. Sharp is hoping the new CGS screen not only will enable it keep it its Asian competitors at bay, but also will enable it to stay one step ahead of the rival low-temperature polysilicon technology used in screens by Toshiba and Sanyo Electronic. Sharp's Mikio Katayama, head of the company's mobile display division, says CGS, with its greater uniformity of silicon grains, achieved three times the rate of electron transfer as low-temperature silicon, making it the superior technology for on-screen circuitry. (Reuters 22 Oct 2002) http://makeashorterlink.com/?M21921532 NewsScan Daily is underwritten by RLG, a world-class organization making significant and sustained contributions to the effective management and appropriate use of information technology. 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